GIANTS OF JAZZ 12 SET TO HONOR PIANIST RANDY WESTON ON OCTOBER 17

GIANTS OF JAZZ 12

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JAZZ LEGACY PRODUCTIONS

Randy Weston
2009 Jazz Master Honoree

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009 7:30 PM

SOUTH ORANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
70 North Ridgewood Road
South Orange, NJ 07079

This one-night concert is hailed by The New York Times as "New Jersey's premier jazz festival." The Newark Star Ledger called it "The greatest one day jazz event in New Jersey, and probably the entire country."

The 2009 Jazz Master Honoree is internationally renowned pianist and composer Randy Weston, who will perform with a host of other unparalleled jazz musicians. Past Jazz Master Honorees include: Frank Foster, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton, Barry Harris, Jimmy Heath, Marian McPartland, James Moody, Benny Powell, Dr. Billy Taylor, and Frank Wess.

Over 12 years ago, bassist, producer, and South Orange resident John Lee started organizing the Giants of Jazz Concert each fall at the South Orange Middle School. Each year South Orange would honor a world-class jazz musician at a benefit concert to raise money for the free summertime Concerts in the Park series.

The concert series is presented every Wednesday evening in July at Flood Hill Park. The free outdoor concerts have become a tradition in South Orange, attracting many families, and the picnic atmosphere always makes for a joyous evening of music and fellowship.

featuring

RANDY WESTON ROBERTA GAMBARINI

MONTY ALEXANDER GERI ALLEN
ALVIN ATKINSON, JR ALEX BLAKE
TK BLUE DON BRADEN
GREG BUFORD SHAREL CASSITY
CYRUS CHESTNUT NEIL CLARK
MICHAEL DEASE ROY HARGROVE
BARRY HARRIS JIMMY HEATH
DUKE LEE JOHN LEE
MULGREW MILLER TS MONK
YOTAM SILBERSTEIN BILLY TAYLOR
FRANK WESS PAUL WEST

RUFUS REID BENNY POWELL

and MANY OTHERS!

TICKET PRICES

Reserved area: $55 for limited premier seating
General Seating: $40 in advance; $45 at door;
$35 students with ID and seniors.

For more details, directions, and online ticket purchase, visit www.thebaird.org.

Presented & Produced by John Lee, Lee May, The Baird, and the South Orange Department of Recreation & Cultural Affairs.

For more information, contact:

Jordy Freed at DL MEDIA (p) 610-667-0501 (e) jordy@jazzpublicity.com

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KAT EDMONSON at Jazz Standard

Kat Edmonson Set to Perform at Jazz Standard, November 11 Austin-based vocalist Kat Edmonson will perform with her sextet--tenor saxophonist John Ellis, pianist Kevin Lovejoy, bassist Danton Boller, drummer JJ Johnson and percussionist Chris Lovejoy--on Wednesday, November 11 at Jazz Standard. Edmonson made her debut at the venue in May while on a northeast tour with her Austin-based band. Nate Chinen of The New York Times says Edmonson "is a promising young jazz singer with a kittenish voice and an amiably relaxed style." Edmonson's debut CD, Take to the Sky, (Convivium) includes selections from Cole Porter, Henry Mancini, John Lennon and Carole King. Take to the Sky was produced and arranged by Kevin Lovejoy, and mixed by industry icon Al Schmitt. Click to view a video of Kat performing on Better.tv . She recently opened for Boz Scaggs at shows in Fort Worth and Austin. Additionally, Kat performed at the 2009 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. 'Take To The Sky' on itunes Tracks from the new album: Just Like Heaven: justlikeheaven.mp3 Just One Of Those Things: justoneofthosethings.mp3 Edmonson's original songs include "Lucky" (previously released as an MP3), which was featured on Steven Spielberg's original Showtime series, The United States of Tara, and "Be the Change", a Gandhi-inspired song and video reflecting our historic presidential election. Click to see video footage of Kat on the show Good Morning Texas. Check out Steve Greenlee's feature on Kat in the Boston Globe from her recent Tanglewood Jazz Festival performance. "Austin's Great Jazz Hope." Michael Corcoran / Austin-American Statesman www.myspace.com/katedmonson www.katedmonson.com For Kat Edmonson information and interviews, contact: Don Lucoff / DL Media: don@jazzpublicity.com Maria Echeverria / DL Media: maria@jazzpublicity.com 610.667.0501 www.jazzpublicity.com ###

