Hello again from ejazzlines!
Welcome to summer! The heat has returned full force to upstate NY, which means that summer vacation season is upon us. Time to snag some new music to listen to or a book to help brush up on those guitar and sax skills while whiling the hours away at the beach.
Our June CD section features a fresh batch of re-issues from Toshiba - a few never previously released on CD. In 1961, while still a patient at Synanon Drug Center in California, Joe Pass, along with some fellow patients, recorded his first session
Sounds of Synanon. His playing is fantastic - virtuosic playing and great ideas. 2 years later, Pass went into the studio for Pacific Jazz armed with arrangements from Clare Fischer and recorded
Catch Me with Fischer on piano and organ. Bud Shank recorded many fine and celebrated dates. Until now, most of his output for Pacific Jazz in the late 1950s and early '60s has not been previously issued.
Recently released is a great set of 5 dates spanning these years: Bud Shank Quartet featuring Claude Williamson on piano;
I'll Take Romance (Bud on alto and flute along with the sultry strings of Len Mercer);
Jazz at Cal-Tech with Bob Cooper on tenor and oboe, and Claude Williamson on piano;
Bud Shank Plays Tenor recorded in 1956, again with Claude Williamson; and
The Swing's to TV which features Bob Cooper and Bud playing well-known TV themes. We also just got in two
Chet Baker CDs that were only previouly released as LP sleeves: Pretty / Groovy and Jazz at Ann Arbor.
Before we conclude the discussion on new jazz CDs, we suggest you visit our Imports and Rarities section - we have thousands of import titles in stock - AND, we just put almost all of our Toshiba 24-bit (and some 20-bit) stock on sale.
June's books are an outstanding group. Hal Leonard has finally given us the long-awaited Chick Corea and
Gerry Mulligan play-alongs, along with a brand
new Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary from the folks at Berklee.
Alfred has just released their Artist Edition of the Just Gershwin Real Book as well as the newest
in their Easy Piano Series Simply (Cole) Porter.
Advance's How to Play Guitar in a Big Band is the latest in that series of excellent books.
Our friends at Mel Bay have just published Shapes, Patterns, and Lines for Jazz Guitar and Jazz Piano Voicing Concepts.
Lastly, we have just discovered a very interesting sounding book from Barry Kernfeld, The Story of Fake Books.
June's DVDs feature quite a few brand new instructional DVDs,
many focused on guitar, as well as one on Conga Drumming,
and two Spanish language saxophone DVDs (TU PUEDES TOCAR EL SAXOFON YA!)
to add to our outstanding collection of Latin Jazz-related offerings. There are also new performance DVDs featuring bassists
Kristin Korb and
Rufus Reid,
Blues legend Muddy Waters,
guitar great Alex De Grassi,
and a compilation of some of the most Legendary Crooners of all time.
As for big band charts, the great releases keep coming. There is a new series of Helen O'Connell vocal arrangements, the first group featuring classics:
Brazil; Time Was, and
When the Sun Comes Out. We're also pleased to announce 2 more additions to the Sinatra
list: Fly Me to the Moon and The Tender Trap,
both taken from the 'Frank Sinatra at the Sands with the Count Basie Orchestra' recording.
In our tireless international effort to present all that is new and interesting, as of this newsletter we have added
129 new CDs for the month of June 2007 and
76 for the month of May 2007;
26 new DVDs for June 2007
and 59 for May 2007;
60 new music books for June 2007
and 72 for May 2007;
12 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of June 2007
and 87 for the month of May 2007.
If you haven't visited our our Imports and Rarities section lately, please check it out. We are now stocking more and more obscure, rare, and hard-to-find
titles from Japan and Europe, including many titles that you may not be able to find elsewhere.
In our DVD section, we now carry nearly 1,400 jazz DVDs!
As always, please keep in mind that many of our new releases are available in limited quantities. We do our best to predict demand and fill orders as quickly as possible, but we do run out of new releases. Even if we run out of stock, everything featured in this newsletter should be available to ship within 3 weeks.
We thank you all again very sincerely for your continued support, and we hope everyone has a wonderful summer!
Rob and Doug at ejazzlines
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