Complete 1951-1953 Studio Sessions [Import]

Complete 1951-1953 Studio Sessions [Import]

Complete 1951-1953 Studio Sessions [Import]

ASIN: B00008HAU6

Track Listings
 
1. Milt Meets Sid
2. D & E
3. Yesterdays
4. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
5. Autumn Breeze
6. Bluesology
7. Round About Midnight
8. Moving Nicely
9. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
10. Love Me Pretty Baby
11. Heart And Soul
12. Ture Blues
13. All The Things You Are
14. La Ronde
15. Vendome
16. Rose Of The Rio Grande
17. The Queen's Fancy
18. Delaunay's In New York
19. But Not For Me

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Full title - Complete 1951-1953 Studio Sessions. This Definitive Records edition, 20 bit remastered, gathers the first recordings by the Modern Jazz Quartet between 1951-53, at a time when the group was still primarily known as the Milt Jackson Quartet. Features the earliest recordings of a band that would have an instrumental role in defining the shape of jazz in the post-war years. 20 tracks. 2003.

Complete 1951-1953 Studio Sessions,The Modern Jazz Quartet,Definitive Classics,Cool,Group,Jazz,Pop,Third Stream
Jazz Studio, Vols. 5-6: Complete Sessions
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Absurdly ignored
 Jazz Studio, Vols. 5-6: Complete Sessions
John Graas
Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006GMYRU
Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

  1. Cool Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  2. What Am I Here For?
  3. Jazz Club U.S.A.
  4. I'll Be Around
  5. Royal Garden Blues
  6. Nocturne
  7. South Gonzales Street Parade
  8. Best Thing for You
  9. Darn That Dream
  10. Someday Morning Will Come
  11. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart
  12. City Talk
  13. Lobo Nocho
  14. Shenandoah
  15. I Love You
  16. Somewhere Along the Way
  17. Phipps Quipps

Album Description

Lonehill Jazz. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Absurdly ignored.......2005-10-06

While Graas only excelled for a short time, it is a scandal that his music is now largely neglected. Few were so good at fusing classical music and jazz with absolute naturalness. And the jazz component does not suffer. The standard of musicianship, including that of improvisation, is high throughout. - Joost Daalder
Complete Sextet Studio Sessions
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Two of the Greats
 Complete Sextet Studio Sessions
Ben Webster
Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HLDF0E
Release Date: 2006-10-16

Tracks:

  1. Hollering at the Watkins
  2. Used to Be Basie
  3. How Deep Is the Ocean
  4. Studio Call
  5. Willow Weep for Me
  6. Opus 711
  7. Love Is Here to Stay
  8. K.M. Blues
  9. Walkin' with Sweets
  10. Night Is Blue
  11. Easy on the Eyes
  12. Just a Mood
  13. Sunrise Blues

Tracks:

  1. Blues for the Blues
  2. Blues for Piney Brown
  3. Moonlight in Vermont
  4. Taste on the Place
  5. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  6. Blues for Bill Basie
  7. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
  8. Blues for the Blues [Alternate Take]
  9. Alone Together [*]
  10. Willow, Weep for Me [*]
  11. Bidin' My Time [*]
  12. Makin' Whoopee [*]
  13. Moon Song [*]
  14. Louise [*]

Album Description

Two CD set containing all of the sextet recordings made by Ben Webster and Harry Edison in the studio. Consists of two complete albums, Sweets and Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You (both issued under Edison's name), as well as all of the tunes included on two more obscure sessions that the pair played on. Other musicians include Barney Kessel, Red Norvo, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis and others. 27 tracks recorded in 1956-57. Lonehill Jazz. 2006.

Album Details

2006 Issued Collection of the Complete Sessions of Webster-edison Sextet, Recorded in 1962. Includes the Tracks from Two Complete Albums: "Sweets" and "Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You" that were Originally Issued under Edison's Name Only, Along with Two More Obscure Sessions.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two of the Greats.......2007-03-16

I have followed Ben Webster since the 49s when he was with Ellington, and Sweets Edison in the same time frame when he was aith Count Basie. This album is some of their best work and I was delighted with it.
Jazz Studio, Vols. 1-2: Complete Sessions
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Yo Joost!!
  • Absurdly ignored
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John Graas
Manufacturer: Lonehill Jazz Spain
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006GMYRA
Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

  1. Tenderly
  2. Let's Split
  3. Laura
  4. Here Come the Lions
  5. Paycheck
  6. Graas Point
  7. Darn That Dream
  8. Do It Again

Album Description

Lonehill Jazz. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Yo Joost!!.......2006-09-23

The Aussie is right! Studio is a very good piece of work and thanks to some wonderful buddy it is now available on cd. The fidelity on my copy is a tad rough but better than my LP at it's 50 year old best. It seemed to me like an East Coast/West Coast thing with superb playing all of the way around. As a non-musician it's difficult to avoid excessive superlatives when referring other peoples art so suffice it to say that this effort stands up mightly today in the best of company.

