TRACKS : 01. "Black Mystery Has Been Revealed" - 1:17 02. "Expansions: Kirkquest/Kingus Mingus/Celestialness/A Dream of Beauty Reincarnated/Frisco Vibrations/Classical Jazzical/El Kirk" - 19:37 03. "Lady's Blues" - 3:46 04. "IX Love" (Charles Mingus) - 3:40 05. "Hot Cha" (Willie Woods) - 3:23 06. "Quintessence" (Quincy Jones) - 4:11 07. "I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) - 2:54 08. "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:55. Recorded in NYC on June 17 & 18, 1968 All compositions by Roland Kirk except as indicated. MUSICOS : Roland Kirk: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, organ, narration, thumb piano, celesta Jim Buffington, Julius Watkins: french horn Frank Wess: woodwinds Richard Williams: trumpet (track 2) Dick Griffith, Benny Powell: trombone (track 2) Daniel Jones: basoon (track 2) Pepper Adams: baritone saxophone (track 2) Alice Coltrane: harp (track 2) Ron Burton: piano Vernon Martin: bass Roy Haynes: drums Jimmy Hopps: drums (track 2) Warren Smith: percussion, vocals Gerald "Sonny" Brown: percussion (track 2) Gil Fuller: arranger Unidentified strings 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
The jazz-inflected Brazilian pop style known as bossa nova remains a permanent fixture of the world's musical vocabulary with its restrained yet complex rhythms; the biggest of all the bossa nova hits, "The Girl from Ipanema," is known to nearly all Americans born before 1960 and to many younger people. One of the creators of that song, and of the entire bossa nova movement, was the singer and guitarist Jo茫o Gilberto—whose wife Astrud was the vocalist on "The Girl from Ipanema." The U.S. jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, quoted in The Brazilian Sound, said that Gilberto "would sound good reading a newspaper," but he was equally influential as a guitarist. Jo茫o Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira was born on June 10, 1931, in the small city of Ju谩zeiro in the interior of Brazil's northeastern Bahia state. He seemed attracted to music early in life but did not begin playing until age 14, when his grandfather gave him a guitar. Within a year, despite his father's disapproval, he was leading a band composed of fellow students. The sound of U.S. big-band jazz had penetrated to Brazilian radio by the 1940s, and Gilberto grew up with the music of Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey in addition to Brazilian pop songs and samba music. A less common influence was the crisp, operetta-flavored style of U.S. pop singer Jean-nette MacDonald. In 1949 Gilberto headed for the city of Salvador, Bahia's urban center, in hopes of launching a musical career. He went on to the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro a year later. His attempts to land a radio vocal slot were unsuccessful, and a local band jettisoned him as its lead vocalist due to a halfhearted attitude on Gilberto's part that sometimes led him to skip live performances. Even after success came his way, Gilberto remained reluctant to perform in public. Well before the hipster era, Gilberto embarked on a creative but rootless existence marked by heavy marijuana usage. Technically homeless at times, Gilberto performed in nightclubs when it suited him and gained a circle of friends that included several of the future stars of Brazilian music—notably vocalist Luiz Bonfa and pianist and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. Concerned that Gilberto might be sinking into a downward spiral, a friend intervened and took him to the smaller city of Porto Alegre. Soon Gilberto moved in with his sister and began to spend much of his time practicing his guitar and singing obsessively. Mystified by his behavior, Gilberto's family checked him into a mental hospital in Salvador. Soon released, he for-swore drug usage. Back in Rio, Gilberto began writing songs and sought out Jobim as a collaborator. In the solitude of his sister's home Gilberto had forged a new style that distilled many of Brazil's complex percussion rhythms down to an essential set of patterns that could be played on the guitar; his sound was unlike anything heard before on the guitar in Brazil, where the instrument had largely been relegated to the role of accompaniment until this point. Some called it viol茫o gago, or "stammering guitar." He had a unique vocal style to match, marked by a near-total absence of vibrato that infused his quiet singing with a unique conversational quality. Gilberto was also influenced by contemporary harmonic developments in American jazz, particularly by the West Coast musicians whose "cool" aesthetic meshed well with the inherent mood of Brazilian music. Jobim at the time was working as a staff arranger with the large EMI record label, and the two began to shape