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• Ben Webster - King of Tenor - UPDATED ! - Audiophile album !!
  
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• Russ Freeman - Holiday
  
• Dave Koz and Friends - A Smooth Jazz Christmas 2001
  
• Chet Baker - Silent Nights: A Christmas Jazz Album
  
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• Ray Brown & Laurindo Almeida - Moonlight Serenade - Audiophile album !!
  
• Earl Klugh with Bob James - Cool 1992
  
• Jazz in Paris - Vol.66 - Raymond Fol - Les 4 Saisons (The 4 Seasons - Vivaldi)
  
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What does a bass player do when he's recording an album as a leader? Surely not an hour's worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player's dilemma with a series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are... heading. This 1998 release is the third in the series, following the earlier ...Piano Players and ...Saxophonists albums, and it's a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists, ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from beginning to end. The rising jazz vocal superstar of the late '90s, Diana Krall, is showcased to great effect on "I Thought About You" and "Little Boy." Well-established female vocal veterans Etta Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Marlena Shaw deliver superb performances, soulfully giving master lessons in the art of singing. The lone male singer spotlighted here, Kevin Mahogany, wraps his smooth baritone around the ballad, "Skylark," and swings gently on "The Party's Over."

The one unknown in this collection is Oregonian Nancy King. This veteran of the San Francisco and Pacific Northwest scenes shows she has a fine way with a ballad on "But Beautiful," and scats her way across the upbeat Brown original, "The Perfect Blues," that closes this set. Both of these songs also feature Antonio Hart's alto saxophone. In addition to Brown's trio mates Geoff Keezer and Gregory Hutchinson, musical support includes guitarist Russell Malone on two tracks and tenor saxman Ralph Moore cooking alongside Ms. Bridgewater on "Cherokee." ~ Jim Newsom, All Music Guide

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"With the Friends series, Brown perpetuates a lifelong dialogue with the life-blood of jazz that began when he was a teenage aspirant practicing to Jimmy Blanton records, and progressed to a string of remarkable real-time encounters with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Roy Eldridge and Duke Ellington." —Ted Pankin, Down Beat

Bassist Ray Brown, one of jazz’s most brilliant musicians, has seen it all in his 75 years. His new album, Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists, unites him with some of today’s most prominent jazz axemen. The new album pairs Brown with the likes of John Pizzarelli, Herb Ellis, Russell Malone, Kenny Burrell, Bruce Forman and Ulf Wakenius. Augmenting the encounters is the solid underpinning of the Ray Brown Trio’s seasoned rhythm section—pianist Geoff Keezer and drummer Karriem Riggins.

On his fourteenth recording for Telarc, Brown and friends present a mix of standards and a few originals, including Ray’s own "Blues for Junior," featuring Herb Ellis. West Coast guitarist Bruce Forman adds his composition, "Blues For Wes," written for jazz legend Wes Montgomery. Telarc recording artist John Pizzarelli is featured on a couple of selections, including the opening track, "Squeeze Me," the Fats Waller classic. "Soulful Spirit," penned by Kenny Burrell, is a heartfelt tribute to the late drummer Billy Higgins.

This latest installment in Brown’s Some of My Best Friends Are... series follows 2000’s acclaimed Some of My Best Friends Are...Trumpet Players (CD-83495), which included guests Terence Blanchard, John Faddis, Nicholas Payton and Roy Hargrove, among others. Brown launched the series in 1995 with Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (CD-83373), which featured Keezer, Benny Green, Oscar Peterson and fellow Pittsburgher Ahmad Jamal. He followed with the 1996 release of Some of My Best Friends Are...The Sax Players (CD-83388), featuring Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman and Stanley Turrentine. Two years later, he issued Some of My Best Friends are...Singers (CD-83441), which showcased Kevin Mahogany, Diana Krall and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1926, Ray Brown has led a distinguished six-decade career that has afforded him a reputation as the world’s leading jazz bassist in the bop style and one of the most recorded musicians in history. The world first met Brown through trumpet giant Dizzy Gillespie, who began featuring him and his compositions in combo and then big band settings in 1946. Through his subsequent tenure with Jazz at the Philharmonic and producer Norman Granz, Brown also performed with Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Louis Armstrong and Clark Terry.

Ray Brown’s circle of friends embraces a wide spectrum of players and styles, and he continues to bring clarity, soul and a solid musical sense to the jazz tradition with each new installment of his ongoing Friends series. On Some of My Best Friends Are...Guitarists, Brown clearly shows why he remains one of the jazz world’s most popular artists.

Track List:
1 I Thought About You 5:18
2 Poor Butterfly 3:24
3 More Than You Know 5:30
4 Little Boy 2:25
5 But Beautiful 5:37
6 At Long Last Love 3:19
7 Skylark 5:57
8 Cherokee 6:15
9 There Is No Greater Love 4:16
10 Imagination 7:17
11 The Party's Over 3:36
12 The Perfect Blues 5:16


Antonio Hart (Sax (Alto)), Etta Jones (Vocals), Geoff Keezer (Piano), Ralph Moore (Sax (Tenor)), Marlena Shaw (Vocals), Nancy King (Vocals), Russell Malone (Guitar), Dee Dee Bridgewater (Vocals), Ray Brown (Bass), Ray Brown (Arranger), Gregory Hutchinson (Drums), Diana King (Vocals), Kevin Mahogany (Vocals), Diana Krall (Vocals)