Classic Jazz: Jazz Legends
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Author: Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis ArmstrongEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 1999
Music Label: Time Life Music
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Music Review: CLASSICJAZZITIZ!
Rating: 5 Stars
You don't need a review in order to help you decide whether or not you ought to purchase this; all you need to do is examine WHO and WHAT appears on this TWO-DISC (!) compilation.
Included amongst the principal players are : Ellington, Satchmo, Ella, Miles, Coltrane, Parker, Erroll Garner, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, and Cannonball Adderley!
Some of the music masters who lend their renowned talents to the production of this music in supporting roles are : Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Wynton Kelly, Kenny Burrell, Nelson Riddle, McCoy Tyner, "Sweets" Edison, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Barney Kessel, Buddy Rich, and Joe Zawinul. I mean, this is a veritable Jazz Hall Of Fame!
Sure, there are a few dogs here (in my opinion.) I gotta grit my teeth to get through Mel Torme's too-cute, LULLABY OF BIRDLAND; Chet Baker's flat and comatose, MY FUNNY VALENTINE; and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross', CLOUDBURST, which simply rains on my parade. Any one of these should have been replaced by Art Blakey & his Jazz Messenger's truly classic, 'Moanin.' OK, so there ain't nothin' perfect on this earth, but if you think I'm a-gonna give anything less than 5 Stars to a collection of unedited jazz masterpieces that includes : TAKE THE "A" TRAIN; THE "IN" CROWD; THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA; APRIL IN PARIS; KILLER JOE; CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WIND; NIGHT TRAIN; THE CAT; and TAKE FIVE (the 'Stairway To Heaven' of the JazzWorld), then yer jus' looney tunes! Man, this truly is Classic Jazz, and if you don't like what is presented here, then you and I ain't never a-gonna hear ear to ear, an' all I can say is, "MERCY, MERCY, MERCY!"
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Description of Classic Jazz: Jazz Legends
30 songs by 29 great Jazz artists. Cannonball Adderley, Charlie PArker, Tony Bennett, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, Vince Guaraldi and 25 more artists.Jazz CDs
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