Poogie Bell: Poogie on Shuffle (2009)

This cd is for the real Poogie Bell fans and music fans all over the world! The musicains here are some of the best in world. Only 100 copies of this CD were made!

Personnel: Roberta Flack, David Sanborn, Kenny Garrett, Wallace Roney, Gerald Albright, Ron Cater, Marcus Miller, Maceo Parker, Poogie Bell, Hiram Bullock, Dean Brown, Patches Stewart, Vincent Henry, Bruce Flowers, Bobby Sparks, Keith Anderson, Rashard Barnes, Chris Parker, Dwayne Dolphin, Jeremy Mcdonald, Casey Benjamin, Josh Rosemen, Tony Depaolis, Gene Stovale, Sonji Woodward, Chris Hemingway, Andre Smith, Asa Livingston.

Playing and singing everything from funk, jazz, rock, R&b. Poogie on Shuffle is just what it means!

Tracklist:

01. Miss Alice 4:05

02. Brother J 4:47
03. Love Vibe 4:39
04. Sunshine 3:16
05. Sara Knows All 4:48
06. Joburgh 4:31
07. So! ?3:57
08. Kendras Blues 5:57
09. Forte Green 5:40
10. Brazillian Thing 4:47
11. Yaki Soba 5:59
Poogie On Shuffle
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Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' At Sunset (2007)

Superb and fine compilation of Wes Montgomery's tracks with wide range of guest artists as Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers and many others.
Tracklist
1. A Day In The Life (5:45)
2. The Shadow Of Your Smile (2:18)
3. Up And At It (4:15)
4. Bumpin' On Sunset (4:50)
5. The Joker (3:26)
6. Movin' Wes (pt. 1) (3:30)
7. Impressions (5:04)
8. Milestones (4:10)
9. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top (5:19)
10. Angel (2:48)
11. Sunny (4:04)
12. O.G.D. (Road Song) (6:06)
13. Tequila (3:21)
14. 13 (Death March) (5:21)
15. Caravan (2:38)
16. The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener (2:32)
17. What The World Needs Now (4:59)
Bumpin' At Sunset

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Miles Davis: Miles in Tokyo (1964)

Miles Davis's most successful groups--his first great quintet with John Coltrane, for example, and his mid-1960s outfit with saxophonist Wayne Shorter--are well known, but the ensembles in-between are also notable. On this 1964 concert, recorded in Tokyo, Japan, Miles was already working with the rhythm section he would maintain until 1970--drummer Tony Williams, bassist Ron Carter, and pianist Herbie Hancock. The saxophonist, remarkably enough, is subsequent avant-garde legend Sam Rivers.

Rivers is a unique and under-appreciated player not bound by stylistic constraints; he plays with great verve, humor, and invention. Though Rivers seems a bit out of place on this set of mostly standards (which includes "My Funny Valentine" and "All of You"), it is interesting to hear how his sound changes the group, pushing it toward more flexible rhythmic and harmonic structures. "So What," for example, grows to skittering near-cacophony, with a series of complex solos. Hancock's blinding right hand and the propulsive rhythms of Carter and Williams also drive Davis to some of the edgiest playing of his career at that point. MILES IN TOKYO is a fascinating document of Davis in transition, but is also worth picking up for the chance to hear Rivers in such unique company.

Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Sam Rivers (tenor saxophone); Herbie Hancock (piano); Ron Carter (acoustic bass); Tony Williams (drums)

Tracklist:

1. Introduction by Teruo Isono

2. If I Were a Bell
3. My Funny Valentine
4. So What
5. Walkin'
6. All of You
7. Go-Go (Theme and Announcement)
Miles in Tokyo
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Kevin Eubanks: The Heat of Heat (1987)

If heat is the process of energy transfer from one body to another, then that is what Kevin Eubanks has set out to do with velvety guitar sounds that will rub you the right way. Familiar to millions of viewers nightly as the leader of Jay Leno's Tonight Show Band, Eubanks creates this generation's finest creative jazz tunes on The Heat of Heat. Dreamy and memorizing, Eubanks creates an odyssey, with him leading the way, that compels you to dance, twirl, evoke your inner sexuality, and if you could, dip yourself.

