SPACE IS THE PLACE
Carsten Dahl - Arild Andersen - Jon Christensen
Three of Europe’s finest instrumentalists have once gain joined forces. With their new release “Space is the Place” (Storyville Records), the musicians explore their new found haven. A haven in which the music on this CD was created. Not as “classical” free jazz, but more as subtle tonal art that is original, spontaneous, natural and free. All 11 tracks on the CD were recorded at The Village Recoridng Studio in Copenhagen on June 5th 2011 immediately after the trio’s concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre. Carsten Dahl- one of Scandinavia’s leading pianists has played with Ed Thigpen, Benny Golson, Eddie Gomez etc. Arild Andersen (bass) and Jon Christensen (drums) have both played a number of years, as members of the Jan Garbarek’s quartet, and are some of Europe’s most sought after sidemen. The music on this CD is improvisational music in it’s purest form. Music that gives the listener the opportunity to enjoy the open SPACE, in which the music was created.

Teknisk er han åpenbart i stand til å utføre alt som fortolkeren i ham måtte ønske seg.

Siden Andersen og Christensen heller ikke er synderlig hemmet uttrykksmessig, ender «Space is the Place» som et mangefasettert og mangefarget album med melodier, fripartier, klangrariteter, Bach-vrengninger og diverse stemningsskifter - og til sjuende og sist som et moderne jazzalbum på det nivået der trioene til Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau og en liten håndfull andre stort sett befinner seg.

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Terje Mosnes, Dagbladet, Norge

Space Is The Place er et uhyre vellykket værk
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Ivan Rod, Gaffa

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PAPA BUE & HIS AMERICAN FRIENDS

Always out of date, but still timeless in its quality and energy, traditional jazz is served amazingly well and hot here on this collection of sessions lead by the Danish trombone legend. American artists that join him here reads like a Who's Who: George Lewis, Champion Jack Dupree, Edmond Hall, Wingy Manone, Art Hodes, Albert Nicholas, and Wild Bill Davison. Just the names of these guys alone tell you the difference between the musicians on this disc and the stars of today. Just who now has a nicname even REMOTELY as cool as 'Wingy'? The music here is full of energy, and above all, each guy playing has his own sound. WHAT A CONCEPT! Dupree's vocals on 'See See Rider' will get your head spinning, while Manone will split your sides as he wisecracks through 'Dark Eyes'. Nicholas teams up with local licorice stick player Jorgen Svare for some sinewy sensations on 'Stack O'Lee Blues' and a swinging 'I've Found A New Baby'. Davison's horn stomps through 'Rosetta' while Edmond Hall floats like a screwball on 'Ed's Blues'.

As a true confession, I'm not even the biggest fan of this kind o fplaying, but you can't help but appreciate that these guys are playing with a joy and energy that is about as common these days as a shrimp at a bar mitzvah. It reminds me of the story of a famous atheis who used to hear sermons preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. When he as asked if he was going because he believed the message, he replied, 'No, but HE does'. Sometimes that makes all the difference.

George W. Harris

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JAZZ SPECIAL's JAZZ RECORD OF THE YEAR 2011

Carsten Dahl Experience’s new CD “METAMORPHOSIS” was recorded in Oslo immediately after their concert at Molde Jazz Festival in July 2011. The pianist Carsten Dahl, saxophonist Jesper Zeuthen, bassist Nils “Bosse” Davidson and drummer Stefan Pasborg have once again created a unique  musical work that is relevant across, and beyond musical genres. The listener is invited into a universe, where the sound of silence opens itself up into a colorful spectrum of explosive improvisational pieces - performed and mastered in a manner never before seen or heard in a Danish group. The group manages to explore and challenge each other’s musicianship in their joint venture down the road of free improvisational jazz. This CD marks the group’s second release, and features music that contains elements of chaos and harmony performed by Dahl with his solid improvisations, Zeuthen’s balkanized sax and Pasborg’s and Davidsen’s consistent and rhythmic playing. Improvisational Jazz at its very best.

Cat.# 1014272

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Jazz release of the year 

Ivan Rod, Gaffa

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Christian Munch-Hansen, Politiken

This box makes Louis Armstrong's All Stars period come alive again with a variety of tracks spanning the years 1947 to 1967. Surrounded by top-flight musicians such as Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sid Catlett, Trummy Young, Milt Hinton, Edmond Hall and Tyree Glenn, you'll hear Armstrong in live settings ranging from nightclubs in New York and Chicago to concerts in Denmark and France to one-nighters in small-towns such as Ephrata, Pennsylvania, putting on a wonderful show wherever he went. In addition to containing many previously unreleased tracks, there is also a DVD capturing some of Armstrong's finest moments from television in the 1950s, including meetings with Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Teagarden and Hoagy Carmichael. So let the old myths die and rejoice in the timeless, swinging and ceaselessly entertaining music of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Oh yeah!

Cat No#: 1088609

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Brian Priestley, Jazzwise

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Jack Massarik, The London Evening Standard

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John Fordham, The Guardian, UK

It is with great pleasure, that we at Storyville Records salute and celebrate Jesper Thilo on his upcoming 70th birthday (b. 11.28.1941), by releasing a 3 CD box set featuring a string of his recordings with great American and Danish jazz musicians.

