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Jazz is a musical form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
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Amnesiac
Amnesiac is the fifth studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released on 4 June 2001 in the United Kingdom, debuting at #1 on the UK charts and #2 on the Billboard Top 200. Amnesiac featured more audible guitar than its...
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- Jun 4, 2001
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- 2,637.333 s (43.95555 min )
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 album by the jazz musician Sun Ra. The back cover describes it as an "album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra".
The album is a notable example...
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- 1965
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Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and...
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- Aug 17, 1959
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- 2,710.493 s (45.17488 min )
Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is an album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released on Motown on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). It was the last of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period" along with Music of My Mind,...
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- Sep 28, 1976
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- 2,569.227 s (42.82045 min )
Texas Flood
Texas Flood is the debut album of American blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble, released June 13, 1983 on Epic Records. The album was recorded in only three days, at Jackson Browne's personal recording studio, in 1982 since...
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- Jun 13, 1983
David Murray
David Murray (born February 19, 1955, Oakland, California, United States) is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.
Murray...
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- 1984
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Ghost World
Ghost World is a 2001 film directed by Terry Zwigoff, based on the graphic novel of the same name and screenplay by Daniel Clowes. The story focuses on the life of two teenage friends, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who are...
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- Aug 14, 2001
Bitches Brew
Bitches Brew is a studio double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in April 1970 on Columbia Records. The album continued Davis' experimentation of electric instruments previously featured on his critically acclaimed In a Silent Way album....
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- Apr 1970
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- 2,822 s (47.03 min )
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 dramedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich, who plays a fictionalized version of himself. The plot brings to the...
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- 1999
Head Hunters
Head Hunters is the twelfth album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 on Columbia Records. The album is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz fusion. It was ranked as number 498 in the book version of Rolling...
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- Oct 13, 1973
Kamasutra
Kamasutra is an instrumental album by The NPG Orchestra released in 1998. The NPG Orchestra is a pseudonym of Prince.
It was included with the Crystal Ball 3-CD set, orderable from Prince's website. It was not included with the set available in...
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Spirit of Eden
Spirit of Eden is a 1988 album by the English band Talk Talk. It was written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, and performed by numerous musicians using a diverse combination of instruments. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece. One critic...
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- Sep 16, 1988
Closing Time
Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 on Asylum Records, produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester.
The album's producer Jerry Yester described the recording process for Closing Time thusly:
Tom's...
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- Mar 1973
Running Time:
- 2,754 s (45.9 min )
Small Change
Small Change is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1976 on Asylum Records. It was recorded in July 1976.
Small Change was recorded, direct to 2-track stereo tape, from July 15 to July 20, 1976 at the Wally Heider Recording Studio, in Hollywood, USA...
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- Oct 1976
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- 3,002.227 s (50.03712 min )
Heartattack and Vine
Heartattack and Vine was Tom Waits' last album on the Asylum label, released in September, 1980. This album serves as a slight precursor to Waits' later, more experimental style he developed on Island Records. His recognizable "growl" from...
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- Sep 1980
Running Time:
- 2,672.733 s (44.54555 min )
The Heart of Saturday Night
The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 339 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, his...
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- Oct 1974
Running Time:
- 2,496.027 s (41.60045 min )
Nighthawks at the Diner
Nighthawks at the Diner is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1975 on Asylum Records. The name is inspired by a 1942 painting by American Edward Hopper that is titled Nighthawks.
The album's working title had been "Nighthawk Postcards from Easy...
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- Oct 1975
Running Time:
- 4,436.867 s (73.94778 min )
Music for Zen Meditation
Music for Zen Meditation is a 1964 album by jazz clarinetist Tony Scott
The album is considered to be the first New Age record. Music for Zen Meditation is mostly improvised by Scott, Shinichi Yuize (koto) and Hōzan Yamamoto (shakuhachi).
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- 1964
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1977 on Elektra Entertainment. It was produced by Bones Howe, and features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers".
Bones Howe, the album's producer, remembers the...
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- Sep 1977
Running Time:
- 2,529.56 s (42.1593 min )
Franks Wild Years
Franks Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name....
