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Richard Gehr | September 25, 2007

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Miles Davis: The Complete On the Corner Sessions (Columbia/Legacy)
If you enjoy tablas, German electronics, and hectoring wah-wah trumpet with your jazz-funk, Miles Davis's 1972 On the Corner is the record for you. The Complete On the Corner Sessions collects three years' worth of studio work surrounding this landmark fusion album on six CDs, including two hours of unreleased Miles. More is indeed more.

Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (Vanguard)
Fats Domino abides. You can't beat the cause (instruments for New Orleans students and a Lower Ninth Ward community center) or the star power behind Goin' Home. John Lennon ("Ain't That a Shame"), Tom Petty ("I'm Walkin'"), Elton John ("Blueberry Hill"), Dr. John ("Don't Leave Me This Way"), and B.B. King ("Goin' Home") bring it all back home on this double-CD benefit package.

Billie Holiday, Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles (Columbia/Legacy)
Reconnect with chameleonlike jazz icon Billie Holiday via Lady Day. This sublime eighty-track, four-CD set begins with Holiday's relatively blithe 1935 recordings, continues through her memorable association with saxophonist Lester Young, and concludes with a true star exploring the darker aspects of her persona in 1942.

Nellie McKay, Obligatory Villagers (Hungry Mouse)
This perky politico in updated Doris Day dresses suffers no fools gladly or otherwise on Obligatory Villagers, a jazzy froth of bouncing tunes, swinging arrangements, and man-the-barricades rebellion. She also revives the womanly wit of cabaret icons such as Annie Ross and Blossom Dearie with half-rapped, half-sung lines like "kittens high-hattin', sittin' on satin with a host who's catnip-fond."

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