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To celebrate the Festival’s 50th Anniversary, the Monterey Jazz Festival and Concord Records partnered together in 2007 to form Monterey Jazz Festival Records in order to present some of the finest, never-before-released performances from the Festival’s storied past. Monterey Jazz Festival Records is also committed to looking forward—not only by presenting new works and all-star collaborations for future release, but as a not-for-profit label. The profits realized by MJF will be re-invested into its year-round jazz education programs benefiting students and young people around the world.
DAVE HOLLAND, GONZALO RUBALCABA, CHRIS POTTER, ERIC HARLAND Monterey Quartet
723 124 4 CD
ART BLAKEY Live 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
723 088 2 CD
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Treachery 7:46, 2. Minotaur 11:36, 3. Otra Mirada 5:16, 4. Step to It 10:11, 5. Maiden 10:34, 6. 50 9:59, 7. Veil of Tears 10:48, 8. Spoken Introduction, 9. Ask Me Why 11:21
At the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival, held in September 2007, bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, and drummer Eric Harland performed the music you hear on this CD twice-first on the main stage, then again at Dizzy's Den, a smaller, more intimate hall on the festival grounds. The main stage premiere thrilled the crowd, to be sure, but something downright magical happened the second time the band played.
"There was really an electric atmosphere from the audience," recalls Holland. "There was an energy we all felt, that kind of circular energy that goes on between the musicians and the audience. It's a very powerful thing when it really takes off."
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Introduction By Jimmy Lyons 2:45, 2. Blue 'n' Boogie 13:56, 3. 'Round Midnight 5:15, 4. Perdido 15:20, 5. Stardust 3:42, 6. Lover Man 3:03, 7. I Can't Get Started With You 2:51, 8. The Man I Love 2:41, 9. A Night In Tunisia 9:52
From the liner notes: "The Giants of Jazz was the greatest touring jam session since the heyday of Jazz at the Philharmonic. For the year or so of the band's existence, it brought together six of the most important musicians of the post-World War II era. Each of the players was a central figure in jazz, all but one the leader of an important group. They agreed to be, for a time, an entity that was the living definition of the term all-star band... The repertoire of the Giants of Jazz in this collection is made up of bop classics and superior standards, an alternation of exciting swing with lovely balladry."-Doug Ramsey Personnel: Art Blakey, drums; Sonny Stitt, alto and tenor saxophones; Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Clark Terry, trumpet and flugelhorn; Kai Winding, trombone; Thelonious Monk, piano; Al McKibbon, bass
CAL TJADER Best Of Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980
723 070 1 CD
DAVE BRUBECK 50 Years Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007
723 068 0 CD
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Introduction 1:19, 2. Summertime 13:48, 3. Now's The Time 14:15, 4. Cubano Chant 3:49, 5. Tumbao 4:47, 6. Manteca 12:32, 7. Afro-Blue 8:49, 8. If You Could See Me Now 2:32, 9. Speak Low 7:21
AFrom the liner notes: "A relaxed musician with a natural sense of song, space, and swing, Tjader was equally versed in jazz, Afro-Cuban and other Latin idioms and bridged them in a way that never sounded forced. He was a Swedish American with rhythm in his bones and an ear for melody and harmony that allowed him to play many styles of music-blues and boleros, mambo, bop and bossa nova-with grace, taste, and feeling."-Jesse Hamlin
Personnel: Cal Tjader, vibraphone, percussion, bandleader; and various others, including Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpets; Buddy DeFranco, clarinet; Vince Guaraldi, John Lewis, pianos; Michael Wolff, electric piano; Al McKibbon, Richard Davis, bass; Willie Bobo, drums, timbales; Mongo Santamaria, Armando Peraza, Poncho Sanchez, congas
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Two Part Contention (1958) 12:29, 2. Someday My Prince Will Come (1962) 5:21, 3. Take Five (1966) 5:40, 4. Sermon On The Mount (1971) 5:35, 5. Jumping Bean (1971) 8:23, 6. Tritonis (1985) 7:32, 7. Goodbye Old Friend (1998) 2:14, 8. I Got Rhythm (2002) 7:01, 9. Sleep (2006) 5:37, 10. Margie (2007) 10:27
From the liner notes: "...[This] present collection [offers] an uncommon overview of artist/venue synchronicity. Unlike other volumes in the series, it is not confined to a single performance, but rather spans the entire Monterey Jazz Festival history and captures much of Brubeck's own history in the process. Along the way it touches on several aspects of this sui generis jazz career with challenging originals, signature hits, historic partnerships, and spontaneous encounters."-Bob Blumenthal
Personnel: Dave Brubeck, piano; and various others, including Paul Desmond, alto saxophone; Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophone; Bill Smith, clarinet; Eugene Wright, bass; Joe Morello, drums.