5 out of 5 stars Absurdly ignored.......2005-10-06

While Graas only excelled for a short time, it is a scandal that his music is now largely neglected. Few were so good at fusing classical music and jazz with absolute naturalness. And the jazz component does not suffer. The standard of musicianship, including that of improvisation, is high throughout. - Joost Daalder
Complete Studio Sessions
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    		Complete Studio Sessions
    Stan Getz & Jimmy Raney
    Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    2. Complete Studio Recordings
    3. Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer
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    5. Quadromania

    ASIN: B0000C83ZO
    Release Date: 2004-08-02

    Tracks:

    1. Pardon My Bop
    2. As I Live and I Bop
    3. Interlude in Bebop
    4. Diaper Pin
    5. Stan Getz Along
    6. Stan's Mood
    7. Slow
    8. Fast
    9. Skull Buster - Al Haig Sextet
    10. Ante Room - Al Haig Sextet
    11. Poop Deck - Al Haig Sextet
    12. Pennies from Heaven - Al Haig Sextet
    13. Pinch Bootle - Al Haig Sextet
    14. Earless Engineering - Al Haig Sextet
    15. Be Still, TV - Al Haig Sextet
    16. Short P, Not LP - Al Haig Sextet
    17. Melody Express
    18. Yvette
    19. Potter's Luck
    20. Song Is You
    21. Wildwood

    Tracks:

    1. Stella By Starlight
    2. Time on My Hands
    3. 'Tis Autumn
    4. Way You Look Tonight
    5. Lover, Come Back to Me
    6. Body and Soul
    7. Stars Fell on Alabama
    8. You Turned the Tables on Me
    9. Lullaby of Birdland
    10. Autumn Leaves
    11. Fools Rush In
    12. These Foolish Things
    13. Thanks for the Memory
    14. How Deep Is the Ocean?
    15. Hymn of the Orient
    16. These Foolish Things
    17. Signal - Jimmy Raney
    18. Lee - Jimmy Raney
    19. 'Round Midnight - Jimmy Raney
    20. Motion - Jimmy Raney

    Album Description

    This double-CD shows the magical interplay of the Getz-Raney classic partnership at its finest while outlining the evolution of their playing both as individuals & as a unit over this crucial five year span. They are joined by some truly exceptional sidemen, including Earl Swope, Kai Winding, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Horace Silver, Duke Jordan, Red Mitchell, Tommy Potter, & Roy Haynes. 20-bit remastered. Definitive. 2003.
    Complete Studio Sessions with Dick Twardzik
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      		Complete Studio Sessions with Dick Twardzik
      Chet Baker
      Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0006B0YSG
      Release Date: 2005-02-08

      Tracks:

      1. Rondette
      2. Mid-Forte
      3. Sad Walk
      4. Re-Search
      5. Just Duo
      6. Piece Caprice
      7. Pomp
      8. Girl from Greenland
      9. Brash
      10. Cool Blues [*] - Chet Baker Quartet, Lars Gullin, , Richard Twardzik
      11. Brash [*] - Chet Baker Quartet, Lars Gullin, , Richard Twardzik
      12. Lover Man [*] - Chet Baker Quartet, Lars Gullin, , Richard Twardzik
      13. I'll Remember April [*] - Chet Baker Quartet, Lars Gullin, , Richard Twardzik,

      Album Description

      This exceptional album contains the earliest single issue of the two dates recorded in Paris by the great Chet Baker Quartet with pianist Richard Twardzik, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Peter Littman in October 1955. This Lonehill Records edition includes four bonus tracks, 'Cool Blues', 'Brash', 'Lover Man', & 'I'll Remember', from a concert in Stuttgart, the same month and year. 20-bit remastered. 2004.

