| Artist |
Track |
Album |
Label |
Format |
Comments |
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Music behind DJ:
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
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The Spiritual (severely edited by Stein)
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The Paris Session
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Arista
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2 LP
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One of the great improvisational ensembles; highly recommended
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Music behind DJ:
Dexter Gordon
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Tanya (severely edited by Stein)
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One Flight Up
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Blue Note
|
CD
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Check the bass; it's the 18-year-old Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
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Archie Shepp
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Attica Blues
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Irrepressible Impulses
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Impulse!
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Vinyl
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Great compilation
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Music behind DJ:
Walt Dickerson Quartet
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Bacon & Eggs
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Impressions Of A Patch Of Blue
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MGM Records
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Vinyl
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Sun Ra on piano
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Sun Ra and his myth SCIENCE ARKESTRA
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We Travel The Spaceways
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We Travel The Spaceways/Bad & Beautiful
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Evidence
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CD
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Part of the Evidence reissue series. Collect 'em all (seriously)
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Thelonous Monk
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Ask Me Now
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The best of Thelonious Monk; The Blue Note Years
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Blue Note
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CD
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Mose Allison
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I Ain't Go Nothin' But The Blues
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Allison Wonderland
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Rhino/Atlantic
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Box set
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Ain't got no Basie with Lester
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Music behind DJ:
Pharoah Sanders
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Astral Traveling (edited by Impulse!)
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Irrepressible Impulses
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Impulse!
|
LP
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See, I told you this was a great compilation.
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Leon Thomas
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Let's Go Down To Lucy's
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Blues And The Soulful Truth
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Flying Dutchman
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LP
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Entire album arranged and conducted by Pee Wee Ellis (Of James Brown Band fame), with Larry Coryell on guitar, Bernard Purdie on drums. Whoah.
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Music behind DJ:
Pharoah Sanders
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Astral Traveling (edited by Impulse!)
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Irrepressible Impulses
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Impulse!
|
LP
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Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France feat. Django Reinhardt
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Nagasaki
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Djangologie 2; 1936 - 1937
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Pathe/EMI
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LP
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Stephane Grappelli, violin. Freddie Taylor, vocal.
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Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart
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Matzoh Balls
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Slim and Slam; The Groove Juice Special
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Columbia/Legacy
|
CD
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A casual acquaintance with the work of Slim Gaillard is the minimum requirement for anyone wishing to be considered a civilized person.
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Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
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Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
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Are You Hep To The Jive?
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Columbia/Legacy
|
CD
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Check YouTube
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
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Five O'Clock Whistle
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The Blanton-Webster Band
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RCA/Bluebird
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Box set
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Music behind DJ:
Charles Lloyd Quartet
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Forest Flower - Sunrise
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At Monterey
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Atlantic
|
CD
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Lloyd on tenor and flute, Keith Jarret on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, and Jack Dejohnette on drums. That's all.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
|
Talk (Bright Moments)
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Bright Moments
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Atlantic
|
2 LP
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My apologies for the funky sound here. The CD reissue I have is noisy on this cut, so I had to use my old vinyl, which has seen a lot of appreciation.
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Music behind DJ:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Dem Red Beans and Rice
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Bright Moments
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Rhino/Atlantic
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2 CD
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