A Night at the Vanguard [Live]

1. All Night Long

2. Will You Still Be Mine?

3. I'm a Fool to Want You

4. Trio

5. I Can't See for Looking [*]

6. Cheek to Cheek

7. Broadway

8. Soft Winds

9. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'

10. Well, You Needn't

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Average customer rating: A Power Trio!!! unlike coupling Raw Powerful Sonny...Awesome ! Pretty great, but... Anticipation Of Things To Come

Night At The Village Vanguard Sonny Rollins Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bebop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Way Out West Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Bridge Tenor Madness Soul Station ASIN: B00000K4GJ Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. A Night In Tunisia
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. A Night In Tunisia (Evening Take)
4. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Alternate Take)
5. Four
6. Introduction
7. Woody 'N' You
8. Introduction
9. Old Devil Moon

Tracks:

1. What Is This Thing Called Love
2. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
3. Sonnymoon For Two
4. I Can't Get Started
5. I'll Remember April
6. Get Happy
7. Striver's Row
8. All The Things You Are
9. Get Happy (Short Version)

Amazon.com

In 1957, Sonny Rollins was at an early creative peak, already a masterful improviser who could range from hard-bitten bop blues to broad or sly humor, all conveyed with a swaggering virtuosity and bullying warmth. One of the first jazz musicians to develop the extended solo, Rollins would turn tunes inside out rhythmically, often building a solo around complex variations on a tune's melody. The Vanguard recordings come from a period when Rollins found maximum freedom in a trio pared down to the essentials of tenor, bass, and drums, and the multiple takes here testify to his fluent invention. Disc 1 of this set is highlighted by two takes of "A Night in Tunisia," the first recorded at a matinee with bassist Donald Bailey and drummer Pete LaRoca, the second and faster version at the evening performance with regular accompanists bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Elvin Jones. The second CD continues the evening performance with Ware and Jones. It's a uniquely gifted threesome, with each musician seeming to invent new ways to swing, without a note or a musical opportunity wasted. Both Rollins and Ware reveal their relationship to Thelonious Monk in the ability to create complex, arresting music out of shifts in rhythmic inflections. It's especially apparent in the second version of "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise." In this context, Jones has an opportunity to show just how melodic a drummer he was. The two versions of "Get Happy" demonstrate Rollins's ability to make complex and witty music out of the most banal material, while "What Is This Thing Called Love" is a tour de force of sustained group invention. --Stuart Broomer

Album Description

The mid-fifties was an astonishing period for this saxophone genius. And for all his great work in this era, this daring album and "Saxophone Colossus" remain his crowning achievements. With just bass (Wilbur Ware) and drums (Elvin Jones) in support, Rollins creates tenor saxophone improvisations of increible beauty and inexhaustible creativity. Twenty years after the initial album, a double album containing the rest of the releasable material from this magic night at the Village Vanguard was issued. With the recent re-discovery of the original tapes, the performance has been assembled as it happened and beautifully remastered by original engineer with superb depth of sound. Several of Sonny's stage announcements have been added to master for the first time.

Customer Reviews:

A Power Trio!!!.......2007-03-18

It's almost hard to fathom that it's been almost 50 years since Sonny Rollins recorded the historic "Night At The Village Vanguard" for Blue Note. Even half a century later, this jaw-dropping performance still leaves one awestruck by it's beauty and power.
Even as far back as 1957, Sonny Rollins was experimenting with different ensemble configurations and at the Village Vanguard, unveiled a combo that was unique for its time - a tenor sax/bass/drums trio which already proved to be successful on "Way Out West" from earlier in the year. Because of the lack of any chordal instruments, the musical interplay between Rollins, bassist Wilbur Ware and a rising star drummer in the form of Elvin Jones is extremely tight and each musician is given plenty of space to stretch out without going too far off the deep end.
Every piece included in this set is a gem. It's almost like being there in the middle of the Village Vanguard listening to the Rollins trio giving their all. Even the early take of "A Night In Tunisia" which features Donald Bailey and Pete LaRoca in the place of Ware and Jones is a sure-fire performance.
"A Night At The Village Vanguard" is definitely a must for Sonny Rollins fans as well as anyone who appreciates Jazz. The remastering by original recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder is absolutely stunning although there is a slight amount of undistracting tape hum heard occasionally.
Four years later, John Coltrane would record a legendary album at the Vanguard which would make the venue a household name. However, it should be noted that not only was Sonny's recorded first, it was also the first ever recording to be made at the Village Vanguard.
Definitely Essential Sonny Rollins!!!

