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First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

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by: Duke & Count Basie Ellington

Release Date August 08, 2000

This was my first SACD jazz disc. I'm trying to build a collection and I'm sampling each genre. It was also the first time I bought an SACD knowing it was stereo only.

I'm not very knowledgeable about jazz, really a newcomer to the genre with only a handful of CDs, but even I have heard of these famous bands. On listening I can tell you the programme is pure joy. Really entertaining, lively throughout. The alternate takes are really worth listening to. I can't add more than the previous reviewer.

As far as the SACD format is concerned, I'm afraid a combination of my slightly damaged hearing and a sound system not specifically built for SACDs (I'm using a decent enough home cinema rig) means that I can't tell ... Read More:

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First Time: [Us Import]

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by: Duke Ellington and Count Basie

Release Date December 23, 1999

This was my first SACD jazz disc. I'm trying to build a collection and I'm sampling each genre. It was also the first time I bought an SACD knowing it was stereo only.

I'm not very knowledgeable about jazz, really a newcomer to the genre with only a handful of CDs, but even I have heard of these famous bands. On listening I can tell you the programme is pure joy. Really entertaining, lively throughout. The alternate takes are really worth listening to. I can't add more than the previous reviewer.

As far as the SACD format is concerned, I'm afraid a combination of my slightly damaged hearing and a sound system not specifically built for SACDs (I'm using a decent enough home cinema rig) means that I can't tell CD ... Read More:

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The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

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by: Louis Armstrong

Release Date August 22, 2006
These seminal recordings, document an utterly captivating, riveting music. Louis Armstrong transmitted an energy to his musicians that propelled them to play what was almost by any measure of judgement completely new jazz. The compositions were built on syncopated rhythmic innovations and presented radical melodic challenges to the dominant blues idiom. The material was treated by the Hot Fives and Sevens with layers of complex dynamics, elevated to ecstatic heights by Armstrong's dazzling execution on trumpet and the pioneering clarinet work of Johnny Dodds. Dodds' expressive range and penetrating timbre paved the way for the great clarinettists of the swing era: Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.

Some of the themes are so abstract ... Read More:

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The Miles Davis and Gil Evans: Complete Columbia Studio Recordings

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by: Miles Davis

Release Date May 11, 2004
These seminal recordings, document an utterly captivating, riveting music. Louis Armstrong transmitted an energy to his musicians that propelled them to play what was almost by any measure of judgement completely new jazz. The compositions were built on syncopated rhythmic innovations and presented radical melodic challenges to the dominant blues idiom. The material was treated by the Hot Fives and Sevens with layers of complex dynamics, elevated to ecstatic heights by Armstrong's dazzling execution on trumpet and the pioneering clarinet work of Johnny Dodds. Dodds' expressive range and penetrating timbre paved the way for the great clarinettists of the swing era: Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.

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Lady in Satin

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by: Billie Holiday

Release Date January 01, 1959
These seminal recordings, document an utterly captivating, riveting music. Louis Armstrong transmitted an energy to his musicians that propelled them to play what was almost by any measure of judgement completely new jazz. The compositions were built on syncopated rhythmic innovations and presented radical melodic challenges to the dominant blues idiom. The material was treated by the Hot Fives and Sevens with layers of complex dynamics, elevated to ecstatic heights by Armstrong's dazzling execution on trumpet and the pioneering clarinet work of Johnny Dodds. Dodds' expressive range and penetrating timbre paved the way for the great clarinettists of the swing era: Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.

Some of the themes are so abstract ... Read More: