John Scofield - That's What I Say

Verve

Release date: June 2005




John Scofield tries yet an other route beyond the post-bop that he is so good at. Here he takes on the music of Ray Charles and produces some well delivered takes on the great soul singer's classics ("Busted", "I Can't Stop Loving You", Georgia On My Mind", "Hit The Road Jack"........). Guest vocalists include Dr. John, Warren Haynes, Mavis Staples, Aaron

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Wayne Shorter - Beyond The Sound Barrierl

Verve

Release date: June 2005




Recorded live at concerts in 2002 - 2004 and featuring the excellent Brain Blade (drums), John Patitucci (bass) and Danilo Perez (piano) in addition to Shorter (tenor sax). Includes a wealth of contrasting material and three new Shorter compositions: "As Far as the Eye Can See,” “Adventures Aboard the Golden Mean,” and the title track. Challenging tone poems

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hal

Blue Note

Release date: September 2005



Recently rediscovered jazz masterpiece! The music made by Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane in their residency at the "Five Spot" Club in New York in 1957 has always been talked about as one of the high points of jazz. Yet up until this release there had been only the three studio recorded tracks on the Riverside album "Thelonious Monk with John

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Marc Johnson - Shades of Jade

ECM Release date: October 2005 This is an intriguing development in Marc Johnson's music making. We are close here to the core line up of John Scofield's excellent 1990 offering "Meant to Be" (where John Scofield, Joe Lovano and Marc Johnson were joined by Bill Stewart on drums) except that here Joey Baron replaces Bill Stewart. There is also close synergy with the personnel and approach of

John Coltrane - One Down, One Up

Impulse!

Release date: October 2005

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The second significant John Coltrane release in as many months (see also Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane "At Carnegie Hall"), "One Down, One Up" presents previously unheard material recorded at the "Half Note" club in 1965. The occasion was a broadcast for radio in what was then the new fangled invention of stereo, the