JIMMY WITHERSPOON 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
723 063 8 CD
SHIRLEY HORN 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival
723 031 3 CD
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 2:46, 2. S.K. Blues 3:17, 3. Kansas City 3:32, 4. Goin' Down Slow 8:27, 5. Walkin' By Myself 3:24, 6. Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do 2:15, 7. I Want A Little Girl 5:41, 8. I Don't Know 2:55, 9. Early One Morning 4:46, 10. Reds and Whisky [Incomplete] 4:58, 11. When I Been Drinkin' 5:36
From the liner notes: "Spoon always had the audience in the palm of his hand and this show was no exception. When our time was up and the curtain was closing, Spoon started dragging the curtain open. We played another song, the curtain closed again, and Spoon dragged me out in front of the curtain, with the band playing behind the curtain. Some hippie with an alto saxophone comes to the front of the stage, hands it up and Spoon says, "You don't think he can play it, do ya?" He makes me play it, and the audience goes nuts. Spoon was an entertainer par excellence."-Robben Ford
Personnel: Jimmy Witherspoon, vocals; Robben Ford, guitar, alto saxophone; Paul Nagel, electric piano; Stan Poplin, bass; Jim Baum, drums; (on bonus track, "When I Been Drinkin'," recorded 1959: Witherspoon is heard with with Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, tenor saxophones; Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Woody Herman, clarinet; Earl "Fatha" Hines, piano; Vernon Ashley, bass; Mel Lewis, drums)
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Introduction, 2. Foolin' Myself 2:14, 3. The Look Of Love 7:19, 4. How Am I To Know 4:49, 5. L.A. Breakdown (And Take Me In) 5:52, 6. Nice 'n' Easy 4:47, 7. A Song For You 6:42, 8. I've Got The World On A String 4:16, 9. Here's To Life 5:02, 10. Hard Hearted Hannah 2:46, 11. Blues For Big Scotia 3:06
From the liner notes: "In 1994, in Tim Jackson's second full year of producing the Monterey Jazz Festival, he invited pianist/vocalist Shirley Horn to the autumn classic for the first time. She had recently turned 60 and was in the midst of a career resurgence, thanks to a multi-CD contract with Verve Records that began in 1987 with her stellar comeback album, I Thought About You, a live recording at Hollywood's Vine St. Bar and Grill. "At Monterey, Shirley was at the peak of her powers," says Jackson. "It made sense to have her play the festival."-Dan Ouellette
Personnel: Shirley Horn, piano, vocals; Charles Ables, bass; Steve Williams, drums
TITO PUENTE 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival
723 070 0 CD
Offer Price: £7.99 Add to basket Track Listing: 1. Introduction By Jimmy Lyons, 2. Para Los Rumberos 5:58, 3. Oye Como Va 6:17, 4. Babarabatiri 8:41, 5. Delirio 9:33, 6. Tito’s Odyssey 7:22, 7. Don’t You Worry ’Bout A Thing (Cha Cha Cha) 7:52, 8. Pare Cochero 8:59, 9. El Rey del Timbal 4:57, 10. Picadillo 5:39
From the liner notes: "The legacy of Latin music great Tito Puente was built on his adherence to musical quality and innovation. As a bandleader and percussionist, he set a standard that uplifted his music with charisma and virtuosic skill on the timbales... As a result, he constructed a bridge between Afro-Caribbean music and American pop. Tito's performance [in Monterey] was a long-awaited first that showcased a 15-piece orchestra with a humongous sound. It also signaled Tito's entry into the jazz arena that would take him to the Concord Picante label, and would find him traveling the world playing Latin jazz throughout the Eighties and Nineties. It would also raise his profile into the American mainstream."-Jesse ‘Chuy' Varela
Personnel: Tito Puente, timbales, bandleader; and his orchestra
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