Eighteen of Bechet's greatest performances from "Summertime" to "Black And Blue" with such sidemen as Wild Bill Davison, Albert Nicholas, Art Hodes, Joe Sullivan, Pops Foster and Big Sid Catlett.

Recorded：January 30, 1956 Studio：Audio-Video Studios，New York City Charles Mingus – bass Jackie McLean – alto saxophone J. R. Monterose – tenor saxophone Mal Waldron – piano Willie Jones – drums

One of two classic records (the other being Waltz for Debby) culled from perfectionist pianist Bill Evans' stand at the Village Vanguard in 1961. The album cover features the by-line "featuring Scott LaFaro", the bass player whose accidental death soon after highlighted his immense contributions to jazz. Absolutely timeless.

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This Amazon.com exclusive version of River: The Joni Letters includes two bonus tracks, "All I Want" featuring Sonya Kitchell and "A Case of You." The legendary pianist and innovator Herbie Hancock explores the words and music of another musical pioneer, Joni Mitchell, on his first new studio recording for Verve since 1998's GRAMMY® award-winning Gershwin's World. Inspired in equal parts by Mitchell's poetic lyrics and unique melodies, Hancock and saxophone giant Wayne Shorter play with a restraint and elegance that achieves a perfect balance between the adventurous aesthetics of jazz improvisation and the emotional directness of the finest Adult Pop music. Hancock builds upon his (and Shorter's) previous collaborations with Ms. Mitchell to create a sound that will appeal not only to fans of both artists, but to the listener familiar with the work of Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and the other brilliant guest vocalists featured on this session. River: The Joni Letters is the perfect CD for the music fan looking for something new that's based in the familiar.

FREDDIE HUBBARD,trumpet GEORGE COLEMAN,tenor sax HERBIE HANCOCK,piano RON CARTER,bass TONY WILLIAMS,drums

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is an award winning American jazz pianist and composer. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.

Charles Mingus' debut for Columbia, Mingus Ah Um is a stunning summation of the bassist's talents and probably the best reference point for beginners. While there's also a strong case for The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady as his best work overall, it lacks Ah Um's immediate acccessibility and brilliantly sculpted individual tunes. Mingus' compositions and arrangements were always extremely focused, assimilating individual spontaneity into a firm consistency of mood, and that approach reaches an ultra-tight zenith on Mingus Ah Um. The band includes longtime Mingus stalwarts already well versed in his music, like saxophonists John Handy, Shafi Hadi, and Booker Ervin, trombonists Jimmy Knepper and Willie Dennis, pianist Horace Parlan, and drummer Dannie Richmond. Their razor-sharp performances tie together what may well be Mingus' greatest, most emotionally varied set of compositions. At least three became instant classics, starting with the irrepressible spiritual exuberance of signature tune "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul," taken in a hard-charging 6/8 and punctuated by joyous gospel shouts. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a slow, graceful elegy for Lester Young, who died not long before the sessions. The sharply contrasting "Fables of Faubus" is a savage mockery of segregationist Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, portrayed musically as a bumbling vaudeville clown (the scathing lyrics, censored by skittish executives, can be heard on Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus). The underrated "Boogie Stop Shuffle" is bursting with aggressive swing, and elsewhere there are tributes to Mingus' three most revered influences: "Open Letter to Duke" is a suite of three tunes; "Bird Calls" is inspired by Charlie Parker; and "Jelly Roll" is an idiosyncratic yet affectionate nod to jazz's first great composer, Jelly Roll Morton. It simply isn't possible to single out one Mingus album as definitive, but Mingus Ah Um comes the closest.

Featuring: John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Mahalakshimi, Badal Roy, Dave Liebman When John McLaughlin arrived in New York from his native England , the twenty-seven year old guitarist was virtually unknown in the United States. But in no time at all he would find himself an integral part of some of the most important jazz activity then taking place in this country, with a rapidly growing reputation that would soon have him acknowledged as the foremost guitar player of the 1970s. When My Goals Beyond was released in 1971 Down Beat praised it as 3a compelling new view of the most exciting guitarist playing today,2 and Robert Palmer called it in Rolling Stone 3a quietly beautiful LP, certainly McLaughlin1s best.2 As the years have gone by its reputation has continued to grow and it has come to be regarded as a modern classic. For the critic Joachim E. Brendt, My Goals Beyond is the 3record which really established solo guitar playing - the forerunner of hundreds of solo guitar records which followed - and, in my opinion, it is still the most beautiful of them all.2 Knit Classics is proud to make My Goals Beyond available once again. Band members are... Featuring: John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira, Charlie Haden, Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Mahalakshimi, Badal Roy, Dave Liebman