Jesper Thilo is Denmark’s leading tenor saxophonist, and the recordings on these Cds are some of his own favorites, including the terrifi c and fun “Mumbles” with Clark Terry and Richard Boone. The collection consists of 3 CDs, one of which has not been out on CD before. On these CDs Jesper excels his brilliant and lyrical playing on various tunes with Kenny Drew, Jesper Lundgaard, Svend Erik Norregaard, Ole Kock Hansen, Ole Ousen, Sir Roland Hanna, Mads Vinding, Aage Tanggaard, Al Grey, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Billy Hart, Hugo Rasmussen, Alex Riel etc. In Short-3 fi ne CDs that warrant Jesper Thilo’s position as Denmark’s tenor saxophonist No. 1

Cat# 1048427

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Göran Olson, Orkesterjournalen

Jazz release of the year DMA JAZZ 2011

Three Storyville Records artists have been nominated for awards at the 2011 Danish Music Awards Jazz:

Jazz Record of The Year: 'Effata' by Carsten Dahl

Danish Vocal Jazz Record of the Year: 'Land & Sky' by Cathrine Legardh & Sigurdur Flosason

Jazz Crossover Record of the Year: 'Synesthesia & Metropolis' by Ensemble MidtVest & Carsten Dahl

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The jazz nobility has its own Duke, Count, Earl and even a king –all pianists- but only one knight. Sir Roland Hanna, also a keyboard master.
Hanna received his title in 1969: it was conferred on him by the late President William Tubman of Liberia.
Sir Roland Hanna is one of the most flexible pianists of any generation. He has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Mingus, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Al Hibbler, Coleman Hawkins and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He was born 1932 in Detroit and was one of the many pianists that came from Detroit Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones and Barry Harris. He was inspired by Tommy Flanagan, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum. He was a two-handed pianists which you can hear on these two solo piano CD’

Cat# 1038424 

These sessions represent some of the best work that Hanna did in his long career.

Ken Dryden The New York City Jazz Record

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Treasury volume 15 contains Treasury program 28 & 29 2MBS Broadcasts from the"Pastel Period".
This is the first volumen that Storyville issues after Jerry Valburn’s death. The serie will continue till the end which will be volume 24.

We have had help from Sjef Hoefsmit.

The Treasure Shows was launched on April 7th, 1945 while the band was performing at the 400 Restaurant in New York. These wonderful broadcasts ran through November 1945 and picked up again in April 1946 through early October. Each program was 55 minutes therefore we have extra radio programs from 1943 to 1954, On this volume broadcasts from the Hurricane Restaurant.　

Cat # 903 9015

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Carsten Dahl ud over kanten
med sin gruppe Experience –
Christian Munch-Hansen, Politiken 

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Jazzcraft is a new addition to the Storyville family of labels. It was founded by Lars Johansen, who went to New York and Los Angeles in 1977, 1978, and 1979 for the purpose of recording some of the key players of post-war jazz. In various combinations, they perform music that is a staple in the Bop repertoire: compositions by Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Tadd Dameron, Oscar Pettiford, Fats Navarro, and Bud Powell, right up to John Coltrane.

The initial release of three double albums features performances by stellar groups under the leadership of such mainstays of modern post-war jazz as Howard McGhee, Teddy Edwards, and Benny Bailey. The “sidemen” are also of up-front caliber, including Barry Harris, Sonny Redd, and Art Hillery—all stunningly propelled by the likes of Leroy Vinegar, Lisle Atkinson, Billy Higgins, and Bobby Durham.

Cat# 103 8417
Barcode 717101841721

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The Boswell Sisters inauspiciously launched their recording career in New Orleans, their hometown, on March 22, 1925, but their first release, I’m Gonna Cry and Nights When I’m Lonely didn’t shake any rafters. Early local appearances featured Connie, the eldest, on cello, Helvetia (“Vet”) on violin, and Martha at the piano, but the city’s jazz environment made Connie and Vet switch to saxophone and banjo, respectively. At first, the singing was almost incidental, but it became their ticket to national attention five years later when they moved to New York and became a fixture on radio shows. The Boswell Sisters were notable for their tight harmony as well as their unique ability to modulate pitch and give familiar songs a new melodic twist. They were the cutting edge that inspired future groups, including The Andrews Sisters, who began their own career by emulating them, even down to their Southern accent.
The exuberant sisters recorded a string of hits in the 1930s, sometimes teaming up with fellow vocalists, such as Bing Crosby and The Mills Brothers. Instrumental accompaniments are by some of the day’s most popular musicians and bands, including The Dorsey Brothers, Don Redman, Red Nichols, and Benny Goodman. Considering their popularity and impact, the sisters had a relatively brief run, disbanding in 1936 when Martha and Vel married outside of the music industry and decided to give priority to family life. Connie, however, continued and enjoyed a successful solo career. This boxed set contains the entire Boswell Sisters output of commercially released recordings—a remarkable set of performances that paved the way for the vocal trio genre. It also includes a bonus DVD featuring more extraordinary performances.
 

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NEW CD
‘LAND & SKY’
Cathrine Legardh (DK) & Sigurdur Flosason (IS)
Musikalsk udbrud i kølvandet af en askesky…

These 20 songs were created during a period  of six months - crossing the Atlantic, in cyberspace, over the phone, through travelling and even while held up by ash from an active volcano in Iceland. First lyrics, then music – each word and line carefully nurtured by tone and harmony. When we met by chance during the summer of 2009 we could never have imagined the flow of musical activity about to emerge. Exactly one year after the beginning of the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull, the album ‘Land & Sky’ is ready to be released. We hope you like it! 
                     
With love and gratitude, Cat & Siggi (March 2011) 

Catalog nr. 103 4269

Der er både kant, kontrolleret vildskab og melodi i samarbejdet. Land & Sky er et anbefalelsesværdigt og sjældent stort dansk jazzalbum i et velkendt jazztonesprog, der ikke er bange for at udfordre og bygge videre på noget velkendt.

