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Artist: Paul Desmond
Title Of Album: The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Mosaic Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log)
Time: 7 CDs, 08:13:52 min
Full Size: 3,04 Gb (+1%rec.)

These recordings are an embarrassment of riches. With a rhythm section that suited his every need, a renewed Paul Desmond delivered some of the best performances of his career. The repertoire consisted of standards, Brazilian songs, jazz classics, and originals that the alto saxophonist loved to play throughout his career, challenging himself to breathe new life into the material in his comfort zone.
Speaking of comfort zone, Desmond has recorded without a chordal instrument only three times in his career - on his 1953 Fantasy session with Don Elliott and on two collaborations with Gerry Mulligan in 1957 and 1962. On the last two nights of the Toronto sessions, Ed Bickert was called away due to the death of his father. Valve trombonist Rob McConnell was brought in to complete the quartet. The results of those nights are heard here on the fourth disc of the set. They are a revelation with Desmond playing more independently and taking chances that he might not have with chordal accompaniment.
More albums were planned, but they never saw the light of day. Now Mosaic has gathered all of the material approved by Desmond and the group (three hours of released material and five hours of unreleased material) into a 7-CD boxed set of The Complete Paul Desmond Toronto Sessions. Don Thompson has returned to his original analog tapes and mixed them anew for maximum fidelity.

Tracklist:

CD1 {01:09:13}
01. Too Marvelous for Words (8:03)
02. Line for Lyons (9:05)
03. Emily (9:38)
04. It Could Happen to You (7:42)
05. Just Squeeze Me (9:06)
06. I Wish I Knew (8:23)
07. I Should Care (8:41)
08. Audrey (8:35)

CD2 {01:13:16}
01. Just Squeeze Me (8:43)
02. Meditation (10:55)
03. Tangerine (9:42)
04. Darn That Dream (12:13)
05. Nuages (10:36)
06. Like Someone in Love (9:50)
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (11:17)

CD3 {01:05:10}
01. Line for Lyons (7:39)
02. Wendy (11:17)
03. Too Marvelous for Words (6:52)
04. When Sunny Gets Blue (11:47)
05. Audrey (9:39)
06. Darn That Dream (10:56)
07. Take Five (7:00)

CD4 {01:10:24}
01. Tangerine (7:46)
02. Wave (12:47)
03. It Could Happen to You (9:47)
04. Emily (8:53)
05. Line for Lyons (8:22)
06. When Sunny Gets Blue (12:41)
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (10:08)

CD5 {01:04:30}
01. I've Got You Under My Skin (10:45)
02. Just Squeeze Me (9:53)
03. All the Things You Are (9:07)
04. Autumn Leaves (8:52)
05. Wave (10:25)
06. Nuages (9:06)
07. East of the Sun (6:22)

CD6 {01:17:53}
01. Let's Get Away from It All (11:54)
02. Line for Lyons (12:21)
03. Just Squeeze Me (11:19)
04. My Funny Valentine (8:34)
05. Mean to Me (12:18)
06. Wendy (11:50)
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (9:37)

CD7 {01:13:26}
01. Wendy (7:34)
02. Wave (11:39)
03. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (9:09)
04. Nancy (9:51)
05. Manha de Carnaval (9:39)
06. Here's That Rainy Day (7:26)
07. My Funny Valentine (10:45)
08. Take Five (7:23) 

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