The Bob Szajner Triad - Sound Ideas Three well-versed jazz musicians congregated at a ranch house basement recording studio on Beatrice Street in Livonia Michigan to document all of my original tunes (all at that time) by performing them without rehearsals, without second takes, without any audio enhancements, and improvising solos based on the feelings created in the moment.
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The Bob Szajner Triad - The Best of Triad This disc features the late Roy Brooks on drums and Ray McKinney on bass. The collection contains a combination of earlier released albums: The Bob Szajner Triad, a 3-record set and released individually as Jazz Opus 20/40, Sound Ideas, and Afterthoughts. This is unrehearsed, live jazz played without retakes. It results in a highly improvised, spontaneous, but still very cohesive musical undertaking. Very enjoyable if you can do without fancy sound engineering and other audio enhancements. This CD is straight up acoustic jazz with some excellent solos throughout.
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The Bob Szajner Triad I, II, III - Loose Ends In 2007, approaching the end of his musical endeavors and wishing to leave a record of everything he ever recorded, Bob Szajner revived his label RMS007 Records and released his complete discography on seven CD's: Jazz Opus 20/40, Sound Ideas, Afterthoughts, The Lost Tapes, The Best of Triad, Center//Cuts and Loose Ends.
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The Bob Szajner Triad II - The Lost Tapes Take a gloomy night in May 1981, plus a room not meant for recording, plus a piano destined for the "keyboard cemetery", plus a sound engineer unfamiliar with the finer aspects of recording and add to this three talented jazz artists playing original material and you have a strange concoction indeed. If sound quality is all you want in a jazz recordings, please DO NOT listen to this album. But, if you are a curious adventurous soul willing to look and listen past the technical imperfections of the recorded production on the underlying artistic talent and unique content of these improvised vehicles patterned after '50s-'60s "classic" jazz genre, then this is for you to review and hopefully enjoy!!
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The Bob Szajner Triad II and III - center\\\cuts Center\Cuts is a collection of bop and hard bop tunes recorded live at the Detroit Jazz Center World Stage in 1981. Marked by easy, infectious melodies and grooves, and steady swinging basslines, this disc features some nice solos and exchanges between musicians. Especially of note is track #3, which features a twanging and swift-fingered bass solo, and upbeat, snappy drums. Arrangements are straight-forward and simply structured. The true essence of jazz improvisation is displayed here. A good listen.
The Complete Ken Vandermark on NotTwo (CD + Vinyl) The Complete Vandermark on NotTwo set includes: three (3) vinyl releases: 'Four Sides to the Story', 'Light on the Wall' and 'Resonance'; plus two (2) multi-CDs box-sets: 'Alchemia' and 'Resonance'; plus two (2) single CD: 'Ideas' and 'Annular Gift'.
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The complete vinyl set of Ken Vandermark The Complete vinyl set of Ken Vandermark on NotTwo set includes three (3) vinyl releases: 'Four Sides to the Story' (2-LP), 'Light on the Wall' (2-LP), and 'Resonance' (1-LP).
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The Cosmosamatics - Free Within The Law From the first moments of the title track, seemingly boundless New Thing energy is the order of the day, the rough edges even informing the softer-grained textures and luscious clarinet and English horn...(Marc Medwin, All About Jazz)
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The Cosmosamatics Zetrons The Cosmosamatics began life as a avant-garde jazz troupe, an unusual collection of jazz musicians that includes saxophonists Sonny Simmons and Michael Marcus. It was these two musicians that decided to bring life to the group, drafting in their favorite collaborators as they crafted their highly unique brand of jazz. (Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide)
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The Cosmosamatics - Reeds and Birds The Cosmosamatics" is an all-star group with legendary Altoist / English horn player Sonny Simmons and multi-reed specialist Michael Marcus holding down the frontline.
"The Cosmosamatics are one of the most compelling groups on today's jazz scene". (AllAboutJazz)
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The David Arner Trio - Out/In the Open David Arner (piano, harpsichord, percussion) is a long time proponent of innovative music and spontaneous composition.
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THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF POLISH JAZZ This exclusive presents the most comprehensive from the history of Polish Jazz and covers the development of jazz art in Poland from 1965 until 1987 - the golden era of Polish Jazz. The most important albums from that era are contained in this edition, including milestones of Polish jazz from the masters such as: Krzysztof Komeda, Tomasz Stanko, Andrzej Trzaskowski, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski, Janusz Muniak, Laboratorium, Hagaw, Jarek Smietana and Extra Ball, and many others. Each album in this series is a CD version of the original vinyl record from historical Polskie Nagrania - Muza "Polish Jazz" series, with the same tracks, original artwork - each on separate CD (digi-pack) . All albums are hosted in one a special box. 2-CD compilation with the best of contemporary Polish Jazz complements the selections.
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The Fonda / Stevens Group - Trio Your music meets my heart, is in harmony with my sould, and inspires my brain. (Elke Schleisiek)
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The Light (Waclaw Zimpel / Wojciech Traczyk / Robert Rasz) - Afekty The brand new album of one of the most revolutionary jazz band in Poland. His debut album was one of the most important releases of 2008 in Poland, won third place on Diapazon Annual Critics Poll 2008. The Light it is telepathic trio, which brings together elements of Eric Dolphy, Jimmy Giuffre an Theo Jorgensmann into a music very much their own. Featuring three brilliant young musicians on clarinets, bass and drums, this is an astounding virtuosic second album that challenges traditions both old and new.
The Music of KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA vol. 1-4 (4-CD's set) This brand new, shrink wrapped 4-CD's set from ANEX, consists of the same musical material that was originally released by Poljazz Records in 1980s on vinyl. Same original artwork as on LP's.
The New York Tapes Andrea Centazzo Environment for sextet LP was made possible by a generous loan from the unforgettable Tom Cora, without which I would not have been able to release it. Tom had the foresight. In fact, for years this was considered one of the best combos to emerge from the nascent New York scene.
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The Noboru Jones Experience - THE J.O.B. Noboru Jones, a native Californian, is one of the most remarkable new voices rising from the underground Los Angeles contemporary scenes. This state of the art jazz recording featuring Lutte Berg (Sweden) guitars & Roberto Ottaviano (Italy) saxes and Noboru Jones percussion. A cross over of ECM-style jazz, improvised music and world music with a taste of new age on the top. Dream-like atmospheres in the typical contemporary digital sound. Amazing trio recorded live in Austria. The Middlesex
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The Nu Band - The Dope and The Ghost “The Nu Band is something special. Free bop with a political message . . . These guys ARE free jazz. Each of them has played a major role in shaping what the genre is today, in showing new ways of expressing emotions and of jointly creating a superb listening experience . . . This is music that is adventurous, emotional, but at times so tight, so interlocked, so on the same level, that it's getting uncanny. But the greatest thing : it's real fun too. The intensity! The interplay! The melodies! The emotions! The music!” (Steph.blogspot)
THE VANDERMARK 5 - Annular Gift "Working with Marek (NotTwo) is a pleasure because he puts the music and the musicians first". (Ken Vandermark - Down Beat, October 2009)