unlike coupling.......2006-03-17

Curiosity has driven me to buy this double,live CD set,and after repeated listening, I'm afraid my expectations were a little too far from reality. I was, in fact convinced that Elvin Jones drums would have made a heck of a match to Rollins 'out of tune',loose sound,yet this isn't the case on these sessions. Apart from a couple of tracks('A night in Tunisia',disc1 and partly in 'What is this thing called love',disc2)Elvin hasn't fully developed,yet the rythm machine he was in the John Coltrane quartet. If I didn't hear Rollins mentioning the drummer in his presentations(or read about it in the booklet)I would have thought Max Roach,at best, was on drums or perhaps someone less recognizable,to my ear, like Louis Hayes or Art Taylor. Anyhow, the school of the time wasn't that bad,was it? I am more familiar with Sonny Rollins studio recordings of his later stage,and in this set,probably because of playing in the temple of live Jazz,or maybe because of performing with his newly formed combo, I can feel more care has been put to lessen mistakes, than to express musicality freely.
In any case I've liked the versions of 'A night in Tunisia' with saxophone,as opposed to the ones I know by Art Blakey's ensembles,with the trumpet. And I love the unique out of tune sound of Rollins' sax anyway: standard bop, though for this one.

Raw Powerful Sonny...Awesome !.......2005-03-31

Man, from the very first notes of night in tunisia this is just nail you to the wall music. I think this set captures the young Sonny Rollins in rare form and should not be missed. The drummer Pete Larocca in a different life could have been an arena rock drummer. He's got a straightahead pound it out style that works beautifully on this set. Lisen to what these guys do with an old warhorse like Got You under My Skin" As they run chorus afer chorus with tempo changes and different feels. I love this CD and think that it captures Sonny Rollins at a time when his art was blossoming. Highest reccomendation.

Pretty great, but..........2004-07-19

is it just me or is Elvin's drumming kinda sloppy on this album?

Anticipation Of Things To Come.......2004-06-20

At some point in 1956 Sonny Rollins developed from being a promising new voice on the tenor saxophone to one of the great jazz improvisers. From then until his temporary withdrawal from the jazz scene at the end of the decade he produced a series of fine recorded sessions, including a classic album aptly titled `Saxophone Colossus'. This Village Vanguard recording from 1957 is valuable for capturing Rollins in good form in a live setting accompanied only by bass and drums. Of additional interest is that the drummer was another jazz colossus treading his own path to greatness: Elvin Jones.

As these were live sessions, it's not surprising if some of Sonny's playing here is sometimes more diffuse than in the more tightly constructed pieces on his studio albums from this period. Nevertheless there is a lot of inspired and energetic playing here. Tracks such as "Sonnymoon for Two", "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" and "A Night in Tunisia" are often singled out as highlights; but I haven't yet come across any appreciation of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" as the most remarkable performance. This track reminds me of two other Rollins classics: "There's No Business Like Show Business" (on the earlier album, `Worktime') and "Three Little Words" (`Sonny Rollins on Impulse' - 1965). Like them it shows Sonny paring down and reconstructing a well-known standard with characteristic resourcefulness and wit, playing with motifs from the tune and with time and phrasing, and managing to sound both supremely relaxed and intensely concentrated at a moderately fast tempo. Notice how at the beginning he exploits the lack of a piano accompaniment to create harmonic ambiguity: by playing with just a few notes from the tune he teasingly hides its identity for a few bars (it sounds at first as though he is going to launch into "Toot, Toot, Tootsie").

