The ART PEPPER QUARTET (Omnivore) CD 2017 remaster + 16 page booklet Alto Saxophone – Art Pepper Bass – Ben Tucker Drums – Gary Frommer Piano – Russ Freeman Recorded 1956. Remastered in 2017 by Michael Graves. Tracks 1-7 were originally issued on THE ART PEPPER QUARTET (Tampa) LP Tracks 8 to 12 are bonus tracks - not on the original LP Tracks 8-12 originally issued on THE ART PEPPER QUARTET (Toy's Factory/Tampa) LP & on an Original Jazz Classics CD. Excellent music presented in superb sound!
FOREST FLOWER - CHARLES LLOYD AT MONTEREY (Atlantic) CD - 24-bit remaster Bass – Cecil McBee Drums – Jack DeJohnette Piano – Keith Jarrett Tenor Saxophone & Flute – Charles Lloyd Recorded live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1966. Prior to getting a copy of this 5 track album - which was delivered yesterday - this was the only Charles Lloyd Atlantic album I hadn't heard before. It was great to eventually get to hear the two Charles Lloyd compositions - 'Forest Flower - Sunrise' & 'Forest Flower - Sunset' as well as Keith Jarrett's 'Sorcery' & Cecil McBee's 'Song Of Her'. Sections of the 10 minute plus version of Brooks Bowman's 'East Of The Sun' are a bit more of a challenging listen and may take a bit more "getting into".
ASCD - 5 [Antti Sarpila] - Antti Sarpila & UMO Jazz Orchestra " A Tribute To Benny Goodman" - rec 1991 [live] - Engineer: Tarmo Haatanen (Finnish Broadcasting Company)
All very first pressings - call me nuts, but that's how I limit my purchases (not the only reason, of course, there are many). I don't like to buy too many records at once, because I know I won't listen to them as much as I should. I traded in at least 50 records this year to make sure I only have records I really want in my possession. Having a certain budget and buying only so much records per month gives me enough time to appreciate every LP and revisit some older LPs also.
KENNY BARRON THE ART OF CONVERSATION DAVE HOLLAND (Impulse!) CD A pleasant sounding duo album with Kenny on piano & Dave on double bass. The album was recorded in 2014 & issued in the EU in gatefold cardboard sleeve with 12 page booklet.
Thread search reveals I listened to this one about a year ago! DIG - MILES DAVIS FEATURING SONNY ROLLINS (Prestige/OJC) CD - 1991 remaster with Miles Davis (trumpet), Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Walter Bishop (piano), Tommy Porter (bass), Art Blakey (drums) Recorded 1951. Digital remastering by Joe Tarantino at Fantasy.
Another Miles revive from the same period. MILES DAVIS and horns (Prestige/OJC) CD - 1989 remaster featuring Al Cohn | Zoot Sims | John Lewis | Sonny Rollins 9 track CD covering two different sessions. Tracks 1-4 recorded 1953 with - Miles Davis (trumpet), Sonny Truitt (trombone), Al Cohn / Zoot Sims (tenor sax), John Lewis (piano), Leonard Gaskin (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums) Tracks 5-9 recorded 1951 with - Miles Davis (trumpet), Bennie Green (trombone), Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (bass), Roy Haynes (drums) CD digital mastering by Kirk Felton. Track 8 is an alternate version of 'Blue Room' which was originally issued on 'Early Miles'. On this CD edition you can just about hear some vinyl crackles near the end of the track.
Monday Mingus Masterpiece . . . 1963/2015 Superior Viaduct – SV065, Universal Music Special Markets – B0021507-01
Cookin’ with Lee Morgan and the latest Blue Note Tone Poet release . . . 1958/2020 Blue Note – BST-81578 Blue Note Tone Poet Series – KPG@CA
Re-spinning this latest Tone Poet release — I just love it . . . 1962/2020 Blue Note – B0031461-01, UnitedArtists Jazz – B0031461-01, United Artists Jazz–UAJS 15017 Blue Note Tone Poet Series – KPG&JH@CA
ALL MILES THE PRESTIGE ALBUMS - MILES DAVIS - (Prestige/OJC) 14CD Box Once I started dipping into this box the other day the desire to listen to all the albums again (in chronological order of course) took hold. The discs/mastering is fine but the clunky fat boy style packaging is poor. The discs do not have individual sleeves and the actual box itself is made from very thin cardboard which is about as thick as what you would get for cereals packaging.
An absolute favourite — Trane’s only Blue Note session as leader . . . 1957/2019 (SRX) Music Matters Ltd. – MMBLP-1577, Blue Note – BLP 1577 Blue Note The Definitive Vinyl Reissue Series – KPG&RR@CA
