Clark Terry - Clark Terry (EmArcy/Verve) CD Tracks 1-8 / The original EmArcy "Clark Terry" album (1955). Tracks 9-12 / All the tracks that featured Clark Terry on the 10" MGM album "Cats vs. Chicks" (1954) This is a most welcome, recently re-issued CD. There are no mastering credits given but the sound, just like the music, is spot on. The CD is packaged in a cardboard gate-fold sleeve.
Art Pepper Darn That Dream From '82 with Cables, Farrell, Dumas & Dentz. Fantastic playing here. I thought I was done with Pepper's studio efforts but I'm making exceptions when Cables is involved.
Larry Young - Heaven On Earth Blue Note (1968) TOCJ-8720 BN Best & More 1100 Encore Series Organ – Larry Young Guitar – George Benson Tenor Saxophone – Herbert Morgan Vocals – Althea Young Alto Saxophone – Byard Lancaster Drums – Edward Gladden
Halloween 2018, and the fist disc into the player is... Light From Old Stars - Kit Downes (Basho Records) CD with Kit Downes (piano & organ), James Allsopp (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Calum Gourlay (double bass), James Maddren (drums) I have always found anything by this UK outfit to be interesting, unpredictable and full of variation. This album is no exception.
The Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson – The Cape Verdean Blues Label: Blue Note – ST-84220, Audio Wave – AWMXR-0010, EMI Music Special Markets – 509992-64060-3-9 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo Country: US Released: 2010 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop, Post Bop, Latin Jazz
Craig Harris & Tailgater's Tales - Blackout In The Square Root Of Soul Craig Harris; trombone, dijiridoo, vocals; Don Byron; clarinet, baritone sax; Anthony Cox; bass; Ralph Peterson, Jr.; drums; Eddie E.J. Allen; piano, Jean-Paul Bourelly; guitar, Clyde Criner; keyboards.
(LP Prestige Victor Japan "Prestige Jazz Masterpiece Series" SMJ-6560) 1977 .... recorded March 26th, 1958 .... Red Garland (p)+ Paul Chambers (b) + Art Taylor (dr) contribute an exquisite straight-ahead foundation while John Coltrane is definitely on a journey to different spheres .... impressive and indispensable ....
Walt Dickerson - To My Queen Prestige (1962) UCCO-9395 Jazz The Best 1100 Series Vibraphone – Walt Dickerson Piano – Andrew Hill Bass – George Tucker Drums – Andrew Cyrille Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
(CD Verve Records Gitanes Jazz Production French Press 521 588-2) 1994 .... recorded September 28th, 1992 @ La Mamounia Hotel Marrakech, Morocco .... beautiful later career solo performance by the masterful Randy Weston .... excellent sound too ....
Doin' The Thing The Horace Silver Quintet At The Village Gate (Blue Note) CD with Horace Silver (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor), Gene Taylor (bass), Roy Brooks (drums) Recorded 1961
A masterpiece and also one of a few live albums released by Silver as leader. Also for this reason, it's really precious.
Donald Byrd - At The Half Note Cafe, Volume 1 Blue Note (1961) TOCJ-4060 BN Works 4000 Series Trumpet – Donald Byrd Piano – Duke Pearson Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams Bass – Laymon Jackson Drums – Lex Humphries
I have taken a look at his discography. Really meaningful as a leader well as sideman also with Elvin Jones, Nat Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Gary Bartz and so on. A very nice timber as strumentist with an advanced phrasing.
The Cape Verdean Blues - Horace Silver Quintet Plus J. J. Johnson (Blue Note) CD with Horace Silver (piano), Woody Shaw (trumpet), J. J. Johnson (trombone), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Roger Humphries (drums) Dated 1965. Digital transfers Ron McMaster. *It has taken me 53 years from release date to eventually get round to buying a copy of this thoroughly enjoyable Blue Note album.
I purchased Bluestop two weeks ago in a record shop (€ 9,90). This brilliant meeting sees two great Italian jazz pianists, Enrico Intra and Enrico Pieranunzi playing and improvising together. It is an unusual combination not so frequent for jazz. A famous past meeting with two pianists was that one featuring Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock . Intra and Pieranunzi play their tunes and two classic compositions by Poulenc and Hindemith arranged by theirs. It was recorded in 2013 at Bollate, a small town close to Milan. CD, AlfaMusic – AFMCD169
(CD SteepleChase Think! Records Japan "45th Anniversary Legend Collection" THCD521) 2017 .... recorded September 14th, 1975 .... Dex in terrific form and with Tete Montoliu (p) + Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b) + Billy Higgins (dr) in perfect sync ....
Just listening for the first time to the new Brian Marsella album: Outspoken - The Music Of The Legendary Hasaan. This features a new trio with Christian McBride (bass) and Anwar Marshall (drums) and is not an album that any jazz fan will want to sleep on because it's an absolute barn-burner: full of life and music. Even twenty minutes in I know that this is going to force its way into my list of end-of-year favourites.