Here and there on these sessions, but particularly on "What Is This Thing Called Love?" you can also hear Elvin Jones beginning to cut loose from his influences and to anticipate the kind of percussion playing he was to develop in the next few years, reaching a peak in his work with John Coltrane in the 1960s. For example, on this track he already shows that ability both to maintain the basic pulse and to appear to subvert it with the use of complex polyrhythms. This begins to happen during Sonny's solo and becomes increasingly adventurous in Elvin's. There is a particularly telling moment at the end of Elvin's long solo, when, after the original tempo seems to have been lost in a succession of polyrhythms, Rollins comes back in, immediately picking up the original tempo as if both players had rehearsed it down to the fraction of a beat. If it weren't for that moment when Sonny re-establishes control, one could suppose that on this track Elvin is the leader, taking the music where he wants it to go (it is he who has the first as well as the last word!). So for different reasons I think this track is the `classic' of the album and one which gives an intriguing anticipation of things to come - not only of Elvin's later work with Coltrane and others but also of the increasingly abstract style which Sonny was to develop in the next decade.

To describe these performances as `dialogues' between Sonny and Elvin would be to unfairly slight the contribution of bassist Wilbur Ware who plays well throughout, reliably maintaining the trio's harmonic foundation, and produces some good melodic motifs in his solos on "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise". But it's fair to say that his more conventional playing helps to set in relief the occasional glimpses into the future we get from his partners.

Whether as an historical document or in its own terms as an exhilarating blowing session, this is a highly recommended album. The sound is mono only, but for a club date is good - clear, realistic and well balanced between the three instruments.

The only other collaboration between Sonny and Elvin that I know of is the mid-1960s album, `East Broadway Rundown'. You might not like the long `free jazz' title track, but the remaining two excellent trio tracks are available on a CD in the Priceless Jazz series, along with some other good Rollins performances from the period (Priceless Jazz GRP98762- see my Amazon review).

Average customer rating: An uplifting experience One of the best, and latest, of the Robeson recordings... Paul Robeson Live New version available in UK Question

Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall Manufacturer: Vanguard Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mussorgsky | Mussorgsky, Modest | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Robeson, Paul | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ballad for Americans Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital Ol' Man River: His 25 Greatest Spirituals Paul Robeson - Here I Stand ASIN: B000000EFU Release Date: 1990-05-24

Tracks:

1. Every Time I Feel The Spirit
2. Balm in Gilead
3. Volga Boat Song
4. Monologue From 'Othello'
5. O Thou Silent Night
6. Chinese Children's Song
7. My Curly Headed Baby
8. Old Man River
9. Going Home
10. Monologue From 'Boris Godunov'
11. The Orphan
12. Christ Lag In Todesbanden
13. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
14. Lullaby
15. O No John
16. Joe HIll
17. Jacob's Ladder
18. Chassidic Chant
19. Freedom
20. O Grieve You Now My Mother
21. This Is The Hammer
22. All Men Are Brothers

Customer Reviews:

An uplifting experience.......2006-12-05

If one takes into account the time at which this recording was made, and the surrounding events affecting his life, one can truly appreciate the significance of this album. Experiencing oppression not only from the U.S. but later the Canadian government to travel abroad, Robeson was impeded, but not prevented from singing in the name of peace, human rights, and the rights of the common worker. Victory was at hand when on May, 9 1958, the date of this recording, Paul Robeson announced that his passport battle had been won. This is the recording of a triumphant gentleman, a loving, ecstatic audience, and very importantly, a talented and very attuned pianist (Alan Booth). With this in mind one can more greatly appreciate how special this concert was. The magic of this recording trancends Robeson's impeccable singing. It is the concert as a whole that makes it so spectacular. Listen to 'Joe Hill', think of Robeson's battle, and hear why it is so powerful. Or listen to 'O No John', Alan Booth pounding the keys on the last notes, and the audience's response. Every person in Carnegie Hall was riveted. Well worth the price, and an uplifting experience.

