Mosaic Records has announced a forthcoming 3-CD Select set of saxophonist John Handy’s mid-1960s Columbia recordings, including some previously unreleased material from a 1967 concert performance. Other soon-to-be-issued projects include Louis Armstrong’s 1930s and 40s Decca recordings (March 2009), and a three-CD set of pianist Denny Zeitlin’s mid-1960s Columbia albums (February 2009).
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A few months ago Mosaic Records confirmed a forthcoming Ahmad Jamal box-set, covering the pianist’s trio recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, currently projected for a March or April 2009 release. Some more details have emerged now on the box’s contents (supposedly 9 CDs). It will contain the following Argo and Chess-label albums:
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Mosaic Records has posted information, including discographies, about new sets featuring Dave Liebman’s Pendelum group and some Helen Merrill jazz-vocal sides on their upcoming releases page, along with more details about the forthcoming early-1950s Oscar Peterson collection.
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Mosaic Records, that fine purveyor of jazz box-set goods from the East (as in Stamford, Connecticut), has reportedly long been trying to put together some kind of collection featuring pianist Ahmad Jamal’s influential 1950s trio. (If you’ve never experienced the good fortune and pleasure of hearing Jamal’s trio work from the 1950s and 60s–widely noted for its elegant use of space and its influence upon trumpeter Miles Davis…
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The first-ever Night Lights Christmas program features music from Booker Ervin (”White Christmas” from his 1966 album Solid Structure), Ahmad Jamal (”Snowfall,” written by Terre Haute, Indiana native Claude Thornhill), Sonny Rollins (”Winter Wonderland”), Babs Gonzalez (”Bebop Santa Claus”), Bill Evans (a rare and amusing vocal take…
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