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❝ Indispensable box set, contains the most moving hesitation in jazz history, the insanely delayed entry of the sax in "Lover Man." Trembling tale of a man touched by God, perhaps too abruptly. That man died at 35, but those who buried him thought he was 53
❝ Charlie Parker was the greatest musician in the history of modern jazz.
❝ In conclusion, "Bird at St. Nick's" can be defined as an album intended particularly for Charlie Parker enthusiasts.
❝ The albums of this quintet are an orgasm.
❝ The result is an indispensable and moving work, which a year ago saw the release of the Sony/Bmg Legacy edition in dual disc format, sold in millions of copies worldwide and which some critics claim represents the actual Bible that every enthusiast should know.
❝ Miles hits hard too, but in a silent way.
❝ "The only thing to expect from John Coltrane is the unexpected" (Zita Carno)
❝ Silence. This is the silence before something unique, marvelous, and splendid that one fears just to speak of (the first example that comes to mind is Beethoven's Ninth), something known for its superhuman, celestial and infernal power at the same time, a continuous shiver, a dive into the dark depths of ecstasy breaking the heart, tearing it apart, making it believe, understand, see a tear of life above the sky amid flames, light, again flames, again light.
❝ For a journey into space, all you need is about twenty euros, even less if you find "Stellar Region" on sale.
❝ "Every man prays in his own language, and there is no language that God does not understand".
❝ Like an artist on the verge of decline, Duke Ellington took to the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival knowing he had to risk everything.
❝ those who have never heard jazz and intend to approach such music can safely start with an album like this
❝ Fourteen albums covering the most creative period for one who is the best artist of the Twentieth Century: Louis Armstrong.
❝ It's pre-war jazz, we know it, we don't expect 15-minute solos or electronic contaminations: it's Satchmo, to the nth degree.
❝ "World-class!" is a phrase we use in my neck of the woods to enthusiastically appreciate the excellent quality of something, especially if it's food: a world-class finocchiona, a world-class porchetta, etc.
❝ The recordings of "Groovin' High" were made between 1945 and 1946 and many of these represent the first official examples of bebop, the new style that decisively influenced the foundations of modern jazz.
❝ "Monk is DEEP". Dizzy Gillespie
❝ "Would you play some of your weird chords for the class?""What do you mean by weird? They are perfectly logical chords..."
❝ Everything is out of place. Everything is as it should be.
❝ Chet Baker doesn't play the trumpet, he whispers it.
❝ Chet had the bleak feeling that every time he played it could be the last, he confessed to me on several occasions.
❝ “She Was Too Good To Me” is one of the most significant episodes of Baker's tumultuous life.
❝ Says I PLAY THE MUSIC I AM.
❝ Charles Mingus was, after Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, the greatest composer that jazz has produced. And he was also the greatest bassist.
❝ This is due, in particular, to the passion of the performers: the pieces far exceed the usual length of jazz compositions, remaining at thrilling levels.
❝ Recorded in 1960, "The Incredible Jazz Guitar" is, forgive the cheekiness, among the best jazz records of all time.
❝ For those who want to learn to play the guitar, there’s nothing worse than an album like this.
❝ This man has been a master. He has inspired great musicians, he will inspire you too.
❝ Charlie Christian appeared with an electric guitar, a synthesis of technological progress, and some original insights, and his example was so convincing that a few years later almost all guitarists adopted a similar instrument and began to closely follow the moves of the Afro-American prodigy originally from Texas.
❝ Ornette Coleman had the idea to remove the shackles from jazz once and for all.
❝ I say there is no ‘right’ way to play jazz.
❝ An aesthetic adventure, that's free jazz.
❝ It’s all in the cover: the Duke at the helm, Roach capturing every nod, Mingus behind, with the grim tremor of genius.
❝ What the heck is Duke Ellington doing in that year?
