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Elektra/Musician Releases: March 1983

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Bill Laswell – Baselines

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Produced by Material
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Steps Ahead – Steps Ahead

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Produced by Steps Ahead
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #24

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Billboard, April 23, 1983, p. 62

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★½
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★★

David Amram and Friends – Latin-Jazz Celebration

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Produced by Joel Dorn
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Various Artists – The Young Lions

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Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City, June 30, 1982
Produced by Michael Gibbs
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

New York Times review, May 22, 1983.

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Billboard, June 11, 1983, p. 99

Billy Cobham’s Glass Menagerie – Smokin’

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Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 23, 1982
Produced by Billy Cobham
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #41

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Billboard, April 23, 1983, p. 62

Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Mose Allison – Lessons in Living

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Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 21, 1982
Produced by Phillipe Rault
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

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Liner notes

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Billboard, April 23, 1983, p. 62

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★½
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★★
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Elektra/Musician Releases: January 1983

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Ron Carter – Etudes

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Produced by Ron Carter
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #42

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Billboard, Feb 12, 1982, p. 57

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Musician, January 1983, p. 108

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★½
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★★

Chick Corea – Again and Again (The Joburg Sessions)

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Produced by Chick Corea
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #15

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Billboard, Feb 12, 1983, p. 59

Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Kevin Eubanks – Guitarist

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Produced by Michael Gibbs
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #32

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Album’s liner notes. Click to enlarge.

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Musician, January 1983, p. 116

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Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Bill Evans – The Paris Concert: Edition One

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Jazz Masters Edition
Recorded live on November 26, 1979
Produced by Helen Keane
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #19

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Album’s liner notes, click to enlarge

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Billboard, February 12, 1983, p. 59

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Musician, January 1983, p. 116

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

John Klemmer – Finesse

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Produced by John Klemmer
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #10

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Liner notes

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Billboard, Feb 5, 1982, p. 57

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★

Charles Lloyd Quartet – Montreux 82

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Produced by Gabriel Franklin & Charles Lloyd
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

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Billboard, March 5, 1983, p. 61

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Musician, January 1983, p. 116

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★
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Elektra/Musician Releases: May 1982

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Down Beat, October 1982, p. 47

Billy Cobham’s Glass Menagerie – Observations &

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Produced by Bill Cobham
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #23

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Liner notes

Down Beat Magazine: ★★½
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide: ★★★

Dexter Gordon – American Classic

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Produced by Michael Cuscuna
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #19

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★★

Woody Shaw – Master of the Art

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Produced by Michael Cuscuna
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #42

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Liner notes. Click to enlarge

Down Beat Magazine: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★★½

Bobby McFerrin – Bobby McFerrin

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Produced by Linda Goldstein
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #41

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Liner notes

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Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★½
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Pure Genius

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Jazz Masters Edition
Previously unreleased performances from the private collection of Mrs. Clifford Brown
Recorded live in 1956
Produced by Max Roach
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

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Liner notes. Click to enlarge.

Down Beat Magazine ★★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz ★★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide ★★★★★

Mose Allison – Middle Class White Boy

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Produced by Esmond Edwards
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz★★★

Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★★

Bud Powell – Inner Fires

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Jazz Masters Edition
Previously unreleased performances from the private collection of Bill Potts
Recorded live April 5, 1953, Club Kavakos, Washington, D.C.
Produced by Bill Potts
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★
Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★★★

David Sancious – The Bridge

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Produced by David Sancious
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #36

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Liner notes

Various Artists – The Musicians Guide, Volume 2

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Sampler from above albums
Produced by various
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

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Musician, September 1982, p. 104

 

Elektra/Musician Releases: February 1982

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Down Beat, June 1982, p. 49

Note: the Bobby Short album was re-titled Moments Like This and issued on the Elektra label (60002)

Charlie Parker – One Night in Washington

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Jazz Masters Edition
Recorded at Club Kavakos, Washington D.C., February 22nd, 1953.
Produced by Bill Potts
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #28

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Musician, May 1982, p. 82
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Down Beat Magazine: ★★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan – Spirit Within

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Produced by Mike Berniker
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: Did not chart

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Liner notes. Click to enlarge.

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Down Beat, June 1982, p. 49

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Eric Gale – Blue Horizon

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Produced by Eric Gale
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #20

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Liner notes. Click to enlarge.

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Lee Ritenour – Rio

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Produced by Lee Ritenour
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #11
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #163
Peak on Cash Box album chart: #178

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Musician, June 1982, p.86

Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide: ★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Various Artists – The Griffith Park Collection

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Stanley Clarke, bass; Chick Corea, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet and flugelhorn; Lenny White, drums
Produced by Lenny White
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #35

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Musician, June 1982, p. 82

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Down Beat Magazine: ★★★

Freddie Hubbard – Ride Like the Wind

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Produced by Jeffrey Weber
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #24

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Musician, June 1982, p. 86

John McLaughlin – My Goals Beyond

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Originally released in 1971
Produced by John McLaughlin
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #34 (1982)
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #194 (1972)

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Musician, June 1982, p. 86

Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Material – Memory Serves

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Produced by Material
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #32

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Musician, June 1982, p. 86

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Down Beat Magazine: ★★★★
Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz: ★★★

Various Artists – The Musicians Guide, Volume 1

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Sampler – songs taken from above albums plus a track from Echoes of an Era (Elektra 60021)
Produced by various
Peak on Billboard Jazz Album Chart: #41

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Billboard, February 20, 1982, p. 70

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Billboard, February 27, 1982, p 42 & 64

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