One of the best, and latest, of the Robeson recordings..........2006-10-17

This concert came along in 1958, when Paul's passport was restored and he was allowed to travel and make a living again, after several years of being on the Communist blacklist. His joy at performing once more for his traditional audience comes through in every track. That same year, he did a concert at his brother's church in Harlem, and when Columbia Records issued that one, it had another winner. Not long after those shows, Paul went overseas for five years, suffering a health crisis that brought him back to America in 1963, broken down and unable to perform consistently. He spent his last decade or so of life on the sidelines, living quietly with his sister in Philadelphia. This concert, then, along with the one at Mother Zion Church, is one of the final triumphs of one of the most interesting American lives. We know now that Paul's stubborn support of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era was a tragic flaw in his character, but he had magnificent gifts of voice and of acting presence, and had he come to the attention of audiences in 1957 instead of 1927, he would likely have earned millions as a singer and actor, and his political and social radical activism would have been a much smaller impediment to his career. If you already own some Robeson recordings, add this one because it represents him at the beginning of what was then "old age." If you own none, this concluding album is actually a fine starting point, because his earlier work suffers a bit from the primitive recording technology of the '30's and '40's.

Paul Robeson Live.......2006-07-11

Of course his baritone is fabulous. His rendition of Joe Hill is unforgettable - this was a song he sang for the builders' labourers on the site of the Sydney Opera House in around 1969 -also Old Man River, which he made his own. He should have sung this in the film of the musical Showboat but he was passed over for an inferior voice by the producers because he was a member of the Communist Party. A pity. He also sings some gospel on this CD, I'm not mad about religious songs but if you like them then you'll love this.

New version available in UK.......2006-02-18

This version is now redundant as Vanguard has released a version in 2005 with the original album cover for the first time and with new sleeve notes. The sound is also better. I purchased it from amazon.co.uk.

Question.......2005-09-29

I would like to buy Paul Robeson CD with "Old Man River" and "Kevin Barry (Irish)"

Average customer rating: Unbelievable

Friday Night at the Village Vanguard Art Pepper Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard At the Village Vangaurd 4: More for Les Straight Life Intensity ASIN: B000000YWL Release Date: 1992-02-17

Tracks:

1. Las Cuevas De Mario
2. But Beautiful
3. Caravan
4. Labyrinth
5. A Night In Tunisia

Customer Reviews:

Unbelievable.......2000-09-02

How do you begin to describe a CD like this?.. It is almost beyond words - its that good. I was so moved by this album that I was compelled to write my first review. This is a phenomenal album! The songs are incredible, the atmosphere is amazing, and the re-master is exquisite. The guys at Fantasy did a fantastic job. This is one of the best Jazz albums I own. I can't say enough about it. Thanks for recommending it Amazon!

Average customer rating: One of the best CD's we've EVER bought FABULOUS!

Gottschalk, Vol.2: A Night in the Tropics; Grand Tarantelle Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Mazurkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gottschalk | Gottschalk, Louis Moreau | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Caprices | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000023DB Release Date: 1993-05-11

Tracks:

1. One Piano, Four Hands: La Jota Aragonese
2. One Piano, Four Hands: Souvenirs d'Andalousie
3. One Piano, Four Hands: La Gallina
4. One Piano, Four Hands: Orfa
5. One Piano, Four Hands: Marche De Nuit
6. One Piano, Four Hands: Printemps d'Amour
7. One Piano, Four Hands: Radieuse
8. One Piano, Four Hands: Rnds-moi
9. One Piano, Four Hands: Tremolo
10. One Piano, Four Hands: L'Etincelle
11. One Piano, Four Hands: Ses Yeux
12. Two Pianos: The Union
13. Two Pianos: Grande Tarentelle For Piano & Orchestra - A Night In The Tropics
14. Two Pianos: Andante
15. Two Pianos: Allegro Moderato

Customer Reviews:

One of the best CD's we've EVER bought.......2001-01-07

Talk about a mood lifter! Play this one at your next party.

FABULOUS!.......1999-10-18

An invigorating and joyful musical assortment

Average customer rating: Graet Pepper

Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard Art Pepper Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard Friday Night at the Village Vanguard At the Village Vangaurd 4: More for Les Straight Life The Trip ASIN: B000000YWM Release Date: 1992-02-17

Tracks:

1. You Go To My Head
2. The Trip
3. Cherokee
4. For Freddie

Customer Reviews:

Graet Pepper.......2006-03-17

All the Village Vanguard CDs are great later Pepper. His intensity is all the more evident in this live date. You won't be disappointed with this one.

