Following on the heels of Jam, his exciting and impulsive jazz-heavy collaboration with Mike Marshall, the veteran new-acoustic fiddler releases this diverse and always compelling compilation. Culled from three years' worth of unreleased material, Diary showcases a wide range of viol-family-only settings—everywhere from Anger's Oakland studio to the National Music Foundation theater of Lenox, Massachusetts, to "Cabin 48" in Tennessee's Montgomery Bell State Park—and sidemen—everyone from bluegrass standouts to Scottish and Irish legends to old-time specialists to unclassifiables like himself. The song selection is equally as eclectic: traditional fiddle tunes; covers of Monk, Hendrix, and the Beatles; spontaneous improvisations. This amalgam of styles, sounds, and moods, with its tinges of Celtic, Cajun, country, classical, jazz, and blues, gives more insight into Darol Anger's musical universe than any bio ever could. —Marc Greilsamer

Japanese CD pressing. 2014.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 1962 album from the Jazz pianist. Music On Vinyl.

Music From Leonard Bernstein'S 'West Side Story' And 'Wonderful Town' - Dave Brubeck

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More than any other improvising artist during the past 45 years,the pianist/composer/bandleader Dave Brubeck (b. 1920) has expanded the rhythmic boundaries of Jazz, while creating a body of work that is notable for its consistent levels of melodic content and harmonic invention. Recorded between 1959 and 1965, this five-disc set captures the Brubeck quartet, featuring the floating alto saxophone of Paul Desmond (composer of the million-selling "Take Five"), at the peak of their powers.

In addition to such Brubeck signatures as "It's a Raggy Waltz," "Blue Rondo a la Turk," "Unsquare Dance" and, of course, "Take Five," For All Time's repertoire also presents an improvisation from one of Dave's liturgical pieces, a variation of the folk song "Frankie and Johnny," and Brubeck's work for quartet and 45-piece orchestra, "Elementals."

Japanese Only 20Bit Mastered Release.