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Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza

by Heads Up (CD) (Release Date: 2008-05-20)
Esperanza

Buika

Nina de Fuego

by Wea International (CD) (Release Date: 2008-08-19)
Buika unveils herself on the cover and bears all on her third album,Niña de Fuego. Buika does away with the costumes that usuallydecorate album covers, stripping away all but her feelings.When she moved to Madrid and recorded her first album, she showedthe never-ending ...
Nina de Fuego

Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto

by Polygram Records (CD) (Release Date: 1997-05-20)
Originally released in March 1964, this collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist João Gilberto came at seemingly the end of the bossa nova craze Getz himself had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba, his release with American guitarist Charlie Byrd. Jazz Samba ...
Getz/Gilberto

Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrar, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo, ...

Buena Vista Social Club

by Nonesuch (CD) (Release Date: 1997-09-16)
Ry Cooder's name has helped bring attention to this session, but it's the veteran Cuban son musicians who make this album really special. Reminiscent of Ellington in its scope and sense of hushed romanticism, Buena Vista Social Club is that rare meld of quietude and ...
Buena Vista Social Club

Various Artists

Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 2000-11-14)
This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's ...
Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music

Bebo Valdes & Javier Colina

Live At The Village Vanguard

by Sony International (CD) (Release Date: 2008-09-30)
Bebo Valdés is the last remaining giant from the Golden Age of Cuban music. In 1952 he recorded for American producer Norman Granz the first Cuban Jazz jam session in Havana. His big band, Sabor de Cuba, was one of the island's finest. Additionally, he was pianist for the ...
Live At The Village Vanguard

Vince Guaraldi

Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits

by Fantasy (CD) (Release Date: 1989-07-11)
He's best known, and deservedly so, for the jazzy music he wrote for Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" characters, but San Francisco-based Vince Guaraldi was also a highly regarded trio and ensemble pianist whose laid-back grooves are still a treat to hear. Greatest Hits ...
Vince Guaraldi - Greatest Hits

Danilo Perez

Across The Crystal Sea - Conducted and Arranged by Claus Ogerman

by Decca U.S. (CD) (Release Date: 2008-08-26)
Across the Crystal Sea is the latest chapter in Pérez's extraordinary career as a pianist and bandleader who delivers a distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz that covers the music of the Americas, folkloric and world music. He's not only impressed critics (for example, The ...
Across The Crystal Sea - Conducted and Arranged by Claus Ogerman

Eliane Elias

Bossa Nova Stories

by Blue Note Records (CD) (Release Date: 2009-01-13)
Now based in New York, Eliane Elias was born in Sao Paolo and grew up as a child prodigy on the piano during the 60's when Bossa Nova was conquering the world. Following the critically acclaimed Blue Note album "Eliane Sings and Plays Bill Evans" and 2 sold out shows at ...
Bossa Nova Stories

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Greatest Hits

by A&M (CD) (Release Date: 1990-10-25)
A bridge between bossa nova and 1960s pop, Sergio Mendes' music was easy listening, vaguely psychedelic pop, light jazz, and bossa nova all rolled into one. Mendes and Brasil '66 (which featured Mendes on keyboards and a revolving cast of two female vocalists, bass, guitar, ...
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Greatest Hits