41st VOLL-DAMM BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP

Photo Credit: Ricard Cugat 41st VOLL-DAMM BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP HEADLINERS TO INCLUDE WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET, CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON, BRAD MEHLDAU, MARCUS MILLER, BÉLA FLECK, AND KIND OF BLUE @ 50 - JIMMY COBB'S SO WHAT BAND Festival to conclude with Chano Domínguez in NYC At Jazz Standard, December 3-6 The 41st Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival, featuring over 60 concerts at 13 venues, set for October 18-December 6, is pleased to announce its 2009 lineup including headline performances by Wayne Shorter Quartet, Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Joe Lovano Nonet, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Brad Mehldau Trio, Bill Evans Soulgrass Band, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Allen Toussaint, and Cassandra Wilson. "Barcelona is definitely one of the places around the world where jazz lives today" opined Joan Anton Cararach, artistic director of the Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival, during a recent interview session with Larry Blumenfeld for Jazziz. With over 60 concerts and lectures scheduled over a month-and-a-half, including newly commissioned works and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, it is easily discerned that Cararach speaks the truth - jazz lives in Barcelona and is reaching new and existing audiences alike. The festival opens with a performance by Big Band de l'Esmuc in tribute to 70 years of Blue Note Records. Among the heavyweight champions of jazz headlining the festival are the best and brightest contemporary performers, including Aaron Parks Trio, Magos Herrera, and Maria Schneider(appearing in her own sets with Big Band de l'Esmuc). Of special interest is the festival's Finestresseries - Windows into new deviations of modern music that do not always conform to traditional definitions of jazz. Among the performers in this series are Norwegian indie folk-pop duo, Kings of Convenience, Brazilian electro-samba chanteuse CéU, post-rock Chicagoans Tortoise, and Israeli pop superstar Noa. This year's festival also includes a dedication to Miles Davis and the 50th anniversary of Kind of Bluefeaturing commissioned works from Omar Sosa with Jerry González (performing their "Afro-Cuban side of Kind of Blue"), and Chano Domínguez Flamenco Quintet performing El duende de 'Kind of Blue', (while there is no English translation for el duende, It is best described as the unique groove-like sensation of Flamenco music). Marcus Miller, with Tutu Revisited Featuring Christian Scott,will be also at the Palau de la Música celebrating the music of Miles Davis. The premier performance of these dedications is Kind of Blue @ 50 - Jimmy Cobb's So What Band (Cobb was the drummer on the original Davis recording). The Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival not only connects with fans on stage, but at the podium as well. Guest speakers for this year's lecture series include Blue Note Records PresidentBruce Lundvall, jazz author and former Boston Globe columnist Bob Blumenthal, the New Yorker'sAlex Ross, Michael Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, director of Programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center Antonio Ciacca, producer and Sunnyside Records founder François Zalacain, and Billboard/Downbeat columnist Dan Ouellette who will administer his famous "Blindfold Test" live onChano Domínguez. A featured panel titled "Jazz is Dead? Long Live Jazz!" will take place on November 6, featuring some of the aforementioned speakers alongside industry colleagues. Past guests on the lecture series have included authors Ashley Kahn, Ben Ratliff, Bill Milkowski, Nate Chinen and All About Jazz.com founder Michael Ricci, among others. For the first time, the Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival crosses the Atlantic to New York's Jazz Standard, where Chano Domínguez Flamenco Quintet reprises their El duende de 'Kind of Blue' commission. This celebratory 4-night stand from December 3-6 will also mark the occasion of the English version of the festival's book, which chronicles its 40+ year history, including articles penned by Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein, among others. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the festival in 2008, the festival initiated it's Gold Medal Award. The first recipient was Bebo Valdés. This year's recipient will be Wayne Shorter in honor of the outstanding impact that he has had in jazz history, and still has with his quartet today. Shorter first played the Barcelona festival during the second edition of the festival in 1967. Miles Davis was slated to play with his quintet but left the city before the concert, leaving Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams to play as the Wayne Shorter Quartet. The award will be presented immediately preceding Shorter's performance. Spain saw its first professional jazz festival in 1966. It started with a concert at the amazing Palau de la Música in Barcelona, featuring pianist Dave Brubeck with his classical quartet. Despite surviving the hostile times of the Franco dictatorship, the festival ceased operations between the years of 1977 and 1980, which were surprisingly in the first years of democracy. Since the late '80s, the festival has been organized by The Project, event organizers whose projects reach upwards of 500,000 people annually. In 2009, the festival celebrates its 41st anniversary with a diverse program that, once again, places it among the pre-eminent fall European jazz festivals. For a complete schedule of events, please visit http://www.barcelonajazzfestival.com/ http://barcelonajazzfestival.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/bcnjazzfest For more information, please contact Don Lucoff / DL Media: don@jazzpublicity.com Maria Echeverria / DL Media: maria@jazzpublicity.com 610.667.0501 www.jazzpublicity.com ###

