FRANK SINATRA Ultimate Sinatra
BILLIE HOLIDAY Lady in Satin
Ol’ Blue Eyes’ centennial year is
cause for celebration, and Ultimate
Sinatra does the job with aplomb.
Assembling 24 classic performances
from the singer’s Columbia, Capitol,
and Reprise catalogs in one place
for the first time, the compilation is
true to its name. Every song here is
a favorite.
Lady Day’s penultimate album came
after her sweet tone transformed into
a rasp, leaving her to rely on nuance,
tension, phrasing, and feeling that
give goosebumps to anyone with a
beating heart. Ray Ellis’ orchestral
arrangements send standards such as
“You’ve Changed” over the top. This is
Billie at her finest.
180g 2LP
LP
$29.99 LDS38029
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ELLA FITZGERALD Sings the Rodgers
and Hart Song Book
1956 & 1958
“The Lady Is A Tramp,” “Little Girl
Blue,” and dozens of other Rodgers
and Hart works have been interpreted
thousands of times. Nobody delivers
them more authoritatively than
Ella Fitzgerald. Her phrasings,
modulations, and intonations have
never sounded more personal than on
this Speakers Corner pressing.
Sourced from the original three-track
tapes, Complete Newport 1956 &
1958 releases for the first time Louis
Armstrong’s full sets at these historic
concerts. Satchmo’s trailblazing
blends of pop and jazz with his All
Stars explode from the grooves, while
Mosaic’s box set contains scholarly
liner notes and insightful photos.
180g import 2LP
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$64.99 LSPC6009-2
180g LP
SACD
Coltrane Jazz
Ole Coltrane
Bags & Trane
A Love Supreme
180g 45RPM 2LP
180g 45RPM mono 2LP
180g 45RPM 2LP
180g import LP
$49.99 LORG1090-45
$39.99 LORG1086-45
$39.99 LORG1084-45
LP
The Complete Sun Ship Sessions
Settin’ the Pace
Dakar
Stardust
Ballads
180g 3LP box set
LP
LP
LP
LP
$89.99 LMOS3005
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180g 4LP box set
Criss-Cross
$32.99 LIMP6014
$29.99 CORGSA0148
$99.99 LMOS3007
Solo Monk
180g LP
180g LP
$29.99 LORG2020
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With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Straight, No Chaser
Underground
200g mono LP
180g 2LP
180g LP
$29.99 LMOS231
$54.99 LIMP60200
$29.99 LORG2007
GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA
HERBIE HANCOCK Flood
Originally only released in Japan,
where it was recorded, Herbie
Hancock’s live 1975 double album
with the Headhunters gets the royal
treatment on this thrilling Speakers
Corner pressing. Brimming with
harmonic depth and electrifying funk,
Flood is a snapshot of one of the
finest jazz-fusion bands assembled.
$64.99 LSPC4992
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DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET
Speakers Corner strikes gold with
the live LP considered by many
experts the finest Dave Brubeck ever
released on album—and that’s saying
something. The crack ensemble
includes saxophonist Paul Desmond.
Even better, the record includes the
entire February 1963 show; not a note
or comment is deleted.
$64.99 LSPC826
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208 JAZZ
Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was scheduled to record
with the Gil Evans Orchestra but
died before the sessions occurred.
Performed by a 19-piece ensemble,
this 1975 homage, shot through
with jazz improv and rock-leaning
arrangements, makes good on the
original idea. Speakers Corner’s
reissue abounds with spaciousness.
180g 45RPM 2LP
$13.99 LGRP155
$39.99 LORG1080-45
SACD $24.99 CORGSA1080
$15.99 LGRP156
PAT METHENY 80/81
“Solo concerts are about the most
revealing psychological self-analysis
imaginable,” says Keith Jarrett,
who knows as well as anyone.
This document of his January 1975
performance is the best-selling j