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Ella and Louis
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Ella and Louis
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella and Louis is an inspired collaboration, masterminded by producer Norman Granz.
Both artists were riding high at this stage in their careers, and Granz assembled a stellar quartet of Oscar Peterson (piano), Buddy Rich (drums), Herb Ellis (guitar) and Ray Brown (bass). Equally inspired was the choice of material, with the gruffness of Armstrong's voice blending like magic with Fitzgerald's stunningly silky delivery. Outstanding are Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" and "Isn't This a Lovely Day," and everything else works like a dream, with the golden star going to the Gershwin brothers' "They Can't Take That Away from Me." Gentle and sincere, this is deserving of a place in every home.
Tracklist
A1 Can't We Be Friends
A2 Isn't This A Lovely Day
A3 Moonlight In Vermont
A4 They Can't Take That Away From Me
A5 Under A Blanket Of Blue
A6 Tenderly
B1 A Foggy Day
B2 Stars Fell On Alabama
B3 Cheek To Cheek
B4 The Nearness Of You
B5 April In Paris

Nitin Sawhney Live at Ronnie Scots
Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney Live at Ronnie Scots
Nitin Sawhney
Expertly melding flamenco, funk and Indian ragas while branching into primeval blues, tabla breakbeats, beatboxing and much more, Sawhney and his band weave a textural tapestry of treats to the sheer delight of the audience.
Nitin Sawhney’s many outstanding studio works, plus scores of soundtracks (including the forthcoming blockbuster Jungle Book), have spanned more than two decades and have seen him recognised with the 2017 Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award. This, his first live album, features highlights from his ten studio albums, including 1999’s Mercury Music Prize nominated Gold awarded Beyond Skin, the millennial epic Prophesy and his latest work Dystopian Dream. Recorded at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s Club, London in 2016, these re-imaginings of old and new favourites buzz with life and joy.
Tracklist
A1 - Sunset
A2 - Dark Day
A3 - Redshift
A4 - Homelands
A5 - Henricia Latina
B1 - Tere Khyal
B2 - The Conference
B3 - Breathing Light
B4 - Nadia
B5 - Riverpulse

Blue Train
John Coltrane

Blue Train
John Coltrane
1957 was a particularly productive year for John Coltrane.
After being "fired" from the Miles Davis Quintet, he began recording as a frontman for Prestige records, he grew musically and personally thanks to his collaboration as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and, for the fulfilment of a previous economical arrangement with Blue Note producer Alfred Lion, he recorded Blue Train for that label.
Tracklist
A1. Blue Train
A2. Moment's Notice
B1. Locomotion
B2. I'm Old Fashioned
B3. Lazy Bird

Connect
Charles Tolliver

Connect
Charles Tolliver
Jazz Trumpet legend, founder of the uber-cool Strata East label that spawned Gil Scott Heron, is back with Connect, his first studio album in 13 years.
Recorded to tape at RAK Studios in London by Tony Platt (The Bad Plus, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bob Marley), the four-track album features the Charles Tolliver All-Stars, comprising some of the most experienced jazz musicians of New York : Jesse Davis on alto saxophone, Keith Brown on piano, Buster Williams on double bass, and Lenny White on drums. The album also bridges together New York and London by featuring leading British saxophonist Binker Golding on two tracks, (Binker and Moses, Moses Boyd Exodus, Zara McFarlane.)
Tracklist
A1 - Blue Soul
A2 - Emperor March
B1 - Copasetic
B2 - Suspicion

My Way
Frank Sinatra

My Way
Products Frank Sinatra
Throughout his seven-decade career, Frank Sinatra performed on more than 1,400 recordings and was awarded 31 gold, nine platinum, three double platinum, and one triple platinum album by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to appeal to every generation and continues to do so; his artistry still influences many of today’s music superstars. The Oscar winner also appeared in more than 60 films and produced eight motion pictures.
Released on Reprise in March 1969, and produced by Don Costa and Sonny Burke, My Way features a varied collection of contemporary pop songs, including Lennon and McCartney’s “Yesterday,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” and the iconic title track, “My Way.” Recorded on December 30, 1968, in just one take, My Way charted in the U.S. and stayed on the U.K. charts for a record-breaking 75 weeks.
Tracklist
A1 Watch What Happens (From "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
A2 Didn't We
A3 Hallelujah, I Love Her So
A4 Yesterday
A5 All My Tomorrows (From the United Artists Picture "A Hole In The Head")
B1 My Way
B2 A Day In The Life Of A Fool (Manhã De Carnaval)
B3 For Once In My Life
B4 If You Go Away
B5 Mrs. Robinson

Modes and Blues: Live at Ronnie Scott's 1964
Tubby Hayes Quintet

Modes and Blues: Live at Ronnie Scott's 1964
Tubby Hayes Quintet
A previously unreleased mono recording of Modes and Blues from the Tubby Hayes Quintet's weekly Ronnie Scott's residency on 8th February 1964
Regarded as one of the masterworks of British modern jazz, Modes and Blues shows the Quintet at the very height of its powers, channelling the new musical flavours and inspiration that Tubby Hayes had absorbed from the cutting edge of jazz and the new directions of John Coltrane.
Recorded with Hayes' approval by Les Tomkins on his Ferrograph tape recorder, this is one of the most engrossing of all his stretch-out epics. Hayes digs in deep with marathon and breathtaking soloing, trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar delivers his characteristically lyrical improvisation, and there's dynamic interplay and drive from the great Terry Shannon, Freddy Logan and Allan Ganley rhythm section.
Tracklist
A1 - Modes and Blues Part 1 (Tubby Hayes)
B1 - Modes and Blues Part 2 (Tubby Hayes)

The Universal Want
Doves

The Universal Want
Doves
The kings of catchy melancholia are back after a decade away – and their tried and tested blueprint has lost none of its magic
Doves release their fifth long player The Universal Want on Virgin EMI. On lead track Prisoners Doves forces attention upon itself, not least with the poignancy of Goodwin’s repeated greeting to ‘old friends’, but as an unstoppable, driving tale of caution in a world of unending desire.
Produced by Doves with Dan Austin and recorded at the band’s own Frank Bough Sound III studios in North West England, the high heat of its Northern Soul beat is fanned by wiry guitar breaks and cuts of ethereal noise contorting beneath layers of stacked vocals.
A statuesque musical statement, Prisoners guides Doves’ second chapter to a peak now within touching distance, the lyrics contrasting to express unease with modern ills.
Tracklist
A1 - Carousels
A2 - I Will Not Hide
A3 - Broken Eyes
A4 - For Tomorrow
A5 - Cathedrals Of The Mind
B1 - Prisoners
B2 - Cycle Of Hurt
B3 - Mother Silverlake
B4 - Universal Want
B5 - Forest House

'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis

'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis
Miles Davis' first album for Columbia, 'Round About Midnight, represents both the beginning of a three-plus-decade relationship with the famed label as well as the start of an extended collaboration with then-unknown saxophonist John Coltrane.
As one of the era's only complete start-to-finish full-length LPs, the 1957 set stands as a hard-bop benchmark—a summation of the styles that came before its creation, an immersion into the period's cutting-edge strains, and a hint of the frivolous modalism that would follow.
Tracklist
A1. 'Round Midnight
A2. Ah-Leu-Cha
A3. All Of You
A4. Bye Bye Blackbird
A5. Tadd's Delight
A6. Dear Old Stockholm

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