GRANT GREEN FUNK IN FRANCE (Resonance/Ina) 2CD - issued 2018 aka - FROM PARIS TO ANTIBES [1969-1970] This is a great sounding double album, mastered by Fran Gala and issued in attractive triple digipak with 48 page booklet included. It always manages to sound so fresh every time I hear it. Disc 1 was mainly recorded at la Maison de la radio in Paris 1969. Disc 2 was recorded live at the Antibes Jazz Festival, 1970.
THE CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET / FOREST FLOWER - AT MONTEREY / ATLANTIC / 1966 / FIRST US MONO PRESSING 1473 LP Jazz is not usually associated with the hippie movement of the late 60's - but if one record could qualify as such an accompanying soundtrack, it would have to be "Forest Flower" by Charles Lloyd.
Pretty slow here these days, it used to be so dynamic. Bud Powell: The Complete Blue Note & Roost Recordings Blue Note, 1994
DAVE BRUBECK OCTET - (Fantasy/ OJC) CD 1991 remaster Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond Baritone Saxophone – Bob Collins Bass – Jack Weeks Clarinet – William O. Smith Drums – Cal Tjader Piano – Dave Brubeck Tenor Saxophone – David Van Kriedt Trumpet – Dick Collins Wonderful compilation of the Octet's complete initial recordings (1946 and 1950). These are all remarkable recordings considering the time period and were originally issued on 7" Fantasy & 10" Fantasy LPs. The CD was remastered by Kirk Felton.
Next up - the first two original Dave Brubeck Quartet recordings (on 1 CD) Fantasy presents brubeck | desmond - THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET (Fantasy) CD remaster 18 track (mono) recorded 1951/1952 - Japanese DSD CD remastered 2007. Music & sound quality is exceptionallly good. This CD edition includes the first two Dave Brubeck Quartet (10") albums plus two selections from the 1956 Fantasy LP Jazz From The Blackhawk (aka Two Knights At The Blackhawk).
Happy birthday to jazz pianist and composer, Andrew Hill – born June 30, 1931. This morning, in celebration of the occasion, I'm spinning a trio of his recent Blue Note reissues . . . First up, the controversial "warbly" Black Fire . . . 1964/2019 Blue Note – ST-84151 Blue Note Tone Poet Series – KPG&JH@CA Recorded in 1963, but not released until 1966 – a unique session, featuring two bass players . . . 1966/2020 Blue Note – ST-84160 Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series – KPG@CA Maybe saving the best for last, this one is just about as good as avant-garde jazz gets — an extraordinary masterpiece, Andrew Hill is backed by a stellar line-up of musicians on one of my all-time favourite Blue Note sessions . . . 1965/2010 Music Matters Ltd. – MMBST-84167, Blue Note – BST 84167 Blue Note The Definitive 45 RPM Reissue Series – KPG&SH@ATM
Hey guys, if anyone is interested, I made a new Blue Note 80 Poll – come over and vote/comment: POLL: Blue Note's 80th Anniversary Series (2020)
The 2007 DSD edition (cat. number UCCO-5110) is not an easy edition to find - but it is out there! Brubeck / Desmond Brubeck/Desmond The Dave Brubeck Quartet CD Album According to Amazon UK the 2007 (where I got it from) it is a 'Limited Edition' https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008H7HVF0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 *Incidentally the two Jazz At The Blackhawk tracks included on this edition were recorded 1952 or 1953 but not issued by Fantasy until 1956.
Brubeck Live! JAZZ AT OBERLIN - THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET (OJC/Fantasy) CD Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond Bass – Ron Crotty Drums – Lloyd Davis Piano – Dave Brubeck Recorded live in Finney Chapel, Oberlin College in Ohio, March 2, 1953. CD issued in 2010 and remastered in 24-bit by Joe Tarantino.. * Note * 'Pablo' on CD face rather than 'Fantasy'.
JAZZ at the College of the Pacific Volume 2 - Dave Brubeck Quartet (OJC/Fantasy) CD remaster Another excellent early album (1953) from the Quartet. Music and sound quality on this live recording is suberb and it's all a genuine delight from start to finish!
Alan Douglas produced a five lp series called Wildflowers...The New York Loft Jazz Sessions. The 7 evening sessions from which this series is based took place at the loft home of Sam Rivers. The music is so good I can only dream what the other 358 days of the year sounded like. Features Sam Rivers, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Ken McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, Sunny Murray, David Murray, Air (Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins, Steve McCall)...among others.
One of Dave Brubeck Quartet's earliest Columbia releases... JAZZ GOES TO COLLEGE - THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET (Columbia/Jazz Masterworks) CD Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond Bass – Bob Bates Drums – Joe Dodge Piano – Dave Brubeck Recorded live in March 1954 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, & Oberlin College, Ohio. CD version issued in a single cardboard sleeve in the 5CD box Original Album Classics (Vol.2)
BRUBECK plays BRUBECK - DAVE BRUBECK (Columbia/Jazz Masterworks) CD - original compositions for solo piano - Recorded by Dave Brubeck in his own home late at night after his family went to bed (mentioned in his liner notes). Original LP album released 1956. A fine solo piano record that stands up to repeated hearings.