*****

 

Niels Overgård, Jazznyt

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IN

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Perfect match

Kjeld Frandsen, Berlingske

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OPEN MINDS is the new CD with Mads Vinding’s Trio
now released on Storyville.
MADS VINDING is one of the many world famous Danish bass players.
He has performed all over the world and recorded with an impressive list of jazzmasters. He has worked together with drummer Billy Hart for more than 35 years.
BILLY HART is one of the most influential, melodic and creative drummers in jazz. He has recorded more than 600 hundred records with people like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and has twice won the first place in Down Beat Critics Poll
He is currently on the faculty of several major universities.
JEAN-MICHEL PILC is French born but now an American Citizen living in New York since 1995. He has played with Richard Bona, Michael Brecker, Marcus Miller and Kenny Garrett and is pianist and musical leader for Harry Belafonte. He is self taught pianist but was a very big surprise for Mads Vinding that did not know him when Billy Hart suggested him as the pianist for this recording.

It is a sensational trio CD.
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Kjeld Frandsen, Berlingske

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Det er intet mindre end fremragende
Henrik Palle, Politiken

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Ivan Roed, Gaffa

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Philippe Vincent, Jazzman, France

"With a playful ease silence and sound are masterfully knitted together, surprising, innovative, sometimes as fast as a waterfall, sometimes with measured and sparse notes, but always passionate and at a high level." Marc van de Walle - Jazzmozaïek

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MARY LOU WILLIAMS SOLO AND TRIO
This Mary Lou Williams double-CD contains the complete session she did at Rick’s Café Americain, Chicago,
November 14, 1979.
There are 27 tracks on the 2 Cd’s. 6 are her own compositions and the remaining are standards. Milton Suggs is her bassist and Drashear Khalid her drummer.
Mary Lou is one of the few famous female pianists in Jazz like Hazel Scott, Dorothy Donegan and Marian McPartland.
She is also a fantastic arranger. She did many arrangements as a member of Andy Kirk’s Mighty. She also made arrangements for the Duke Ellington Orchestra when she was traveling with the band as Harold “Shorty” Baker’s wife; Listening to Mary Lou Williams is always pleasurable for the fineness of her constructions, the richness of her ideas and, as her friend pianist Billy Taylor notes, “her ability to swing in any situation.”

Williams was woefully under-recorded later in life, and Storyville has done the jazz world a great service in bringing to light these 14 tracks from Rick’s, which were left ourt first time around – the six solos, most of all.
Chris Mosey, AllAboutJazz

Cat. # 1038420

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New releases November 2010


Thomas Michelsen, Politiken
 
Anmeldelse på Carsten Dahl Effata 
Hvis order EFFATA lader komponisten se op og tale igennem klaveret, er det vores opgave at gå ham i møde og give os hen. Fremragende.
Henrik Sejersgaard-Jacobsen - GEIGER

CARSTEN DAHL: EFFATA SOLO PIANO
Carsten Dahl is a multi-faceted pianist – and quite likely the best and most creative pianist in Europe. In 2000 he recorded The Butterfly Dream, his first solo CD for Storyville. There were 14 numbers on the CD, named “1”, “2”, “3”, etc., except for the 13th tune that was named “The Butterfly Dream”.
A decade later he is repeating the concept with this new CD - this time 15 numbers that he calls “EFFATA 1”, “EFFATA 2”, etc., except for track 15, which is titled “GLORIE” and is dedicated to his wife, the saxophonist Christina Dahl.
The Aramaic word EFFATA means “be opened” and is one that informs the artist. Listening to the CD, one thinks of Keith Jarrett and Cecil Taylor and their style of free improvisation, or Mary Lou Williams, who had the same ideas with her album Zodiac Suite.
Liner notes by Suzanne Brøgger.

Det vigtigste er sådan set, at Carsten Dahl har lavet en plade, der tilhører den sjældne kategori af plader med musik der insisterer på, at blive LYTTET til. Sæt den på. Sæt dig ned. Lyt. Vær med. Vær til. Effata er en stor musikalsk oplevelse lige midt i dit hjem.
Niels Overgaard – jazznyt.blogspot.com
Jazznyt anmeldelse

Lige så personligt og lige så nøgent står et soloudspil fra Christina Dahls mand, pianisten Carsten Dahl, der på Effata leverer 15 vignetter, som, hvis vi skal tro titelen (Effata er aramæisk for ‘luk dig op’) åbner ham helt. Hvad der åbnes for, er musik, der nok kan veksle i dynamisk styrke, i ostinaternes vedholdenhed samt mellem tonalitet og atonalitet, men som grundlæggende er elegisk og mørkfarvet. Denne lytter opfatter den ikke nær så manieret som dens titel, men i og med Dahls personlige problemer (tvivl på egne evner) er blevet gjort til en offentlig hemmelighed, kan man naturligvis ikke se bort fra denne musiks funktion for ophavsmanden som en slags selvterapi. Dét skulle ifølge konventionen gøre den mindre interessant for os andre, men dens stærke fundament i den avancerede improviserede musiks bedste europæiske og amerikanske traditioner friholder den efter min mening for utidigt føleri eller new age-anstrøg.
 
Peter H. Larsen
Information

Carsten Dahl: "Effata - solo piano"
Uden sikkerhedsnet. Lyden af et sammenbrud. Skønhed ved siden af toner så ulidelige, at du har lyst til hoppe nummeret over.

Vor stort set selvlærte, store improviserende jazzpianist Carsten Dahl, 43 år, er et af den slags mennesker, der bærer sine følelser uden på frakken, som han for øvrigt ikke ville have noget imod at dele med dig, hvis du frøs.

Den slags intenst nærvær og umiddelbarhed koster, og Dahl har i flere omgange kæmpet med sine egne private dæmoner og angstanfald, og han måtte her i foråret melde afbud som pianør for Hanne Boel på hendes turne med dennes seneste album "I think it's going to rain".

Skiven her præsenterer 15 unavngivne solo-kompositioner samlet under den bibelske titel "Effata". Aramæisk for "luk dig op" og Jesus ord til den døvstumme. Markus 7.34.

