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Concierto

By Jim Hall
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To; Two's Blues; The Answer is Yes; Concierto
de Aranjuez; Rock Skippin' at The Blue Note (Bonus Track); Unfinished Business
(Bonus Track); You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Alt. Tk.); The Answer is Yes
(Alt. Tk.); Rock Skippin; at The Blue Note (Alt. Tk.).
Giant Box

By Don Sebesky
Label: CTI Masterworks
Released: 2011
Track listing: Firebird/Birds Of Fire; Song To A Seagull; Free As A Bird; Psalm 150; Vocalise; Fly/Circles; Semi-Tough.
Jazz Arrangers: A Celebration at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

by Nick Catalano
Any discussion of a jazz figure's importance must include an analysis of the breadth of his or her talents. No one doubts trumpeter Louis Armstrong's stature in the origins of Dixieland. But attempts to place Jelly Roll Morton next to him in the pantheon of the genre often meet with resistance. Yet, in addition to being ...
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Wave

by Chris May
Antonio Carlos JobimWaveCTI/A&M1967 Singer, guitarist, pianist and--above all--composer Antonio Carlos Jobim was among the first artists to be signed by producer Creed Taylor when he set up CTI Records in 1967. The Brazilian, who helped launch bossa nova internationally when his tune Desafinado" became a Top 10 ...
Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra / Sammy Nestico-SWR Big Band / Gran Canaria Big Band

by Jack Bowers
Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz OrchestraJourney HomeTbone Records2011 Alan Broadbent and Rodger Fox's Wellington Jazz Orchestra: a rendezvous that took many years to bring about and is clearly long overdue--but as the saying goes, better late than never (in this case, much better!). Broadbent, a Grammy-winning composer / arranger ...
Wes Montgomery "Movin': The Complete Verve Recordings" On Hip-O Select / Verve
A lavish box set celebrating the late Wes Montgomery, Movin': The Complete Verve Recordings, includes all eight of the legendary guitarist's Verve albums in one sleek, 5-CD package. Included are Movin' Wes, Bumpin', Smokin' At The Half Note, Goin' Out Of My Head, Tequila, California Dreaming, and the Jimmy Smith collaborations Wes & Jimmy: The Dynamic ...
Chet Baker: She Was Too Good To Me

by C. Michael Bailey
Chet BakerShe Was Too Good To MeCTI Records1974 The modern image of trumpeter/vocalist Chet Baker is a hopelessly fractious one. Baker is, at once, a brilliant musical autodidact with a superb ear while, at the same time, a musician with a nonexistent grounding in musical theory. Like ...
Randy Weston: Blue Moses

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
Brooklyn-born, six-foot-seven octogenarian pianist/composer Randy Weston has literally been a larger-than-life jazz force for six decades: his percussive pianism was forged from a distinguished keyboard continuum, ranging from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to John Lewis; his Little Niles" and Hi-Fly" are well-worn jazz standards; and the pianist may well be the greatest exponent of the ...
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: A Wilder Alias

by Chris May
Jackie Cain & Roy KralA Wilder AliasCTI Masterworks2011 (1974) Producer Creed Taylor's 1970s' label, CTI, has had a controversial history. Some of its detractors, averse to the lush sound and embrace of fusion, have been reluctant even to recognize CTI as a jazz label. The New Grove ...
Randy Weston: Blue Moses

by Chris May
Randy WestonBlue MosesCTI Masterworks2011 (1972) Sony's program of reissues from CTI--the label set up by producer Creed Taylor in the late 1960s, post Impulse!, which he also founded, and post Verve, where he had moved on leaving Impulse!--continues with one of the brightest jewels in the CTI ...