Joanne Grauner introducing Lorraine Feather. Regrettably Joanne Grauer is listed with only three LPs to her name in encyclopaedias of jazz. The present album on the MPS label is the second, and certainly most sought-after, of this all-round musician. And it is probably Joanne Grauer’s most personal LP, for she was given all the time she needed in the studio together with her friends – and what is more the critic and producer Leonard Feather did not influence her musically in the very least..Even though she did was not totally uninfluenced by Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans, it was the opportunities offered back in 1977 by the electronic keyboard that opened new doors for Joanne Grauer. But she is certainly not an avant-gardist for melodious sound-colouring is her top priority and she achieved mood music situated somewhere between the classical jazz piano trio and rock-pop sound. Most themes come from Joanne Grauer’s pen, and she is certainly in the foreground as a soloist too. In „See You Later“, „Can’t Sleep“ and „The Voice“, she is joined by the gentle voice of Lorraine Feather, while Ernie Watts’s saxophone provides a powerful, welcome contrast which successfully puts a halt to drifting off into mere melodiousness. Joanne Grauer’s final work on the album, „Frog Child“, is given over to be-bop and makes a wonderful final cadence to a recording which carries all the hallmark of the 70s but still sounds fresh and new in the year 2001.

1. Gork
2. Evergreen
3. Misty Dreams & Ruffy’s Eyes
4. Longing
5. Happy
6. See You Later
7. Can’t Sleep
8. The Voice
9. Frog Child

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The Lionel Hampton Quartet. They were known as The Perfect Quartet! And it wasn’t just their producer Norman Granz, surely not unbiased as to the greatness of his jazz musicians, who called them so. So it was only logical to put this Super-Quartet together. Just as the start of his career, the great Oscar Peterson was eager to show off all that he had learned from copying and listening to his maestro Art Tatum; Ray Brown provided swing and bop which he had perfected in Dizzy Gillespie’s big bands; Buddy Rich, billed as ‚the world’s greatest drummer‘, could lend impetus to simply any band; and the grandmaster of the sticks, known as ‚The Hamp‘, could hammer away at the vibraphone just as Benny Goodman before him – full of verve and swing, rhythmic and melodic, ecstatic and sensitive.

The lucky person…

This release on the Clef label, with a fitting cover by David Stone Martin, contains four numbers: two from the Quartet’s first session, and two from the second six months later. All four are an ideal starting point for lengthy improvisations much in the style of the Jazz At The Philharmonic idea, but without winds, just with a rhythm group. Nevertheless, not a single second is dull or boring, and if you were sitting in the audience at the concert you’d be crying out »more, more, more!«.
The lucky person with this re-release in his collection just needs to turn the LP over and set the needle down on the groove for more, more, more!

Recording: September 1953 and April 1954 in New York City
Production: Norman Granz

1. 1. Just One Of Those Things
2. Stompin‘ At The Savoy
3. How High The Moon
4. The Nearness Of You

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Eartha Kitt That Bad Eartha. Diva, dream woman, or femme fatale? Eartha Kitt was a little of each and certainly did not need to worry about her image. No lesser man than Orson Welles summed up her extraordinary talents in the fields of dancing, singing and performance: for him she was the most exciting woman alive.
„That Bad Eartha“, her second album, which appeared in the same year as her debut record, should doubtless be regarded as her most memorable. Just like the first, it catapulted Eartha into the charts among the ‚top five‘ and contained the most important titles of her entire career such as „I Want To Be Evil“, „My Heart Belongs To Daddy“ and „Under The Bridges Of Paris“ which she sang in two languages. When you listen to her intimate and supple rendering of „C’est Si Bon“, her signature tune, you simply cannot believe that you are listing to an American singer! Each and every one of the twelve numbers is an absolute hit, and so there’s only one conclusion to be made: this lady is missing in the collection. Let’s Do It! Eartha Kitt That Bad Eartha

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Eartha Kitt That Bad Eartha

with Henri Rene and His Orchestra

Side One
1. I Want to Be Evil
2. C’est Si Bon (It’s So Good)
3. Angelitos Negros
4. Avril Au Portugal (The Whisp’ring Serenade)
5. Let’s Do It
6. My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Side Two
1. Uska Dara – A Turkish Tale
2. African Lullaby
3. Mountain High, Valley Low
4. Lilac Wine (Dance Me A Song)
5. Under the Bridges of Paris
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Erwin Lehn Orchestra Color in Jazz. As they say: ŤWonders never ceaseť! Who’d have believed that the disco kids of today would dance to a radio dance orchestra performing big band jazz? The excerpt „Color“ on the „Talkin‘ Loud“ sampler certainly wets one’s appetite for the full eleven minutes with the Erwin Lehn Orchestra. The album’s motto is „Color In Jazz“ and all seven titles of this re-issue are as colourful as a painter’s palette: spicy rhythms in the winds, varied rock and sweet beats, a touch of Latin, lyrical melodies on the flugelhorn, and powerful tuttis are the ingredients mixed together to produce the sound colouring of these compositions by Bernd Rabe (who unfortunately died last year) and Erwin Lehn (an extremely active pensioner)..It would be too simple to simply attach the label „commercial“ to this particular area of big band jazz. „Popular“ would be more appropriate – an epithet which never troubled swing bands in the USA. Hopefully this re-release will attract new fans to the area of big band swing. Just listen to this album, which can easily hold its own against anything coming from America as far as musical and technical quality are concerned, and you’ll be thrilled!

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Erwin Lehn Orchestra – Color in Jazz

1. Alfredo
2. Burgess
3. Atlantic II
4. El Cuervo Nuevo
5. Lift Up
6. Color
7. Funf zu vier

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This Audiophile Edition 180g LP set features such talent as David Benoit, Kenny Burrell and Luis Conte and contains tracks such as Mood Indigo, Beach Trails, I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good and more! Clearaudio SAMPLER – JAZZ Bestseller No. 1 uses a unique recording technique called Live-To-Two-Tracks which contains an unusually wide dynamic range! This recording is best for listening tests and real comparison of the sound quality of different high fidelity components.

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• LP1

• 7. Lovin‘ Side – Kenny Rankin
• 8. Mood Indigo – Kenny Burrell
• LP2
• 1. I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good – Toni Tennille
• 2. Tu Sabes – Luis Conte
• 3. Target – Tom Scott
• 4. ReBach – David Benoit
• 5. Before the Fall – Kenny Rankin
• 6. Monks – Uncle Festive
• 7. What’s Wrong With You – Private Parts

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