Best Jazz Organ Albums - April 2024

The Best of Jazz Organs

The Best of Jazz Organs by Various Artists

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• UPC: 046178900629
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• Manufacturer: LRC Ltd.

The Best of Brass & Organ

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• Manufacturer: Summit Records

7 Classic Albums

EU-only four CD set containing seven original albums from the Jazz vocalist: Great Scott, Scottie, Scottie Plays the Duke, Soul Searching, Mucho Mucho, Like Cozy, and Shirley's Sounds.

• ASIN: B00DU11F8M
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• Manufacturer: Real Gone Jazz

Jazz Organ Summit

• ASIN: B000006CBZ
• UPC: 636422710229
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• Manufacturer: Cannonball Records

Day Breaks

• ASIN: B01JD2403I
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• Manufacturer: Blue Note (BLU)

Skronky Tonk

This CD has been a dream of Charlie Baty for quite a while now and it's finally here. Most of you know him as leader of 'Little Charlie and the Nightcats' for over 25 yrs. There is no mistaking Charlie's creative blues guitar playing as he is truly tops in this field. Charlie always played some jazz tunes with the Nightcats, which has led him where he is today. This record finds him in one of his favorite settings, ina organ jazz trio. His former Nightcat band mates, Lorenzo Farrell on Hammond organ and J. Hansen on drums and percussion join him on this swinging CD. This record Showcases jazz,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01D67HCF4
• UPC: 700261439075
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• Brand: Little Charlie & Organ Grinder Swing
• Manufacturer: Ellersoul

Winwood Greatest Hits Live

• ASIN: B0721LX68W
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• Manufacturer: Wincraft Records

Complete Albums Collection: 1959-1963

LOU DONALDSON - 1959-63: COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTION (WITH BOOKLET) - 4 CD SET

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• UPC: 823564676821
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• Brand: Enlightenment
• Manufacturer: Enlightenment

Complete 1957-1959 Sessions

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• Brand: Imports
• Manufacturer: Phono

Exodus of Venus

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• Manufacturer: Agent Love Music

Celestial Blues: Cosmic Political & Spiritual Jazz

2015 was the year jazz hit the mainstream again. The catalyst for this was saxophonist Kamasi Washington's 3CD masterpiece "The Epic", influenced by the symphonic, spiritually aware jazz of the early 70s. "Celestial Blues" is a compilation that shines a spotlight on some of the music that may have influenced "The Epic".The ten tracks range from the evidently spiritual - such as Gary Bartz's classic 'Celestial Blues' or Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane's astounding collaboration on 'Fire', to less obvious but just as relevant recordings by drummers Roy Brooks and Joe Chambers.

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• UPC: 029667530026
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• Brand: Ace (Label)
• Manufacturer: Bgp

Jazz and Blues Organ Performances On the Hammond B-3

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• Manufacturer: Anthem/Real Jazz Records

The Complete Recorded Works 1938-40, Vol. 5

In this fifth volume of our Fats Waller edition, Fats takes rare trips overseas. Fats' audiences were falling in the US. Europe was an obvious refuge. Fats' asking price was an unprecedented $2500 a week. The British accepted the figure without hesitation. Fats' first appearance was in Glasgow - a tough town. To up the ante, Fats wore a kilt for his first show. They'd either love him or hate him. It was love. An audience of 2100 called him back for ten curtain calls. A week later, he did the same at the London Palladium. After the Palladium date, Fats recorded at HMV's Abbey Road. Jazz-inspire... [Read More]

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• UPC: 788065904920
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• Brand: JSP
• Manufacturer: Jsp Records

Urban Renewal

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• Manufacturer: Warner Records

5 Original Albums [5 CD]

The master of the Hammond B-3, Jimmy Smith’s early albums for Blue Note, which set the standard for jazz and rock organists.

• ASIN: B079229SL9
• UPC: 600753769690
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• Brand: Blue Note
• Manufacturer: Blue Note

Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); Gary Bartz (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Christian McBride (bass instrument); Lewis Nash (drums).Recording information: Avatar, New York, New York (11/18/2003 - 11/19/2003).ILLUMINATIONS finds McCoy Tyner, some 40 years after his best-known work (as a member of John Coltrane's legendary early-1960s quartet), still kicking. Tyner's energies as a session leader, composer, and ever-progressive musician haven't flagged since the mid-'60's, when the pianist started heading his own dates. On this 2004 album, as per usual, Tyner has surrounded himself with some of the finest personnel in jazz, including bassist Christian McBride, sax player Gary Bartz, and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.Tyner's music is appealing for its balance of familiar hard-bop vocabulary and intricately wrought structures--it is rhythmic and accessible, yet intellectually engaging. Tyner plays with great vigor, mixing virtuoso classical flourishes with bold chords and dazzlingly complex solos. His compositions here touch on avant-bebop ("The Chase"), Latin groove ("Angelina"), and smooth swing (the title track--on which all the musicians get a chance to stretch out). Blanchard's playing is especially notable, substantiating the melody lines in the chorus and blazing on the solos (as on "New Orleans Stomp," driven by a classic second-line beat). The high quality of music here--in conception and execution--should come as no surprise to long-time fans of Tyner or his sidemen.

