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A survey of two-handed pianists rounds up three amaging performances
reissued as RVG remasters under Concord Music Group's Prestige label.
Thelonious Monk
presents Monk in a trio setting with two explosive
drummers--Art Blakey & Max Roach. Red
Garland's Soul Junction presents Garland working
his bluesy territory flanked by bopper Donald Byrd and a restless
young John Coltrane.
We Three is drummer Roy Haynes' session, and
he interacts well with Memphis pianist Phineas Newborn.
With bassist Paul Chambers, the stage is set for
one clasic piano trio recording. |
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Late
Night Thoughts on Jazz: Rahsaan Roland Kirk was like the
ultimate street musician, yet when he played, there was no question
that he was a masterful and brilliant musician. He played tenor
sax and flute about as well as anyone ever has; he knew the history
of black music, from New Orleans to the Mississippi Delta up through
gospel, blues, rock & roll, soul, you name it, and could play
them all –well—on three instruments at once; he had
musical sophistication but never lost sight of his role as a performer
and entertainer. Oh, yeah, and he was blind. A
look at three reissues of early Kirk recordings, one
of which, Kirk's Work featuring Kirk with Jack
McDuff, is a Prestige RVG reissue. |
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Miles
Davis/Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet
In May and October of 1956, the Miles Davis Quintet
recorded sessions that were released separately as four individual
albums: Relaxin’, Steamin’, Workin’ and
Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet. Cookin’
was the first album in the series to be released, though the tracks
here were recorded during the October sessions. |
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Sonny
Rollins/Sonny Rollins Plus 4 1956
was a hell of a year for Sonny Rollins. Having already recorded
a number of memorable dates for the Prestige label, both as a leader
and a sideman, ’56 saw the recording of Rollins sessions that
became the albums Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness,
as well as Sonny Rollins Plus 4, which has been reissued
as one of Prestige’s Rudy Van Gelder Remasters series. |
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John
Coltrane/Traneing In is
a 1957 album released with John Coltrane as the leader, accompanied
by the Red Garland trio, comprised of pianist Garland, bassist Paul
Chambers, and drummer Art Taylor. This is the same year that Trane
was working with Thelonious Monk, a major event in the development
of his playing at that time. Here he is relaxed and blowing swinging
blues with a rhythm section that certainly knows how to swing. |
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