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The Bad Plus / These Are The Vistas

It's as perfectly suited to Sunday-morning coffee as it is to a romping striptease the night before.
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Stefon Harris / The Grand Unification Theory

"For the past two years, I've been all over the place - not only with travels, but also with my imagination. I've been studying poetry, philosophy and a little physics; I've been learning to speak a new language [Spanish]. So, I've had a lot of different focuses outside of music, and I wanted to use this piece as an opportunity to bring all these things together."
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Jacky Terrasson / Smile

"If I can manage to pull off a melody in an original way...then it's not necessary for me to improvise. Just playing the song - the 'head,' as we say - can be quite emotionally charged, particularly on a pretty, slow ballad, and anything else can be overkill."
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Bluebird Jazz
/ The classic jazz label relaunched

Bluebird continues to serve as the proud home of RCA's jazz reissue program, drawing from an unrivalled legacy of the greatest names in the history of the genre.

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Bill Evans / Sunday At The Village Vanguard (remastered)

For innovative brilliance and breathtaking intimacy, this initial Riverside volume remains unsurpasssed.
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Peter Martin / Something Unexpected

Martin's new offering, recorded live at Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis, showcases his distinctive personality, as well as his commitment to the jazz collective...
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Avishai Cohen and the International Vamp Band / Unity

The International Vamp Band merge kaleidoscopic rhythms and global musical cultures into an incendiary musical vision...
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The Joshua Redman Quartet / Passage Of Time

The strength of this release lies in the quartet concept, as Redman allows pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson each space for personal expression...
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Louis Armstrong's Light Dawns on a Marble Head
Accompanied by both Dave Brubeck on piano and the acrobatic vocal jazz trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, three of the songs - dating from the early 1960s - referenced topics ranging from international cultural exchange, racial segregation, media misrepresentation, religion and First Lady Jackie Kennedy...
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Danilo Perez / Motherland
The record is a tapestry of the music of the entire American continent (North, Central and South), so skillfully woven that the seams never show...
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