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  2006
OUR READERS' PICKS: JAZZ CDs

Jazz CD - Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Visitors' Top Jazz CD Pick for 2006:

Title: Giant Steps
4
Artist: John Coltrane
Label: Rhino

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Ballad Essentials2 Scott Hamilton
Ballads2 Stanley Turrentine
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson2 Ben Webster
Live at Yoshi's 14 Jessica Williams
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Live at Yoshi's 14 Mulgrew Miller
Live at Yoshi's 24 Mulgrew Miller
No Funny Hats2 Buddy Rich
Alegria2 Wayne Shorter
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Nothing Serious2 Roy Hargrove
Gene Harris Trio Plus One2 Gene Harris
Calvinesque2 Calvin Keys
Mingus Ah Um6 Charles Mingus

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Focus - Stan Getz

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Miles Davis:

Complete Concert 1964
3

Birth of the Cool
3

Kind of Blue2

Circle in the Round

Milestones

Porgy and Bess

Stan Getz:

Focus
3

Bossas & Ballads
3

People Time (Getz / Barron)
3

Stan Getz/Oscar Peterson Trio4

Getz/Gilberto
2

Cool Velvet +..

Kenny Barron:

Perfect Set
3

Live at Bradley's
2

Canta Brasil
2

Images
4

People Time (Getz / Barron)
3

John Coltrane:

At Carnegie Hall (Monk / Coltrane)
3

A Love Supreme
2

Ultimate Blue Train
3

My Favorite Things
3

Giant Steps
3

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The Fats Navarro Story [BOX SET]
3 Fats Navarro
The Hot Fives & Sevens [JSP] [BOX SET]
2 Louis Armstrong
The Lester Young Story [Proper] [BOX SET]2 Lester Young
The Stan Kenton Story [BOX SET]
2 Stan Kenton
Tempus Fugue-It [BOX SET]
2 Bud Powell

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jazz holiday gifts Christmas Jazz CDs:
A Charlie Brown Christmas
2 Vince Guaraldi
Christmas Party: Holiday Piano Spiked with Swing
2 Dave McKenna
A Dave Brubeck Christmas
2 Dave Brubeck
Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas
2 Kenny Burrell
Jazz Yule Love, Vol. 2 Various Artists (11/06)
Jingle Bell Jam: Jazz Christmas Classics
2 Various Artists
An Oscar Peterson Christmas
2 Oscar Peterson
Verve Presents: Very Best of Christmas Jazz
2 Various Artists

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117 Ditmas Avenue
2 Kasper Villaume

A Love Supreme
2 John Coltrane
A Love Supreme2 Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra
A Musical Romance
2 Billie Holiday / Lester Young
A New Abode
2 Sila Cevikce
A Night in Tunisia2 Art Blakey
A Night Out With Verve
2 Various Artists
A Second Look
2 Vic Juris
A Swingin' Affair
2 Dexter Gordon
After the Rain2 Elvin Jones / John McLaughlin / Joey DeFrancesco
Alegria
2 Wayne Shorter
All Soul
2 Houston Person
An Anthology of Big Band Swing (1930-1955) Various Artists (12/06)
Another Kind of Blue: Latin Side of Miles Davis Miles Davis (10/06)
Aqua Moncef Genoud (5/06)
Aquarela Do Brasil Elis Regina / Toots Thielemans (2/06)
Art Pepper Meets Rhythm Section
2 Art Pepper
Art of the Invisible
2 Adam Rogers
At Carnegie Hall3 Thelonius Monk / John Coltrane
At Newport Dizzy Gillespie (10/06)
Azure-Te3 Karrin Allyson

Back in the Swing of Things
3 The Clayton Brothers
Ballad Essentials2 Scott Hamilton
Ballads
2 Stanley Turrentine
Basie Cally Sammy Sammy Nestico (11/06)
Be Bop Volume 1 Dizzy Gillespie / Dexter Gordon / Various (3/06)
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson2 Webster / Peterson
The Best of the Song Books Ella Fitzgerald (10/06)
Best of Toots Thielemans Toots Thielemans

The Best Things Happen Jeff Hamilton (5/06)
Big Bang Theory Billy Bang (2/06)
Big City Dave Stryker (1/06)
Birth of the Cool3 Miles Davis
Black and Blue Gene Harris (10/06)
Blackbird
2 Shelly Berg
Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie (6/06)
Blue Bop LDB3 and Friends (8/06)
Blue Horizon Vic Juris (1/06)
Blues in the Night Ann Hampton Callaway (9/06)
Bossas & Ballads: The Lost Sessions
5 Stan Getz
Burnin' Live at the Jazz Standard Pete Zimmer (10/06)

