McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (1967) [1999 Blue Note RVG Remaster]
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© 1999 Blue Note | 9133 | Jazz / Modern Jazz / Post Bop

Two and a half years after his last recording as a leader for Impulse, pianist McCoy Tyner emerged to start a period on Blue Note that would result in seven albums. Having left John Coltrane's Quartet in late 1965, Tyner was entering a period of struggle, although artistically his playing grew quite a bit in the late '60s. For this release, the pianist is teamed with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Elvin Jones for five of his originals. Highlights of the easily recommended album include "Passion Dance," "Four by Five," and "Blues on the Corner."

Wynton Marsalis Quartet - The Magic Hour (2004) [Blue Note]
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© 2004 Blue Note | 91717 | Jazz / Modern Jazz

For his debut on this label, Wynton Marsalis gets back to basics with a small combo. Taking a break from his large-ensemble works like Blood on the Fields and All Rise, the trumpeter leads a quartet consisting of bassist Carlos Henriquez, pianist Eric Lewis, and drummer Ali Jackson. Labelmates Bobby McFerrin (who recorded with the trumpeter on the early ’80s LP, The Young Lions) and Dianne Reeves join Marsalis on “Baby, I Love You” and “Feeling of Jazz.” “Big Fat Hen” is peppered by a New Orleans-meets-Brazil second-line samba, while “Skippin’” is a Monkish riff tune with stop time. The title track, dedicated to the time when kids go to sleep, includes a melodic nod to “The Flight of the Bumblebee,” a mid-tempo groove, a ballad and the Cuban clave. With the sterling production by younger brother Delfeayo, Wynton Marsalis starts off on a good foot.

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Metamorphosen (2009)
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© 2009 Universal / Marsalis Music | 0874946001106
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz

Since the 1980s, one of America's greatest jazz saxophonists (tenor and soprano both) has been Branford Marsalis. His synthesis of pre- and post-John Coltrane eras of saxophone as well his musically inclusive attitude–enjoying everything from opera to Led Zeppelin–has proven to be both creative AND popular. Marsalis is also a bandleader–the quartet on 2009's METAMORPHOSEN has been together since the late `90s. This set features varied, pointed, and engaging originals by all the musicians (including some bravura ballads by pianist Joey Calderazzo) as well as a special added attraction: the complex "Jabberwocky" features Marsalis on his rarely heard alto saxophone.

Psalms and troparia from the service of saints Athanasios and Ioasaph, founders of the Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron, sung by the Choir of chanters ‘The Maistores of the Psaltic Art’. Mostly by composers of the 18th and 19th c., among them Konstantinos Ptrotopsaltis (d. 1862), Petro Peloponnesios (d. 1778), Petros Byzantios (d. 1778) and Parthenion Meteoritis (end of the 18th c.).

Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico (Triptych). It received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918...