I hesitated to post this, but if you have not heard of Quartette Trés Bien, you should. Think of them as a more funky Three Sounds or a more accomplished Young-Holt. Where It's At!
Jamming out to Jaki, "out front" by Byard. w Bob Crenshaw Walter Perkins Made from a couple different New Jazz sessions. The title track is an ode to Herbie Nichols! The album highlight however is "european episode", a six part dance suite that Sounds like something written in the 2000s, so ahead of his time was Jaki imo. This track adds Booker Ervin and Richard Williams on horns. Byard himself was a dancer, according to the liner notes.
Great band. I haven’t got that one but I have got “Boss Tres Bien”, a patchy album but the title track is awesome, what a groove!
CHAIN REACTION - THE CRUSADERS (Blue Thumb) CD Drums, Percussion – "Stix" Hooper Guitar – Larry Carlton Keyboards, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Clavinet, Synthesizer – Joe Sample Saxophone, Bass – Wilton Felder Trombone, Brass – Wayne Henderson Recorded 1975 Funky Friday revive with one of The Crusaders most consistently enjoyable albums.
ASHA - THE LLOYD McNEILL QUARTET (Soul Jazz) CD Bass – Steve Novosel Percussion – Eric Gravatt / Paul Hawkins Piano – Gene Rush Piccolo Flute, Flute, – Lloyd McNeill Recorded 1969. The LP originally was released on the ASHA record label and re-issued on LP with a different cover A pleasant, unique sounding, flute led quartet recording. The Soul Jazz CD edition includes a 16 page booklet
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers* – Africaine Label: Blue Note – 7243 4 97507 2 2 Series: Blue Note Connoisseur Series – Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 1998 Bass – Jymie Merritt Congas – Dizzy Reece (tracks: 1, 4) Drums – Art Blakey Piano – Walter Davis Jr. Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter Trumpet – Lee Morgan Recorded November 10, 1959 but not released until 1981. Not my favorite Blakey album, but a good one nonetheless. Walter Davis Jr is great on the piano, which I noticed as I think this might be the only Blakey album I have with him playing. The Jazz Messengers make hard bop sound like it's easy to do. That's how good they were. After a few years of listening to jazz that's a discovery I've made. Which also makes for good recs when a newbie asks about getting into the genre - AB & the JMs are a fantastic starting point.
(CD Columbia Legacy Austrian Press CK 513357) 2003 .... recorded between January 29th and March 9th, 1964 @ New York .... Charlie Rouse (ts) + Thelonious Monk (p) + Butch Warren (b) + Ben Riley (dr) .... working week is over and the expanded 60`s Thelonious Monk classic lounging near our CDplayer - no need to hesitate .... always surprising how stimulating this music still - is after all these years ....
Sonny Rollins – What's New? Bass – Bob Cranshaw Bongos/Congas – Candido Drums – Ben Riley Guitar – Jim Hall Saxophone – Sonny Rollins Recording dates, all in NYC: April 5 & 25-26, 1962 and May 14, 1962 Listening via the RCA/Victor box set which has good sound. Music is excellent - Sonny's playing is top notch.
I'm a bit surprised by your remark about the sound of this box. I got it many years ago but sold it because the noise reduction bothered me.
This one? Sonny Rollins – The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Label: RCA Victor – 09026-68675-2, BMG Classics – 09026-68675-2 I just started listening but haven't noticed a heavy-handed noise-reduction and usually I'm sensitive to things like that. I've gotten rid of my share of CDs due to it...
Yes, that's the one; the only one as far as I know. It's been years since I sold it, but don't the booklet's credits say something about noise "management"/processing or is my memory playing tricks with me?
Admittedly I'm really bad about not reading liner notes/box set booklets these days. I separated the CDs out from the box, so need to retrieve it. I'll check the notes over the weekend and report back.
The Paul Desmond complete RCA set does have (mild) noise reduction as a friend of mine confirmed a couple of years ago. I decided to keep the Mosaic even though it omitted a track.
One of the best Cool Jazz LP's I know in the Lennie Tristano tradition and have in my collection Vanguard Records International - reissued by King Record Co., Japan GXC 3121Ⓜ - recorded November 26, 1956 Featuring Ted Brown (ts) / Warne Marsh (ts) / Art Pepper (as) / Ronnie Ball (p) / Ben Tucker (b) / Jeff Morton (dr)
LOST TAPES | THE GERMAN RECORDINGS 1952-1955 JUTTA HIPP (Jazz Haus) CD Bass – Harry Schell / Franz "Shorty" Roeder Drums – Karl Sanner / Rudi Sehring Guitar – Attila Zoller Piano – Jutta Hipp Tenor Saxophone – Hans Koller / Joki Freund Trombone – Albert Mangelsdorff 17 rare selections recorded at four live studio sessions from 1952-1955. The CD is housed in a triple gate-fold cardboard digipak sleeve with notes giving a brief history on the life of Jutta Hipp - printed in English and German. A pleasant, laid back, low key album.
Recorded onto a four track analog deck with four mics by the bassist, this is a very lovely recording and the CD sounds very good. It would be nice if the Mosaic set includes the Artist House material.