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Chuck Mangione - The Feeling’s Back (180g One S...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flu...

Released in 1999 by the noted audiophile label Chesky Records, The Feeling’s Back showed that flugelhorn maestro Chuck Mangione - renowned for his trademark fedora hat and warm melodic lyricism - was still a force to be reckoned with in the jazz world. The son of an Italian American greengrocer, Rochester-born Mangione played hardbop in a group with his piano-playing brother before going solo in the mid-1960s. In 1978, he joined a small list of chart-busting elite jazz instrumentalists when h...

$35.98

Ana Caram - Rio After Dark (SACD) Pre-order Sep...

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s...

Now considered a bossa nova classic, 1989’s Rio After Dark was São Paulo singer/guitarist Caram’s debut release for Chesky Records, a New York label renowned for its high-resolution audiophile recordings. Caram was mentored by the legendary bossa nova pioneer Antônio Carlos Jobim, who joined his protege on two of the album’s fifteen cuts, playing piano and singing background vocals on Caram’s versions of his classic songs ‘Meditation’ and ‘Anos Dourados (It Looks Like December).’ Another star...

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Christy Baron - I Thought About You (180g One S...

Pennsylvanian jazz singer Christy Baron’s 1997 album I Thought About You was the first of three a...

Pennsylvanian jazz singer Christy Baron’s 1997 album I Thought About You was the first of three albums she recorded for Chesky Records, the New York record label renowned for its high-quality audiophile recordings. Recorded live in the warmly resonant space of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, the album finds Baron's lush, velvety voice framed by Cliff Korman’s eloquent piano, David Finck’s elastic double bass, and Payton Crossley’s finely nuanced drums. Baron’s repertoire for this i...

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Fourplay - Elixir (180g One Step Pressing Trans...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist ...

Elixir was the third album from the Grammy-nominated smooth jazz supergroup comprised of pianist Bob James, guitarist Lee Ritenour, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Harvey Mason. The follow-up to the band’s gold-certified first two albums - 1991’s Fourplay and 1993’s Between The Sheets - 1995’s star-studded Elixir featured vocal cameos from Phil Collins (‘Why Can’t It Wait Till Morning’) together with Patti Austin and Peabo Bryson, who duetted on a fabulous remake of Roberta Flack and Donny H...

$68.98

Fred Hersch / The Fred Hersch Trio - Plays (180...

Described by Hersch as “a no-gimmicks album to showcase my working band,” 1994’s The Fred Hersch ...

Described by Hersch as “a no-gimmicks album to showcase my working band,” 1994’s The Fred Hersch Trio Plays was his third album for Chesky Records and the pianist’s follow-up to his Grammy-nominated 1992 album Dancing In The Dark. With simpatico support from double bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey, Hersch presented fresh interpretations of tunes by his favorite jazz composers, which included Miles Davis (‘Milestones’), Wayne Shorter (‘Iris’), Thelonious Monk (‘Think Of One’ and ‘Play...

$37.98