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- Aug 17, 1987
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- 3,408.2 s (56.803 min )
Re
Re was Café Tacuba's second and perhaps most important contribution to Mexico's music scene. The album was called "the equivalent of the Beatles 'White Album' for the rock en español movement" by the New York Times. The name probably comes from the...
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- Jul 22, 1994
Soup
Soup is the second album by the American rock band Blind Melon, released shortly before vocalist Shannon Hoon's fatal drug overdose. Thematically, the album is much darker than the band's multi-platinum debut. "2 X 4" is about Hoon's experience at a...
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- Aug 15, 1995
Running Time:
- 2,903.067 s (48.38445 min )
Homecoming
Homecoming is an album by Gateway, a trio composed of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. It was recorded in 1994 and released on the ECM label in 1995 and is the trio's first album since Gateway 2 in 1978. The Allmusic review by...
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- 1995
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Idle Moments
Idle Moments is a 1963 jazz album by Grant Green. The album, released on Blue Note, features performances by Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibes, Blue Note in-house producer Duke Pearson on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Al...
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- 1963
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Mo' Better Blues
Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Denzel Washington) as a series of bad decisions...
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- Jul 31, 1990
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Shallow Grave
Shallow Grave is a 1994 British crime thriller film that marks the directorial debut of Danny Boyle with an original screenplay by John Hodge.
The film also provided starring roles for the then unknown actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and...
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- 1995
Robots
Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox (the same companies behind the film Ice Age), and was released theatrically (both in normal theaters and in IMAX theaters) on March 11, 2005 ...
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- 2005
Inspiration
Inspiration - Colors & Reflections is the sixth album by Azeri jazz artist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. The album was released in 2000 with the sales of over 800.000 copies worldwide.
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- 2000
Running Time:
- 4,697 s (78.28 min )
Jazz Café Suite
Jazz Café Suite is a live album by ProjeKct One, one of the four sub-groups known as ProjeKcts into which the band King Crimson 'fraKctalised' from 1997 to 1999. The album was released on Discipline Global Mobile records in 2003.
The album was...
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- 2003
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Portrait in Jazz
Portrait in Jazz (1959) is a record album by jazz musician Bill Evans.
Eight months after his successful collaboration with Miles Davis on the album Kind of Blue, pianist Evans recorded Portrait in Jazz with a new trio that changed the direction of...
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- 1959
Running Time:
- 3,124.2 s (52.07 min )
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Chicago
Chicago II is the second album by Chicago-based rock band Chicago. It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled debut album the previous year.
Although the...
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- Jan 26, 1970
Man in the Air
Man in the Air is a jazz album by vocalist Kurt Elling, released by Blue Note Records in 2003.
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- Jul 22, 2003
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Couldn't Stand the Weather
Couldn't Stand the Weather is the second studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, released in 1984.
All songs were written by Stevie Ray Vaughan, except where noted.
The following tracks were added on the 1999 remaster.
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- May 15, 1984
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. It was recorded live on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York City over five recorded sessions (2 matinee and 3 soiree). It is...
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- 1961
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A Love Supreme
A Love Supreme is a jazz studio album released by John Coltrane's quartet in 1965. It is generally considered to be among Coltrane's greatest works, as it coalesced the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted...
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- 1965
Running Time:
- 1,982 s (33.03 min )
Getz/Gilberto
Getz/Gilberto, is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the American saxophonist Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, and featuring composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Its release created a bossa nova craze in the...
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- Mar 1964
Parallel Galaxy
Parallel Galaxy is the first solo album recorded by Emmett Chapman, playing Chapman Stick, and it was released in 1985.
This represented both an example of Chapman's artistry on the Stick, and also showed other musicians what was possible on the...
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Durga Rising
Release Date:
- 1997
I'm Breathless
I'm Breathless - Music from and Inspired by the film Dick Tracy is the second soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on May 22, 1990, by Sire Records. It was recorded to promote and accompany the motion picture, released in...
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- May 22, 1990
Running Time:
- 2,708.16 s (45.136 min )
Ultravisitor
Ultravisitor is an album by jazz musician and drum and bass artist Tom Jenkinson, known by his recording alias Squarepusher. It was released 8 March 2004 by Warp Records (see 2004 in music).
Ultravisitor incorporates many of the various musical...
