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Alice Coltrane

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1971

Alice Coltrane's landmark Journey to Satchidananda reveals just how far the pianist and widow of John Coltrane had come in the three years after his d ...

Ramsey Lewis

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1965

Ramsey Lewis staked his claim to fame with The In Crowd, an instrumental version of Dobie Gray's Top 40 hit. He also was one of the first soul jazz ic ...

Brian Culbertson

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.2012

On Dreams, Brian Culbertson attempts to dig further into the vein he opened on 2010's XII, where he seamlessly married adult-oriented R&B to contempor ...

Brian Culbertson

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.2009

In smooth jazz, there can be a major disparity between how artists sound in the studio and how they sound on-stage. Smooth jazz musicians who provide ...

Archie Shepp

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 10.08.1964

From 1964, Archie Shepp's first date as a leader featured -- as one would expect from the title -- four tunes by John Coltrane, his mentor, his major ...

Ahmad Jamal

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 24.04.2012

One of Miles Davis's favorite musicians, Ahmad Jamal has a unique approach as a pianist, composer, and arranger that is highly influential and distinc ...

Spyro Gyra

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1988

1998's Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial ...

Chick Corea

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1972

Always tied to a confusing time line, the first released recording from the original configuration of Return to Forever was actually their second sess ...

Alice Coltrane

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1969

4 stars out of 5 -- "HUNTINGTON ASHRAM MONASTERY has gales of harp sweeping over taut basslines and floating drums." © TiVo ...

Harold Land Quintet

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1968

The first pairing of tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibist Bobby Hutcherson crackles with the energy and joy of collaboration. Each spurs the other ...

Diana Krall

Jazzgesang - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1995

Canadian singer/pianist Diana Krall moved up to an American major label, GRP Records, with her second album, Only Trust Your Heart, having made her de ...

Acoustic Alchemy

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 30.11.1990

The challenge for any smooth jazz artist over time is appeasing longtime fans with certain stylistic similarities, yet searching for ways to keep thin ...

Paul Brown

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.2005

In 2004, when longtime smooth jazz producer Paul Brown unleashed his more personal guitar artistry via his solo debut, Up Front, and its hit airplay t ...

The Rippingtons

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1991

For a number of years, Rippingtons mastermind Russ Freeman had a hard time approaching the inspirational pop jazz perfection of 1989's Tourist in Para ...

David Benoit

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1994

The Benoit/Freeman project is a reunion of sorts, as both smooth jazz icons worked on 1986's landmark Rippingtons debut Moonlighting and together wrot ...

The Rippingtons

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1992

Brian Culbertson

R&B - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.2010

Given the widespread critical acclaim and commercial success Brian Culbertson garnered from 2008's retro Bringing Back the Funk, it would be understan ...

Spyro Gyra

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1995

Maybe things were simpler in the '70s, when the birth of what we now call contemporary jazz or pop instrumental really occurred. Long before anyone ga ...

GRP All-Star Big Band

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1993

The second of three releases by the GRP All-Star Big Band (headed by Dave Grusin) has lots of exciting moments, including "Manteca," "Blue Train," and ...

Johnny Hodges

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1964

The solo projects of Johnny Hodges were not so much individualistic divergences away from his duties with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, but served mor ...

Yellowjackets

Jazz - Erschienen bei GRP am 01.01.1993

This is one of The Yellowjackets' most jazz-oriented sets. Roughly half of the music uses funky rhtyhms while the remainder is straightahead. "Jacket ...