Åbningsnummeret er så splintret disharmonisk og akavet, at jeg personligt igen og igen har grebet mig selv i at hoppe det over. Men lyt så bare videre og skrøbelig skønhed og smukt svungne linjer folder sig ud.

I nummeret #6 er vi i det snefnugsbløde og vintertriste. Lyrisk uden at blive new age. Mens #9 dyrker det frirytmiske djærve med mange løb og kontakt insisteren.

Det er piano på den allermest dristige måde, hvor du - i dette tilfælde Dahl - sætter dig ved de sort-hvide, tømmer hovedet. og bare spiller, improviserer, tør tro på øjeblikket og det fingrene gør, uden at du selv er bevidst om det. Og som samtidigt midt i al virtuositeten afslører, at solisten kæmper og ikke har det for godt med det mørke, som truer.

Lyt til den gennemlyste, tyst smukke "Glorie", afslutningsnummeret tilegnet konen, saxofonisten Christina Dahl, eller lad dig forføre af andre numres ustyrlige blanding af jazzet lethed og improviseret tyngde. Fra smådryppende, blid forårsregn til tungsindig, buldrende magtfuldhed.

Det er små stykker til stille stund og eftertænksomhed i den blå time.
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Bent Stenbakken
bent.stenbakken@nordjyske.dk

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Anmeldt af Ivan Rod
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Eminent soloalbum af improviserende jazzpianist, der både er stringent og varieret i sit udtryk
Carsten Dahl er en af Danmarks bedste jazzpianister. Den position har han indtaget igennem mange, mange år, og positionen stadfæstes med hans seneste udspil - en soloimprovisationsplade indspillet i Rainbow Studio i Oslo. Carsten Dahl har i de sidste par året gennemlevet en personlig krise, som for en tid fik ham til at holde sig fra klaveret. Men med Effata - der er indspillet i januar 2010 - har han igen modigt og direkte taget livtag med instrumentet. Effata er aramæisk og betyder "luk dig op." Og dét har Carsten Dahl virkelig gjort - at dømme efter denne plade. Åbnet sig for musikken i en af de største udfordringer, en pianist kan udsætte sig selv for - som improviserende solist. For hvor let er det ikke at løbe tør for idéer som solist? At blive fange af sine egne begrænsede temaer eller i "panik" at sprede sit fokus alt for meget? Carsten Dahl formår at både holde en stringens og variere sit spil hele albummet igennem, og dermed præsterer han noget af det mest gennemført "åbne," komplekse og samtidigt tilgængelige, der i nyere tid er udgået fra en dansk jazzkapacitet. Effata er et eminent album af en mesterpianist, der tør se sin egen melankoli i øjnene.

Carsten Dahl
Effata/ Solo Piano
”…musiken får mig at falla in i en annan musikalsk värld där inre lugn och njutning infinner sig.”- Josephine Stensson, Orkester Journalen (SE)

”…Carsten Dahl är en virtuos som har skapat ett fantastisk verk. Njut!” -Josephine Stensson, Orkester Journalen (SE)  

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New releases October 2010

October 17
Last night Christina Dahl received this year’s
Bent Jædig Prize at a concert in Copenhagen
Jazzhouse as the first female musician!

NOW IS NOW
CHRISTINA DAHL TRIO
The trio is known for its openness that gives room for the individual musician. All three play an important role in their common communication. Christina Dahl has a big open tone on the saxophone. She has composed for different orchestras and small groups and all the titles on this CD.
Jesper Lundgaard is one of the best Danish bassplayers. He has played with many famous jazz musicians and plays bass and electric-bass on the CD. The drummer Morten Lund is one of the young lions and a very good big-band drummer. He has played with a number of jazz musicians from trios to big bands.
The CD was recorded on June 21 & 22, 2010.

Christina Dahl Trio: »Now Is Now«. Storyville 101 4266
Berlingske Tidende

Christina Dahl Trio
Now is now

”… För ver gång man lyssnar på den så biter lite av det tag i mig. Och det bliver bara bättre och bättre. Det här albumet rekommenderas varmt.”- Josephine Stensson, Orkester Journalen (SE)

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Did Duke Ellington make the Cotton Club famous or was it the other way around? The answer may lie somewhere in between, but few will dispute the fact that both club and bandleader became synonymous with Harlem, an area above Manhattan’s 110th Street where culture thrived and the music was hot. Impressed by the lights and energy of Harlem, Duke likened it to ”Arabian nights” when he first arrived there from Washington, D.C. in 1922. That was also the year in which the Cotton Club opened for business at 644 Lenox Avenue, but although theirs was a marriage made in heaven, the two symbols of the Harlem Renaissance Era did not unite until 1927. The Ellington orchestra’s first run at the Cotton Club lasted into 1932, by which time Duke’s fame had spread far beyond Harlem and across the oceans. He rose to become one of America’s most distinguished and influential composers and the club became legendary.
These two CDs capture the atmosphere and enduring musical sophistication of nine Cotton Club radio transmissions and include an April 29, 1938 broadcast of the band’s appearance at Stockholm’s Konserthuset. The latter was also a celebration of Duke’s birthday, of which there were many more to come. The second CD has a brief but engaging 1933 newsreel clip that shows Harlem’s Lenox Avenue and looks into the club for a glimpse of Ellington, the orchestra, and some of the famous Cotton Club dancing beauties. Nostalgia? Yes, but so much more.
Cat# 1038415
***** Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise UK

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Teddy Wilson made national news when he went on tour as part of the Benny Goodman Trio, the swing era’s first interracial group.

Teddy Wilson’s style evolved from the influence of Earl Hines, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, achieved a neat, quietly swinging symmetry, mostly in single-note lines, that was revolutionary in jazz and influenced countless musiciansThe box contains 8 CD’s and 1 DVD. There are studio sessions, transcriptions, radio broadcasts and live performances from 1939 to 1983. The DVD is called Boogie Woogie Dream and is a short with Teddy Wilson’s Big Band, Lena Horne, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons.

