Jimmie Rodgers - Stereo Singles Collection/Honeycomb - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1996 the Danish vibraphonist/composer Morten Grønvad spent six months in Los Angeles CA, seeking inspiration a. o. studying with percussionists Emil Richards and Alex Acuña. By coincidence he met and became friends with the great jazz pianist Clare Fischer - a very influential musician, who both Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock have stated as one of their major musical inspirations. During this and subsequent stays in LA Morten frequently visited Clare in his home in Studio City, where they discussed musical ideas and listened to each others' work. After Clare passed away in 2012 Morten stayed in contact with Clare's son Brent Fischer (winner of multiple Latin Jazz Grammys), who visited Copenhagen some years later. On that occasion Morten and Brent had decided to join forces, and they played a couple of concerts together at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival highlighting Clare's music. Morten Grønvad's interest for Clare Fischer's music has persisted, and in 2019 he and the very expressive alto saxophonist, Jens Søndergaard, got the idea of recording an album based on Clare Fischer's compositions with their group Grønvad/Søndergaard Quintet. Lead by Morten Grønvad and Jens Søndergaard's beautiful and melodic sound, the quintet has created this worthy and wholeheartedly homage to Clare Fischer and his music, underlining the importance of his musical creativity. The delicately accompanying rhythm section consists of pianist Thomas Bornø, bassist Niels Wilhelm Knudsen and drummer Niclas Campagnol. A convincing, warm and enticing InchWestcoast-Latin-jazzInch cocktail made of equal parts jazz-samba, bossa-nova, cha-cha and bolero.

Jimmie Rodgers - A Career Anthology RCA & Bluebird Releases 1927-33 [COMPACT DISCS] Boxed Set date 02/13/2026

Vinyl LP pressing of this 2009 from the Indie Pop outfit. Life is not a series of epic epiphanies and seismic milestones, but a succession of quiet weeks and months, interrupted at rare intervals by fleeting moments of significance or grace A new crush, a break-up, the discovery of a particularly good book or song or film, an intense conversation with a friend that you know you won't forget. Some of the best Pop bands of the past several decades have made it their mission to evoke, in their words and in their music, the understated beauty of everyday living. Think of the Go-Betweens, who found boundless romantic possibility in going for a walk or spending the night in; or Belle and Sebastian's hushed remembrances of little failures and lessons learned and sympathetic portraits of young misfits struggling to make sense of the world.