Nucleus Revisited - "Mutatis Mutandis"

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Maceo Parker - "Pass The Peas"

Recorded in 2000 in Paris.

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Traffic - "40,000 Headmen"

Recorded 1972 in Santa Monica, California.

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Goldie"

Recorded November 15, 1959 at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, featuring Blakey (drums), Jymie Merritt (bass), Walter Davis Jr. (piano), Lee Morgan (trumpet) and Wayne Shorter (tenor sax).

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Stevie Wonder - "Fingertips"

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Brian Auger - "Pavane" and "I Just Got Some"

Recorded August 1969 at the Jazz Bilzen Festival in Belgium.

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Aretha Franklin - "Something He Can Feel"

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Sonny Rollins - "There Is No Greater Love"

Recorded 1973, featuring Rollins (tenor sax), Davis Lee (drums), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Walter Davis Jr. (piano) and Masuo Yoshiaki (guitar).

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Al Kooper & the Blues Project - "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes"

Recorded 1993 at the Bottom Line in New York City.

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Jeff Beck - "People Get Ready"

Recorded July 22, 2006 at the Udo Music Festival in Japan, featuring Beck (guitar), Jason Rebello (keyboards), Randy Hope-Taylor (bass) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums).

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Tower of Power - "Down To The Nightclub"

Recorded 1991, featuring Emilio Castillo (tenor sax), Stephen "Doc" Kupka (baritone sax), Steve Grove (tenor sax), Greg Adams (trumpet and flugelhorn), Lee Thornberg (trumpet and trombone), Russ McKinnon (drums), Francis "Rocco" Prestia (bass), Nick Milo (keyboards), Carmen Grillo (guitar) and Tom Bowes (vocals).

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Charles Mingus - "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"

Recorded 1975 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, featuring Mingus (bass), Benny Bailey (trumpet), Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax), Don Pullen (piano) and George Adams (tenor sax).

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The Gap Band - "Party Train"

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Ben Webster Quartet - "Poutin'"

Featuring Ben Webster (tenor sax), Stan Tracey (piano), Rick Laird (bass) and Jackie Dougan (drums).

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Muddy Waters & Otis Spann - "Cold Feeling Blues"

Recorded October 27, 1968 at the Tivoli Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark, featuring Muddy Waters (guitar, vocals), Otis Spann (piano, vocals), James "Pee Wee" Madison (guitar), Paul Oscher (harmonica), Lawrence "Lil' Sonny" Wimberly (bass), Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson (guitar) and S.P. Leary (drums).

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Medeski Martin & Wood - "New Planet"

Recorded in 2005.

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World Saxophone Quartet - "Medley: West African Snap/I Heard That/Fast Life/Hattie Wall"

From the television program Night Music, featuring Oliver Lake (alto sax), David Murray (tenor sax), Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax) and Julius Hemphill (alto sax).

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Louis Armstrong's All-Stars - "Basin Street Blues"

Recorded 1959 in Stuttgart, Germany, featuring Armstrong (trumpet), Trummy Young (trombone), Peanuts Hucko (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Danny Barcelona (drums) and Mort Herbert (bass).

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Billie Holiday and Count Basie - "God Bless The Child" and "Now Baby or Never"

Recorded 1952, featuring Holiday (vocals), Count Basie (piano) and the Count Basie Orchestra.

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Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"

Recorded 1993 at the Apollo Hall of Fame concert.

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