The 8 CD’s are with solo piano, trio, sextet and big band His trio with guest soloists Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Kai Winding and J.J.Johnson.

Ben Webster is soloist on the big band recordings.

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New releases May 2010
27. maj 2010


After a successful concert tour in Iceland and a trip to China where she performed At the Danish Pavilion at Expo as well as several gigs in both Beijing Shanghai Cathrine Legardh and her band has returned to Denmark. On May 27th her long awaited album number two ”NorDisk” will be issued on the venerable Storyville label.

Legardh sings exclusively in Danish and Swedish on this album, which consists of jazz and Nordic songs of new and older origin – including ballads and standards. She sing songs from the Swedish vocalist Monica Zetterlund’s repertoire. Monica became world famous when she recorded Waltz for Debby with Bill Evans Trio. 3 of the 12 songs on this album are Cathrine’s compositions.
You wil enjoy this CD!

LINE UP
Cathrine Legardh (vocal)
Francesco Cali (piano/accordion)
Hugo Rasmussen (bass)
Jacob Dinesen (tenor saxophone)
Andreas Fryland (drums)
LISTEN: iTunes

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Cathrine Legardh – Nordisk
Cathrine Legardh har en dejlig stemme, en suveræn teknik og har udviklet en evne til at finde materiale der ligger godt for hendes røst – hun synger fandeme dejligt og der er en poestisk indlevelse og mærkbart engagement.
Cathrine Legardhs anden cd leverer suveræne vokallækkerier. Men man savner kant.

Hatten af for vovemodet, når den musiklæreruddannede jazzsangerinde Cathrine Legardh på sin anden soloudgivelse serverer en samling sange, der af de fleste jazzlyttere forbindes med det svenske ikon Monica Zetterlund, hvis fortolkninger af klassikere som ’Walking My Baby Back Home’ (’Sakta vi gå genom stan’, som den hedder i Beppe Wolgers forsvenskning) og visen om det skønne Värmland hører hjemme i guldkategorien.

For det er sgu da at spænde ambitionsbuen med en vis dødsforagt.

Og når dertil kommer livtag med en stribe andre sange, der også har en vis status, så er det altså ret respektindgydende.
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Henrik Palle, Politiken

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Cathrine Legardh synger med stil, autoritet og troværdighed
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Kjeld Frandsen, Berlingske Tidende

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One more to go. Danish singer Cathrine Legardh had instantly turned this male mid-lifer to marshmallow when he heard just one track of the Danish Jazz 2010 sampler CD. On that CD she sings Glemmer Du, a song about a lover who can remember and recount absolutely every moment of a relationship which has ended. She sings it with intonation like a bell, faultless judgment of timing and speech-rhythms, and diction like spring water. Her CD "Gorgeous Greature" (Storyville, 2008) with Scots piano god Brian Kellock, has a fine seven minute version of You've Changed. And on the gig, it was Bruno Martino's sixties classic Estate, sung in Danish, as on the video above. Legardh has an unforced, unpushy way with these songs.

From: 
LONDONJAZZ

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Great art trad ain’t; great fun it always is –
Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz

PAPA BUE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
4 CD BOXSET
PAPA BUE (Arne Bue Jensen) celebrated his 80th birthday on May 8th, an occasion which Storyville commemorates with a 4-CD boxed set containing 80 of his most memorable recordings. It is a remarkable journey that starts with two tracks by the Bohana Jazzband—the group that launched Papa Bue’s long recording career— and continues with a broad cross section of performances by Papa Bue’s Viking Jazzband.
This is the spirited group that for many years toured throughout Europe and across the sea, where even the Crescent City itself welcomed enthusiastically a joyous echo of its own tradition with that distinct Papa Bue touch.
The anniversary box comes with an illustrated booklet and contains guest appearances by some of the many distinguished jazz icons who shared stages and bandstands with the Vikings, legends like George Lewis, Wingy Manone, Edmond Hall, Art Hodes, Wild Bill Davison and Champion Jack Dupree.
The selections include some of the band’s biggest hits, such as the million-seller, Schlafe Mein Prinschen, Praise of Nyboder, The Olsen Gang Theme, Bonanza, Blueberry Hill, White Cliffs of Dover and What A Wonderful World. In short, this is a box filled with abundant sounds!

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QUEST.
2 CD’s
David Liebman and Richard Beirach visited Denmark three consecutive years 1985,1986 and 1987. In 1985 as a duo where they did a studio recording playing jazz standards like Naima, Lover Man, Oleo, Round Midnight, India, On Green Dolphin Street
and Some Other Time.
In 1986 they have added Ron McClure (b) and Billy Hart (dr) Again they did a studio recording playing compositions by David Liebman and Richard Beirach.
Finally in 1987 they did a live recording at Copenhagen’s famous Jazz Club “The Montmartre” with the same group as 1986 and this time they recorded compositions by all four musicians.

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LESTER YOUNG
2 CD’s
You can’t overestimate Lester Young’s importance on the development of modern jazz. His superb melodic gift and logical phrasing and smooth, flowing lines were the inspiration for most of the jazz musicians regardless of instruments born after 1920. (Lester Young born 1909)
As Johnny Griffin said to Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis:
There are five tenor saxophonists that have made the styles we all get our inspiration from: Chu Berry, Don Byas, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. All the tracks on these two CD’s are from the fifties. Three of the sessions are unissued and on one track Oh! Lady Be Good young Miles Davis is on trumpet. It was recorded on a European tour Lester and Miles did in 1956.

