Various Artists: Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression
Author: Alyn Shipton
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Blue Note |
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Dec/Jan/2014/2015 |
Celebrating Blue Note's 75th anniversary, this five CD box compiles 75 singles released from its inception in 1939 with Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis' ‘Melancholy Blues’ 78rpm, via Miles ‘Tempus Fugit’, Art Blakey's ‘Moanin Parts 1&11’ and Tina Brooks ‘True Blue’ all the way up to Gregory Porter's recent ‘Liquid Spirit’. Split into chronologically-themed discs with a 52-page book, its broad reach makes it an ideal soundtrack to the book of the same name reviewed on page 60. the same (JN)

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