 | One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note by John Coltrane
Buy new: $19.97 / Used from: $7.75 Another great session retrieved from the vaults -- Coltrane with the Quartet from March1965!
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 | Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 by Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.86 HOLY MOLY!!! Live recording recently unearthed from just before the historic 1945 Savoy recording sessions marking the birth of bebop!
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 | Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall by Thelonious Monk
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.45 Yet another amazing discovery, a pristine recording from 1957!
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 | Eleventh Hour by Evan Parker
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.00 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) this is the 4th ECM release by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, truly on the cutting edge
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 | Phase One by The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Buy used from: $13.99 5 STARS -- reissue -- SEE MY REVIEW) it took me awhile for this one to click -- great stuff from Paris, 1971
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 | The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 by Miles Davis
Buy new: $67.97 / Used from: $50.00 5 discs of never-before-released live electric Miles remastered, from 1970, the sessions from whence came LIVE-EVIL
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 | Blue Winter by Fred Anderson
Buy new: $27.98 / Used from: $17.25 2 discs of Fred with William Parker on bass and Hamid Drake on drums
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 | Live in the World by David S. Ware
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $12.48 3 discs of the David S. Ware Quartet live, each with a different drummer [SEE CADENCE MAGAZINE FOR MUCH NOT FOUND ON AMAZON]
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 | Reimagining by Vijay Iyer
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.99 young piano sensation Vijay Iyer with a quartet session (sax, bass & drums)
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 | Sound Unity by William Parker Quartet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.99 William Parker's quartet returns with their first recording since the great O'NEAL'S PORCH from 2002 (see my review) -- this one is new compositions, recorded live
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 | Vietnam: Reflections by Billy Bang
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 great jazz violinist Billy Bang with another album based on his experience in the Vietnam War -- with John Hicks/piano, Curtis Lundy/bass & two Vietnamese musicians
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 | Mountain Passages by Dave Douglas & Nomad
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.49 trumpeter Dave Douglas, no longer with RCA, with a chamber-jazz outing. I confess I always worry when I see a tuba in the line-up, but the fantastic Michael Moore is on reeds.
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 | Prime by Oregon
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.99 OREGON) latest from the great chamber/world music/jazz ensemble
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 | Channel Three by Greg Osby
Buy used from: $3.29 alto saxophonist Greg Osby with a trio album -- sax, bass & drums
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 | Idle Wild by Dennis Spirit Meridian González
Dennis Gonzalez (trumpet) joined by the great Oliver Lake on alto on this quartet session
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 | Blue Mongol by Roswell Rudd
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.40 The great Roswell Rudd on trombone with a Mongolian group -- how did this ever come about? Rudd is a wonder, this is highly intriguing.
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 | Out of Nowhere by James Carter Organ Trio
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.95 James Carter's Organ Trio live at the Blue Note, with special guests James Blood Ulmer (guitar) & Hammiet Bluiett (bari sax).
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 | Spiritual Unity by Marc Ribot
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.98 Marc Ribot plays Albert Ayler on this release on the excellent Pi Recordings label, with Roy Campbell (trumpet), Henry Grimes, who played with Ayler (bass) & Chad Taylor (drums).
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 | Electric Ascension by Rova Orkestrova
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.00 the Rova Quartet plus Nels Cline & Fred Frith on electric guitars and electronics with a new recording of the Coltrane piece
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 | Köln by Last Exit
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.89 reissue) one of the better Last Exit live recordings -- my favorite is HEADFIRST INTO THE FLAMES
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 | Song X by Pat Metheny
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $10.98 expanded reissue) the great SONG X (an Ornette album with Metheny, not the other way around!), with 6 additional tracks from the 1985 sessions -- terrible cover though!
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 | Black Woman by Sonny Sharrock
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $41.80 reissue) the great electric guitarist with a long-lost Black Power Free Jazz classic
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 | Miles in Tokyo by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $6.37 reissue) If you're a Sam Rivers fan, this is a must. If you're not, you should be! I've been wondering when this 1964 set would finally show up -- hurrah!
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 | Night Dreamer by Wayne Shorter
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.25 reissue) Wayne Shorter's first recording session as a leader for Blue Note -- with McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman & Elvin Jones
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 | Certain Blacks by The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Buy used from: $12.99 reissue) more AEC in Verve's Free America series
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 | Roswell Rudd by Roswell Rudd
Buy used from: $12.26 reissue) mad trombonist Roswell Rudd in Verve's Free America series
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