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Produktionen er flot og med rigtig god rumlighed i lydbilledet. Det lyder fedt og rigtig godt   afbalanceret. Det er en plade, som kysser såvel musikken som livet lige på trutten på en sådan måde, at man selv bliver glad over at være her og have mulighed for at plukke dagen.
Henrik Palle, Politiken

Det er en udsøgt nydelse at lægge ører til den unge trommeslager Stefan Pasborg,, der med sit levende og virtuose spil kan kunsten at skabe farver og dynamik, ikke mindst når han går i dialog med Carsten Dahl i dennes forrygende ekskursioner.
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Kjeld Frandsen, Berlignske Tidende

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Carsten Dahl Experience ***
Stuart Nicholson – Jazzwise, UK

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GAFFA
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Erfaringer og impulser fra jazzscenen, sublimt opsamlet af fire store musikere
Det er noget af en gruppering, Carsten Dahl har samlet omkring sig med Experience. For ikke bare er det musikere, der har teknikken i orden, de er også alle kendetegnet ved en åbenhed overfor impulser og en enestående evne til at falde i sync med sig selv og hinanden. Det er i hvert fald det indtryk, man får, når man lytter til Carsten Dahl Experiences første pladeudspil, Humilitas. Pianisten Carsten Dahl, saxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen, bassisten Nils "Bosse" Davidsen og trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg skaber sammen et forførende smukt univers – et univers, der sine steder er præget af en kaotisk fremdrift, sine steder er præget af en stilfærdig eftertanke. Undertegnede foretrækker mere stilfærdige, melankolske numre som Jesper Zeuthens Okto og 15 gode grunde, fordi der på én gang er noget melodisk stringent over disse og alligevel en harmonisk kompleksitet. Men pladen som helhed er lytteværdig, fordi samspillet de fire musikere imellem er så enestående åbent. Især hæfter man sig ved Dahls sikre improvisationer, Zeuthens balkaniserede sax og Pasborgs og "Bosses" nænsomme underspil.

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C.D.E. opstod ved en koncert sidste år på Jazzhouse i håb om at kreere lyrisk, men abstrakt musik, der kunne gribe dybere end de overfladiske arrangementer, man bombarderes med dagligt. Det er absolut lykkedes på denne plade. Det emmer af vitalitet og nødvendighed og kombinerer det melodisk tilgængelige med det eksperimentale uden at fjerne sig fra dialog med lytteren i indadvendt støj-masturbation.

Marcus Winther-John – Musikeren


Her optræder Carsten Dahl med ny kvartet, Experience, hvis anden hovedfigur er altsaxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen, og her udforsker han et univers at delvist fri improvisation i ekspressionistiske rammer, som ikke mindst trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg mesterligt er med til at levere – et univers, der snarere end nogen af de nævnte er forbundet med Ornette Colemans oprindelige kvartet eller med Jarretts nu snart 35 år gamle kvartet med amerikanske Dewey Redman.

Det er mellem Zeuthens forrevne fraser og klagende tone og på den anden side Dahls søgen indad i harmonierne med al sin klassiske dannelse som ballast, der gør det til en meget vellykket CD!

Peter H. Larsen – Information


Lad mig sige det fra starten: Cartsten Dahls nye plade er forbløffende god – Carsten Dahls klaverspil blomstrer i helt usædvanlig grad i dette selskab. Faktisk har jeg sjældent hørt ham så dristig og frigjort på plade. Dahl leverer en solistisk improvisation i mesterklasse.

Christian Munch-Hansen, Jazz Special

Carsten Dahl Experience was made at a concert last year in Copenhagen Jazzhouse.
Pianist, Carsten Dahl put together some of the greatest Danish musicians, in what he call’s, a spiritual and musical vision, going and pointing into a lyrical and abstract music – but with the idea of spreading the “good message” and merely to manifest the right to be a free and abstract thinking artist in a world of superficial and partial arrangements all over.
We tend to forget the essence of the necessity to express the qualities of being human and our deepest wish of all: TO FLY!
In this very expressive quartet it’s all right - there! Waves of pulse, beautiful themes, silence and strong chaos and its all being, so well interpenetrated and played by the four greats in the band. Watch out – it comes from all sides at you - and from within. WOW!

First recording from Carsten Dahl in his own name since 2006!


CARSTEN DAHL: Piano og Percussion -JESPER ZEUTHEN: Alto sax
NILS “BOSSE” DAVIDSEN: Bass - STEFAN PASBORG: Drums

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Carsten Dahl Experience
Altsaxofonisten Jesper Zeuthen har som Tchicai også en distinkt personlig tonal identitet, som ikke er til at tage fejl af. Han gik for mange år siden den modsatte instrumentale vej end Tchicai: skiftede fra tenorsax til alt. Zeuthens lyd sætter et dominerende præg på pianisten Carsten Dahls nye cd, Humilitas , med gruppen Carsten Dahl Experience. Den versatile Dahl har foretaget et overrumplende træk og allieret sig med musikere af en anden observans end hans vante partnere. Udover Dahl og Zeuthen er det bassisten Nils Davidsen og trommeslageren Stefan Pasborg. Zeuthen har leveret nogle af kompositionerne - resten er primært Dahls egne. En ny lyd og en ny sang fra Dahl. Det kan også høres som et længe savnet album fra Jesper Zeuthen, men er især et anderledes stimulerende udspil fra Carsten Dahl. Som måske vil tage fusen på mange Dahl fans. Og blive taget til sig af Zeuthens.

Ib Skovgaard, Weekendavisen

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If it all falls a bit short of the rather portentous title, it’s nonetheless very good fun – something that most jazz simply isn’t nowadays
Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz

STUFF SMITH
FIVE FINE VIOLINS
Of the five Radio sessions represented on this release, four of them contain Stuff Smith teaming up with fellow violinists Ray Nance and Danes Svend Asmussen, Søren Christensen and Poul Olsen, three of these have never been released before.