Acclaimed Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel & His Trio Set to Release "Reflections" on October 27

Acclaimed Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel Gets Intimate With "Standards Trio: Reflections" On The Wommusic Label Trio session with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Eric Harland set for release October 27 "There's this kind of fluidity and architecture in the lines that he plays that I don't think I've heard anybody else do. There's a mystery in it to me. It's not obviously derived from some other player. He's really developed his own language with the musical information and physically the way he's playing the instrument." - Bill Frisell "Kurt Rosenwinkel is rightfully most celebrated for being a 21-century innovator of new music," begins the liner notes by Ethan Iverson for Ros enwinkel's latest album (his eighth as leader) titled, "Standards Trio: Reflections". "This album of standards offers a clear view of Kurt as a jazz guru." A onetime sideman in Gary Burton & Joe Henderson's bands, Rosenwinkel has released a string of some of the most potent and original recordings of the last decade. On "Standards Trio: Reflections," the highly anticipated followup to 2007's dynamic The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard, he delves into the harmonic fabric of several beautiful standards in an intimate trio setting, accompanied by bassist Eric Revis (a longtime member of the Branford Marsalis Quartet) and drummer Eric Harland (a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet and the SFJAZZ Collective). Whereas Kurt Rosenwinkel's previous album The Remedy - Live At The Village Vanguardcaught Kurt with his quintet in a high-wired set of extended solos on original compositions, on "Reflections" he luxuriates in an almost-all-ballads program. From relaxed renditions of Wayne Shorter's "Ana Maria" and "Fall," to elegant interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Ask Me Now" and "Reflections" to gorgeous readings of standards like "More Than You'll Know," "You've Changed" and "You Go To My Head," Rosenwinkel embraces these timeless melodies with rare nuance and soul. He includes one original in the collection, a stirring remake of the title track from his 1996 debut as a leader "East Coast Love Affair" (the whole album of which has just been transcribed into book form and released by Mel Bay) a song of which Iverson states: "Kurt has been playing this as long as I've been listening to him. At this point it almost qualifies as a standard." "I wanted to have a very intimate and acoustic sound on this record," says the Philadelphia native who currently resides in Berlin. "And I wanted to sort of go back to my Philly roots in terms of getting into the blues in my playing, because I often don't bring that out at all. But I've just been feeling that side of things lately and I wanted to play in that way on this project." In some ways, this outing is a return to 1998's Intuit, a collection of standards in a quartet setting. But more than ten years down the road, Rosenwinkel's sound is warmer, fuller and his approach to the instrument more refined. While that earlier standards project included such cha llenging, chops-busting burners as Charlie Parker's "Sippin' at Bells" and George Shearing's "Conception," this time out the emphasis is almost exclusively on ballads. And working without a piano in the group is a bit like a high wire act working without a net. "My first record, East Coast Love Affair, was also a trio standards recording," he says, "but I feel like I have more to say as an artist in that context. And as a guitarist I just wanted to explore that open, beautiful space again." While East Coast Love Affair was recorded for the small independent label out of Spain, Fresh Sound New Talent, and Intuit was released on the Dutch label Criss Cross, Rosenwinkel's first widespread recognition Stateside came with the release of The Enemies of Energy, his 2000 Verve Records debut. He followed that with 2001's acclaimed The Next Step, which further developed the songcraft and unique harmonic language he was developing with tenor saxophonist and kindred spirit Mark Turner. 2003's adventurous Heartcore, which combined elements of jazz, electronica, hip-hop and ambient music, was co-produced by rapper Q-Tip from the pioneering alternative hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest. And on 2005's Deep Song, Rosenwinkel joined forces with like-minded colleagues Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Larry Grenadier, Ali Jackson and Jeff Ballard. 2007's The Remedy captured the guitarist's working quintet (saxophonist Turner, pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Harland) during a week-long engagement at New York's fabled jazz club, the Village Vanguard. After the pyrotechnics of that invigorating live outing, "Reflections" is like a cleansing breath for Rosenwinkel. Perhaps Rosenwinkel's most refined and engaging project to date, "Reflections" reveals a warmer side to this gifted, multi-directional musician. Tour Dates: - September 29-October 4: The Village Vanguard, New York, NY - October 6: Blues Alley, Washington, DC - October 7: Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA - October 8-9: Regattabar, Cambridge, MA - October 10: L'Astral, Montréal, QC - October 14: Nighttown, Cleveland Heights, OH - October 15-18: Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL - October 22-23: Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, Denver, CO "Kurt Rosenwinkel is re-defining the mainstream" - Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix "There [is] a streak of otherworldliness in his playing, but also a sense of deep familiarity." - Nate Chinen, The New York Times "Rosenwinkel's music represents the sound of the future-just as bebop once did." - Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune For more information, contact: Don Lucoff at DL MEDIA (p) 610-667-0501 (e) don@jazzpublicity.com ###