❝ This is it
❝ “Explorations”, recorded in 1961 in the company of Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, is no exception, and is one of the cornerstones of Evans’ work.
❝ Miles described Evans’ style "like crystal notes or sparkling water cascading down from some clear waterfall".
❝ Night is a journey to distant places that the morning light dissolves.
❝ Wayne Shorter: one of the greatest composers to have ever lived; a perfect connoisseur of traditional theory and an insatiable innovator.
❝ Technical, but not boastful.
❝ The Sophisticated Giant: what better definition for the tall, slender, and elegant tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.
❝ "Our Man In Paris" is a little gem of seven tracks recorded in Paris in 1963.
❝ Produced by the legendary Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note, it is considered one of the most important Jazz albums in jazz history.
❝ Ella Fitzgerald was without a doubt one of the greatest singers of all time, both white and black, and she is especially universally recognized as the absolute queen of jazz vocals.
❝ …he considers to be "Fitzgerald's best, the most exciting and explosive."
❝ Les Paul called him the best guitarist in the world, perhaps rightly so.
❝ The genius and his urgency to play.
❝ People like that, as I was, should buy The Complete Atomic Basie.
❝ The mwandishi Herbert Jeffrey Hancock —the watermelon man & the great finger dancer of the Blue Note âge d'or— gathered a band of headhunters armed with percussion instruments of Mother Africa and whatever else could be used to coax the spider out of the hole (and that spider is us, lazybones elites); he made himself comfortable in front of rainforest keyboards, clavinets, synthesizers, donned a tribal mask (or a boiler with horns? both: a pressure cooker full of hyperagitated afrofunk) and began the hunting season.
❝ "Cantaloupe Island" is known by everyone, even those who claim they don't know it: those who are now around twenty will remember the sampling in "Cantaloop", male members who have eyes to see will remember Rossella Brescia's backside and therefore, by association, also the piece that serves as the soundtrack to her strip.
❝ The title alone says it all: this is an album completely centered on groove.
❝ “I don't even have a seed when I start playing. It's like starting from scratch. [...] Jazz is letting the light shine. Not trying to enhance it, just letting it be” (K. Jarrett).
❝ “The heart is where the music is”
❝ “relax, because I certainly cannot”
❝ A magnificent album, an immense ... MASTERPIECE.
❝ Unique and unrepeatable, Mc Coy Tyner.
❝ "This is a dedication to a man, a friend, a teacher - John Coltrane"
❝ "Comme un soupir avant la fin du monde".
❝ "A lot of musicians have a style that is too selfish. They play only for themselves and for a small lucky elite. I play to give pleasure to others and to communicate."
❝ "Impossible is nothing. Impossible is not a rule, it's a challenge."
❝ "\u201COrchestrion\u201D is Pat Metheny’s latest madness."
❝ "undoubtedly delivers one of the masterpieces of his decades-long career."
❝ "... a new milestone in electric guitar music... searing, soaring, twisted chords of action guitar/thought process. An incendiary work by an unpredictable master, a challenge to the challengers..."
❝ "The Bridge": the bridge. A literal bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, where it seems Sonny Rollins was forced to practice so as not to disturb the neighbors.
❝ Almost an hour of pure improvisation.
❝ For Sonny Rollins, 1957 was truly a special year.
❝ « A young saxophonist was complaining to me that listening to Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. I replied, "Coleman Hawkins is supposed to make you nervous! Hawkins has made every saxophonist of the last forty years nervous!" »
❝ His talent must never be forgotten.
❝ Essential. The trio of Bud Powell, an enigmatic figure and a prophet of modern piano, included Ray Brown on double bass and Max Roach on drums.
❝ Oliver Nelson's artistic caliber, although recognized—especially by industry professionals—more for his qualities as a composer/arranger than as a (multi)instrumentalist (an aspect unfortunately overlooked), did not receive the recognition it deserved.
❝ A giant.
