Watch it, that stuff's addictive! I did the same thing, except for that great "Trio" stuff with Larry Grenadier and Bill Stewart. That was still uh, cranking me up. And similar to what you typed above with the date, this was one of theM;
Freeform Friday continues Sam Rivers ~ Contrasts with George Lewis, Dave Holland and Thurman Barker ECM, 1980
NP Art Farmer - Farmer's Market (New Jazz) DG, mono purple label, RVG, etc. Along with Art we have Hank Mobley, Kenny Drew, Elvin Jones and Art's brother Addison Farmer. What a band, eh?
Pharoah Sanders - A Prayer Before Dawn (Theresa) This is primarily a duo album with his keyboard partner William Henderson. There is one track with a full band and John Hicks plays on one track. So it's on the more meditative side of things as Pharoah does from time to time. Beautiful music any way you slice it.
Ah, the era when credits read "acoustic piano". Always hated that. Does "mouth organ" mean harmonica?
Hank Jones Trio - West Of 5th (Chesky) SACD W/Christian McBride and Jimmy Cobb. Hank can always find something new to say with the old warhorses as he does with rhe opener Green Dolphin Street. It's been arranged with a Latin feel which gives it some rhythmic pizazz.
Something that I've just spotted in the latest Jazzwise. Discovery Records are putting out a 3 CD set titled Chico Hamilton & Eric Dolphy - Complete Studio Recordings. Contains: The Original Ellington Suite The Three Faces of Chico With Strings Attached That Hamilton Man Gongs East! and the complete Newport 1958 set by the Hamilton Quintet with Dolphy. I've only ever heard Gongs East! which I picked up on vinyl about three decades ago so this will be an essential buy for me.
Ella and Basie! - Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie (Verve) Master Edition Includes 6 'bonus' tracks. Recorded 1963
(LP ESP Disk ESP-1022) .... recorded November 1965 .... Marion Brown (as) + Alan Shorter (tp -1,2) + Bennie Maupin (ts -3) + Reggie Johnson (b) + Ronnie Boykins (b -1) + Rashied Ali (d, per) .... adventurous and energetic ....
(CD Free Lance FRL CD-010) .... more goodies from a November 1998 session with Marion Brown (as) + Mal Waldron (p) .... (for me) indispensable ....
1988 according to this which incidentally is a great source for all of MB's recordings and sessions. The Marion Brown Discography » It's sad that so little of his records are available.
You are spot on .... when I realised my typos the 30 minute editing option unfortunately had vanished .... NP : (CD Sketch Records SKE-333023) .... recorded January 29 & 30, 2002 .... Mal Waldron (p) + Steve Lacy (ss) + Jean-Jacques Avenel (b) .... superb late career recording by Mal Waldron and friends .... unfortunately this platter is also hard to find nowadays ....
Sonny Clark, COMPLETE SONNY CLARK TRIO (Toshiba Japan 2 CD set, remastered by RVG, TOCJ 66125/6, part of Toshiba's "Complete Series"). A nice set and one of the few instances where I may actually prefer this RVG mastering to the McMaster masterings (though the latter aren't bad) - generally it is in the horns where I find the RVGs can be grating, but obviously that's not an issue here. Disc 1 has the same tracks as on the SONNY CLARK TRIO single disc releases, but in different order, while Disc 2 has the tracks that were released for the first time in the U.S. in the 1990s on a CD called STANDARDS (with Jymie Merritt or Paul Chambers on bass and Wes Landers on drums). Both are enjoyable though to me Disc 1 is the best. Particularly fond of what Clark does with the harmonies and phrasing of the melody line on "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," turning it into a driving, almost Monk-ish swinger with a rather dark undercurrent - just masterful.
Sounds interesting. Other than GONGS EAST, I have the CD reissue on Pacific Jazz/Blue Note of ORIGINAL ELLINGTON SUITE (excellent), and an LP copy of WITH STRINGS ATTACHED (good though many of the tracks are quite brief so Dolphy's impact as a soloist is less) - though my LP copy of STRINGS is only VG/VG+ so could definitely use an upgrade. Haven't heard the other material. Looking online this doesn't seem to be the Discovery Records based in the U.S. that previously reissued a lot of Warner Brothers and other material from Southern California-based labels on CD - founded by Albert Marx - seems to be based in the U.K. - though perhaps the same outfit? I only mention it because I wonder if they have access to original masters.