      Album Details

      This Exceptional Release Includes the Easliest Single Issue of the Two Dates Recorded in Paris by the Great Chet Baker Quartet with Pianist Richard Twardzik, Bassist Jimmy Bond and Drummer Peter Littman in October 1955. In Addition to the Nine Original Issue in LP Our Edition Includes Four Bonus Tracks from a Concert Given in Stuttgart the Same Month and Year, with the Same Group plus Local Guest Musicians: The Baritone Sax Player Lars Gullin and the Singer Caterina Valente. Author Jack Chambers Wrote About These Recordings in his Definitive Book the Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (2004): "These Recordings May Represent the Apogee of Baker's Talents as a Pure Musician".
      Jazz Studio, Vols. 3-4: Complete Sessions
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Modern and heady
      		 Jazz Studio, Vols. 3-4: Complete Sessions
      John Graas
      Manufacturer: Lonehill Jazz Spain
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0006GMYRK
      Release Date: 2004-11-15

      Tracks:

      1. Mulliganesque
      2. My Buddy
      3. 6/4 and Even
      4. Charleston
      5. Rogeresque
      6. Jazz Sections from Symphony No 1 in F Minor [Sonata Allegro]
      7. Jazz Sections from Symphony No 1 in F Minor
      8. Twelfth Street Rag
      9. Groove Juice
      10. Pink Lady
      11. Too Much
      12. Ballade for Jeanie
      13. Turk
      14. When You're Near
      15. Tom and Jerry
      16. So Goes My Love
      17. Bolero de Mendez
      18. Just a Pretty Tune
      19. Cathy Goes South
      20. Bambi

      Album Description

      Lonehill Jazz. 2004.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Modern and heady.......2006-06-15

      Just as volume 1 did, this CD collects two LPs in the Jazz Studio series issued on Decca in the mid-1950s (Vol. 3 & 4), one issued under John Graas's name, the other under Jack Millman's. Graas was a French horn player, an instrument that just doesn't, to my ears, fit well in a jazz setting: it's difficult to play in tune and often sounds sloggy. Fortunately he's surrounded himself with the cream of the West Coast crop of modern musicians (as did Millman), and the results are intriguing. Grass's writing is a plus, and his compositions are inventive and interesting. MULLIGANESQUE is an up-tempo swinger with good solos by Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax) and Don Fagerquist (tp). 6/4 AND EVEN contains an excellent Howard Roberts guitar solo, and ROGERESQUE is a salute to Shorty Rogers, though Conte Candoli is the trumpeter here. Grass was also a classical musician/composer, and two selections from his Symphony No. 1 are included; the first part is way up-tempo, the second a bit slower, with each featuring a classically oriented Andre Previn on piano.

      Jack Millman plays flugelhorn and composed all of the selections on Volume 4. He favors quick tempos, the best being PINK LADY, SO GOES MY LOVE, and WHEN YOU'RE NEAR. A couple of tunes lean south of the border; one, CATHY GOES SOUTH, has a lot going on in it, with Buddy Collette taking a nice flute solo to boot. Millman is an inventive soloist, often playing behind the beat (a la Louis Armstrong), which produces a tremendous swing feeling; he solos especially well on TOO MUCH and TOM AND JERRY. With their emphases on new sounds and ideas in the modern jazz context, it's good to have these two albums available again in one package. Lonehill has a whole series dedicated to John Graas's work - all of it worth checking out.
      Complete Quintet Studio Sessions
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        		Complete Quintet Studio Sessions
        Ben Webster
        Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
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        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000HLDF04
        Release Date: 2006-10-16

        Tracks:

        1. Better Go
        2. How Long Has This Been Going On?
        3. Kitty
        4. My Romance
        5. Did You Call Her Today?
        6. Embraceable You
        7. Summertime [*]
        8. Bess, You Is My Woman [*]
        9. I Got Plenty of Nothing [*]
        10. My Man's Gone Now [*]

        Album Description

        2006 CD containing the complete Ben & Sweets 1962 session, including all existing alternate takes, by Ben Webster and Harry Edison. As a bonus to this outstanding album, three tracks from Porgy And Bess by Mundell Lowe's Septet (featuring solos from Ben Webster) have been added. These sessions feature Art Farmer, Don Elliot, Tony Scott, Dale Johnson and George Duvivier. 12 tracks total. Lonehill Jazz. 2006.

