CD-Charts Position 101
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Time Further Out

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Dave Brubeck Quartet

Release Date November 11, 1996
I first bought this album over 40 years ago! I would thoroughly recommend it for lovers of Paul Desmond, particularly Bluesette, Far More Blues & Blue Shadows...

CD-Charts Position 102
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Jazz Goes to College

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Dave Brubeck Quartet

Release Date March 01, 2008
I first bought this album over 40 years ago! I would thoroughly recommend it for lovers of Paul Desmond, particularly Bluesette, Far More Blues & Blue Shadows...

CD-Charts Position 103
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The Essential Collection

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Stan Getz

Release Date March 19, 2007
I first bought this album over 40 years ago! I would thoroughly recommend it for lovers of Paul Desmond, particularly Bluesette, Far More Blues & Blue Shadows...

CD-Charts Position 104
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The Classic Concert Live: Carnegie Hall 1982

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Mel Torme

Release Date April 18, 2005
This recently discovered 1982 recording of the Carnegie Hall performance of Mel Torme, George Shearing, and Gerry Mulligan is the only known recording of these three giants performing together, and what a performance is! Mulligan's fifteen-piece orchestra connects the artists' solos and fills the recording with atmospheric effects, haunting beats, and dramatic accents. Torme's evolution from crooner of beautiful melodies, as he was in the 1977 "London Sessions," to a full-out jazz performer just five years later, is obvious through his relaxed scatting and his use of his voice as a jazz instrument--on a par with Mulligan's sax and Shearing's piano.

Containing all the patter of a live performance, the CD gets off to a rousing start ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 105
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Sweet Rain

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Stan Getz

Release Date September 01, 2008
This recently discovered 1982 recording of the Carnegie Hall performance of Mel Torme, George Shearing, and Gerry Mulligan is the only known recording of these three giants performing together, and what a performance is! Mulligan's fifteen-piece orchestra connects the artists' solos and fills the recording with atmospheric effects, haunting beats, and dramatic accents. Torme's evolution from crooner of beautiful melodies, as he was in the 1977 "London Sessions," to a full-out jazz performer just five years later, is obvious through his relaxed scatting and his use of his voice as a jazz instrument--on a par with Mulligan's sax and Shearing's piano.

Containing all the patter of a live performance, the CD gets off to a rousing start ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 106
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I Remember Charlie Parker

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Joe Pass

Release Date July 01, 1991
This recently discovered 1982 recording of the Carnegie Hall performance of Mel Torme, George Shearing, and Gerry Mulligan is the only known recording of these three giants performing together, and what a performance is! Mulligan's fifteen-piece orchestra connects the artists' solos and fills the recording with atmospheric effects, haunting beats, and dramatic accents. Torme's evolution from crooner of beautiful melodies, as he was in the 1977 "London Sessions," to a full-out jazz performer just five years later, is obvious through his relaxed scatting and his use of his voice as a jazz instrument--on a par with Mulligan's sax and Shearing's piano.

Containing all the patter of a live performance, the CD gets off to a rousing start ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 107
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Serenity

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Stan Getz

Release Date March 12, 2004
This recently discovered 1982 recording of the Carnegie Hall performance of Mel Torme, George Shearing, and Gerry Mulligan is the only known recording of these three giants performing together, and what a performance is! Mulligan's fifteen-piece orchestra connects the artists' solos and fills the recording with atmospheric effects, haunting beats, and dramatic accents. Torme's evolution from crooner of beautiful melodies, as he was in the 1977 "London Sessions," to a full-out jazz performer just five years later, is obvious through his relaxed scatting and his use of his voice as a jazz instrument--on a par with Mulligan's sax and Shearing's piano.

Containing all the patter of a live performance, the CD gets off to a rousing start ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 108
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Bossas & Ballads: The Lost Sessions

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Stan Getz

Release Date October 13, 2003
Let me get this straight, in this time when we are suffocating under an avalanche of tedious, manufactured, throwaway pop music,this sublime, beautiful record has been languishing in a vault since 1989! Genius is such an overused adjective these days but it is entirely fitting in this case. At the time it was recorded Getz was very ill but he roused himself and played as well as he had done at his peak. Buy it.

CD-Charts Position 109
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The Big Band Hit Parade (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Erich Kunzel

Release Date April 04, 2001
Let me get this straight, in this time when we are suffocating under an avalanche of tedious, manufactured, throwaway pop music,this sublime, beautiful record has been languishing in a vault since 1989! Genius is such an overused adjective these days but it is entirely fitting in this case. At the time it was recorded Getz was very ill but he roused himself and played as well as he had done at his peak. Buy it.

CD-Charts Position 110
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Jazz Impressions of Japan

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Dave Brubeck

Release Date May 07, 2001
I first listened to this music on my father's original vinyl, when I was a child. Over the years, I've since bought my own copy of the vinyl as well as the CD. I'm not going to get into any technical sound differences as they're not really material to me in this instance. The music is variously haunting and uplifting, and it will certainly transport you to another time and place when you sit and listen to it. And it does deserve quiet sitting and listening, if it's the first time you've heard it. If you can read music and are so inclined, hunting out a piano transcription and reading (or even playing along, if you're talented!) as you listen is quite a fun exercise.