On April 4, 1965 Stuff Smith participated in a radio jubilee concert. Only recently has a mislabeled, long thought lost tape been recovered from the Timme Rosenkrantz archive. The astute listener will question the absence of drummer Alex Riel. There was confusion about the start time of Smith’s set following an interval and Riel failed to appear. Thus, we have a rare glimpse of a late Smith trio with just piano and bass. Riel, as good a drummer as he is, is really not missed. And that’s Stuff tapping on the violin ?. In an act of generosity, Smith introduces "Timme’s Blues" as written by his friend and manager Timme Rosenkrantz. It was, of course, written by Stuff Smith and it had a previous life in the USA under the title "Play:.

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WARNE MARSH & LEE KONITZ
Two Not One

Warne Marsh-Lee  Konitz – Two Not One
Jazzwise, UK ***

Warne Marsh – Lee Konitz Two Not One - *****
Downbeat

December 1975 was a busy month for Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz. It was Warne Marsh’s first visit to Europe.
They played December 3,4 & 5 at the Montmartre in Copenhagen and came back the 27th and played yet another concert at the Montmartre. They were at Rosenberg studio December 28 and 29 for further recordings. All dates were recorded and the result can be heard on this 4 CD box.
It is amazing music from the two Lennie Tristano "pupils".

They played with the Danish musicians Ole Kock Hansen (p) Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) and Alex Riel (dr) and for the later sessions with Dave Cliff (g) Peter Ind (b) And Alan Lewitt (dr)

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Svend Asmussen is a world famous jazz-violinist and entertainer. He is now 93 years old and still going strong.
He has had a lot of different groups during the years. On this CD with recordings from 1953, 1958 and 1963 he plays with his quintet, sextet and a duo with guitarist Ulrik Neumann. The recordings are made in Hamburg, Germany where he was a frequent visitor in those years. The sound is fantastic and so is the selection of the standard tunes they play. Svend Asmussen and his quintet/sextet were at its peak. Storyville Records are very happy for this release of unissued material with one of the greatest jazz-musicians from Denmark.

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The Pulse - et adeles forrygende album, som både signalerer respekt for genrens traditioner og trang til fornyelse af selvsamme traditioner. Konstellationen Thomas Blachman, Jakob Dinesen, Mads La Cour, Heine Hansen og Daniel Franck formår at finde ind til en fælles puls - heraf albummets titel – og det med sådan en tæft, at man forbløffes og glædes. Blachman synes virkelig at være kommet hjem!
Ivan Rod Gaffa


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Red Mitchell Warne Marsh BIG TWO Red Mitchell and Warne Marsh had a series of engagements in Scandinavia during April of 1980. On the 18th and 19th of April they were playing at the Fasching Club in Stockholm where these two CD’s were recorded. The combination of tenorsaxophone and bass were rare but it worked out very good. As Mitchell observed, a duo is the smallest group you can get. "When I layed out it’s obvious that Warne doesn’t need a bass player.He can play all by himself, he can play all the chords, all the rhythms, he can play the bass lines and he certainly knows the melodies". Most of the compositions are taken from The Great American Songbook, others are bebop classics based on the chord changes of standards. Funky it ain’t but swing it does, with great taste and subtlety as well as some superb improvisations.Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz Red Mitchell/Warne Marsh – Big Two: In this intriguing double-CD due set Red Mitchell is totally attuned to his sophisticated approach to harmony, rhythm and structure on a release that can be thoroughly recommended. Gordon Jack/Jazz Journal Warne Marsh – Red Mitchell – Big Two **** Downbeat

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Ralph Sutton Ralph Sutton visited Copenhagen a number of times and played with the local musicians. On this CD he plays solo, duo, quartet, sextet and septet with the best Danish musicians. Ralph Sutton is a brilliant stride piano player who played timeless jazz. He was influenced by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. On the sextet and septet session his fellow American Wild Bill Davison plays trumpet. His piano solo is Bix Beiderbecke’s famous composition In The Dark. This is a CD for fans that like timeless jazz played by very good musicians. Ralph Sutton, “Last of the Whorehouse Players,” died in Evergreen, Colorado, in 2001 at the age of 79. In Copenhagen is a fitting memorial. Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz Duke Jordan Duke Jordan settled down in Copenhagen in the autumn of 1973 and remained here to his death. He was mainly known for his work with Charlie Parker. The idea for this solo CD came about when he played at the Elsinore Jazz Festival in1992. The session was taped but the sound was not very good, so he recorded the whole session over again in a studio in Copenhagen and the result you can hear on this CD. Duke was a very good composer and he plays 6 of his own compositions on the CD. Listen to: No Problem-Jor-Du-Flight To Jordan-Parisian Hop-Two Loves and Night Walk. In Copenhagen reveals a restless, questing musical intelligence at work. But so, too, does it demonstrate someone striving for reconciliation with a life that, in the 1960s, saw him reduced to earning his living as a New York cab driver. Chris Mosey – AllAboutJazz

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The DVD was recorded live at Village Vanguard in New York 1981
with Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond and Kenny Washington.

