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Posted by on January 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

My top 5 tips for Jazz on CD are all available to order from the bookshop if they don’t have the stock. If you’d like to order, please contact Ian in the bookshop. the Soul of Ben Webster – 3 albums on 2CD’s – Verve – All the best musicians playing some of the slickest jazz you’ll hear. If you only have one Jazz album this year – I’d be picking this one! Black, Brown & Beige – Duke Ellington feat. Mahalia Jackson – One of my first Ellington albums, this suite to me is what Ellington Jazz is all…

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Jazz Piano

Posted by on January 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Jazz Piano

If you like a rhythmic jazz piano sound you must listen to the one and only Oscar Peterson – or the perfect combination of ‘Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson’. I also really like ‘Exclusively for my friends’ which he recorded for a select crowd of his mates up in a log cabin in Canada – now that’s celebrity lifestyle! Another must have is ‘Night Train’ by the Oscar Peterson Trio. Bill Evans sits at the opposite end of the style spectrum. A little melancholy (OK, very melancholy) mixed with a real swing and phenomenal rhythm. I’d recommend ‘Live at the Village…

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