        Album Details

        2006 Issued Edition of the Complete "Ben and Sweets" Sessions from 1962 Wtih all the Alternate Takes of for the First Time on a Single CD. As a Bonus, the Disc Includes all Tracks featuring Solos by Webster from a Very Rare LP that was Released under the Leadership of Guitarist Mundell Lowe.
        Complete 1952 Verve Studio Sessions With Lester Young
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          		Complete 1952 Verve Studio Sessions With Lester Young
          Oscar Peterson
          Manufacturer: Definitive Classics
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00007JR3N
          Release Date: 2004-08-02

          Tracks:

          1. Ad Lib Blues
          2. Just You Just Me
          3. Tea for Two
          4. Indiana
          5. These Foolish Things
          6. I Can't Get Started
          7. Stardust
          8. It Takes Two to Tango
          9. On the Sunny Side of the Street
          10. Almost Like Being in Love
          11. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
          12. There Will Never Be Another You
          13. I'm Confessin'
          14. It Takes Two to Tango
          The Complete Columbia Studio Sessions, 1965-68
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Miles the Auteur
          • Essential.
          • An outstanding possession!
          • Five Stars..........but...........
          • One of the all-time best Miles Davis box sets
          		 The Complete Columbia Studio Sessions, 1965-68
          Miles Davis Quintet
          Manufacturer: Sony
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0000062G5
          Release Date: 1998-03-24

          Tracks:

          1. E.S.P.
          2. R. J.
          3. Eighty-One
          4. Little One
          5. Iris
          6. Agitation
          7. Mood
          8. Circle
          9. Orbits
          10. Dolores
          11. Freedom Jazz Dance

          Tracks:

          1. Gingerbread Boy
          2. Footprints
          3. Limbo (Alternate Take)
          4. Limbo
          5. Vonetta
          6. Masqualero (Alternate Take)
          7. Masqualero
          8. The Sorcerer
          9. Prince Of Darkness
          10. Pee Wee
          11. Water Babies

          Tracks:

          1. Nefertiti
          2. Capricorn
          3. Madness (Rehearsal)
          4. Hand Jive (First Alternate Take)
          5. Hand Jive (Second Alternate Take)
          6. Hand Jive
          7. Madness (Alternate Take)
          8. Madness
          9. Sweet Pea
          10. Fall
          11. Pinocchio

          Tracks:

          1. Pinocchio
          2. Riot
          3. Thisness
          4. Circle In The Round
          5. Water On The Pond
          6. Fun
          7. Teo's Bag (Alternate Take)
          8. Teo's Bag

          Tracks:

          1. Paraphernalia
          2. I Have A Dream
          3. Speak Like A Child (Rehearsal)
          4. Sanctuary (Rehearsal)
          5. Side Car I
          6. Side Car II
          7. Country Son
          8. Country Son (Alternate Take)
          9. Black Comedy

          Tracks:

          1. Black Comedy
          2. Stuff
          3. Petits Machins
          4. Tout De Suite (Alternate Take)
          5. Tout De Suite
          6. Filles De Killimanjaro

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          By 1965 Miles Davis had gone through a handful of stages, from the Birth of the Cool nonet's multihued orchestrations to the development of a hard-bop sound keeled on Davis's midregister wooziness and the band's driving backbone in the "first" great quintet (featuring John Coltrane), to the modal freedom of Kind of Blue. So when the solidly established Davis convened a new quintet, known as his "second" great one, and hired youngsters Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, it seemed a skewed move. These six CDs show just how creatively and intelligently skewed the move really was. The material here, which has also been reissued on expanded single CDs of the main full-length original LPs (E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky), is immediately and unceasingly startling. Davis & Co. were quickly discarding their live performance practice of playing loads of standards and were further discarding traditional melodic structures for more rigorous harmonic exercises. Shorter in particular, at times the most prolific composer in the band, was advancing his tunes and his solos in equal proportion. The tunes are increasingly sharp-edged and, with Williams driving the band with a categorical balance of abandon and control, loopily energized. Miles blows with tighter and tighter control of his tone even while the band seems to be finding all kinds of expressive freedoms that easily elongate into lengthier studies. Toward the end of this box, you'll hear the seeds of the Miles that went on to unloose Bitches Brew. Even though the roots of the aggressively electric Miles are in these sessions, there are uncategorizable points of beauty strewn all over the tunes. --Andrew Bartlett

          Album Details

          Japanese Limited Edition 20bit Mastered Six CD Box Set. Limited Edition for Initial Pressing Only. Pre Order Basis Only!

