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Charles Lloyd – Quartets ECM Box Set (2013)

- Source: Something Else!

The story of Quartets , the new ECM box set covering five of Charles Lloyd's albums, isn't a sweeping career retrospective; it would take at least twenty discs to sufficiently do that for this tenor saxophonist whose become a lion in jazz over a fifty year span.

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Desert Island Discs: Blue Note Records Edition

- Source: Something Else!

Our newest Desert Island Discs poll delves into one of jazz music's signature labels, as we're castaway to the isle of Blue Note. Memorable albums by Horace Silver, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Larry Young each received multiple votes, while artists like Grant Green and Cassandra Wilson drew praise from more than one voter, as well.

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Graded on a Curve: Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book

- Source: The Vinyl District

While he's remembered foremost as a key contributor to the bands of jazz titan Charles Mingus, tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin also recorded a slew of outstanding albums as a leader, none of them better than his 1963 outing The Freedom Book. If the accumulated weight of post-bop's golden era can sometimes feel like an unfathomable musical avalanche, this casually faultless quartet outing is unquestionably one for the hearing.

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New Music Monday: Dar Williams, Hank III, Donovan, the Grateful Dead, Lurrie Bell

- Source: Something Else!

Put up a chair; there's piping hot newness in store from the likes of Dar Williams, Duke Robillard, Hank Williams III, Jon Cleary and Lurrie Bell , as well as sizzling reissues and concert souvenirs from Blue Oyster Cult, Cowboy Junkies, Donovan, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin — not to mention the Tom Moulton remixes of favorite cuts from Philadelphia International.

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Half Notes: McCoy Tyner – Guitars (2008)

- Source: Something Else!

Backing former John Coltrane pianist Tyner, there's bassist extraordinaire Ron Carter and drummer Jack DeJohnette, but along for the ride, and to make the title make sense, are guitarists Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Derek Trucks, John Scofield and banjo-god Bela Fleck.

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Geri Allen – A Child Is Born (2011)

- Source: Something Else!

Whereas Geri Allen's solo piano debut for Motema, 2010′s Flying Toward the Sound , focused on musical inspirations Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner and Cecil Taylor, the follow up travels in more personal circles.

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McCoy Tyner: Vol. Three 1961

- Source: Burning Dervish

"This music was recorded over a six month span but illustrates the breakneck speed with which the bleeding edge of jazz was transforming. In late May and early June 1961, McCoy Tyner was part of the John Coltrane group that recorded the ground-breaking Impulse! album Africa/Brass. By early November, the month that record was released, the core group of Coltrane, Tyner, Elvin Jones, Reggie Workman and notably, Eric Dolphy, were turning the jazz world upside down with the aggressive music they made across four nights at New York's Village Vanguard. Track the evolution here."

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McCoy Tyner: Vol. Two, 1960-61

- Source: Burning Dervish

"The jazz world ushered in the 1960s with a fury of innovative change. A bold avant-garde stretched the form while also making accessible and engaging records. Across just nine months in one corner of that world,pianist McCoy Tyner played on a variety of sessions that together serve as a concise illustration of the ground bop was ceding to modality, melody and more. He began his tenure and apprenticeship with saxophonist John Coltrane, led his own first sessions and participated in the creation of music whose excitement and ingenuity has yet to be surpassed."

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John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz

- Source: Burning Dervish

While the posthumous Like Sonny is the first commercial release to include a Coltrane line-up with pianist McCoy Tyner, Coltrane Jazz is the first "official" release in the saxophonist's cannon to do so.

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Michael Brecker - Tales from the Hudson

- Source: Burning Dervish

"Michael Brecker, a major influence on today's young saxophonists, shows off his own influences a bit throughout this fine modern straight-ahead set. Brecker sounds surprisingly like Stanley Turrentine on parts of "Midnight Voyage," and otherwise displays his roots in Ernie Watts and John Coltrane. With the exception of Don Grolnick's "Willie T.," the music on the CD is comprised of group originals (five by the leader) and falls into the 1990s mainstream of jazz. While the tenor saxophonist has plenty of blowing space (really letting loose on the exciting closer, "Cabin Fever"), Pat Metheny is mostly pretty restrained (in a Jim Hall bag) except for his wild solo on guitar synth during "Song for Bilbao." Pianist Joey Calderazzo starts out sounding a bit like McCoy Tyner on "Slings and Arrows" before his own musical personality is revealed. When Tyner himself plays on "Song for Bilbao" (one of two guest appearances), one can certainly tell the difference between master and pupil. All of Michael Brecker's recordings as a leader (as opposed to his cameos as a sideman on pop records) are easily recommended and show why he is considered a giant by many listeners." From Wikipedia:

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