Pianist Danilo Pérez Signs with Mack Avenue Records

Pianist Danilo Pérez Signs with Mack Avenue Records

Returns to Perform at the 2009 Detroit International Jazz Festival

Mack Avenue Records is proud to announce the signing of Grammy winning pianist Danilo Pérez. The signing was made official at the 2009 Detroit International Jazz Festival, where Pérez returned to active performing with the Wayne Shorter Quartet after a three month layoff due to a torn achilles injury.

An extraordinary Panamanian artist, composer and educator, Pérez is among the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time. In just over a decade, his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz (covering the music of the Americas, folkloric and world music) has attracted critical acclaim and loyal audiences.

"It has been a long journey full of unexpected twists up to now and I am looking forward to the next chapter of my life," Pérez says.

On his return to the stage at this year's festival, Pérez reflects "I miss these guys so much; Wayne, Brian and John. They are such a big part of my life. I am looking forward to travel to more unknown places with them."

"Danilo is an artist of uncompromising artistry," says Mack Avenue Records President Denny Stilwell. "We are pleased to have him as a member of the Mack Avenue family and look forward to an album that will mark a new beginning in his expansive career."

Pérez has recorded and performed with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Steve Lacy, Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, and Wynton Marsalis, among others.

He plans to release his debut Mack Avenue Records album in 2010.

The Mack Avenue Records team welcomes Danilo Pérez at the 2009 Detroit International Jazz Festival. (L-R): Al Pryor, Gretchen Valade, Danilo Pérez, Tom Robinson, Denny Stilwell, and Randall Kennedy.

Danilo Pérez (L) pictured with fellow Mack Avenue Records artist, alto saxophonist Tia Fuller (R).

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PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES "SIDE STEPS," A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE’S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES

PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES "SIDE STEPS,"
A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE'S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS
AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES

The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential - even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death - that it's difficult to quantify or differentiate his significance as a leader, a collaborator, a sideman or any other role in the jazz idiom. What's certain, though, is that some of his most pivotal session work took place on the Prestige label in the 1950s.

Over the past three years, Prestige Records has released boxed sets of Coltrane's numerous sessions from the mid- to late '50s, each spotlighting a specific dimension of his tenure with the label. Fearless Leader - released in September 2006, in celebration of Coltrane's 80th birthday - showcases his recordings as a bandleader. Interplay, released in September 2007, contains Coltrane's early collaborative recordings with a variety of stellar musicians from the same era.

"Side Steps" is the third and final set in this series, scheduled for release on October 6, 2009. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane's session work as a Prestige sideman, from mid-1956 to early 1958, with the exception of his work with Miles Davis (which is featured in "The Miles Davis Quintet: Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions," released in 2006).

"It is easy to measure Coltrane's musical growth through his recordings with Miles, and as a leader, while at Prestige," says jazz historian Ashley Kahn in his extensive liner notes for the "Side Steps" collection. "But it is especially revealing to gauge his progress through impromptu studio sessions with a wider variety of musicians and music. They tested his increasing abilities, and allowed him to apply the techniques and confidence gained from Miles's tight-lipped tutelage (and his later apprenticeship with Thelonious Monk). They also introduced his name to an expanding community of fans and fellow musicians, and permitted him entry into the rank and file of jazz players, many of whom were destined to become leaders and help shape the future of the music."

