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Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution
by John Kelman
Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to evolve in bigger leaps and bounds, and polarize to greater extremes--from the far left-of-center free jazz to the accessible sound of soul jazz--and, increasingly, ...
read moreMasterworks Jazz Concludes The Celebration Of The 40th Anniversary Of CTI Records With The Release Of Four More Classic Reissues
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Elisa Peimer
FROM ESTHER PHILLIPS, HANK CRAWFORD, JOHNNY HAMMOND AND LONNIE SMITH All Available for the First Time on CD ON OCTOBER 4TH Also available, critically acclaimed CTI Records: The Cool Revolution deluxe 4-CD box set and California Concert: The Hollywood Palladium 2-CD set featuring previously unreleased tracks, and 24 reissues of classic CTI albums Masterworks Jazz concludes its celebration of the 40th Anniversary of CTI Records with reissues of four more classic CTI / Kudu albums available on October 4, 2011. ...
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Celebrating CTI Records 40th Anniversary - Part 4
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Masterworks Jazz continues the 40th anniversary celebration of the great CTI Records with another four newly re-mastered discs including George Benson's Body Talk, Hubert Laws's In the Beginning, Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life, and Stanley Turrentine's Don't Mess with Mister T. Originally produced by Creed Taylor and in most cases recorded by the legendary Rudy Van Gelder, the Masterworks Jazz series is supervised beautifully by Richard Seidel and masterfully re-engineered by Mark Wilder and Maria Triana. As before, the reissues are ...
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Celebrating CTI Records' 40th Anniversary - Part Three
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Masterworks Jazz continues the 40th anniversary celebration of the legendary CTI Records legacy that began last October with an additional four titles issued this week: George Benson's Beyond the Blue Horizon, Freddie Hubbard's First Light, Don Sebesky's all-star Giant Box and Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song. While each of the releases have had previous American CD issues, most have been out of print for a number of years and each are important—and significant—milestones in the CTI tradition. The celebration of CTI's ...
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CTI Records 40th Anniversary Celebration Continues
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Chris M. Slawecki
MASTERWORKS JAZZ continues the celebration of the 40th anniversary of CTI Records, the beloved jazz label founded in 1970 by producer Creed Taylor with the release of 4 more classic reissues available on April 12, 2011. They include: George Benson's Beyond the Blue Horizon, Freddie Hubbard's First Light, Don Sebesky's Giant Box and Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song. The reissues are packaged in eco-friendly softpack sleeves that replicate the original gatefold LP design and their iconic covers most with photos by ...
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Celebrating CTI Records' 40th Anniversary - Part Two
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
Sony's Masterworks Jazz imprint continues its 40th anniversary celebration of the legendary CTI Records legacy with an additional six titles, issued this week: Deodato's Prelude, George Benson's White Rabbit, Milt Jackson's Sunflower, Jim Hall's Concierto, Paul Desmond's Pure Desmond and Ron Carter's All Blues. Two of the discs are among CTI's most historic and essential releases (Prelude, Concierto), two are among the label's most pleasurable listens (White Rabbit, Sunflower) and one (All Blues) has never been issued on CD outside ...
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The Jazz Session #207: Don Sebesky (CTI Records)
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AAJ Staff
Grammy and Tony award winner Don Sebesky wrote and arranged music for many of the classic CTI recordings. You can hear his work on a new boxed set, CTI: The Cool Revolution (Sony Masterworks, 2010). In this interview, Sebesky talks about how CTI got started and how it developed its signature sound; his experience working with Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, Grover Washington, Jr. and many others; and why he still considers his time at CTI one of the ...
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