Cafe Montmartre Stan Getz (5/06)
Call It a Good Deal David Bixler (8/06)
Calvinesque
2 Calvin Keys
Canta Brasil
2 Kenny Barron
Canvas
2 Robert Glasper
Center Songs Tom Beckham (10/06)
Centerpiece
2 Giacomo Gates
Charlie Parker: A Studio Chronicle 1940-1948 Charlie Parker (10/06)
Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac.. Chris Connor

The Classics Jon Mayer (2/06)
Cobb's Groove
2 Jimmy Cobb
Coltrane's Sound John Coltrane (5/06)
Come Together Lynne Arriale (5/06)
Complete Concert '64: My Funny Valentine + Four & More2 Miles Davis
Complete Vee-Jay Recordings, Vol. 1 Bill Henderson (10/06)
ConClave
2 Brian Lynch
Consummation2 Thad Jones / Mel Lewis
Critical Mass Dave Holland (9/06)

Danzon (Dance On) Arturo Sandoval (5/06)
Diamonds for Nat Scott Whitfield
Directions in Music2 Herbie Hancock / Michael Brecker / Roy Hargrove
The Dream
3 Ryan Kisor

Easy Living
3 Paul Desmond
Ella & Basie Ella Fitzgerald / Count Basie (3/06)
The Essential Miles Davis Miles Davis (10/06)
Europe '77 Buddy Rich (12/06)
Evolution Kitty Margolis (3/06)
Extended Play / Live at Birdland
2 Dave Holland

Falling Up
3 Geoffrey Keezer
Fly Rite Giacomo Gates (10/06)
Focus
2 Stan Getz
Footprints Karrin Allyson (5/06)
Footprints Live
2 Wayne Shorter
For Duke / Honor Thy Fatha Bill Berry / Earl Hines (2/06)
Forma Nueva
2 Manuel Valera
The Fox Harold Land (6/06)

Friday Night Special Janis Siegel (3/06)
From Paris to Rio
3 Karrin Allyson

Gait Keeper
4 Rufus Reid
Garden of Eden
3 Paul Motian
Gemini Sean Jones

The Gene Harris Trio Plus One2 Gene Harris
Getz/Gilberto
2 Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto / Antonio Carlos Jobim
Giant Steps
7 John Coltrane
Goes Blue Ximo Tebar (2/06)
Goodbye Mr. Evans Kirk Lightsey (11/06)
Great Ladies of Jazz
3 Various Artists
The Green Field3 Steve Khan
Green Light2 Alex Heitlinger
Griot Liberte
2 Buster Williams

Hands Kasper Villaume (5/06)
Heart & Soul: Live in San Francisco Kitty Margolis
Heavy Juice2 Scott Hamilton / Harry Allen
Heroes Roger Kellaway (10/06)
Hit & Run
2 Randy Johnston
Homage to Art Blakey
4 Ray Barretto

I'll Catch the Sun Sonny Criss (4/06)
Images4 Kenny Barron
In Amsterdam Fred Hersch (5/06)
In Blue
3 Karrin Allyson
In My Time
3 Gerald Wilson
Incubation Tony Purrone (8/06)
Intimacy of the Bass Rufus Reid / Michael Moore (5/06)

Jazz Cello Ray Brown (12/06)
Jazz in Paris Oscar Peterson / Stephane Grappelli (3/06)
Jazz Moods: Cool Stanley Turrentine (2/06)

Kamau Charles Sullivan (3/06)
Ken Burns' Jazz: The Story of American Music
2 Various Artists
Keystone Bop: Sunday Night Freddie Hubbard (10/06)
Kind of Blue2 Miles Davis

Land of Giants
2 McCoy Tyner
Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
2 Chris Potter
The Lineup All For One (9/06)
Live & Learn
2 Bobby Watson
Live at Bradley's
2 Kenny Barron
Live at Charlie O's Scott Whitfield (10/06)
Live at MCG The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (2/06)

Live at the Kennedy Center Mulgrew Miller (9/06)
Live at Yoshi's 1
4 Mulgrew Miller
Live at Yoshi's 2
4 Mulgrew Miller
Live at Yoshi's 1
4 Jessica Williams
Live at Yoshi's 2 Jessica Williams (10/06)
Live From Los Angeles Oliver Nelson's Big Band (5/06)
Live in Paris
4 Diana Krall