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Miles the Auteur.......2006-05-03

          Miles Davis' mid-1960s quintet with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums was not a typical leader-and-sidemen ensemble but a cooperative grouping of some of the most gifted and important musicians in all of postwar jazz. Sharing compositional duties, solo space, ambience and ideas, these five men crafted one of modern music's most distinctive and impressive bodies of work - sounds at once fully realized and ceaselessly probing, classic and cutting edge. By the end of their four-year association, they had reached a plateau of unified creative thought where few of their peers would ever join them, in the process doing as much as any other group or individual to forge a recognizable stylistic link between post-bop and fusion while somehow never quite slipping into either realm.
          This six-disc set, covering the quintet's entire studio output, is noteworthy in that it can - unlike many of Columbia's other "complete" Miles packages - be recommended even to relatively casual fans. Almost nothing here is superfluous, including the handful of alternate takes, some stunning rehearsal nuggets and a couple of long-lost gems which were truly worth finding. Everything fits and makes sense.
          Whether you've come to Miles via KIND OF BLUE and BIRTH OF THE COOL and are now looking to move forward, or along the other well-worn path leading back in time from BITCHES BREW and ON THE CORNER, THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA STUDIO SESSIONS 1965-68 is something you'll never regret adding to your collection. Modern jazz is as much about the music contained in this package as it is about that contained in any other; jump on in and hear it for yourself!

          5 out of 5 stars Essential........2005-10-20

          By 1965, the world of jazz had changed almost unrecognizably from just five years ago, and Miles Davis was in danger of being left behind. After the triumphs of his first few years with Columbia, it seems Davis had had enough. His past few records and his live performances found him falling back on old habits, exploring standards and hard bop pieces that he'd been playing for the past several years. Meanwhile, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler shook the foundations of jazz and John Coltrane in December of 1964 had just aligned himself with them by recording his masterpiece "A Love Supreme". All this time, Davis had been standing still, but he'd assembled a new quintet, completed by plucking his crown jewel and tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter from Art Blakey's band to add to his working band of pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drum prodigee Tony Williams. And while his band dutifully played the hard bop he was paying them for, they wanted to stretch out, to build on the innovations of Coleman, Taylor, Ayler and Coltrane, and remarkably, they inspired Davis to do so as well. In January of 1965, they went into the studio to record their first album together-- "E.S.P", and it was clear that, to steal an Ayler song title, change has come.

          Now granted, the music here isn't quite free jazz, but it's certainly a lot more adventerous than anything Davis had done since "Sketches of Spain". Davis by and large let his sidemen stretch their wings. Eschewing the previous use of standards and compositions by contemporaries, virtually all the material by the quintet came from within the quintet (in fact of the 45 or so compositions on this set, only two come from outside the quintet). Early on, Shorter carried the lion's share of composition with Davis taking this role later (as he began experimenting with electric instruments, his began composing more), but everyone contributes. By and large, they're extraordinarily adventerous hard bop tunes-- similar in vein to the kind of work Dolphy was doing, or perhaps even a less detailed Mingus (who tended to use larger ensembles). The performances are fierce and inventive, with fiery interaction between the members of the band and the rhythm section stealing the performances from the soloists at times. It's interesting to track the band's evolution-- the earliest material is loose and exciting (recorded in January of 1965 and October of 1966), the middle material (from the spring and summer of 1967) seems to pick up a denseness and an almost claustrophobic quality, and the later material, where Davis was driving composition and experimenting with electric instruments, becomes loose again. One thing is sure-- it's pretty much all essential material.

          Sonically, the set is nothing short of superb, as all the Columbia reissues of Davis' catalog have been. An extensive booklet with biographical details, a history of the group, and a song-by-song analysis is provided as well, although it's rather hard to read in this box.

          A set like this is a substantial investment, but it would serve most well who are interested to pick up the set. Try "Miles Smiles" for a taste of the quintet's material, but everything on here is essential. Highly recommended.