In short, Prestige was the place where Coltrane cut his teeth, according to Nick Phillips, co-producer of the boxed set. "This is where he was really gaining his experience," says Phillips, who is Vice President of Jazz and Catalog A&R for Concord Music Group, Prestige's parent company. "You can hear him developing his individual voice in these recordings, already sounding like no one else but John Coltrane, yet not having fully developed into the John Coltrane who would become one of the most important and influential artists in the history of jazz."

On Disc one, Coltrane joins two other up-and-coming horn players of the day - trumpeter Donald Byrd and saxophonist Hank Mobley - in a session recorded in May 1957 and led by pianist Elmo Hope. "Weeja" and "On It" are both Hope originals, the former a bebop number and the latter a blues tune that includes Coltrane and Mobley trading lines. Coltrane delivers a breathy solo on "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," and even makes a few minor technical fumbles on a rendition of Al Jolson's "Avalon." The tracks were initially part of a release entitled Informal Jazz and credited to the Elmo Hope Sextet, and were later included on an album called Two Tenors.

The first disc also features six tracks recorded six months earlier - late November 1956 - with Tadd Dameron for Mating Call, an album released the following year. Coltrane joins bassist John Simmons and drummer Philly Joe Jones behind Dameron in the making of an album that was the first to feature Coltrane's name on the cover. The original liner notes by Ira Gitler include the following prophetic analysis: "Trane is a searcher who is not afraid to essay new combinations of notes when performing publicly...he does not play by rote. As they say in theatre, 'He reacts.'"

Disc two leads off with "Tenor Madness," a track from a May 1956 session that included Coltrane alongside leader Sonny Rollins, with Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jones on drums. The 12-minute track "captures the much-celebrated, spontaneous studio encounter of the two jazzmen most responsible for shaping the modern sound of the tenor saxophone," says Kahn. "That Coltrane and Sonny Rollins recorded together but once - and only on one track - endows this extended jam with historical weight."

The second disc also includes five tracks from a session in April 1957, just a few days before Coltrane took a week to detoxify and kick his narcotic habit, followed immediately by three more tracks recorded about a month later. "The improvement in Coltrane's performance on all three tunes is palpable," says Kahn. "More assured, with a marked clarity in his ideas."

Discs three and four include 15 tracks from two sessions recorded in late 1957 - the first in mid-November and the second in mid-December. The lineup is consistent throughout both discs: Garland as leader, Coltrane, trumpeter Donald Byrd, bassist George Joyner, and drummer Art Taylor. "By late '57, Coltrane's sound was becoming a revelation," says Kahn. "With Monk's guidance under his belt, he began to enter his so-called 'sheets of sound' phase, tackling changes, playing long flurries of notes, and stacking chords with unbridled passion." On some of the slower tunes that spoke of romance or loneliness, Coltrane's phrasing and tone show early signs of the haunted feel that would later infuse ballads like "Naima."

Disc five captures Coltrane's last two sessions as a sideman for Prestige - one in December 1957 and the other in the early days of January 1958. By this time, Coltrane is clearly coming into his own, as evidenced in the final track from the January date, an unhurried rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "It Might As Well Be Spring." Coltrane joins tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons as leader, backed by the rhythm section of pianist Mal Waldron and Joyner and Taylor on bass and drums, respectively. "With the tempo nice and slow," says Kahn, "it's easy to see who is following in the path of the saxophone masters who came before, and who has begun to forge his own way forward."

In addition to Kahn's own extensive commentary, the beautifully packaged Side Steps includes a transcript of an interview that Kahn conducted with Prestige founder Bob Weinstock.

"Other than Miles, is there a modern jazz star shining as brightly today as John Coltrane?" says Kahn. "His sound and stature have come to eclipse so many who also deserve lasting applause. It says much of his continuing appeal - and the way we hang onto our heroes - that some of the music included in this collection was later reissued with Coltrane as the titular leader. Among its intentions, "Side Steps" is meant as an acknowledgment that greatness can begin, and abide, in a supporting role."