Mccoy Tyner - Illuminations (SACD NEW)Label: TelarcFormat: SACDRelease Date: 22 Jun 2004No. of Discs: 1UPC: 089408359965Details1. Illuminations2. Angelina3. New Orleans Stomp4. Come Rain Or Come Shine5. Soulstice6. Blessings7. If I Should Lose You8. The Chase9.

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Bowery Electric: Martha Schwendener (vocals, various instruments); Lawrence Chandler (various instruments, programming, samples, scratches).Recorded at Electric Sound, Brooklyn, New York.When Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener first spiked Bowery Electric's gorgeous wash of dream-pop guitars and voices with looped hip-hop beats, the New York-based duo was a few steps ahead of the game. The music world eventually caught up, trip-hop happened, and the combination proffered by 1996's landmark BEAT quickly became commonplace. LUSHLIFE, Bowery Electric's belated follow-up, strikes back with stronger songs and sharper production, bucking the trip-hop trend.LUSHLIFE's after-dark cityscape incorporates the best atmospheric elements of hip-hop, dub, downtempo, and soundtrack design. Profound basslines burrow beneath velvety string swatches ("Deep Blue," "Lushlife") and organ shimmers, guitars glittering everywhere like motes of stardust. Chandler's programming and production match the sparse, spooky eloquence of the RZA's Wu-Tang work, particularly on "Psalms of Survival," "Saved," and the album finale "Passages." Schwendener's vocals drift dreamily, surveying an unbroken neon skyline of samples, scratches, and breakbeats. The sweet pop snarl of "Freedom Fighter" makes for an ideal single, though the song seems slightly at odds with the album's finely tuned melancholic mood.

LUSHLIFE *

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Soft Machine: Elton Dean (alto saxophone, electric piano); Mike Ratledge (electric piano, organ); Hugh Hopper (bass guitar); John Marshall (drums).Recording information: Paris, France (05/02/1972).Those whose interest in British jazz-rock legend Soft Machine ceases at the point where drummer/singer Robert Wyatt left the band in 1971 stand to have their preconceptions shattered by this two-disc live recording of the band's subsequent phase. One of numerous revelatory live Soft Machine recordings released posthumously by Cuneiform Records, LIVE IN PARIS catches the group in transition. With John Marshall (former bandmate of UK free-jazzer Keith Tippett) replacing Wyatt, Soft Machine moved definitively away from rock trappings toward a jazzier, more cerebral approach that further accentuated the improvisatory abilities of keyboardist Mike Ratledge and saxman Elton Dean.They prove themselves fully able to tackle the bulk of their landmark Wyatt-era album THIRD here. However, tracks that would appear shortly after this May '72 concert on FIFTH show the band flexing new muscles. Dean's post-Coltrane solos and Ratledge's trademark fuzz-organ lines bob and weave through tunes that show the quartet to be no slouches in the compositional department (of course Dean, Ratledge and bassist Hugh Hopper had already contributed mightily to the band's songbook before Wyatt left). Three of these tracks would never make it to the studio, as this mighty lineup would splinter before FIFTH was even released, making LIVE IN PARIS all the more special.

Soft Machine - Live in Paris [CD] 04577501952

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Personnel: John McCutcheon (acoustic & electric guitars, fiddle, banjo, hammer dulcimer, percussion); Pete Kennedy (acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, mandolin); Bob Read (clarinet, saxophone); John D'Earth (trumpet); Michael Aharon (piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, tubatronic, timpatronic); Bobby King (bass); Robert "Jos" Jospe (drums, percussion, tambourine); Kevin Davis (percussion, timbales, triangle); Jon Carroll, JT Brown, Maura Kennedy, Robin Williams, Linda Williams (background vocals).Recorded at Bias Studios, Springfield, Virginia.All songs written by John McCutcheon and Si Kahn.WINTERSONGS is part of John McCutcheon's Four Seasons series.WINTERSONGS was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Musical Album For Children.

FOUR SEASONS: WINTERSONGS

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The Charlatans U.K.: Tim Burgess (vocals); Mark Collins (guitar); Rob Collins (Clavinet, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer, piano, background vocals); Martin Blunt (bass); Jon Brookes (drums).Additional personnel: Dave Charles (percussion); Steve Hillage (programming).Producers: The Charlatans U.K., Dave Charles, Steve Hillage.The Charlatans' star rose quickly and then stalled; they never really fit comfortably into the same mold that gave us the Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, or The Smiths. Dogged by misfortune, self inflicted and otherwise, they ultimately just didn't possess the cachet of a late '80s 'Manchester band.' However, their eponymously titled fourth album brought them to a hitherto unachieved level of prominence--almost, but not quite, turning them into international stars. The Charlatans are at their most Stones-like here, evoking Primal Scream and other rockier British dance-influenced acts. Highlights include the great "Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over," "Just Lookin'," and "Toothache." Full of great hooks and lyrically persuasive, this album is recommended to anyone with an interest in the best of '90s British pop.