Tracklist:

1. Palace of the Seven Jewels

2. In a Few

3. Heat of Heat
4. Nardis
5. First Things First
6. Sojourn
7. Sorrir/Smile
8. Receipt Please [*]
9. Third Interior
The Heat of Heat
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Kevin Eubanks: Face to Face (1986)

Kevin Eubanks' first album with a string section is a triumph of good taste, both in the guitarist's gently swinging work and in GRP chief Dave Grusin's unobtrusive, intelligent, unsentimental string charts. Grusin's gorgeously recorded strings seem to seep into the texture, filling the spaces with just enough mortar. The backings alternate between an electric group — with Marcus Miller on bass and Grusin applying the Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound — and often just Ron Carter on acoustic bass (plus the strings, of course). The treatment of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave" is a beaut, with a lot of rapid acoustic guitar figurework in mid-track. Even unreconstructed beboppers will enjoy the fluid duo-only exchange between Carter's 4/4 bass and Eubanks' electric guitar on Wes Montgomery's "The Trick Bag" and Bird's "Relaxin' at Camarillo," the latter of which Eubanks immodestly calls attention to in his liner notes. But he's entitled; it is impressive.

Face to Face

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V.S.O.P.: Live Under the Sky (2000)

Recorded Live at Denen Coloseum, Tokyo on July 26, 1979. Featuring Jazz Legends: Freddie Hubbard (Trumpet and Fluegelhorn), Wayne Shorter (Soprano and Tenor Saxophones), Ron Carter (Bass), Tony Williams (Drums) and Herbie Hancock (Piano). Includes the Songs: 'One of Another Kind' (Hubbard), 'Teardrop' (Carter), 'Pee Wee' (Williams) and 'Domo' (Hancock).

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Don Sebesky: Joyful Noise - A Tribute to Duke Ellington (1999)

Joyful is for Don Sebesky aficionados more than fans of Ellington, a distinction that must be made because of the dissimilarity between the two composer-arrangers. Where Ellington emphasized harmonic complexity in his horn voicings, Sebesky condenses brass and reeds for greater thrust and momentum. And where Ellington strove for understated elegance and relatively seamless melodic and rhythmic transitions in his charts, Sebesky is something of a showoff, writing abrupt, dynamic shifts in mood and tempo, heavily accented to maximize the razzmatazz. Thus, such Ellington classics as "Mood Indigo," "Caravan," and "Satin Doll" are boldly interpreted in a more pastiche manner, and Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" sounds closer to Doc Severinsen than Duke Ellington. Sebesky, who won a Grammy for an arrangement on his 1998 Bill Evans tribute CD, I Remember Bill, clearly intends to provide something fresh--his greatest fidelity to Ellington is on the obscure "Warm Valley"--and he's recruited the personnel here to make it happen. More than half of the 10 songs reunite alto saxophonist Phil Woods with former mates Tom Harrell and Jim McNeely, with Ron Carter joining in on three of the cuts. Not surprisingly, one of those--a Sebesky-jolted "Creole Love Call"--is the record's highlight. --Britt Robson

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Mike Stern - 4 Generation Of Miles (2002)

Of the four musicians presented here, saxophonist George Coleman is the least represented on record with the great Miles Davis. But he's swinging here like he wants to play catch-up on this straight-ahead set recorded in a studio with an audience. The concept is as sound as the music, but don't expect any fusion-like explosions from guitarist Mike Stern, who joined Miles in the early '80s. The guitarist doesn't sacrifice the essence of his "dirty" sound; it's just that he's much more in the tradition than he ever was during his tenure with Miles. Stern and bassist Ron Carter do reach back into Miles's In a Silent Way prefusion era on a haunting version of "Blue in Green," circling and darting around the slow meter while Coleman rains down a Coltrane-like sheet of sound. Jimmy Cobb, one of the trumpeter's more subtle drummers, continuously makes sure his voice is heard throughout this nine-song set without ever getting in the way, just as he did with Miles in the late '50s and early '60s. This is really Coleman's record though, with Stern delivering some excellent solos, particularly on Carter's "81." This obviously heartfelt tribute finds the quartet completely on their game, and with Coleman's tasteful, underrated saxophone style leading the way.
Personnel:George Coleman, tenor sax Mike Stern, guitar Ron Carter, bass Jimmy Cobb, drums
Tracks: 01 There Is No Greater Love [Jones, Symes] (9:02) 02 All Blues [Davis] (7:03) 03 On Green Dolphin Street [Kaper, Washington] (7:20) 04 Blue in Green [Davis, Kaper, Washington] (7:28 ) 05 81 [Carter, Davis] (6:30) 06 Freddie Freeloader [Davis] (6:34) 07 My Funny Valentine [Hart, Rodgers] (10:01) 08 If I Were a Bell [Loesser] (8:02) 09 Oleo [Rollins] (5:02)