《独驾蓝色列车曲风试航号》 如果一定要在John Coltrane浩如烟海的录音中，选出一张可以和他经典地位休戚与共的唱片，那么《Blue Train》当选的概率应该超过90%。虽然这种强人所难的选择题，总是会感觉到其趋向变态的实质，但是往好处想，人类也正是有了这种对唯一性的特殊变态追求，才会用一次又一次去芜存精的实际行动，以大浪淘沙的手法去触摸理想化的艺术极限。 回到1957年，这一年对于John Coltrane来说可谓是喜忧参半，喜是大喜、忧是大忧，虽然经过岁月的沉淀之后，后者更像是对前者历练过程中所必须的铺垫，但无论如何，因为毒瘾太重而被Miles Davis开除出五重奏，在当时对于John Coltrane来讲，毕竟不是一件值得举杯相庆的光彩事，况且大器晚成的他，两年前才因为老迈的慧眼才闯出了一些小小的名堂。不过，这次除名事件看起来却并非只是往坏的方面一意孤行，因为紧随其后，John Coltrane却又得遇了另一位贵人Thelonious Monk，并在四月份与这位爵士史上出名的钢琴怪杰，于爵士名厂Riverside录制了《Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane》和《Thelonious Monk&John Coltrane》两张经典的唱片，从而不仅加速了John Coltrane吹奏技艺的更进一步，更在与名家大师开放形地接触中，逐步确立起自己独特和与众不同的演奏手法。而这一点绝对是一个只局限于一个乐团的某君御用乐手在短时间很难再进一步的关键所在，哪怕这个某君是爵士史上鼎鼎大名的Miles Davis也不例外。 而在John Coltrane演奏生涯中，最具划时代意义的当然还是1957年的9月15日，当时与Prestige尚有合约的他，因为受到了Blue Note老板Alfred Lion的亲睐，而由两家公司协商后，以外借身份来到了眼科医生兼录音师的Rudy Van Gelder父母家的客厅（即Blue Note鼎鼎有名的RVG录音室），并在与Blue Note一班名师的合作中，开启了他真正意义上自力更生、特立独行的第一篇章。虽然此前短短的一年多时间，他也以个人名义发行了超过两位数的唱片，但《Blue Train》却是他第一张摆脱Miles Davis阴影并开始勾勒自己风格线条的专辑。 当然，《Blue Train》能够在爵士史上书写如此经典的地位，除了它恰恰处于John Coltrane演绎上升期的一个重要交汇点外，专辑乐手整体的扶持同样功不可莫，这不仅仅是因为录制唱片的其他五位乐手的知名度比较高，毕竟这样的说法太过形而上。其实一个重要的原因还是乐手中有些依然还是Miles Davis旗下的老臣子，这在音乐的磨合上，多少给了John Coltrane心有灵犀的一种前提保障。像与John Coltrane同年出生同年加入老迈五重奏的鼓手Philly Joe Jones，和另一位迈大叔五重奏的御用贝司手Paul Chambers，以及在上世纪五十年代初就曾经和Miles Davis打过江山的钢琴手Kenny Drew。有了这些乐手的配合再加上John Coltrane正值盛年期的创作能力，他想不卖力都不成！小号手则是Lee Morgan这位继承Dizzy Gillespie和Clifford Brown风范的乐手，虽然他统领爵士乐坛的能力难及帅才Miles Davis之项背，但其在吹奏的速度和精准上，却比老迈有过之而无不及。其实，从这张专辑的演绎来看，时年才十九岁的他的确让人眼睛为之一亮，其风芒不仅盖过了该专辑三根管子之一的长号手Curtis Fuller，甚至在与John Coltrane的对手戏中也抢下不少的镜头。 《Blue Train》可以说是John Coltrane探索中形成自我风格的第一张唱片，也是他Bop生涯里最为强势的第一重击。五首曲子有四首出自他的创作，不过在编曲安排上倒是遵循了Blue Note一贯的口味，因此，其不够尽兴也成了部分乐迷对这张经典唱片哧之以鼻的重要理由，但这对正处于风格探索期的John Coltrane做到曲风凝聚倒是无疑中起到了保障作用。主题曲《Blue Train》用三根管子同时吹奏来模拟这列蓝色列车起航时的“号角”声可谓独具匠心，而John Coltrane天马行空、任想像力驰骋的演奏，配合着紧密却平稳的节奏，也让Bop曲风在更简易、更流畅的韵律中，加速了听觉的畅快淋漓之感觉。唯一一首非Johh Coltrane的作品《I’m Old Fashioned》，也是专辑中最为慵懒的一首音乐，却充分显示出John Coltrane演绎风格中尖锐而具有穿透力的特性，尤其是用长乐句造气氛的能力，先是如同溪水流动时清辙的音符和刀锋般的触觉，继而又是灵魂飘离身体的幻觉升起，逐渐将音乐由可触引向了不可触的神秘世界，这想必也正是John Coltrane日后开拓Avant-Garde Jazz的一种先期探索。而专辑中最为叫绝的还是John Coltrane和长号手Curtis Fuller用双主音Blow By Blow演绎醇正Hard Bop的《Locomotion》，AABA的结构，十二小节Blues加属七和弦半音的循序下行，节奏超频、即兴乱眼，堪为这张专辑中对Bop曲风演绎最为成功的一首传统作品。 当然，让这张专辑更显经曲中之独特地位的，是这张专辑居然为John Coltrane唯一一张以个人挂名的形式出现在Blue Note曲库中的专辑。(写的太好,不得不转) JOHN COLTRANE,tenor saxophone LEE MORGAN,trumpet CURTIS FULLER,trombone KENNY DREW,piano PAUL CHAMBERS,bass PHILLY JOE JONES,drums

