Tracks Undercurrent
- I Hear A Rhapsody
- Darn That Dream
- Stairway To The Stars
- Romain
- Skating In Central Park
- Romain
- My Funny Valentine
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- Dream Gypsy
- My Funny Valentine
Release date: 2002-08-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.90
Review Undercurrent / Bill Evans:
Tracks The Dreamer
- Winter Wind
- Red
- Spirits Up Above
- Desire
- Velvet
- Nola
- Park Bench People
- Love
- blackeyedsusan
- The Dreamer
Release date: 2008-01-28
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.88
Review The Dreamer / Jose James:
Tracks The Mirror Conspiracy
- Le Monde
- Indra
- Illumination
- So Com Voce
- Focus On Sight
- Hong Kong Triad
- Tomorrow
- Air Batacuda
- Treasures
- Samba Tranquille
- Shadows Of Ourselves
- Lebanese Blonde
- Mirror Conspiracy
Release date: 2000-08-21
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.87
Review The Mirror Conspiracy / Thievery Corporation:Washington's finest purveyors of hazy downbeat soundscapes have already produced two stoned classics with Sounds from The Thievery H-Fi (4AD) and their DJ Kicks mix on K7! Records. Their latest longplayer walks to the same tempo but with an overall more purposeful musical strut. It's organic for a start, with live vocals and sounds, trading in the slightly sullen slow-mo digi-dub for a more refined and soulful brand of chic. Check the breathless beauty of Marla's voice on "La Monde" and "So Com Voce" as she floats into the spaces left empty on previous Thievery encounters. They manage to wring every half-drop of their main musical influences (dub, soundtracks and bossa) into this beautiful record as it sinks into deep waters, oozing sophistication all the way down. Perfect accompaniment when too spannered to dance, this contains the added bonus of jazzual jungle finale, "Tomorrow" to liven you up from contented slumber just before the CD ends. Sweet like syrup, not chocolate. -Dan Stacey.
Tracks The First Four Albums - Easy Like / Kessel Plays Standards / To Swing Or Not To Swing / Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By
- That's All from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Prelude To A Kiss from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Lullaby Of Birdland from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- You Stepped Out Of A Dream from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- On A Slow Boat To China from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- My Old Flame from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Indiana from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- I Love You from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Bernardo from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- How Long Has This Been Going On from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Indian Summer from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Contemporary Blues from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Cheerful Little Earful from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Makin' Whoopee from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Fascinating Rhythm from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Speak Low from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- What Is There To Say? from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Blues For A Playboy from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- April In Paris from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Tenderly from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Don't Blame Me from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Mountain Greenery from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Barney's Blues from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Love Is Here To Stay from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Midnight Sun from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Moten Swing from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- A Foggy Day from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Jeepers Creepers from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Carioca from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Vicky's Dream from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Happy Feeling from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- 64 Bars On Wilshire from `Barney Kessel: Vol 2 - Barney Kessel Plays Standards'
- Louisiana from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Gone With The Wind from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Embraceable You from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Begin The Blues from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- Easy Like from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Just Squeeze Me from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Salute To Charlie Christian from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- My Reverie from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Wail Street from `Barney Kessel: Vol 3 - To Swing Or Not To Swing'
- I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- North Of The Border from `Barney Kessel: Vol 1 - Easy Like'
- Love Is For The Very Young from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
- Laura from `Barney Kessel: Vol 4 - Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By'
Release date: 2008-02-11
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.75
Review The First Four Albums - Easy Like / Kessel Plays Standards / To Swing Or Not To Swing / Music To Listen To Barney Kessel By / Barney Kessel:
Tracks The Complete Collection
- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Russell Garcia, Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Paul Smith
- You Turned The Tables On Me - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz
- That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) - Gordon Jenkins, Louis Armstrong, Gordon Jenkins Orchestra And Choir, Billy Butterfield, Carl A. Poole, Yank Lawson, Will Bradley, Milt Yaner, Hymie Schertzer, Tom Parsley, Artie Drelinger, Bernie Leighton, Carl Kress, Jack Lesberg, Johnny Bowers, Unknown
- Hello Brother - Bob Thiele, Louis Armstrong And The All Stars
- Blues In The Night - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louie Bellson