a popular-music revolution. By 1958 and 1959 Gilberto was enjoying hits with recordings such as "Chega de saudade" ("No More Blues") and the self-penned "Bim Bom." He also contributed songs to one of the landmarks of Brazilian culture during that period, the film Orfeu negro, known in the United States as Black Orpheus. By this time the new music Gilberto had helped to create had acquired the name of bossa nova, or "new wave." And, influenced by American jazz, it had begun to attract the attention of American jazz players in return. Jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd visited Brazil on a U.S. State Department tour, and in 1962 Byrd and saxophonist Stan Getz released the album Jazz Samba, featuring some of Gilberto's compositions. With the bossa nova trend on the upswing that year, Gilberto moved to the United States himself; he remained in the States until 1980. In 1963 he and Getz released the album Getz/Gilberto, a jazz classic that offered mid-1960s jazz listeners one of their few alternatives to the experimental modernism that dominated jazz stages at the time. The album's most famous number was the JobimVin铆cius de Moraes composition "The Girl from Ipanema." With English lyrics added to the original Portuguese, the song appealed in novel ways to Americans' age-old fascination with tropical cultures. "The Girl from Ipanema" won a Grammy award in 1964 for Song of the Year, beating out the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night," and Getz/Gilberto was named Album of the Year. The bossa nova craze endured for several more years in the United States, and its impact could still be heard two decades later in recordings such as Sade's "Smooth Operator." But Gilberto, temperamentally unsuited to the stardom he achieved, shared little in the rewards other Brazilian musicians enjoyed; he canceled the remaining eight nights of a nine-night engagement at Chicago's London House, objecting to the club's noise levels. Still, Gilberto continued to record through the 1970s and 1980s, amassing a body of work that enjoyed consistently strong critical acclaim. Joined in the musical arena in the 1990s by his daughter, Bebel, Gilberto hardly slowed down as he entered his seventh decade. His 1991 album Jo茫o Gilberto featured the singer in an uncommon orchestral setting. But he returned in 2000 with Jo茫o voz e viol茫o, which featured only Gilberto's own voice and guitar and was widely described as minimalist. In support of that album and of the 40th anniversary of his first bossa nova recordings, Gilberto undertook one of his rare concert tours; it was enthusiastically received by audiences eager for a glimpse of one of the twentieth century's true musical creators.
TRACKS : 01. "More Ways Than One" - 5:31 02. "Holding On to You" - 4:16 03. "My Heart Goes Out to You" - 5:06 04. "Hold Tight" - 4:16 05. "People All over the World" - 5:27 06. "Back to the Start" - 4:17 07. "Mind over Matter" - 4:56 08. "Now and Again" - 4:47 09. "Hard Earned Love" - 4:23 10. "This Time Around" - 3:53 MUSICOS : Peter Frampton - voz, guitarra Nathan East - bajo John Robinson, Steve Ferrone - bater铆a Lenny Castro - percusi贸n Rick Wills, Jean McClain, Mark Williamson, Alfie Silas, Danny Wilde, B.A. Robertson - coros Chris Lord-Alge - sintetizador en "Holding on to You" y "Now and Again" John Regan - bajo en "Now and Again" Sam Riney - saxof贸n en "This Time Around"
TRACKS : 01 - The Bard 02 - Out of Trouble 03 - Bird Symbolic 04 - Music of the Heart 05 - Far Horizons 06 - Lords of Goodness 07 - Sister Soul 08 - To Blossom 09 - I've Seen You In Me. MUSICOS : Double Bass – Nicolas Moreaux Alto Saxophone, Piano – Olivier Bog茅 Tenor Saxophone – Christophe Panzani Guitar – Pierre Perchaud Drums – Antoine Paganotti, Karl Jannuska
TRACKS : 01. The Quest 5:41 02. Street Dance 5:13 03. Two Nights in Malakal 8:39 04. The Ali Shuffle 6:54 05. Yesterdays 4:45 06. Some Freebop for Monk 4:39 07. They Stole Einstein's Brain 6:13 08. A Picture Of 6:43 09. Worm Hole 6:03 10. Ghost Guest 5:17 11. Take a Look 5:54 12. Flesh Against Steel 4:09. Recorded: May 1972, April 1974, Chicago, IL; August 1982, Brooklyn, NY; September 6, 1986, August 4 & 5, 1988, Hyattsville, MD. MUSICOS : Malachi Thompson- trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet Sonny Seals- tenor saxophone Kirk Brown- piano, electric piano John Thomas- guitar Curtis Robinson- bass Bob Crowder-drums Penny Jeffries- vocal Jesse Taylor- tenor saxophone Aaron Dodd- tuba Billy Salter- drums Harold Barney- electric piano Carter Jefferson- tenor saxophone Rafik A. Raheem- keyboards Marvin Horn- guitar Paul Ramsey- bass Greg Bandy- drums Karen McPherson- vocals Miambi Steele- vocals Drake Colley- vocals James King- bass Nasar Abadey- drums Bill Striggles- poetry reading Scat City Singers- vocals.
