Thelonious Monk: The Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection brings together, in one deluxe anthology boxset, jazz pianist/composer/bandleader Thelonious Monk's complete live output recorded for Columbia Records from 1963-1968, including sets with large and small jazz ensembles. An essential companion to Monk's six-disc The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection box, this 10-disc is the definitive guide to the diversity of Monk's electrifying live sets. His mind-blowing live performances, highly percussive and often dissonant, showcased his off-kilter avant-garde technique, solidifying his reputation as both showman and genius. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Albums brings together all the recordings made for the Columbia Records and RCA Victor labels by the American jazz drummer and bandleader Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, the archetypal hard-bop collective he fronted until his death in 1990.    The eight-disc The Complete Columbia And RCA Victor Albums features all of the material Blakey and his various Jazz Messengers recorded for both labels; each of the five studio albums has been expanded to include rare bonus tracks, while Blakey's 1957 Vik debut, Selections From Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, is being released in stereo for the first time. Duke Ellington: The Columbia Studio Albums Collection Vol. 2 (1959-1961) is the second volume in Columbia Records box set series of Ellington's complete output for the label. This 10-disc anthology includes Ellington's film soundtracks, interpretations of classical pieces and timeless collaborations with jazz contemporaries. This essential Ellington library features rare bonus tracks and new state-of-the-art mixes of some of the most enduring recordings in American jazz history. Members of Duke’s orchestra line-up in the 1950s—Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Clark Terry, Ray Nance and Harry Carney among others, as well as Duke's right hand man, composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn—can be heard on these 10 stunning albums, most of which feature exciting bonus tracks to complete the latest chapter in the ongoing definitive account of Ellington’s output for Columbia Records.
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