Grant Green

Grant Green (wiki)

Get discography here (torrent - 34 albums)

Some music in chronological order:

1. My Favorite Things (1964 - Album: Matador)

2. Minor League (1964 - Album: Solid) 

3. The Selma Dance (1965 - Album:His Majesty King Funk)

4. Cantalupe Woman (1965 - Album:His Majesty King Funk)

5. Ease Back (1969 - Album: Carryin' On)

6. Ain't It Funky Now! (1970 - Album: Green is Beautiful)

7. Sookie Sookie (1970 - Album: Alive!)

8. Let the Music Take Your Mind (1970 - Album: Alive!)

9. Jan Jan (1972 - Album:Live at the Lighthouse)

John Coltrane - Ole (1961)

John Coltrane (wiki)

Ole - 1961 (wiki)

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Track listing

Recorded May 25, 1961 in New York City.

1. "Olé" (18:15)
2. "Dahomey Dance" (10:52)
3. "Aisha" (7:39)
4. "To Her Ladyship" [Bonus Track] (8:58)

Art Ensemble of Chicago / Ancient to the Future

Musicians

• 
  
  Lester Bowie
• 
  
  Malachi Favors
• 
  
  Joseph Jarman
• 
  
  Roscoe Mitchell
• 
  
  Famoudou Don Moye
• Jaribu Shahid (Guest)
• Corey Wilkes (Guest)
  

http://artensembleofchicago.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Ensemble_of_Chicago

Claude Bolling: "Jazzy"/ Windmills of your mind (with Michel Legrand) (1984)/ Yo-Yo Ma- Baroque In Rhythm

Claude Bolling is a world famous French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, who virtually defined the concept of jazz-classical crossover with his groundbreaking work "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano" (CBS) which stayed Number 1 on the US Billboard's charts for a phenomenal 464 weeks !

His works are also very important in film music with more than a hundred film and TV soundtracks compositions to his credit ! Best known in that sphere for his contribution to the Alain Delon- Jacques Deray gangster spoof Borsalino in 1970.

Claude Bolling is often referred to as "Duke Ellington's spiritual son", not only because he was a protege and close friend of the jazz legend, but because he is the best living interpreter of Ellington's sound.

As a player, his skill with the keyboard and deep feeling about his music is immediately heard and as an entertainer, it is always very apparent that this man actually enjoys communicating with audience members and bringing them to their feet !

For many years regarded as the foremost French ragtime and boogiewoogie pianist, Bolling’s own keyboard style derived at least in part from such greats as Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson.

His meeting with Stéphane Grappelli in 1991 for the album First Class (which won both the Django d’Or 1993 and Prix du HCF) is another great phonographic success. These issues allow the Claude Bolling big band to rightful take its place at the top of the list of modern day big band jazz orchestras, paralleling the great big bands to which it walks in stride with.

With his big band, Bolling toured the United States in 1989, 1991 and 1996 and Central America in 1995 and 1998 and he has variously joined forces with the Illinois Jacquet and Mercer Ellington orchestras.
In 1994, at the Caen monument, the Bolling big-band opened a series of concerts marking the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day.

His ongoing interest in the music of his idol prompted him to make the first complete recording of Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige (1989) and to perform, in Paris in 1996, the suite A Drum is a Woman.

The Claude Bolling Big Band of today is comprised of talented musicians, several who have remained with him for many years. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006 and made a tour of the world playing to large audiences in the United States, in Asia, in South America, and in Mexico.

Today Claude Bolling occupies, by the reflection of his persona and accomplishments, the role of roving French ambassador of jazz throughout the world. He is of the same class and school where came the other two grand French masters of jazz, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

Three formulas available :

- Big Band (Claude Bolling + 18) Big Band's Repertoire

- Quintet (Claude Bolling + doublebass + drums/percussions + trumpet/bugle +
saxophone/clarinet)
- "Classical and Jazz" Trio (Claude Bolling + doublebass + drums/percussions)

A female or(and) male singer can be available in the big band and quintet formulas.

Από τον ιστότοπο: http://www.musicprom.com/e_cbolling.html
Official website (FR): http://www.claude-bolling.com/fr/actualites.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bolling



Windmills of your mind. The Theme from the Thomas Crown Affair.

Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me/ I 've Got No...I Got Life/ Feelings/ Sinnerman/ Documentary (26 min) by P. Rodis 1969

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone

http://www.ninasimone.com/

Steely Dan: Do It Again ('72) / Reelin' In The Years ('72) - (live '78) / Josie ('77)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan

Sarah Vaughan: Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets ('55)/ Perdido ('55)/ I can't give anything but love ('65)

Μιά από τις πιο "καθάριες" φωνές που έχω ποτέ ακούσει...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan

Billboard

Dizzi Gillespie Quintet: Tin Tin Deo/ And Then She Stopped/ A Night in Tunisia

Από την wikipedia:

In 1960, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

In 1964 the artist put himself forward as a presidential candidate. He promised that if he were elected, the White House would be renamed "The Blues House," and a cabinet composed of Duke Ellington (Secretary of State), Miles Davis (Director of the CIA), Max Roach (Secretary of Defense), Charles Mingus (Secretary of Peace), Ray Charles (Librarian of Congress), Louis Armstrong (Secretary of Agriculture), Mary Lou Williams (Ambassador to the Vatican), Thelonious Monk (Travelling Ambassador) and Malcolm X (Attorney General).^[5][6] He also said his running mate would be Phyllis Diller.

Gillespie published his autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop in 1979.

Bonus but only part of it with Lalo Schifrin in piano

Michel Petrucciani - Caravan/ Little Piece in C for U/ Documentary (38')

UN GIGANTE!

Προσωπική ιστοσελίδα: http://www.michel-petrucciani.de/
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Petrucciani

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - A Night at Tunisia (1960) / Ping Pong (1961) / Dat Dere (1961) / Ζωντανή Συναυλία 1961

Art Blakey
Δισκογραφία
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Τα 12 κορυφαία του έργα

Jean Luc Ponty: Don't Let the World Pass You By / Mirage

O Jean Luc Ponty πρώην Mahavishnu Orchestra, με συνεργασίες με ιερά τέρατα όπως Stephane Grappelli και Frank Zappa σε ονειρικές στιγμές.
Επιπλέον πληροφορίες:
- Official site
- Wikipedia
- Δισκογραφία
- Συνέντευξη


Don't Let the World Pass You By


1982 Montreal Jazz Festival - Mirage