Cheap Vinyl Classics
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This record offers a pretty good sampling of vibraphonist Cal Tjader's influential Latin-jazz of the 1950s. With pianist Vince Guaraldi, bassist Al McKibbon, Willie Bobo on timbales and drums and t...read more
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After the modicum of success he'd experienced with his debut, Song of
Innocence, set to William Blake's epic suite of poems, composer,
arranger, and producer David Axelrod
turned to the British ...read more
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As one of the first albums Herbie Hancock recorded after departing Miles Davis' quintet in 1968, as well as his final album for Blue Note, The Prisoner is one of Hancock's most ambitious efforts. A...read more
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Benny Golson's writing for this date uplifts it beyond most of the jam session sets of the period. Trumpeter Lee Morgan (then 19) is in excellent form, holding his own with his impressive sidemen (...read more
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Roy Ayers's
leap to the Polydor label inaugurates his music's evolution away from
the more traditional jazz of his earlier Atlantic LPs toward the
infectious, funk-inspired fusion that still ...read more
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