Cecil Taylor - Excerpt from Imagine The Sound

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Cinematic Orchestra featuring Fontella Bass - "All That You Give"

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Miles Davis - "Call It Anything" Parts 1-4

Recorded 1970 at the Isle of Wight music festival. Featuring Davis (trumpet), Keith Jarrett (keyboards), Chick Corea (electric piano), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Gary Bartz (soprano sax), Dave Holland(electric bass) and Airto Moreira (percussion).

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Pat Martino & John Scofield with Joey DeFrancesco - "Sunny"

Recorded 2002 at the Umbria Jazz Festival.

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Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall-Smith - "Mellow Down Easy"

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Fly - "State of the Union"

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Sly and the Family Stone - "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"

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Miles Davis - Live in Berlin, 1967

Featuring Davis (trumpet), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), Wayne Shorter (tenor and soprano sax) and Tony Williams (drums). Songs include "Agitation", "Footprints", "Stella by Starlight", "Walkin' and "Gingerbread Boy."

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Gary Lucas' Gods and Monsters with Roswell Rudd - "One Man's Meat"

Recorded January 20, 2007 at the Knitting Factory, New York City, USA. Featuring Lucas (guitar), Rudd (trombone), Ernie Brooks (bass), Jason Candler (alto sax) and Billy Ficca (drums).

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Ray Charles - "Drown In My Own Tears"

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Barry Altschul Quartet - Live in New York City, 2005

Featuring Altschul (drums), Hayes Greenfield (saxophone), Jake Saslow (saxophone) and Hilliard Greene (bass).

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Johnny "Guitar" Watson - "Gangster of Love"

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Phil Woods - "And When We're Young"

Recorded 1968 at NDR Studios in Hamburg, Germany, featuring Woods (alto sax), Lee Konitz (alto sax), Slide Hampton (trombone), Jimmy Owens and Ack van Rooyen (trumpets, flugelhorns), Günther Lenz (bass), Volker Kriegel (guitar), Barry Altschul (drums) and Joachim Kühn (piano).

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Art Tatum - "Yesterdays"

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Herbie Hancock - "Chameleon"

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Freddie King - "Have You Ever Loved A Woman"

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Bar-Kays - "Let's Have Some Fun"

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Stan Getz and Mary Lou Williams - "Lush Life"

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National Health - "The Collapso"

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Oliver Nelson, Art Farmer and Lee Konitz - "Just Friends"

Recorded for the Dutch TV program Jazz Cellar in 1966, featuring Nelson (alto sax), Konitz (alto sax) and Farmer (fluegelhorn) with a rhythm section led by pianist Pim Jacobs.

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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (with Bruce Springsteen) - "The Fever"

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Tony Williams - "Civilization"

Featuring Williams, Mulgrew Miller (piano), Bob Hurst (bass), Wallace Roney (trumpet) and Billy Pierce (tenor sax).

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"Sound" - a film by Dick Fontaine featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John Cage, and others

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Hermeto Pascoal - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1979)

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