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From the opening brass-and-conga invocation of A La Carte’s rousing version of the Lee Morgan classic “Sidewinder” to the closing drum-roll of Thurman Green’s “Struttin’ With Some Barbeque”, Best Of Mapleshade Vol. 3 gives exactly what the title promises: fifty-seven minutes of infectious jazz grooves.
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Out-of-print for almost a decade, I was reminded during a recent listening session why I had to get QuietLand re-pressed. Mark’s super-soulful solos during our Ebony Brass date prompted this, our first jazz French horn session.
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A piano giant of the New York jazz scene for 40 years, John Hicks could break your heart with a ballad, sweep you off your feet with an anthem, or boot you into boogeyin’ with one of his cookers. And he had the rare gift of inspiring his sidemen to play beyond themselves. "One of Hicks' finest recordings," say Mike Joyce from JazzTimes.
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| JazzTimes says “an astonishing palette of sound from the unorthodox instrumentation...inventive and full of panache, with a dash of the experimental avant garde.” Led by a huge-sounding bass sax with a constantly changing mix of other gorgeously recorded reeds...
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The original 1974 LP was tenor sax giant Clifford Jordan's most legendary session. “...one of those very special dates on which every player strutted high fire and high polish, so much so that the record achieved classic status upon release,” recalls jazz critic Stanley Crouch.
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 A haven for music since 1986, Mapleshade is a mansion recording studio and label in the Maryland woods. Our more than 100 CDs encompass jazz, blues, classical, world music, country-bluegrass, gospel, rock and more. We've developed audio upgrade products, first devised for our studio, that transform the sound of your home system--for a fraction of what it costs. Our innovative products make music sound strikingly better than you've ever heard. More Info
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“Limpidly and absolutely beautiful, this is a wonderful recording that seems tailor-made for late-night listening...” according to Cadence. The iconic master of the piano ballad,Chris Anderson, takes six standards everyone knows and re-creates them as stunningly original and profoundly moving compositions—a must for anyone who loves the piano, whether classical or jazz.
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We put together 13 of our best sound, best music tracks to make a sampler that's real fun to listen to—everything from blues and R&B to gospel and jazz. There's a single thread that connects all these artists—they’re passionate about music.
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