Average customer rating:

A Night at the Village Vanguard Sonny Rollins Manufacturer: Blue Note ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B0002NAB54 Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Night in Tunisia
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Night in Tunisia [Evening Take]
4. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise [Alternate Take]
5. Four
6. Introduction
7. Woody 'N You
8. Introduction
9. Old Devil Moon

Tracks:

1. What Is This Thing Called Love?
2. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
3. Sonnymoon for Two
4. I Can't Get Started
5. I'll Remember April
6. Get Happy
7. Striver's Row
8. All the Things You Are
9. Get Happy [Short Version]

Average customer rating: High Note in the Life of the Troubled Art Pepper A Must For All Fans of Art

Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard Art Pepper Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard Friday Night at the Village Vanguard At the Village Vangaurd 4: More for Les Straight Life The Trip ASIN: B000000YWK Release Date: 1992-02-17

Tracks:

1. Valse Triste
2. Goodbye
3. Blues For Les
4. My Friend John
5. Blues For Heard

Customer Reviews:

High Note in the Life of the Troubled Art Pepper.......2000-12-08

Art Pepper was a gifted but troubled saxophone player who struggled with a serious heroin addiction he apparently never fully beat. This recording is a live date after one of his longer stints in a California prison-- and certainly a high note in a troubled career.

A veteran of Kenton's big band, but a devotee of Coltrane, here he is struggling to redefine his sound. Coltrane's drummer Elvin Jones is on the date along with George Mraz. The back-up players provide a safety net for Pepper as he struggles with his personal demons. This music is soft and beautiful, but very emotionally exposed.

The recording quality is absolutely exceptional-- you can almost hear the smoke in the nightclub. While Pepper's playing may not be at his most crisp, he never communicated better. This would be my recommendation for anyone coming to Pepper for the first time. I believe it's an even better record than the much praised Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section-- a well-played, mainstream date with the rhythm section of the Miles Davis Quintet.

A Must For All Fans of Art.......2000-08-31

This CD is a must have for all fans of Art Pepper. He's just back from yet another sojourn in prison, and the emotion of being at the Vanguard comes through loud and clear. Valse Triste and Blues For Les showcase the trademark Pepper virtuosity and almost masochistic search for emotional depth. The man's playing is practically naked. What makes this, and the other Vanguard sessions, special is the more than usually competent accompaniement from George Mraz on bass, George Cables on piano and Elvin Jones on drums. This music will open your ears and your heart.

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A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 Sonny Rollins Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bebop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000005H4Z Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. What Is This Thing Called Love
2. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Take 2)
3. Sonnymoon For Two
4. I Can't Get Started
5. I'll Remember April
6. Get Happy
7. Strivers Row
8. All The Things You Are
9. Get Happy (Short Version)

Amazon.com

The second volume of these 1957 recordings continues the evening performance begun on A Night at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1 with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones. It's a uniquely gifted threesome, with each musician seeming to invent new ways to swing and without a note or a musical opportunity wasted. Both Rollins and Ware reveal their relationship to Thelonious Monk in the ability to create complex, arresting music out of shifts in rhythmic inflections. It's especially apparent in the second version of "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise." In this context, Jones has an opportunity to show just how melodic a drummer he could be. The two versions of "Get Happy" demonstrate Rollins's ability to make complex and witty music out of the most banal materials, while "What Is This Thing Called Love" is a tour de force of sustained group invention. --Stuart Broomer

Average customer rating: German Univeristy and Folk Songs German Univeristy and Folk Songs Wonderful singing, wonderful songs

German University Songs, Vol. 5 Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Germany | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Erich Kunz Sings German University Songs German University Songs, Vol. 4 German University Songs, Vol. 3 German Beer Drinking & Merrymaking Songs: Featuring Music From The Octoberfest In Munich ASIN: B00004Y6PV Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

1. When I Was A Young Bachelor
2. The Linen Weaver
3. I Dreamed Last Night
4. At The Inn With The Green Garland
5. A Tailor Went Strolling
6. Three Lillies
7. Good Luck, The Foreman Is Here
8. The Pinzgauers Went On A Pilgrimage
9. The Jolly Blacksmith's Boys
10. Down In The Lowland
11. The Moon Is Stealthily Rising
12. Prince Eugene
13. Now I Mow The Grass Near Neckar
14. There Were Two Royal Children
15. There Is A Reaper
16. Now The Time Has Come