England s Charlatans U.K. have grown considerKly since they surfaced in 1990 as part of the Manchester dance scene. The band members have become solid songwriters and soulful, bluesy musicians who hint at what the

• UPC: 3462664

Personnel: Chico O'Farrill (conductor, arranger); Jimmy Cozier, Marshall McDonald, Bobby Porcelli (alto saxophone); Mike Migliore, Peter Brainin (tenor saxophone); Pablo Calogero (baritone saxophone); Jim Seeley, Matt Hilgenburg, Roger Ingram, Kenny Rampton, Peter Olstad, David "Piro" Rodriguez (trumpet); Gary Valente, Sam Burtis, Papo Vazquez, Jack Jeffers (trombone); Arturo O'Farrill (piano); Andy Gonzalez, Joe Santiago (bass); Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Willie Martinez (drums); Eddie Bobe (bongos, percussion); Joe Gonzalez (congas).Producers: Jorge Ulla, Todd Barkan, Arturo O'Farrill.Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York in December 1998 and in June & July 1999. Includes liner notes by Oscar Hijuelos, Enrique Fernandez and Nat ChediakHEART OF A LEGEND was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.

THE HEART OF A LEGEND

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Personnel includes: Erin McKeown (vocals, various instruments); Dave Chalfant(electric guitar, upright & electric basses, percussion, samples); Katryna Nields, Beth Amsel (background vocals).Recorded at Sackamusic Studios, Amhearst, Massachusetts between October 1999 & January 2000.Virginia-born and New England-based, Erin McKeown's musical roots seem to lie somewhere in the deep South. Throughout her aptly named debut, DISTILLATION, you can hear echoes of Robert Johnson, G. Love, the Faulknerian landscape of the first couple albums by the Band, and most obviously, the rural mythos best explored, from entirely different angles, by those Louisiana-born Williams non-sisters, Victoria and Lucinda.While nowhere near as helium-pitched, McKeown shares Victoria's fondness for odd, jazz-inflected phrasing, especially on the swooping vocal melody of the Tin Pan Alleyish "Didn't They?," on which McKeown soars and dives like a drunken seagull, or the Billie Holidayesque trills in "The Little Cowboy." What McKeown has in common with Lucinda Williams is her wry but essentially romantic, tradition-rooted but not bound lyrical stance. The countryish "La Petite Mort," with its sly sex-and-religion twining, would not have sounded out of place on CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD.

DISTILLATION [ERIN MCKEOWN] [CD] [1

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Personnel includes: Lowell Fulson (vocals, guitar); The Memphis Horns (horns); Ron Levy (organ).All songs written by Lowell Fulson.THEM UPDATE BLUES was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

THEM UPDATE BLUES

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The Best Blue Note Album In The World...Ever! (2CD)

The Best Blue Note Album In The World...Ever!

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Personnel: Common Sense (vocals); Tony Orbach (saxophone); Lenny Underwood (keyboards); Kenny Aaronson (bass); Twilite Tone, Tarsha Jones (background vocals); Immenslope, Rayshel.Producers: Immenslope, The Beat Nuts, Twilite Tone.The first album by Chicago MC Common, CAN I BORROW A DOLLAR?, is widely accepted in hip-hop's underground as a classic. Raw cuts like "Blows to the Temple" demonstrate why, and give listeners a glimpse at a legend in the making.With CAN I BORROW A DOLLAR?, a younger, more careless Common was simply out to demonstrate his talents to a nation obsessed with New York and L.A. rap. The lo-fi beat structure of the album is reminiscent of the music of the early '90s, when heavy jazz and funk influences dominated East Coast hip-hop. Though the disc is layered with gritty beats and samples that now seem familiar, they seem vibrant when put into context with other material of the same era. The Beatnuts offer one of their early productions on "Heidi Hoe," a track that may shock listeners who are used to Common's more reflective, socially aware lyrics of today. While certainly not his best work, die-hard fans won't be disappointed.

Common - Can I Borrow A Dollar (CD NEW)Label: RelativityFormat: CD MODRelease Date: 06 Oct 1992No. of Discs: 1UPC: 088561108427Album Tracks1. A Penny For My Thoughts2. Charms Alarm3. Take It EZ4. Heidi Hoe5. Breaker 1/96.

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Kickin the 3 The Best of Organ Trio Jazz CD 1997

• UPC: 164048665044
• Category: CDs
• Price: 13 USD

Richard Holmes IN THE GROOVE 30 Jazz Organ Classics BEST OF COLLECTION New 3 CD

• UPC: 371982928556
• Category: CDs
• Price: 8 USD

Organ Moods VARIOUS ARTISTS Best Of 40 Electronic Organ Songs ESSENTIAL New 2 CD

• UPC: 371814280778
• Category: CDs
• Price: 6 USD

JIMMY SMITH - Jazz Special Selection 18 CD (JAPAN EJS 4018) The Best of/Organ 97

• UPC: 383199421354
• Category: CDs
• Price: 6 GBP

Organ Music Best of the Year, Harms Album, Mills Popular Favorites, and one more

• UPC: 273778342143
• Category: Vintage & Antique
• Price: 20 USD