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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - May 2012http://esbjazzradio.ning.com/

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Artist: Avishai Cohen
Album: Shalom Aleichem
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



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Artist: Jamiroquai
Album: (Don'T) Give Hate a Chance
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



Artist: Lucky Peterson
Album: Dvd
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



Artist: Stacey Kent
Album: Venus du Melo
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



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Artist: Paul Taylor
Album: Wodewose
Release Date: 01 Dec 2012



Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitzgerald-First Lady of Song
Release Date: 30 Sep 2012



Artist: Dexter Gordon
Album: Landslide
Release Date: 28 Aug 2012



Artist: Grant Green
Album: Nigeria
Release Date: 28 Aug 2012



Artist: Jaco Pastorius
Album: Word of Mouth Band 1983 Japan Tour
Release Date: 31 Jul 2012



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(Notable) CDs I Own:
Early Elvis (2CD) - Elvis Presley
Elvis' Christmas Album - Elvis Presley
Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden - Elvis Presley
Elvis The Journey - Elvis Presley
The Music of Elvis Presley The 1950s: The Box Set Series (3CD) - Elvis Presley
The Bride Stripped Bare - Bryan Ferry
In Your Mind - Bryan Ferry
Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2CD) - The Rolling Stones
The Very Best of Elton John (2CD) - Elton John
Bad - Michael Jackson
Ljubav i moda - ĐAVOLI
Hallo Lulu 22 - ĐAVOLI
Ostani uz mene - ĐAVOLI
Fušeri uzvraćaju udarac - Officer Down
Peace - Let 3
The Fab Sixties (vol. 7-12) - Various Artists (60's Hits Compilations)
L'Album di... Successi Anni '60 (2CD) - Various Artists (60's Italian Hits Compilation)
Lady in Satin - Billie Holiday
God Bless The Child: The Very Best of Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday
Tarja Turunen & Harus In Concert: Live At Sibelius Hall - Tarja
Brother Bear - Disney
Pocahontas - Disney

(Notable) Records I Own:
20 Greatest Hits Vol.1 - Elvis Presley
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This is a list of hard bop and hard boppish albums. Recently, i’ve been feeling for hard bop – especially albums i havent really listened to much. And, i’m hoping to learn something.

Many are prototypical hard bop. Some are marginally hard bop. And, some are more post-bop, whatever that means. Some are somewhat cool (as in cool jazz), others somewhat soul jazz. And, sometimes free jazz creeps in. In other words, they kinda make up the mainstream trends in jazz and are mostly hard boplike. But, you should always let the music speak for itself – this is just for fun. (Theres not really any fusion here.)

Many of the albums are classic. Most are major works of art and craft. I dont know if i dig all the albums, but most are pretty good. If you check out about a quarter of these albums, you’ll get a real good idea of what hardbop is if it’s anything at all.

This is a long list because jazz is big. There are top 10 or top 100 lists, but this is a mother. …

Bill Evans: Piano Player (Blu-Spec CD)
Hiromi: Live In Concert (2008 DVD)
Miles Davis: Workin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (XRCD)
Miles Davis: Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (XRCD)
Nat King Cole: Love Is The Thing (Analogue Productions SACD)
Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero De Tres Picos / El Amor Brujo (SACD)
Leonard Bernstein: Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue; An American In Paris / Grofé - Grand Canyon Suite (SACD)
The Cure: Boys Don't Cry (WG - with "World War")
The Cure: Pornography (WG)
Robert Palmer: At The BBC
R.E.M.: Green (CD+DVD-A)
R.E.M.: Reckoning (MFSL)
Ray Charles: Genius Loves Company (SACD)
Ravel: Valley Of The Bells (SACD)
Bernard Herrmann: Film Fantasy (Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Day Earth Stood Still, Fahrenheit 451)
Taylor Swift & Def Leppard: Crossroads (DVD)
Al Stewart: The Early Years (2WLP)
Johnny Cash: I Walk The Line / Little Fauss And Big Halsy (Bear Family)
Ron Geesin: Land Of Mist
Procol Harum: Live (MFSL)
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Review: Joan Osborne
Bring It On Home (2012)
Saguaro Road Records

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When the track list for Joan Osborne's first album in four years appeared and the opening track was the blues/rock standard "I Don't Need No Doctor," I felt both excitement and trepidation. An Ashford & Simpson penned tune first done by Ray Charles and then taken to another whole level by Humble Pie and the legendary voice of Steve Marriott on their Rockin' the Fillmore LP in 1971, it's a classic worthy of playing at full volume. But similar recent attempts in going back to a blues and R&B sound in the last two years by Cyndi Lauper (Memphis) and Sheryl Crow (100 Miles from Memphis) fell flat. No need to worry. Osborne goes all the way back to her club singing roots and pulls off a triumph. Her voice smoothly stretches over these soul, R&B and blues cover tunes as her road band lays down a juke joint sound truly worthy of Memphis.
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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - March 2012

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Artist: Jamiroquai
Album: (Don'T) Give Hate a Chance
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



Artist: Stacey Kent
Album: Venus du Melo
Release Date: 31 Dec 2012



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Artist: Paul Taylor
Album: Wodewose
Release Date: 01 Dec 2012



Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitzgerald-First Lady of Song
Release Date: 30 Sep 2012



Artist: Mezzoforte
Album: Islands
Release Date: 08 Jun 2012



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Artist: The Manhattan Transfer
Album: Bodies & Souls
Release Date: 29 May 2012



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Artist: Melody Gardot
Album: The Absence
Release Date: 25 May 2012



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Artist: George Benson
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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - February 2012

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Artist: Lee Ritenour
Album: Masterpieces-Best of the Grp Years (Jazz Club)
Release Date: 06 Apr 2012



Artist: Incognito
Album: Surreal
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Toots Thielemans
Album: Yesterday & Today
Release Date: 26 Mar 2012



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Artist: B.B. King
Album: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2011
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



Artist: B.B. King
Album: B.B. King: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ben Webster
Album: In a Mellotone
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ken Navarro
Album: Test of Time
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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