TRACKS : 01. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – September In The Rain (Live) 02. Kurt Elling – Intro – Goin’ To Chicago (Live) 03. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – Goin’ To Chicago (Live) 04. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – Benny’s From Heaven (Live) 05. Kurt Elling – Intro – I Was Telling Her About You/A Cottage For Sale (Live) 06. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – I Was Telling Her About You/A Cottage For Sale (Live) 07. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – Brother Where Are You (Live) 08. Kurt Elling & James Morrison – Save Your Love For Me (Live) 09. Kurt Elling – Nature Boy (Live) 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. Reaching Out (take 4) 02. Our Miss Brooks (take 4) 03. A Flick Of A Truck (take 1) 04. One For Elena (take 5) 05. Baby, You Should Know It (take 3) 06. Falling In Love With Love (take 1) 07. Reaching Out (take 1) 08. Our Miss Brooks (take 1) 09. One For Elena (take 4) Recorded at Nola's Penthouse Studio, New York City 15th March 1961 MUSICOS : Guitar – Grant Green Tenor Saxophone – Frank Haynes Piano – Billy Gardner Bass – Ben Tucker Drums – Dave Bailey. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01 - A Cockeyed Optimist 02 - Serpentine 03 - The Optimum Thing 04 - Calligram (For Benoit Delbecq) 05 - Blackwing Palomino 06 - For No One 07 - Everybody's Song But My Own 08 - The Peacocks 09 - We See 10 - Solo Encore- Valentine MUSICOS : Fred Hersch: piano John H茅bert: bass Eric McPherson: drums. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. Water Boy 02. Where's My Bess 03. In A Moorish Markeplace 04. The Man I Love 05. This Nearly Was Mine 06. Blue Skies 07. Adieu Madraz 08. By Myself 09. Freedom 10. When Your Lover Has Gone. MUSICOS : Piano – Don Shirley Bass – Ken Fricker Cello – Juri Taht
TRACKS : 01 - Dance of the Gremlins 02 - G.I. Stomp 03 - Yeah Man 04 - Rhythm Man 05 - Kansas City Stride 06 - Beaver Junction 07 - Circus in Rhythm 08 - Aunt Hagar's Country Home 09 - Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You 10 - Basie Strides Again (Along Avenue C) 11 - Harvard Blues 12 - Taps Miller 13 - Jimmy's Blues 14 - I Didn't Know About You 15 - Red Bank Boogie 16 - Taps Miller 17 - Jimmy's Blues 18 - Take Me Back, Baby 19 - Playhouse No.2 Stomp (Variations on 'I Got Rhythm') 20 - Old Manuscript 21 - On the Upbeat. All selections previously released except "Aunt Hagar's country home" previously unissued. Program notes by Anatol Schenker, Nov. 1994, with discography on container insert. Recorded July, 1943 in Hollywood, California (tracks 1-2) and November 23, 1943 through January 11, 1945 in New York. MUSICOS : Count Basie and his orchestra ; with various vocalists and instrumentalists.
TRACKS : 01 - Street Player 02 - Mama Take 03 - Must Have Been Crazy 04 - Window Dreamin' 05 - Paradise Alley 06 - Aloha Mama 07 - Reruns 08 - Loser With A Broken Heart 09 - Life Is What It Is 10 - Run Away 11 - Closer To You (bonus) 12 - Street Player (Alternate Mix, bonus) MUSICOS : Peter Cetera – bass, lead and backing vocals Donnie Dacus – guitar, lead and backing vocals Laudir de Oliveira – percussion Robert Lamm – keyboards, lead and backing vocals Lee Loughnane – trumpet, backing vocals James Pankow – trombone, brass arrangements Walter Parazaider – woodwinds Danny Seraphine – drums Additional personnel : P.C. Moblee – lead vocals on "Window Dreamin'" and "Aloha Mama" (Moblee was actually Peter Cetera singing in a lower register. His appearance on the album is credited as "courtesy of the Peter Cetera Vocal Company"). David "Hawk" Wolinski – synthesizer on "Street Player" Airto Moreira – percussion on "Street Player", "Paradise Alley", "Life Is What It Is" and "Run Away" Maynard Ferguson – trumpet soloist on "Street Player" 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : (01) Down In The Flood (02) Touch Me (03) Alone (04) Velvet (05) I Can't Move No Mountains (06) Over The Hill (07) So Long Dixie (08) Show Queen (09) Maiden Voyage MUSICOS : Lew Soloff y Chuck Winfield - trompeta, fliscorno. Dave Bargeron - tromb贸n, tuba, trompa. Lou Marini - saxo soprano, saxo tenor, flauta. Larry Willis - piano, piano el茅ctrico, 贸rgano. Steve Katz - guitarra, arm贸nica, cantante. Georg Wadenius - guitarra, coros. Jim Fielder - bajo Bobby Colomby - bater铆a, percusi贸n. Jerry Fisher - cantante Adem谩s, tambi茅n particip贸 Bobby Doyle (piano).
