Sonny Simmons - Live in Paris - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. Fresh off the of their newest LP 'The Crossing', a brooding instrumental masterpiece that is as raw as it is rich, the Menahan Street Band have been treating audiences to their rare live performances. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of the members other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield, Mulatu Astatke, and even Ennio Morricone. Though most known as the official studio band at Thomas Brenneck's world famous Dunham studio, MSB is also one of the finest live bands in the world.

W.a. Mozart - Duo Sonatas 4 [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/26/2011

This amazing double album collects some of the best sessions from the height of the European 'season of jazz' when many of the best American jazzmen sought and found refuge and comfort in the smoky dark venues of existentialist Mitteleuropa, away from the high tension of the violent civil rights battles raging back home. Recorded between 1963 and 1966, these live gigs performed by the Sonny Rollins/Don Cherry Quartet (Paris, January, 1963); the Sonny Rollins quintet with members of the Modern Jazz Quartet (Berlin, Oct. 30, 1965); and the Sonny Rollins trio (Graz, Austria, Nov. 12, 1966) showcase the magnificent sounds that made Rollins one of the top horn players of his day and one of the most interesting, prolific, and long-lasting jazz icons of all time.