- Hey Look Me Over - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Michael Kapp
- Jeepers Creepers - Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- Moon River - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Michael Kapp
- The Sunshine Of Love - Bob Thiele, Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong's Orchestra And Chorus, Tommy Goodman
- Can Anyone Explain? - Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
- I Only Have Eyes For You - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Russell Garcia
- Sweet Lorraine - Norman Granz, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Louis Armstrong, Louie Bellson, Ray Brown
- A Lot Of Livin' To Do - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Michael Kapp
- A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver, Sy Oliver's Orchestra, Cutty Cutshall, Milt Yaner, George Dorsey, Freddy Williams, Al Klink, Billy Kyle, Sandy Block, Bunny Shawker
- Mame - Louis Armstrong
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz
- Little Girl Blues - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Russ Garcia and His Orchestra
- The Dummy Song - Jack Pleiss Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
- La Vie En Rose - Louis Armstrong, Milt Gabler, Sy Oliver, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra, Bernie Privin, Red Solomon, Paul Webster, Morton Bullman, Hymie Schertzer, Milt Yaner, Art Drelinger, Bill Holcombe, Earl Hines, Everett Barksdale, George Duvivier, Johnny Blowers
- Sittin' In The Sun - Jack Pleiss & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Herb Ellis, Oscar Peterson, Louie Bellson, Ray Brown
- It Takes Two To Tango - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver, Sy Oliver's Orchestra, Hymie Schertzer, Dick Jacobs, Babe Fresk, Melvin Tax, Bill Holcombe, Billy Kyle, Everett Barksdale, Joe Benjamin, Bob Davidson
- I Still Get Jealous - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Michael Kapp
- What A Wonderful World - Bob Thiele, Louis Armstrong's Orchestra And Chorus, Tommy Goodman, Joe Wilder, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, J.J. Johnson, Sam Markowitz, Dan Trimboli, Jerome Richardson, Raymond Stanfield, Hank Jones, Allen Hanlon, Art Ryerson, Willard Suyker, Russell Savakus, Grady Tate, Warren Hard, Unknown, Bob Simpson, Eddie Brackett
- Blueberry Hill - Gordon Jenkins, Louis Armstrong, Gordon Jenkins Orchestra And Choir, Michael Kapp, Billy Butterfield, Carl A. Poole, Yank Lawson, Will Bradley, Milt Yaner, Hymie Schertzer, Tom Parsley, Artie Drelinger, Bernie Leighton, Carl Kress, Jack Lesberg, Johnny Bowers, Unknown
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Gordon Jenkins Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
- Hello, Dolly! - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Michael Kapp, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle, Tony Gattuso, Arvell Shaw, Danny Barcelona, Unknown
- Kiss Of Fire - Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- (When We Are Dancin') I Get Ideas - Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver, Sy Oliver & His Orchestra
- Chloe (Song Of The Swamp) - Gordon Jenkins, Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
- Muskrat Ramble - Ernest Anderson, Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Peter Frutchey
- Gone Fishin' - John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Bobby Guy, Red Nichols, Ziggy Elman, Dick Taylor, Bill Atkinson, Wendell Mayhew, Phil Shunken, Mary Matlock, Babe Russin, Jack Chaney, Larry Wright, Warren Baker, Unknown, Perry Botkin, Phil Stephens, Nick Fatool
- I Was Doing All Right - Louis Armstrong
- Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails - Donald Elfman, Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, Russell Garcia
- Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
- So Long Dearie - Orchestra, Louis Armstrong
- Give Me Your Kisses (I'll Give You My Heart) - Bob Thiele, Louis Armstrong
- Skokiaan (South African Song) - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, Milt Gabler, Sy Oliver
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.75
Review The Complete Collection / Louis Armstrong:
Tracks Kind Of Blue : Slide Pack
- So What
- Freddie Freeloader
- Flamenco Sketches
- Flamenco Sketches
- All Blues
- Blue In Green
Release date: 2008-04-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.60
Review Kind Of Blue : Slide Pack / Miles Davis:
Tracks Piazzolla: Tango Zero Hour
- Tanguedia III
- Milonga Loca
- Contrabajissimo
- Milonga Del Angel
- Concierto Para Quinteto
- Michelangelo '70
- Mumuki
Release date: 2000-04-03
Creator: Astor Piazzolla
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.97
Review Piazzolla: Tango Zero Hour / Nonesuch:
Tracks Cool Struttin': Remastered
- Royal Flush
- Lover
- Cool Struttin'
- Blue Minor
- Deep Night
- Sippin' At Bells
Release date: 1999-06-14
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.74
Review Cool Struttin': Remastered / Sonny Clark:
Tracks The Mirror Conspiracy
- Tomorrow
- Focus On Sight
- Lebanese Blonde
- Treasures
- Samba Tranquille
- Illumination
- Shadows Of Ourselves
- Hong Kong Triad
- Mirror Conspiracy
- Indra
- Le Monde
- Air Batacuda
- So Com Voce
Release date: 2000-08-21
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.87
Review The Mirror Conspiracy / Thievery Corporation:Washington's finest purveyors of hazy downbeat soundscapes have already produced two stoned classics with Sounds from The Thievery H-Fi (4AD) and their DJ Kicks mix on K7! Records. Their latest longplayer walks to the same tempo but with an overall more purposeful musical strut. It's organic for a start, with live vocals and sounds, trading in the slightly sullen slow-mo digi-dub for a more refined and soulful brand of chic. Check the breathless beauty of Marla's voice on "La Monde" and "So Com Voce" as she floats into the spaces left empty on previous Thievery encounters. They manage to wring every half-drop of their main musical influences (dub, soundtracks and bossa) into this beautiful record as it sinks into deep waters, oozing sophistication all the way down. Perfect accompaniment when too spannered to dance, this contains the added bonus of jazzual jungle finale, "Tomorrow" to liven you up from contented slumber just before the CD ends. Sweet like syrup, not chocolate. -Dan Stacey.