TRACKS : 01. Brand New Day 02. Desert Rose 03. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 04. Every Breath You Take 05. Demolition Man 06. Can’t Stand Losing You 07. Fields of Gold 08. So Lonely 09. Shape of My Heart 10. Message in a Bottle 11. Fragile 12. Walking on the Moon 13. Englishman in New York 14. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You 15. Roxanne (Live). Deluxe CD bonus tracks: 16. Synchronicity II (Live) 17. Next To You (Live) 18. Spirits In The Material World (Live) 19. Fragile (Live) 馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : (01) Garden Of Earthly Delights (02) Azathoth (03) Soul Thing (04) Leg (05) Clean Innocent Fun (06) Metempsychosis MUSICOS : Steve Hillage (guitarra y voz) Dave Stewart (贸rgano) Clive Brooks (bater铆a) Mont Campbell (bajo y voz).
TRACKS : 01. The Black and Crazy Blues 02. A Laugh for Rory 03. Many Blessings 04. Fingers in the Wind 05. The Inflated Tear 06. The Creole Love Call 07. A Handful of Fives 08. Fly By Night 09. Lovellevelliloqui 10. I'm Glad There is You MUSICOS : Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, clarinet, flute, whistle, cor anglais, flexatone Rahn Burton – piano Steve Novosel – bass Jimmy Hopps – drums Dick Griffin (credited as Dick Griffith) – trombone (on "Fly by Night") 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01 - Kora 02 - Le paradisier 03 - Montreal 04 - Une apres midi 05 - Berceuse 06 - No moon at all 07 - Le vieux piano et la lampe 08 - Waterfalls. MUSICOS : Pierre Perchaud : Guitar Nicolas Moreaux : Bass Chris Cheek : Sax Sergio Krakowski : Pandeiro Andr茅 Charlier : Percussion. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. "Stop" - 4:52 02. "Hiding from a Heartache" - 4:57 03. "You Know So Well" - 3:43 04. "Premonition" - 4:43 05. "Lying" - 4:13 06. "Moving a Mountain" - 5:03 07. "All Eyes on You" - 4:13 08. "Into View" - 4:42 09. "Call of the Wild" - 5:44. MUSICOS : Peter Frampton - guitarra, voz Tony Levin - bajo Richard Cottle - teclados Omar Hakim, Steve Ferrone - bater铆a Chuck Kirkpatrick, Johnne Sambataro - coros Pete Solley - piano en "Stop" Richie Puente - percusi贸n en "Hiding from a Heartache" y "All Eyes on You". 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. "In the Still of the Night" – 2:49 02. "It's All Right With Me" – 2:51 03. "Love for Sale" – 3:26 04. "Just One of Those Things" – 2:21 05. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 2:47 06. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" – 2:17 07. "Night and Day" – 2:30 08. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" – 2:34 09. "Why Can't You Behave?" – 2:58 10. "I Love Paris" – 2:09 11. "I Concentrate on You" – 3:08 12. "It's De-Lovely" – 2:28. All music written by Cole Porter. MUSICOS : Oscar Peterson - piano Ray Brown - double bass Ed Thigpen - drums. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. Introduction. 0:38 02. Spontaneous Mind. 6:57 03. Rob Stillmans Strange Zoo. 5:26 04. Subway. 0:16 05. Beatnick. 5:24 06. Portrait. 8:38 07. Whispering. 6:26 08. Universal Memory. 11:04. Recorded at Studio Val DOrge, in Epinay sur Orge, France MUSICOS : Perico Sambeat / alto saxophone Pierre Perchaud / guitar Albert Sanz / piano Nicolas Moreaux / bass Karl Jannuska / drums. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
TRACKS : 01. Caravan 02. Limehouse Blues 03. Willow Weep for Me 04. Lullaby of Birdland 05. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby 06. Misty 07. On the Sunny Side of the Street 08. A Foggy Day 09. September Song 10. Zing Went the Strings of My Heart 11. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 12. Downtown 13. Airfoil (Bonus track) MUSICOS : Laurence Juber : Guitar. 馃挋馃挋馃挋馃挋