Marsalis Music Honors Michael Carvin
Michael Carvin (5/06)
May the Music Never End2 Shirley Horn
McGriff Avenue
2 Jimmy McGriff
Melancolia
2 Manuel Valera
Metheny / Mehldau Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau (9/06)
MF Horn: Ballad Style Maynard Ferguson (10/06)
Mingus Ah Um
6 Charles Mingus
Monk in Tokyo Thelonious Monk
Moscow Night Dave Brubeck (6/06)
Move2 Bireli Lagrene
The Music
2 Clayton Brothers
My Favorite Things
3 John Coltrane

Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley
2 Wilson / Adderley
New 8th Day
2 Carolyn Leonhart
New Sound of Maynard Ferguson Maynard Ferguson (10/06)
New Vistas Jim Rotondi

New York Blue Valerie Joyce (11/06)
No Funny Hats
2 Buddy Rich
Nothing Serious
2 Roy Hargrove

Old School New Lessons
Bob Mintzer (4/06)
Opening Night..February 7, 19662 Thad Jones / Mel Lewis
Organic Vibes Joey DeFrancesco (4/06)

The P.C. Blues
Paul Chambers
Parker's Mood3 Stefano di Battista
People Time3 Stan Getz / Kenny Barron
The Perfect Set2 Kenny Barron
Phantoms3 Virginia Mayhew
Play Frank Kimbrough (10/06)
Portrait of Pee Wee Pee Wee Russell (2/06)
The Power of 3! Sheryl Bailey (10/06)
Power Source
3 Ryan Kisor
Property of Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band-XXL
3 Gordon Goodwin
Pure Cool Various Artists (7/06)

Quartet Billy Hart (12/06)

Radiant Blue Anton Schwartz (9/06)
Real Deal3 Gary Smulyan
Rediscovered Masters, Vol. 1 Red Garland (10/06)
Remember: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery Pat Martino (8/06)
Resonance
3 Taylor Eigsti
Reverence Jim Rotondi

Reverie Valerie Joyce (11/06)
Rockin' with Rachmaninoff
3 Horace Silver
Romare Bearden Revealed
3 Branford Marsalis
'Round Midnight Kenny Burrell (10/06)

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown Vaughan / Brown (10/06)
Saxophone Colossus
3 Sonny Rollins
Scenes in the City Branford Marsalis
See What Happens2 Shilts
Sentimental Journey
3 Houston Person
Shades of Jade3 Marc Johnson
Signature Roni Ben-Hur (2/06)
Smokin' Out Loud
4 Mike LeDonne
Snowbound / Lonely Hours Sarah Vaughan (12/06)
Some of My Best Friends are Guitarists
5 Ray Brown
Somethin' Else
3 Cannonball Adderley
Somethin's Burnin'2 Peter Bernstein
Something Cool
4 Tierney Sutton
Something Personal Jack Wilson (12/06)
Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) Sonny Criss (4/06)
Soulful Saxophone of Stanley Turrentine Stanley Turrentine (2/06)
Soulville Ben Webster (10/06)
Speak No Evil (Original Recording Remastered)
4 Wayne Shorter
Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson Trio4 Stan Getz / Oscar Peterson

Tears of Joy Don Ellis (2/06)
Teranga Jon Faddis (8/06)
Terra Firma
4 Ken Walker
Tests of Time
2 Ralph Peterson
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane3 Monk / Coltrane
Things to Come
2 Dizzy Gillespie Band
This is Criss Sonny Criss (4/06)
This Time It's Love Kurt Elling (5/06)
Time Out
2 Dave Brubeck / Paul Desmond
Time Was - Time Is Ray Barretto (4/06)
Tribute to Count Basie Gene Harris (10/06)
The Trio Oscar Peterson / Niels Pedersen / Joe Pass (3/06)
Trio '65 Bill Evans (10/06)
True North Pat Coil (2/06)

The Ultimate Blue Train3 John Coltrane
Underground Gilbert Castellanos (8/06)
Unearth
2 Jonathan Kreisberg
Up for It: Live in Juan-Les-Pins2 Keith Jarrett

Vertical Clearance Calvin Keys (10/06)
Viva Diego Urcola (8/06)

The Water is Wide
2 Charles Lloyd
What Now? Kenny Wheeler (8/06)
Whatever Bubbles Up2 Bob Florence
Whereas Roy Haynes (12/06)
The Whole Bunch
2 Martijn Van Iterson
Wide Horizons2 One For All
Wildcrafted2 Geoffrey Keezer
The Will to Swing Oscar Peterson (3/06)
Winchester Special Lem Winchester / Benny Golson (10/06)
With All My Heart
2 Harvey Mason
The Word is Out4 Jaco Pastorius Big Band
Word of Mouth Revisited2 Jaco Pastorius Big Band

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