❝ Lester ends with "Laughin' to Keep from Cryin'", which is not among his best recordings – for those, refer to his past with the Count Basie orchestra – but it is the last, and it means a couple of things.
❝ A melodically and harmonically highly skilled pianist, with a natural funky streak capable of making even stones dance.
❝ "Song For My Father" is an album to have if one doesn’t, to listen again to if it's there, maybe already for a while, gathering dust.
❝ We are faced with a masterpiece, considered among the best records by Horace Silver.
❝ “Even when they invented jazz-tango to create a sensation, I joined in because I needed to become known. Even then I threw myself into the adventure with irony, with skepticism, but the tango caught me and enveloped me, forcing me to believe in that operation which was purely commercial. And when I recorded "Summit" with Mulligan in Milan, he too didn’t believe in it but ended up being enchanted by it”
❝ Herman the visionary.
❝ Sun Ra was undoubtedly a musician with great talent and innovative ideas
❝ This album, besides being the best album of this extraordinary artist, is a true landmark of free jazz and jazz history at large.
❝ An album that is a little gem, yet it has never been reissued since 1973, exists “only” on double LP, and you have to look for it among used records (unless you happen to find a 1990 CD reproduction by Accord, which, however, is bootlegged).
❝ Art Tatum = waterfall of notes
❝ What do you want me to say? A masterpiece of that anti-racist political movement of which jazz became the standard-bearer at the end of the '50s, akin to "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman, powerful and fluid (forty minutes rarely have passed so quickly) like an uppercut of a raging bull, with Max Roach being a devil hitting his drums in a way only he could, an instrument that found in this performer rare emotional charge. His wife, Abbey Lincoln, gives the vocal performance of a career. Coleman Hawkins and the crew do the rest for the brass.
❝ This is one of those few records that manages to speak to my soul.
❝ Recorded in November 1964 and released two years later, Inner Urge represents an experiment by the saxophonist, being described as "Dark and Intense" by the jazz encyclopedia "The Penguin Guide to Jazz," just like the bitter coffee that accompanies me while listening to the phrasing of this album.
❝ 'one of the most important albums I've ever listened to. It's definitely one of the best ever published by Blue Note, and I don't mean the new Blue Note. It's one of the best ever, including all those we made in the '50s and '60s'
❝ This "For Alto" from '69, a double LP converted into a single CD, represents the sonic version of the stream of consciousness of Joycean memory; the Freudian unconscious uncovered in music in its most primordial nature; pure surrealism!
❝ Three shamans vibrating to the rhythm of the universe in a sacred music without God.
❝ Braxton is a first-rate musician, wonderfully in symbiosis with his instruments, gifting us sounds generously for those who know how to collect them patiently.
❝ And the results simply led to the creation of Art Pepper's masterpiece, the album recognized as the most representative, the most important of his career.
❝ Yet in the end, a miracle happens.
❝ Enjoy Art Pepper everyone!
❝ it’s that Albert Ayler was not a normal guy, and his music is not normal.
❝ Writing that “Spiritual Unity” was the first recording Albert Ayler made with musicians who were not ashamed to play with him may seem like a display of cynicism, but it's not unwarranted:
❝ “Music is the healing force of the universe” (second to last album byAlbert Ayler) is one of those records destined (and indeed it was) to make music history (not just jazz)
❝ We’re talking about Stan Getz, that is, one of the best saxophonists in the history of jazz, and probably the best non-black one.
❝ A relaxation session for Stan Getz (no need for introductions) on sax, Laurindo Almeida (whom I don’t know, but she appreciates immensely) on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Edison Machado, Jose Soorez, Dave Bailey on percussion, and Luiz Praga and Jose Paulo directing the Latin rhythms.
❝ In the ’80s, Getz was at the height of his maturity.
❝ Benny Goodman was a magnificent jazz clarinetist, with impudent swing sounds and always engaging classical orchestrations.