Customer Reviews:

German Univeristy and Folk Songs.......2003-04-22

Excellent rendition of German university and folk songs by
Erich Kunz,one of the outstanding performers of the Vienna Opera. Unlike newer recordings of these songs (which practically all tend to be done in a kitchish "oompah-oompah" style), these versions are are done in the manner in which the songs were meant to be performed. Kunz is backed up by a singers from the Vienna Opera and performs under the direction of Anton Paulik ... so the music is solid, the direction is crisp and the arrangement of the music adds to the depth and distinctness of each song.

Most traditional German music today is split into either classical or the beer garden variety. This series demonstrates what the music was like before that split occured. The songs here range from 15th Century to the middle of the 20th and come from the various regions of both Germany and Austria. Notes on German music throughout this period and the composers and songs are well written and provide an good insight into what went into the making of these pieces. The CD's also come with complete lyrics to all the songs in both German and English.

German Univeristy and Folk Songs.......2003-04-21

Excellent rendition of German university and folk songs by
Erich Kunz,one of the outstanding performers of the Vienna Opera. Unlike newer recordings of these songs (which practically all tend to be done in a kitchish "oompah-oompah" style), these versions are are done in the manner in which the songs were meant to be performed. Kunz is backed up by a singers from the Vienna Opera and performs under the direction of Anton Paulik ... so the music is solid, the direction is crisp and the arrangement of the music adds to the depth and distinctness of each song.

Most traditional German music today is split into either classical or the beer garden variety. This series demonstrates what the music was like before that split occured. The songs here range from 15th Century to the middle of the 20th and come from the various regions of both Germany and Austria. Notes on German music throughout this period and the composers and songs are well written and provide an good insight into what went into the making of these pieces. The CD's also come with complete lyrics to all the songs in both German and English.

Wonderful singing, wonderful songs.......2003-01-08

So you can *pretend* you understand Tscherman.

The lyrics, in English and in German, are included. Erich Kunz manages to make each song its own little world, and what wonderful songs. I love all 5 records in this set - I'm sorry the first 2 are hard to find (one of those is my other fave of this series).

The solo pieces alternate with pieces with a choir, and as on the other 4 records, you can tell all involved felt a tremendous affection for these songs - singers, orchestra, conductor, everyone. The set is a wonderful way to learn the folksongs that are part of the heritage of the German language. "Ich hab' die Nacht getraumet" is a wonderful night-shadowed Victorian mood piece, like a (if you can picture this) sweet Edward Gorey drawing. "The Pinschgauers go on a pilgrimage" (by choir) is a humorous skit - you picture these stalwart, happy pilgrims, so full of faith and so inept, going on a pilgrimate to see their beloved saint and assoted things screw up as they go along. And who can ignore the story of the tailor who goes to Hell and drives everyone there so crazy they send him away (choir and Kunz together)? "There is a reaper whose name is death" (choir) is an oddly comforting but also sad song, and like others in the various collections taken from the wonderful classic, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (a collection of German folksongs collected by a poet in the 19th c.). The solemn, rousing "Prinz Eugen" (choir) is worth the whole album -then turn around and listen to Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Lowe's Lieder with the same title, telling the story of the making of this song! "The Two King's Children" is based on Greek mythology; Kunz becomes a medieval troubadour when he sings that. He is a cheerful Schwob when he sings the delightful "Drunten in Unterland" (in a bit of a Swabian accent, probably not a challenge in Austria, where so many Danube Swabians settled in the 1840s). The bold last song, in a knight's voice, the linen-weaver's song - I could go on and on, it's a gallery of stories and characters.

I love Erich Kunz, and these 5 records are why. I hope they stay in print forever. Enjoy.

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Mahler: Ruckert Lieder; Lieder aus der Jugendzeit; Des Knaben Wunderhorn Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Mahler | Mahler, Gustav | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001Z497O Release Date: 2004-06-29

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