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CONCORD MUSIC GROUP PRESENTS ITS 13th EDITION OF CLASSIC PRESTIGE RECORDS RVG REMASTERS ON SEPTEMBER 8th

CONCORD MUSIC GROUP PRESENTS
ITS 13th EDITION OF CLASSIC PRESTIGE RECORDS RVG REMASTERS
ON SEPTEMBER 8th

TITLES INCLUDE REMASTERED CDS
BY LEGENDARY ENGINEER RUDY VAN GELDER:
THELONIOUS MONK QUINTET: MONK (1953)
SONNY ROLLINS WITH THELONIOUS MONK AND KENNY DORHAM: MOVING OUT (1954)
RED GARLAND QUINTET WITH JOHN COLTRANE: DIG IT! (1957)

On September 8th, the Concord Music Group will release the next installment of the popular Rudy Van Gelder Remasters Series of classic Prestige albums. This 13th edition of the RVG series includes three more classics that engineer Rudy Van Gelder originally recorded in the 1950s and recently upgraded to 21st century standards of digital audio. The new remasters bring the total number of releases in the series to more than 60.

Originally recorded under the supervision of Prestige owner and founder Bob Weinstock, each of the three remasters is a fascinating slice of jazz history - a vivid portrait of ambitious and innovative young artists in their formative years, all of whom have since become iconic figures in the annals of American jazz:

Sonny Rollins with Thelonious Monk and Kenny Dorham: Moving Out

Thelonious Monk Quintet: Monk

Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane: Dig It!

As with the previous recordings in the series - first launched in March 2006 - Van Gelder breathes new life into his original vision by meticulously transferring these albums from the analog master tapes from the Prestige vault to digital at 24-bit resolution.

"Given that Rudy was the original recording engineer on these projects, there's something that he brings to these remasters that no one else possibly could," says Nick Phillips, Vice President of Jazz and Catalog A&R. "He was the person who was documenting these great sessions on tape at the time. He remembers the performances, the interplay, the spontaneous actions and reactions among the artists on hand."

Each RVG series album includes both new and original liner notes - in this case by the same authors - and sells at the midline price of $11.98.

Thelonious Monk Quintet: Monk (1953)

From the new liner notes: "Monk was marvelously magical on and off the stand. He continues to have an effect on musicians of all generations through his compositions and recordings. When his friend and patron Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter asked me to deliver the eulogy at his funeral in 1982, she sent me a passage from Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Where the name Beethoven appeared she had substituted Monk. It worked perfectly and I incorporated the excerpt in my text." (Ira Gitler)

Personnel: Thelonious Monk, piano; Frank Foster (#1-4), Sonny Rollins (#5-7), tenor saxophones; Ray Copeland, trumpet (#1-4); Julius Watkins, French horn (#5-7); Curly Russell (#1-4), Percy Heath (#5-7), bass; Art Blakey (#1-4), Willie Jones (#5-7), drums.

Sonny Rollins with Thelonious Monk and Kenny Dorham: Moving Out (1954)

From the new liner notes: "This is one of Sonny's classic ballad performances, summoned from deep inside within the aura of one of his early and major mentors. It is one of many milestones worth revisiting in a career that really began to soar when he returned to New York in late 1955 as a member of the Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet following a year of personal rebirth in Chicago. There have been many artistic triumphs since that time in his ascent to universally recognized greatness. This CD is one of many stops along the way that reward both the new listener and the revisitor." (Ira Gitler)

Personnel: Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Kenny Dorham, trumpet; Elmo Hope, piano; Percy Heath, bass; Art Blakey, drums. (On "More Than You Know" only: Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Thelonious Monk, piano; Tommy Potter, bass; Arthur Taylor, drums.)

Red Garland Quintet with John Coltrane: Dig It! (1957)

From the new liner notes: "It would seem that openness to the vulnerability that comes with spontaneity was the essence of Bob Weinstock's philosophy of recording. In one sense, the very act of recording would seem to be the exact opposite of the core premise of jazz-that is, in and of the moment, and therefore unrepeatable. To capture that moment and make it permanent, as a photograph does through mechanical means, would seem to be the elusive thing that Bob Weinstock did with such regularity that, as you can hear by listening to this music, the artists made it look, and sound, easy." (Joe Goldberg)

Personnel: Red Garland, piano; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone (#1, 3, 4); Donald Byrd, trumpet (#1, 4); George Joyner (#1, 3, 4), Paul Chambers (#2), bass; Arthur Taylor, drums.

For more information onthe 13th Edition of Classic
Prestige Records RVG Remasters, please contact:

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