 | Free Action by Wolfgang Dauner
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £9.18 With Jean-Luc Ponty on Violin, Eberhard Weber on Cello and Gerd Dudek on Tenor Sax & Clarinet Dauner had a supreme band here. Free Jazz at its best
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 | Laura by Laura MacDonald
Buy used from: £8.75 Top notch same group jazz, this should be regarded as a modern jazz classic
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 | Five Peace Band Live by Chick Corea
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £9.91 This is everything I hoped it would be and falls into none of the pitfalls it could have done. In A Silet Way is performed here brilliantly
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 | Quiet Nights by Diana Krall
Buy new: £8.98 I really should hate this but I love it.
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 | Jazz Samba Encore! by Stan Getz
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £8.38 Just as good as on the Charlie Byrd and Joao Gilberto albums. Two Note Samba is just a joy
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 | Songbooks by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: £3.48 Why arn't there people like Norman Gantz getting top jazz musicians to just record good tunes anymore. Peterson produced volumes of great stuff this way.
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 | Kwanzaa by Archie Shepp
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.73 Great stuff from an era when jazz was under real pressure from rock
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 | New Grass by Albert Ayler
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.49 This ain't Jazz!! Well yes and no but who care it's great!
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 | Ptah The El Daoud by Alice Coltrane
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.00 A jazz cross between Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney who went on to produce some stunning music. Don't worry about the mysticism just enjoy the music
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 | Autumn Leaves by Don Byas
Buy new: £7.79 Byas is brilliant with the great Stan Tracey in piano and Ronnie Scott's introduction is a treat
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 | Evolution by Grachan Moncur III
Buy used from: £7.94 With Lee Morgan, Tony Williams and Jackie McLean in the band this is seriously good Blue Note jazz
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 | Dimensions and Extensions by Sam Rivers
Buy used from: £5.98 The undervalued Sam Rivers
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 | Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana
Buy used from: £3.50 Supreme!
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 | Stan Getz At The Shrine by Stan Getz
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £6.41 There was a better David Stone Martin cover to one of the original albums but the music is great. Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone has such a great sound.
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 | Killer Joe by Joe Harriott
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.00 I love Free Form and Absract but this is earlier, more accessible jazz
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 | The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard by Freddie Hubbard
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £6.03 This Freddie was not freeloader
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 | Shades of Blue/Dusk Fire by Don Rendell
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £9.54 This demonstrates the nonsense of th idea that British jazz is in any way inferior to US jazz. This is a brilliant band
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 | If2 by If
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £8.50 Why this band is not more widely celebrated I can not understand
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 | Zzebra by Zzebra
Buy used from: £22.59 With family tree connections to If this is another great British jazz fusion outfit
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 | Metheny Mehldau by Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.49 I'm not sure why Metheny got a bit s**t when he moved to Geffen from ECM but here he is in great form in a perfect group setting
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 | Candy by Lee Morgan
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £5.98 A rediscovered treat
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![A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414vJaVqSlL._SL75_.jpg) | A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] by John Coltrane
Buy new: £16.38 / Used from: £10.38 The original album is from an undamaged master found at EMI london that restores damage done to the original master and restores Elvin Jones "lost" contribution
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 | Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.09 The essential companion to Kind of Blue
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 | Ascension by John Coltrane
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £6.11 This is dense and difficult music, after being made to do a secnd 40 minute take Elvin Jones threw his snare drum at the wall
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 | Emerald Tears by Dave Holland
Buy new: £12.69 A solo Bass album eh?
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