Tracks Day Trip
- At Last You're Here
- Snova
- Is This America (Katrina 2005)
- Dreaming Trees
- Calvin's Keys
- Day Trip
- When We Were Free
- Son Of Thirteen
- Red One
- Let's Move
Release date: 2008-01-28
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.91
Review Day Trip / Pat Metheny:
Tracks Ah Via Musicom
- Song For George
- Nothing Can Keep Me From You
- Desert Rose
- High Landrons
- Cliffs Of Dover
- Trademark
- Forty Mile Town
- Ah Via Musicom
- Steve's Boogie
- Righteous
- East West
Release date: 1990-08-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.50
Review Ah Via Musicom / Eric Johnson:
Tracks 20 Golden Greats: Nat King Cole
- Love Letters
- Smile
- Too Young
- Unforgettable
- Ramblin' Rose
- Straighten Up And Fly Right
- It's All In The Game
- On The Street Where You Live
- Portrait Of Jennie
- Very Thought Of You
- Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer
- Sweet Lorraine
- Nature Boy
- Dance Ballerina Dance
- When I Fall In Love
- Let There Be Love
- For All We Know
- Around The World
- Somewhere Along The Way
- Mona Lisa
Release date: 1987-12-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.99
Review 20 Golden Greats: Nat King Cole / Nat 'King' Cole:
Tracks Mi Nina Lola
- Mi Nina Lola
- Nostalgias
- Loca
- Triunfo
- Ay De Mi Primavera
- Love
- Jodida Pero Contenta
- Te Camelo
- A Mi Manera
- Buleria Alegre
- Ojos Verdes
Release date: 2007-05-21
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.82
Review Mi Nina Lola / Buika:
Tracks World of Echo
- Lets Go Swimming
- Hiding Your Present From You
- Wax The Van
- Place
- Canvas Home
- Answers Me
- Lucky Cloud
- Soon To Be Innocent Fun/Lets See
- All-Boy All-Girl
- See-Through
- Shes The Star/ I Take This Time
- Treehouse
- The Name Of The Next Song
- Tone Bone Kone
- Tower of Meaning
- Happy Ending
- Being It
Release date: 2005-01-10
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.28
Review World of Echo / Arthur Russell:
Tracks Last The Whole Night Long
- I've Gotta Get A Message To You
- Fernando - James Last, Mariona
- Love Hurts
- Amazing Grace
- Mull Of Kintyre - James Last, Benny Bendorff
- Let Me Be The One
- Money, Money, Money
- Yesterday
- Love Is In The Air
- Stayin' Alive
- You Make Me Feel Brand New
- I Only Want To Be With You
- Black Is Black
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- I'm On Fire
- In Zaire
- Belfast
- Jeans On
- Yes Sir I Can Boogie
- Boogie Oogie Oogie
- Brown Girl In The Ring
- Dancing In The City
- Save Your Kisses For Me
- Daddy Cool
- I Can't Give You Anything
- I Write The Songs
- Y Viva Espana
- Substitute
- I Love To Love
- Devil Woman
- It's A Heartache
- You're The First My Last My Everything
- One For You One For Me
- Rock Bottom
- Rivers Of Babylon
- Strangers In The Night - James Last And His Orchestra
- Kiss You All Over
- Cecilia
- Night Fever
- Stuff Like That
- Una Paloma Blance (White Dove)
- Dancing Queen
- Sailing
- If I Only Had Time
- Massachusetts (The Lights Went Out In)
- Lara's Theme
- You're The One That I Want
- Summertime
- All By Myself
- Rasputin
Release date: 2002-10-14
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.32
Review Last The Whole Night Long / James Last:
Tracks World of Echo
- Hiding Your Present From You
- Happy Ending
- Lets Go Swimming
- All-Boy All-Girl
- Answers Me
- Place
- Wax The Van
- Tower of Meaning
- The Name Of The Next Song
- Shes The Star/ I Take This Time
- Treehouse
- See-Through
- Canvas Home
- Tone Bone Kone
- Being It
- Lucky Cloud
- Soon To Be Innocent Fun/Lets See
Release date: 2005-01-10
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.28
Review World of Echo / Arthur Russell:
Tracks Bitches Brew
- Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
- John McLaughlin
- Bitches Brew
- Sanctuary
- Spanish Key
- Pharaoh's Dance
- Feio
Release date: 1999-07-12
RRP: £13.99
Price: £10.02