《迈尔斯戴维斯·泛蓝调调》是20世纪顶尖爵士乐手最完美的一次经典录音，透过重新数位制作呈献细腻感动的质素；也是认识史上最伟大爵士巨人Miles Davis的入门推荐，与爵士乐迷收藏的必备经典！ 素有“黑暗王子”之称的小号巨擘 Miles Davis （1929-91）是一位奠定50年代酷派（Cool School）冷调风格，开创60年代末期Jazz-Rock 融合（Fusion）新乐风的先锋；受到波普（Bop）时期最具代表性萨克斯风大师Charlie Parker提携，Miles Davis由纽约52街的酒吧表演跨入大乐团，而后自组五重奏的历程，不仅绽放个人深刻色彩，更跨越肤色藩篱成就后起之秀。这张专辑除了获得企鹅爵士五星最高评价，也是各家乐评一致推荐的世纪不朽作品；自1959年发行至今届满四十周年，美国当地销售超越七十万张，全球销售高达两百万张。 “Kind Of Blue”谱写酷派爵士时期，调式爵士（modal）经典代表；由Miles Davis与作曲及钢琴家Bill Evans共同蕴织出主要行进线，以贯穿整张专辑的概念为主轴，藉着其他乐手的加入而渲染蔓延转化层次分明的无际空间。参与本专辑的乐手们在日后皆成为爵士乐界要角，而“Kind Of Blue”也是 Miles Davis五重奏巅峰时期的专辑，每一位乐手表现超高水准。中音萨克风手John Coltrane与Miles共有的灵巧思绪以纯熟的默契化作柔畅的旋律，在最具代表性曲目“So What”中，可以发现两人即兴演奏的精彩绝伦。而高音萨克斯风手“Connonball” Adderley、贝斯名将Paul Chambers和鼓手James Cobb在Miles穿针引线的前导带领，凝聚演绎技巧绝妙境界的最高张力。只出现在“Flamenco Sketches”一曲的钢琴大师Wynton Kelly，同样跟乐手们演出完美契合的对话，专辑还有未曾在黑胶唱片时收录的版本！ 01 那又如何 So What 02 不速之客弗莱迪Freddie Freeloader 03 绿中蓝Blue in Green 04 绝对布鲁斯All Blues 05 弗拉门高素描Flamenco Sketches 06 弗拉门高素描（黑胶唱片未收录版本）

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus, released on Impulse! Records in 1963. The album consists of a single continuous composition—partially written as a ballet—divided into four tracks and six movements