❝ What is certain is that Holiday herself considered this her most successful album.
❝ In this album, the essence of a soul: pure poetry and true suffering blended in a voice that will testify to the human condition even a thousand years from now.
❝ "Probably the best tenor player in the world."
❝ In this 1971 Impulse! album, music is presented as a lifestyle, a reason for pride and unity.
❝ Pharoah is the Pied Piper and we are so many white mice, astonished.
❝ Archie Shepp is the voice of an oppressed people, the voice of African American anger.
❝ Don't think it's jazz. That "jazz is the name white people gave to black music."
❝ Attica Blues is a subjective voice that, however, catalyzes and becomes vox populi.
❝ The result is a project where the rhythm is not only evident but the central element, the engine that drives and binds every component from beginning to end.
❝ Jazz for true connoisseurs.
❝ Beauty will not save the world.
❝ Lennie Tristano's piano playing is a creature that is very difficult to describe, as many are its faces and its nuances.
❝ The trouble is that people do not worry about listening to the music, but about competing with it.
❝ There are records that shout their worth, and others that assert it with silent elegance: “Wahoo!” (BST 84191) belongs to this second category.
❝ There's not much else to say except that this album can be considered one of the finest ever recorded. Highly recommended for all ears!
❝ The title, "The Way I Really Play", speaks for itself!
❝ And if the above-mentioned necklace is placed in a magnificent case (laminated gatefold cover and an internal booklet full of technical data and photographs), it becomes clearer that you are in the presence of an almost unmissable product.
❝ If one were to send a couple of dozen CDs out of the Milky Way as a testament to the best music ever produced by Humankind, the choice would be truly daunting, starting with the selection of "genres" to include or not.
❝ he is the Grand Master Supreme Dispenser of secrets in this noble art.
❝ One of Zorn's best albums of recent times and of all time, no doubt about it.
❝ Naked City is one of those albums capable of changing the vital course of every individual's musical tastes, an unsettling album at times, soothing, almost magical at others, then from intensity it gives way to the playfulness of music only to suddenly leave it behind and embrace fiery emotions drawn from a thousand kisses deep.
❝ a "smooth and delicate", dazzling/fizzy, summery little disc to take (perhaps) with us under the shading parasols to integrate the light and caressing mistral breezes coming from the facing waters
❝ Here is the masterpiece. MASTERPIECE.
❝ Here we are dealing with one of the most active Italian singers, Giuseppe Faiella, known as Peppino Di Capri because he was born in Capri in 1939, during the fascist period.
❝ The first thing that catches the eye on the cover is the name of Miles Davis, who is not featured as a leader but as a simple member of the band.
❝ Good: for those who are not familiar with the vast work of Cannonball Adderley, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, this album is a very easy place to start.
❝ The atmosphere is that of a party.
❝ There must be a fourth way: to flow with time.
❝ In short, if you don't know Don and want to dive into one of his journeys, this is an excellent starting point.
❝ The live dimension, the uninhibited and excessive atmosphere of those years, the verve of the musicians involved: everything contributes to making the evening incandescent.
❝ Bolivia/Under Fire is a concept. It narrates the force of nature, the man's unhealthy force, but also the good that can be created by man himself.
❝ only listening can do justice to a wonderful album that every lover of Latin Jazz should own.
❝ Few chords, many ideas. This is the philosophy of Modal Jazz.
❝ The arrangement of the tracks in "Right Now!" ... is instead a logical and calibrated arrangement: a linear arrangement that will not divert attention for even a second.
❝ In essence, "A Fickle Sonance" is a middle album, a meeting between hard bop and moderate avant-garde.
❝ "The middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone,"
❝ Hank is not an improviser of streams of notes, of daring arpeggios, of spectacular harmonic substitutions.
❝ As the saying goes, neither shame nor praise.
❝ Brad Mehldau. A genius.
❝ “Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. Music is heightened nostalgia” B.Mehldau.
