Hard Bop

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    Steve Kaldestad Quintet
     
    Blow Up!
    Straight ahead, swinging hard bop at its finestplayed by 5 of Canada's top musicians. This CD was recorded live live at one of Canada's premiere jazz clubs, The Cellar and captures the band at the height of its powers.
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    Ron Pirtle
     
    Gettin' In The Groove
    Hot Hard Bop Jazz! An exciting hard-driving quintet! This song book will really knock you out!
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    Ken Kimura
     
    Too Late Now
    This is my 2nd Piano Trio Album. Essiet Essiet(bass) Yoichi Kobayashi(drums) Many of tunes are sweet and mellow-include “You must believe in spring” “Waltz For Debby” “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”
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    Ivan Farmakovsky
     
    Next To The Shadow
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    The Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick Quintet
     
    '...Meets Cedar Walton!'
    Old school, blue note style hard bop quintet jazz date featuring the legendary Cedar Walton and bass great Peter Washington. Hard swingin' soulful sounds, a mixture of originals and standards, recorded at Nola's penthouse studios NYC in 2007.
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    Peppe Merolla
     
    Stick With Me
    Highly acclaimed drummer Peppe Merolla's second CD with his sextet!!
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    Alexander McCabe
     
    Manhattan Operations
    Duets. Alexander McCabe, on the alto saxophone and Joe Barbato on Piano.
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    Brent Rusinow
     
    Old Guy Time
    "Old Guy" Time! is a forward-thinking Jazz album deeply rooted in the style of the great Jazz musicians of the 1950's and 60's.
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    Kevin Halstead
     
    Kevin Halstead jazz quartet- Ruction City LIVE
    This is some of the best high energy modern hardbop anywhere. Quite a night was had. The club was packed. Our manager ran into all four of us by luck in a coffee shop... he was stressing out because there had been a late cancellation.
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    Steve Williams
     
    New Incentive
    Shirley Horn's former drums player playing with very goods musiciens..
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    Jaleel Shaw
    Optimism
    New CD of Modern Jazz from Alto saxophonist of the Roy Haynes Quartet and Mingus Big Band.
    Jaleel Shaw - Optimism features: Lage Lund: Guitar Robert Glasper: Piano Joe Martin: Bass Johnathan Blake: Drums Jeremy Pelt: Trumpet Optimism (Changu Records CR001), Jaleel Shaw’s second CD as a leader, the award-winning alto saxophonist and composer further solidifies his position as one of the most distinctive writer/arrangers and imposing instrumentalists on today’s international jazz scene. Shaw’s nine originals and arrangements of two standards on Optimism, which he produced himself and is the first release on his new label Changu Records, continue to explore the ruggedly individualistic sonic landscapes the saxophonist first featured on his recording debut as a leader – 2005’s Perspective (FS New Talent 222) which was named one of that year’s top CDs by All About Jazz and Jazzwise. Writing in The New York Times, Nate Chinen praised that album as “...a showcase for Mr. Shaw's stout, self-assured alto saxophone playing and his smartly conceived original compositions.” Chinen added that Shaw’s ...”sound [is] brawny and full-bodied, but capable of quicksilver actions - and his improvisational method is surefooted and exploratory.” Shaw, then 27, won his first ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award for “Heavyweight Champion” on Perspective. The words “young lion” and “talent deserving wider recognition” are frequently bandied about when talking about emerging artists, but they certainly apply to Shaw. In 2007 he received enough votes to appear for the first time on the top-10 list of alto saxophone “Rising Stars” in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics Poll. Shaw’s debut there is the result of a rising international profile and expanding solo career due to, among other creative associations, his having toured globally since 2005 as a member of Roy Haynes’ quartet (and appearing on the legendary drummer’s Grammy® nominated CD Whereas) and having been a member of the Mingus Big Band since 2000, appearing on their Grammy® nominated CDs “Tonight At Noon” and “I Am Three.” Performances in 2007 with vibraphonist Stefon Harris and pianist Jason Moran added to the forward and upward momentum Shaw is currently experiencing as a player among players.
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    Bill Cantrall
    Axiom
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    Tim Armacost/New York Standards Quartet
    Live In Tokyo
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    Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
    Psalms Without Words
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    The Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick Quintet
    '...Meets Cedar Walton!'
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      Top Songs

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      1.
      Iona Morning
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      Bittersweet
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      3.
      The Last Word
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      4.
      Deep Calls Unto Deep
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      How Good It Is
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      Sabbath Song
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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      Inheriting a Parable
      Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet
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