          5 out of 5 stars An outstanding possession!.......2005-10-06

          All of these recordings were worth producing, as throughout they feature the most important and lastingly satisfying five-man group in jazz (I am not being sexist here - there is no female group to compare). Occasionally of course five-man groups have played that were as good, as happened at times in the case of Charley Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (e.g. at Massey Hall) - but not in as organised, abundantly brilliant and sustained a fashion as this. Miles Davis was as good, all in all, as at any time in his career, and the range of his expressive powers is astounding: from the delicately subtle to the searingly soaring. The choice of tracks was amazingly varied and rewarding throughout. Coltrane was still maturing, but played nevertheless with a fire and intensity of invention that noone on tenor has matched either before him or after. And the rhythm section was also extraordinarily good. The whole package is very much worth having, and not least because it is NOT monotonous, ever - the artists were too richly imaginative for that, and constantly played meaningful, profound, varied and deeply rewarding music. An accompaniment for and to one's life, and an original expression OF life, that of the artists and us all, so that we can all share in what these musicians so generously offered. - Joost Daalder

          5 out of 5 stars Five Stars..........but..................2005-07-23

          I would suggest to anyone interested in purchasing this box set to buy the individual albums that comprise it instead. ESP, Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles In The Sky, Filles and even Water Babies are all classic and deserve to be heard as individual entities. Yeah I know you can program your cd players to the original running order, but the individual albums (all remixed and remastered with bonus tracks and liner notes) offer a better introduction to those who have never heard this band before.

          Buy ESP first and live with it for a couple weeks, then move on to Miles Smiles, and etc. It's the way to go believe me. This music is immortal and the cornerstone of modern jazz and post bop as we know it. The original albums deserve to be listened to as originally intended.

          5 out of 5 stars One of the all-time best Miles Davis box sets.......2005-06-07

          "Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968" features nothing less than some of Miles' best music. This box set showcases many of Davis' most innovative albums including "E.S.P.," "Miles Smiles," "Sorcerer," "Nefertiti" and "Miles in the Sky." While the music leans towards psychedelia and the impending fusion movement, this is still jazz by any stretch of the imagination. The mood is cool, intelligent and laid back. While the box set documents the inevitable introduction of electric instruments, it is a gentle preamble. The electric piano is a mere suggestion and the plugged in guitar seems light years away from squealing Jimi Hendrix type power chords. While [...] Brew would eventually pass the point of no return, these six discs suggest mind expansion, but never cross the line. If you've always wanted Miles' 'light trip' music in one place, the "Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-1968" is the perfect box set.

          Around $30.00 can be saved by purchasing the 2004 reissue of this 1998 box set. The reissue has the same music and also comes with a handsome full-color booklet.
          Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 1
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • The Jazz Lab - The Hippest of the Hip!!!
          		 Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 1
          Donald Byrd , and Gigi Gryce & the Jazz Lab Project
          Manufacturer: Lone Hill Jazz
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B000GFLJ9A
          Release Date: 2006-07-10

          Tracks:

          1. Nica's Tempo
          2. Smoke Signal
          3. Speculation
          4. Over the Rainbow
          5. Sans Souci
          6. I Remember Clifford
          7. Little Niles
          8. Blue Concept
          9. Satellite
          10. Evening in Casablanca
          11. Social Call
          12. Stablemates
          13. Steppin' Out

          Album Description

          All of the Jazz Lab Studio sessions for the first time ever in one set by one of the finest groups of the late 50s (The Jazz Lab was co-led by the inimitable horn players Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd). The three volumes of this collection contain all of the Jazz Lab's studio recordings for the first time ever! This first volume features eight tracks from the Jazz Lab album plus five from the Modern Jazz Perspective (both released in 1957) for a total of 13 smokin' Jazz workouts. Lonehill Jazz. 2006.

          Album Details

          Featuring Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cleveland, Wendell Marshall and Art Taylor.

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars The Jazz Lab - The Hippest of the Hip!!!.......2007-02-25

          This is excellent playing, composition, arranging and group sound. Jazz at its best. If you don't know "The Jazz Lab", you're in for a treat, and Vol I, II or III are all great places to start.

          What I like on Volume I is the combination of the keen and the gritty; it's amazing to me how the thoughtfulness of the intro to "Steppin' Out" and the groove of "Blue Concept" can be coming from the same source. Check out the mystery of "An Evening in Casablanca" and the innocent jubilance of "Sans Souci" (means "without a care" in French). Gryce favorites "Social Call" and "Nica's Tempo" are featured in excellent, definitive arrangements here, as well as Benny Golson's classic "Stablemates."

          These are the masters of jazz, captured at their finest moments as players and composers.

          Jazz Music:

          1. Confirmation
          2. Coryells [Hybrid SACD]
          3. Fats Waller Sings
          4. Fictionary
          5. Fly Dude
          6. From This Moment
          7. Gotta Play
          8. Goza Mi Timbal
          9. Green Chimneys: The Music of Thelonious Monk
          10. Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise [Live] [Original recording remastered]

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