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- Mar 8, 2004
Running Time:
- 4,789.333 s (79.82222 min )
The Nightfly
The Nightfly is the first solo album by Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, released in 1982. It was one of the first fully digital recordings of popular music. The album was certified Platinum for US sales of over 1 million copies and produced two...
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- Oct 1982
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- 2,335.133 s (38.91888 min )
Renee Olstead
Renee Olstead is the self-titled major label debut album by teen actress-singer Renee Olstead, released in 2004. This album differed from Olstead's previous, privately issued country-western releases in that she performs pop and jazz standards. The...
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- May 25, 2004
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First Sessions
First Sessions is an EP by singer Norah Jones, released in 2001. The EP was a limited release of approximately 10,000 copies.
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- 2001
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Portrait of Jaco, the Early Years
Portrait of Jaco: The Early Years, 1968-1978 is a compilation of recordings made by Jaco Pastorius between 1968 and 1978. It was released in 2003 by Holiday Park Records.
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- Nov 1, 2003
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas is an album by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, released in 1965 as the soundtrack to the CBS Christmas television special of the same name. It is among the most popular Christmas music albums of all time. There was also a book-and...
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- 1965
The Inner Mounting Flame
The Inner Mounting Flame is Mahavishnu Orchestra's first studio album, released in 1971.
The back cover of the LP features a poem entitled "Aspiration" by Sri Chinmoy.
A remastered version of the album, on CD, was released in 1998 by Sony Music...
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- Aug 1971
Running Time:
- 2,796.293 s (46.60488 min )
Blue Train
Blue Train is a hard bop jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957, at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing. All...
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- 1957
Running Time:
- 2,535.093 s (42.25155 min )
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Speak of the Devil
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Rough and Ready
Rough and Ready is the third album by The Jeff Beck Group and the first of two by the second Jeff Beck Group. Released in 1971, it featured more of a Jazz, Soul and R&B; edge to counter Beck's lead guitar. Beck contributed more tracks on Rough and...
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- Oct 1971
Hand on the Torch
Hand on the Torch was the debut album for the jazz-rap group Us3. It received much attention because of its mix of jazz and rap, using live jazz musicians. All samples used on the album are from old Blue Note classics: the most famous being Herbie...
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- Nov 16, 1993
Autobiography
Autobiography is a live recording by pianist and flautist Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand), taken from a June 18, 1978 concert in Switzerland. On the recording, Ibrahim recalls his childhood in South Africa through the songs he learned...
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The Köln Concert
The Köln Concert is a recording released through ECM by the jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, who performed solo improvisations at the Cologne Opera House in Cologne (German: Köln) in 1975.
Preliminaries to the concert were not auspicious. Jarrett arrived...
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- 1975
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When I Look in Your Eyes
When I Look in Your Eyes is the fifth album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It was a nominee for Album of the Year at the 2000 Grammy Awards.
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Grammy Awards
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- Jun 8, 1999
Running Time:
- 3,276.6 s (54.61 min )
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The Look of Love
The Look of Love is the sixth album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).
In addition to the above tracks, a version of the album carried in the United States by Target stores also included two...
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- Sep 18, 2001
Running Time:
- 3,034.493 s (50.57488 min )
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Live in Paris
Live in Paris is the seventh album by Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
Album - Billboard (North America)
Grammy Awards
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- Oct 1, 2002
Running Time:
- 4,219.827 s (70.33045 min )
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Sketches of Spain
Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960.
The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions largely...
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Release Date:
- Mar 10, 1960
Running Time:
- 3,646.067 s (60.76778 min )
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The Best of Sade
The Best of Sade is the first greatest hits album (fifth overall) by the English group Sade, released in the United Kingdom on 12 November 1994 and in the United States on 26 November 1994 by Epic Records.
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Release Date:
- Apr 3, 2001
Running Time:
- 4,452.56 s (74.2093 min )
It's Time
It's Time is an album by the Canadian singer Michael Bublé. It's Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on iTunes. In Australia, the album was extremely successful and was...
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- 2005
Jazz Samba
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label on February 13, 1962.
Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene, and is often called the best-selling jazz album of all time....
Release Date:
- Apr 20, 1962