❝ Traditional jazz lovers, beware, shoo, away!
❝ Music in praise of dreams, to detach from the earth and remain suspended in space and time.
❝ Anyone intent on categorizing an artist into a genre will have a tough time with Jan Garbarek, because the Norwegian saxophonist encapsulates world music, jazz, new age, Nordic folk, and even electronic music, and surely there's some other genre that has influenced him.
❝ A few steps from Paradise...
❝ Wandering through jazz and its immediate surroundings, it’s practically impossible not to encounter Armando Anthony Corea, known as “Chick”.
❝ Unmissable; especially now that it has thirteen tracks. Mandatory. Absolutely.
❝ They make a winning, perfect pair.
❝ he is a serious and well-prepared professional, with a warm and well-modulated voice, whose pieces are not banal, neither in terms of musical accompaniment nor in terms of lyrics and themes addressed.
❝ an incontrovertible proof of the imposing majesty and the sound-forwardness of theArtistA (capitalized A, obviously) in question.
❝ That record is a sonic assault. It’s a vortex.
❝ “Search for the New Land” was produced and released by Alfred Lion for Blue Note (BLP 4169) in 1966, although it was recorded on February 15, 1964, at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Englewood Cliffs (NJ).
❝ Indeed, for those intending to approach this music, I would suggest starting with the 10 minutes of “The Sidewinder”.
❝ “Neither jazz, nor rock, nor jazz-rock, fusion, cross-over, or other useless and banal labels, these are the Weather Report, theirs is the music of the Weather Report.”
❝ “‘This is the baddest shit on the planet!’ said Joe Zawinul when, at CBS, he heard the lacquer of the record before it went to print.”
❝ “this record is a piece of music that one MUST absolutely own.”
❝ Every moment of this "Nocturne" (2001) is the product of a perfectly successful fusion between jazz technique and Latin creativity, in this case Cuban and Mexican.
❝ A metaphorically perfect record.
❝ A mesmerizing record.
❝ one of the best songs of the decade, and probably, the only true anthem that has been played at the Ariston in the last decades, at least since the equally valid "Italia" by the late Mino Reitano.
❝ Devotion proved to be a work endowed with a very personal approach and dynamics where the guitar, no longer clean and direct, became the distorted, acid, and psychedelic instrument as invented by the aforementioned Hendrix, to whom, more or less evidently, the work was dedicated.
❝ you must buy this 1969 album: an unmatched gem.
❝ we are facing the best work of a mature McLaughlin, standing alongside that Extrapolation of 1969, which is still today his most astonishing insight.
❝ In short. Perfection. The kind that you rarely encounter, but when you see it, you recognize it and know it is Her.
❝ “Something Special” is a perfect album for those who, like me, want to approach Jazz in a conscious and thoughtful way, with the aim of gradually understanding all its various nuances.
❝ An excellent debut for one of the most original formations in the Italian scene.
❝ "Abbiamo Tutti un Blues da Piangere" ("We All Have a Blues to Cry") is a pivotal moment for the group, for jazz-rock, and for Italian music as a whole.
❝ The title track, on the other hand, is introduced by a mysterious and spectral musical theme that suits the cover well and is a masterpiece that fully immerses you in the atmosphere of this work.
❝ He is a king without a crown.
❝ The trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is an authentic Proteus of jazz, thanks to his indescribable ability to adapt to the most diverse musical contexts and instantly overcome enormous stylistic differences between his temporary collaborators.
❝ An album to buy, to give due recognition to Tina Brooks's talent and, above all, to confirm that of Freddie Hubbard, one of the most brilliant talents ever seen on the face of the earth.
❝ Sonny Clark was a fabulous sideman, despite his career, which ended prematurely with the passing of the pianist from Pennsylvania in 1963 at the age of 31, lasting just under ten years.
❝ Jimmy Knepper plays, all his life, with everyone.
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