CD-Charts Position 21
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Stan Kenton Today - Recorded Live in London

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

Release Date November 01, 2004
6 out of 5 Stars

The only thing I will regret in my life is not being able to see and hear this band live in person in London back in February 1972. I had the Decca Phase Four stereo 2 LP set and when I visited Brittan in 2005 I played them again but found the poor balance detracted from the thought of bringing them back with me to Australia and buying a turntable to play them again.
Now this is no longer necessary and it seems with no to do Michael Dutton has cleaned up the often very poor balance Decca went to press with. So much so those of you who have never heard the LP's will just think it's a bit closely miked but it seemed to me it was well over the top of the tape's dynamic range especially the very fiery numbers ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 22
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(Jazz Impressions Of) A Boy Named Charlie Brown

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Vince Guaraldi Trio

Release Date November 17, 2008
6 out of 5 Stars

The only thing I will regret in my life is not being able to see and hear this band live in person in London back in February 1972. I had the Decca Phase Four stereo 2 LP set and when I visited Brittan in 2005 I played them again but found the poor balance detracted from the thought of bringing them back with me to Australia and buying a turntable to play them again.
Now this is no longer necessary and it seems with no to do Michael Dutton has cleaned up the often very poor balance Decca went to press with. So much so those of you who have never heard the LP's will just think it's a bit closely miked but it seemed to me it was well over the top of the tape's dynamic range especially the very fiery numbers ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 23
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Let's Get Lost

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Chet Baker

Release Date May 26, 1989
This album is a must in any real music lover collection
the emotion it reveals is one of the most sensitive I've ever heard
I even think that it's as cool as miles and coltrane kind of blue

CD-Charts Position 24
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Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums

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

Release Date July 28, 2008
This album is a must in any real music lover collection
the emotion it reveals is one of the most sensitive I've ever heard
I even think that it's as cool as miles and coltrane kind of blue

CD-Charts Position 25
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Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-Fi

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

Release Date October 05, 2000
This album is a must in any real music lover collection
the emotion it reveals is one of the most sensitive I've ever heard
I even think that it's as cool as miles and coltrane kind of blue

CD-Charts Position 26
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Combinations: Songs from 1954-1956

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Shelly Manne

Release Date July 02, 2007
Totally agree with Barry McCanna. Yet another superb issue from Avid.
To confirm and supplement Barry's comments CD 1 kicks off with the complete "My Fair Lady" session. I had forgotton just how good this was and why it proved so popular (ignore the snotty critics). Tracks 9 to 15 represent 7 of the 12 tracks from "The Three" and "The Two" album. These were new to me and something of a revelation is so far as they were a bit advanced for the time. Tracks 16 to 18 come from the album "Shelly Manne & His Men Vol 2". Once again new to me but wonderful and prompting me to search out the complete album. Without being flash I can say that played to me as a blindfold test I would have recognised Messrs. Rogers, Freeman and Manne.
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CD-Charts Position 27
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Motion

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: KONITZ LEE

Release Date July 07, 2003
Totally agree with Barry McCanna. Yet another superb issue from Avid.
To confirm and supplement Barry's comments CD 1 kicks off with the complete "My Fair Lady" session. I had forgotton just how good this was and why it proved so popular (ignore the snotty critics). Tracks 9 to 15 represent 7 of the 12 tracks from "The Three" and "The Two" album. These were new to me and something of a revelation is so far as they were a bit advanced for the time. Tracks 16 to 18 come from the album "Shelly Manne & His Men Vol 2". Once again new to me but wonderful and prompting me to search out the complete album. Without being flash I can say that played to me as a blindfold test I would have recognised Messrs. Rogers, Freeman and Manne.
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CD-Charts Position 28
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No Sun In Venice

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Modern Jazz Quartet

Release Date July 01, 1991
Totally agree with Barry McCanna. Yet another superb issue from Avid.
To confirm and supplement Barry's comments CD 1 kicks off with the complete "My Fair Lady" session. I had forgotton just how good this was and why it proved so popular (ignore the snotty critics). Tracks 9 to 15 represent 7 of the 12 tracks from "The Three" and "The Two" album. These were new to me and something of a revelation is so far as they were a bit advanced for the time. Tracks 16 to 18 come from the album "Shelly Manne & His Men Vol 2". Once again new to me but wonderful and prompting me to search out the complete album. Without being flash I can say that played to me as a blindfold test I would have recognised Messrs. Rogers, Freeman and Manne.
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CD-Charts Position 29
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Birth of the Cool: the Complete Birth of the Cool

CD-Charts > Music > Cool and West Coast
by: Miles Davis

Release Date June 01, 1998
There is no going wrong for this man, yet another amazing album that has been put together, this time with his organization; every tune here is crammed with energy and pace, a pleasure to listen to again and again

CD-Charts Position 30
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Sweet Rain

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

Release Date May 10, 1993
Stan Getz clocked up more than his fair share of classic recorded moments in his fifty year career, among them "Focus", his stunning collaboration with arranger Eddie Sauter, the "West Coast Jazz" session with its epic take of "Shine" and the latterday triumphs of "Anniversary" and "Serenity", as well as the more commercial pickings of the Bossa-Nova boom, kick started by the still alluring "Jazz Samba" album.

"Sweet Rain" is clearly the equal of these other landmarks. Released in 1968, at a time when jazz seemed to be searching every which way to find both new directions and an audience, it found Getz playing the younger men at their own game, mixing his already established trademark romanticism with a freedom, muscle and bite which makes the album ... Read More: