Spring 2007

Spring Newsletter

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Hello again from ejazzlines!

Well, it is over 80 degrees in upstate New York, so we have officially declared that it is spring! While many of you have been very generous in helping out with our Toshiba CD liquidation, we still have quite a few rare and wonderful titles available. Please be advised that we have most of these in very limited quantities which will not be re-stocked. Serious collectors take note: we will have another offering in mid-May of a couple hundred titles, many of which we will have only 1 copy! We are also proud to offer a brand new Big Band play-along from Hal Leonard, available in eight different editions.

May's DVDs feature a wonderful documentary on the greatest of jazz singers, Ella Fitzgerald, and a vintage performance from the legendary Weather Report live at Montreux in 1976. The well-respected, veteran drummer/educator Danny Gottlieb has 2 brand-new DVDs called The Complete All-Around Drummer, available separately or as a 2-DVD set. We are also still featuring a great new DVD which has gotten a tremendous response: Trumpet Secrets Revealed, which is loaded with info and interviews and is a must for all trumpet players.

We are now offering Mosaic sets to libraries and institutional customers in the U.S. and abroad! For those of you not already familiar with the label, since its founding in 1983, Mosaic Records has established a worldwide reputation among knowledgeable jazz fans as the best reissue label in the business. Mosaic's limited edition boxed sets are collections of significant jazz recordings packaged in a way that shows great respect for the music, the musicians, and the music lover. Their releases are the standard by which all other reissues are judged. If you are currently set-up with us as a library or institutional customer, you will be able view and purchase sets from our website by visiting this page: MOSAIC RECORDS. We will be sending a more comprehensive announcement with complete details in the coming weeks.

We have quite a few new books as always, including new releases from Hal Leonard focusing on Latin Styles for Guitar and Chords for Bass, a new Andy LaVerne book for pianists from Jamey Aebersold called Quick Chords, and a brand new Larry Coryell autobiography, Improvising - My Life in Music.

In our eternal effort to present all that is new and interesting, as of this newsletter we have added 58 new CDs for the month of May 2007 and 170 for the month of April 2007; 20 new DVDs for May 2007 and 45 for April 2007; 29 new music books for May 2007 and 92 for April 2007; 51 new big band and combo arrangements for the month of April 2007 and 35 for the month of March 2007.

If you haven't visited our our Imports and Rarities section lately, you really owe it to yourself to 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 look forward with all of you to the end of school and the beginning of festival season!

Rob and Doug at ejazzlines

FEATURED NEW DVDs:
ELLA FITZGERALD: LEGENDARY 1ST LADY OF SONG Ella Fitzgerald is profiled in a documentary built around an exclusive interview conducted with the late singer at her home in 1985. Host Nancy Wilson leads viewers down the corridors of the past in a revealing program profiling twenty-two of the songs that sent Fitzgerald soaring to stardom, and revealed intimate details about her personal life. Additional interviews with such fans and contemporaries as Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, George Wein, and Anita O'Day make this remarkable retrospective a fascinating chronicle that every Ella Fitzgerald fan will want to have in their collection.	WEATHER REPORT LIVE AT MONTREUX This Montreux Festival show from 1976 follows on from the release of their album "Black Market" but features the line-up that would release their most famous and successful album "Heavy Weather" in 1977. This line-up features Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (saxophones), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuna (drums) and Manolo Badrena (percussion).
DANNY GOTTLIEB: COMPLETE ALL AROUND DRUMMER In this 2-DVD set, Danny Gottlieb covers everything from rudiments to rock and jazz grooves, including powerful pad exercises and in-depth advice to help aspiring drummers develop the speed and consistency needed to excel, both live and in the studio. He also covers styles and methods of his major influences, including Buddy Rich, Mel Lewis, Gary Chester, John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira and Gil Evans. Bassist Mark Egan and drummer Joe Morello join Danny for some sizzling duets and a discussion of how they create blues and jazz grooves together.	MUSIC OF THELONIOUS MONK FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR This guitar instructional DVD features 4 Thelonious Monk classics arranged for fingerstyle guitar by Duck Baker. Tunes: 'Round Midnight; Blue Monk; Light Blue; and Lulu's Back In Town.
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FEATURED NEW CDs:
TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI: FOUR SEASONS OF MORITA VILLAGE Recorded in 1996, this newly remastered 24-bit CD features the great Akiyoshi-Tabackin Jazz Orchestra on 7 brilliant compositions.	SONNY STITT: MY MOTHER'S EYES This new CD contains the Stitt tenor saxophone album My Mother's Eyes, previously not released on CD. This edition also includes 4 trio sessions from 1966.
JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC, HAMBURG, GERMANY 1956 In superb Hi-Fi digitally remastered sound, this recently discovered and previously unreleased Jazz At The Philharmonic show from 1956 features Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Flip Phillips, Illinois Jacquet, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Gene Krupa, and vocal legend Ella Fitzgerald. This 2-CD box set includes a 16-page booklet and a reproduction of the original German program that was handed out during JATP's 1956 European tour.	AVISHAI COHEN: AS IN...LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE This live date, recorded at the Blue Note, features Avishai Cohen, one of the world's eminent bassists and composers. Cohen's group includes Sam Barsh (piano/keyboards) and Mark Guiliana (drums) with special guests Jimmy Greene (saxophones) and Diego Urcola (trumpet). Also includes a DVD of the performance.
JIM HALL: JAZZPAR QUARTET Recorded in 1998 by Storyville, this new release by the Japanese M&I label features guitar-master Jim Hall along with Chris Potter, Terry Clarke, and Thomas Ovesen.	HUGH LAWSON: PRIME TIME Also recorded for Storyville, this 1977 Hugh Lawson date has been remastered and released by M&I. Featured are Bob Cranshaw and Ben Riley on 11 tunes including Mingus' tune 'Duke Ellington's Sound of Love' and Clifford Jordan's 'Highest Mountain.'
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FEATURED NEW BOOKS:
BIG BAND PLAY-ALONG, VOL. 1: SWING FAVORITES With the 10 fantastic big band charts in this book and CD pack, instrumentalists can play along with their favorite swing tunes! Includes 8 editions.	EASING INTO JAZZ Easing into Jazz has been created to guide the intermediate to advanced piano student in the fundamentals of improvisation. By utilizing well-known chord progressions of popular standards, ones that are particular favorites of jazz professionals, and creating new tunes and improvisations for those progressions, this book is of significant value to the student musician for gaining insight into how an improvisation is constructed.
LATIN STYLES FOR GUITAR A dozen intermediate to advanced originals in standard notation and tablature display various Latin-American styles. For each, the enclosed CD features the lead part as well as an accompaniment-only rhythm track for play along.	CHORDS FOR BASS Explore new sounds on the bass that you may never have considered! Learning to play chords will enhance your ability to hear chord progressions and qualities, improve your composition and arranging skills, and strengthen your soloing chops and overall musicianship. Covers: double stops, major & minor triads, diminished and augmented triads, seventh chords, chordal song arrangements, different styles, a chord glossary and more. The accompanying CD features 76 demo tracks of all the exercises in the book.
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