Review Bitches Brew / Miles Davis:The revolution was recorded: in 1969 Bitches Brew sent a shiver through a country already quaking. It was a recording whose very sound, production methods, album-cover art, and two-LP length all signalled that jazz could never be the same. Over three days anger, confusion, and exhilaration had reigned in the studio, and the sonic themes, scraps, grooves, and sheer will and emotion that resulted were percolated and edited into an astonishingly organic work. This Miles Davis wasn't merely presenting a simple hybrid like jazz-rock, but a new way of thinking about improvisation and the studio. And with this two-CD reissue (actually, this set is a reissue of the original set plus one track, perfect for the fan who's not so overwhelmed as to need the four-CD Complete Bitches Brew box), the murk of the original recording is lifted. The instruments newly defined and brightened, the dark energy of the original comes through as if it were all fresh. Joe Zawinul and Bennie Maupin's roles in the mix have been especially clarified. With a bonus track of "Feio"-a Wayne Shorter composition recorded five months later that serves both as a warm-down for Bitches Brew and a promise of Weather Report to come-this is crucial listening. -John F. Szwed.
Tracks The Kings of Jazz: Compiled By Jazzanova & Gilles Peterson
- My Favorite Things
- Afro White
- Mother Of The Future
- Spirits Up Above
- Fire Waltz
- Moves
- Peace Piece
- Butterflies
- Quiet Fire
- Muster Fur Kammerorchester
- Anthenagin
- Equinox
- At Les
- Everything's Changed
- Modern Times
- In Memory Of
- Spirits In Transit
- Young-Rabbits
- Two Miles Before Dawn
- Brand New Day
Release date: 2006-03-20
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.41
Review The Kings of Jazz: Compiled By Jazzanova & Gilles Peterson / Jazzanova:
Tracks In a Silent Way
- In A Silent Way/It's About That Time
- Shhh/Peaceful
Release date: 2002-08-19
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.00
Review In a Silent Way / Miles Davis:Miles Davis's famous mid-1960s quintet, featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock, was intact until just a few weeks before his new, electric ensemble recorded In a Silent Way. Legendary as a kind of line in the sand challenging jazz fans during the ascendance of electric, psychedelic rock, In a Silent Way hinted at the repetitive polyrhythms Davis would employ throughout the early 1970s. It also partook generously of electric piano and bass and rekindled the tonal palette that Davis had explored famously with Kind of Blue. But In a Silent Way remains a clearly electric jazz record, part ambient colour exploration, part rock-inflected energy and vibe, and part outright maverick creativity. Davis takes many long, breathy solos, and they glisten in a burnished blue against his new group's strange admixture of musical moods. -Andrew Bartlett.
Tracks Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
- One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
- Spring Is Here
- Where Or When
- Sleep Warm
- It's A Lonesome Old Town
- Angel Eyes
- I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
- Gone With The Wind
- What's New
- Ebb Tide
- Blues In The Night
- Only The Lonely
- Willow Weep For Me
- Goodbye
Release date: 1988-02-08
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.61
Review Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely / Frank Sinatra:Look past the tacky, sad-clown velvet painting on the cover (a Grammy winner for album design in 1959!); there's nothing cheap or sentimental about this record- the bleakest and blackest album of popular songs ever recorded, so quietly powerful it can leave you slumped in your chair with the ice cubes still rattling in your glass. Every single "suicide song" (as Sinatra liked to call them) on Only the Lonely is a stunner that will take your breath away. Nelson Riddle's arrangements are like shadows, almost colourless and motionless, so that all you hear is the ache in the singer's voice. "Angel Eyes" and "One for My Baby" each deserve an album to themselves-so exquisitely moving that at the end of three minutes, you feel like you've just heard a lifetime of loneliness. The only regret-and it's a big one-is that this flawless masterpiece doesn't include Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", which truly belongs here; Sinatra put it into an already overcrowded recording schedule and, when fatigue and the difficulty of the song defeated him after a couple takes, he gave up and never attempted it again. We get the chillingly lovely "Willow Weep for Me" instead, so it's hard to complain-but that just adds to the pang of loss that this album expresses so vividly. Drink up! -Jim Emerson.
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