JOHNNY ARNOLD GRIFFIN III IS HIS REAL NAME. He was also called the "The Little Giant" or "The Fastest Gun Alive" and "The Tough Tenors when he was playing with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Johnny Griffin was the fastest swinging tenorplayer in Jazz which you will hear when you listen to this 3 CD 1 DVD box set. CD 1 was recorded in April 1964 when he played the Montmartre Club with Art Taylor, Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. CD 2 was also from Montmartre recorded July 10, 1984 with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (The Tough Tenors) Harry Pickens, Curtis Lundy and Kenny Washington. CD 3 was recorded at Jazzhus Slukefter in the Tivoli Garden July 15, 1989 with Kenny Drew, Jens Melgaard and Ole Streenberg. Good time music played passionately with precision while swingin’ with virtuosity and soul; that was Johnny Griffin Greg Thomas, AllAboutJazz – New York

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No. 2 on hmv.co.jp’s Jazz Top 20
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It is three well established Danish jazz musicians you will hear on the new CD from Storyville. The trio plays standards from the American songbook which they interpret in a very different way. Sometimes it is a slow ballad and after that a very swinging version where you will tap your feet listening to the trio. It is world-class music played by three Danish musicians that are equal to any of the American jazz-trios. No jazz fan can live without this CD in his collection. Listen to Carsten Dahl piano, Mad Vinding bass and Alex Riel drums.
The title of the CD is "In Your Own Sweet Way" which is also the first track on the CD followed by "Maria gennem torne går" (Maria walks through thorns) "It Could Happen To You" "Beautiful Friendship" "What Is This Thing Called Love" "Peace" and "Night And Day" The cover of the CD is a painting by Danish painter Erik Rasmussen.

IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY er titlen på vor nye trio-CD med Carsten Dahl (p), Mads Vinding (b) og Alex Riel (dr). Det er toppen af dansk jazz, der her spiller.
De tre musikere har spillet sammen mange gange og disse optagelser er indspillet i Copenhagen Jazzhouse mellem 2005 og 2007. De syv titler på denne CD er: In Your Own Sweet Way, Maria gennem torne går, It Could Happen To You, Beautiful Friendship, What Is This Thing Called Love, Peace og Night And Day.

Thomas Michelsen POLITIKEN

Vældig livlig live-CD - I særklasse tæt sammenspil

Bent Stenbakken, Nordjyske

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After World War II, Voice of America radio broadcasts by Leonard Feather and Willis Conover helped to lay the foundation for subsequent tours. U.S. State Department sponsored the tours that sent America’s JAZZ AM-BASSADORS around the world. They travelled from 1955 to the 70’s and visited such different places as the Soviet Union, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, India, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Philippines, Ceylon, Japan, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Chile, Argentina and Europe. Everywhere they played they were very well received and did a fantastic job as "Good Will Jazz Ambassadors"

The Jam Session CD contains music with some of the Ambassadors:
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL STARS/ Someday You Will Be Sorry/When The Saints Go Marching In
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET/The Golden Horn/Thank You
BENNY CARTER QUARTET/Blue Star/Summer Serenade
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA/Perdido/Thing Ain’t What They Used To Be
DIZZY GILLESPIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA/Cool Breeze/Mantecca
WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA/Sleepy Serenade/Starlight Souvenirs
CLARK TERRY & HIS ORCHESTRA feat.
PAUL GONSALVES/Blues For The Champ Of Champs/Daniel’s Blues
JAZZ WEEKLY: These guys do more for international relations than Obama could ever dream of.

If I were awarding stars (as some publications do) I would have to award a whole galaxy.
Herb Young – IAJRC Journal

There is enough previously unknown and unissued material combined with reissued unknown and unissued material from a variety of obscure sources to make this of interest to any Tatum, student or would-be student.
Cadence
"A box with live recordings of the greatest jazzpianist ever? Priceless”.
Jazzism, Holland, Winter 2009.
Overwhelming, yes, but so is Mt. Everest. You've not heard the piano until you've heard Tatum.
George W. Harris - Jazz Weekly
Jazzthetik, Germany

The detailed liner notes and numerous photos add to the value of this
essential collection of rare Art Tatum.
On top ten list of top reissues/historical recordings posted at Jaazhouse.org
Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

Tatum's Art Changed Jazz - Tatum always sounds like he's got at least 20 fingers himself
Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal

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Ben Webster -- Dig Ben
Eric Alterman's review:
This eight-disc compilation of the famed tenor saxophonist Ben Webster's work is largely made of his European recordings, made from 1964-1973, mostly in Scandinavia. Webster went to Europe when he was 55 - a fear of flying prevented an earlier trip, but once there, Webster never returned to the United States. The compilation, released by Storyville Records, feature Webster at Copenhagen's famous Montmartre club as well as sessions from London, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and several tracks recorded before he left New York. It's a real treasure. Nobody sounds like Ben and here you can just wallow in the stuff; thoughtful, intelligent and you know, warm. For an eight-CD box set, with excellent bibliographical material, though not much in the way of fancy packaging, it's pretty well priced too. You can read all about it here.

These four releases by Storyville are a testament to the timelessness of good quality jazz.

Wild Bill Davison
In CopenhagenTrumpeter Bill Davison is in an energized mood on this collection of studio tunes from February, 1974. Caught with a variety of Danish bands ranging from quintet to sextet, Davison exuberantly swings through standards like “If I Had You”, “Someday You’ll Be Sorry” and “I’m Confessin’” with a joyful brashness that bars no holds.

Jay McShann
In CopenhagenThis 1977 studio release by Jay McShann finds him in a cozy small group, and for my money, it’s own of his best, clearly personifying what Kansas City Jazz was all about.

Frank Rosolino
In Copenhagen Put out a mere 2 months before his tragic death in 1978, trombonist Frank Rosolino is found here in excellent form. A master of triple tonguing, and various other tightrope walking, Rosolino displays all his talents on this disc that ranges from a boppish “Blue Daniel” to an angular “Straight No Chaser”.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Mildred Bailey - Legendary Radio Broadcasts - Review in Doctor Jazz Magazine

CD1 (Ella Fitzgerald): "Een uiterst genietbare combinatie, zowel de vocale stukken als de instrumentale laten swingmuziek op zijn best horen." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
"An extremely enjoyable combination, both the vocal pieces and the instrumental show swing music at its best." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
CD2 (Mildred Bailey): "Deze radio-opnamen blijken een platform voor enkele top jazzspelers van dat moment." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine
"These radio recordings prove to be a platform for some top jazz players of that moment." - C.P. Vincentius, Doctor Jazz Magazine

 
 
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