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Ira Gitler
Writer · born 18 December 1928 – died 23 February 2019
Liner notes by Ira Gitler
1955
Miles Davis All-Stars - Vol. 1
Stan Getz - Quartets
Milt Jackson - Milt Jackson Quartet
Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee
Modern Jazz Quartet - Concorde
Gerry Mulligan - Mulligan Plays Mulligan
Miles Davis - The Musings of Miles
Wardell Gray - Memorial Volume One
1956
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Volume One
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Volume Two
Horace Silver - And The Jazz Messengers
Wardell Gray - Memorial Volume Two
Elmo Hope Trio - Meditations
James Moody - Hi Fi Party
Miles Davis - Dig
Various Artists - Conception
Miles Davis Quintet - Miles
Billy Taylor Trio - Volume One
Billy Taylor Trio - Volume Two
Art Farmer Quintet - Art Farmer Quintet
Phil Woods - Woodlore
Sonny Rollins - Worktime
Elmo Hope - Hope Meets Foster
Stan Getz / Zoot Sims / Al Cohn / Allen Eager / Brew Moore - The Brothers
J.J. Johnson / Kai Winding / Bennie Green - Trombone By Three
Sonny Stitt - With Bud Powell and J.J. Johnson
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and Horns
Zoot Sims - Quartets
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio
Teddy Charles - Collaboration West
Sonny Rollins - With the Modern Jazz Quartet
Kai and Jay / Bennie Green - With Strings
Art Farmer Septet - Plays the Arrangements and Compositions of Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones
George Wallington - Jazz for the Carriage Trade
Jon Eardley - Jon Eardley Seven
Miles Davis / Milt Jackson - Quintet / Sextet
Jackie McLean Quintet - Lights Out
James Moody - Wail Moody Wail
Tadd Dameron - Fontainebleau
Sonny Rollins - Plus Four
Gene Ammons - Hi Fidelity Jam Session
Bennie Green - With Art Farmer
Elmo Hope Sextet - Informal Jazz
Miles Davis - Collectors' Items
Earl Coleman - Earl Coleman Returns
Phil Woods Septet - Pairing Off
Sonny Rollins Quartet - Tenor Madness
Jackie McLean - 4, 5, and 6
Bennie Green - Walking Down
Gene Ammons - All-Star Sessions
Billy Taylor Trio - With Cándido
Bennie Green - Blows His Horn
Thelonious Monk - Monk
Miles Davis - Blue Haze
Clifford Brown - Memorial
James Moody - James Moody's Moods
Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
Gene Ammons All-Stars - Jammin' With Gene
Hank Mobley - Mobley's Message
1957
Horace Silver - Horace Silver Trio And Art Blakey - Sabú
Lou Donaldson Quintet - Wailing With Lou
Jimmy Smith - A Date With Jimmy Smith, Volume One
Jimmy Smith - A Date With Jimmy Smith, Volume Two
Art Blakey - Orgy in Rhythm, Volume One
Art Blakey - Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two
Johnny Griffin - A Blowing Session
Sonny Rollins - Moving Out
Modern Jazz Quartet / Milt Jackson Quintet - MJQ
Art Farmer / Donald Byrd - Two Trumpets
Gil Mellé - Gil's Guests
Red Garland Trio - A Garland of Red
Bob Brookmeyer - The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer
Freddie Redd / Hamp Hawes - Piano East / Piano West
Jackie McLean Quintet - Jackie's Pal
Tadd Dameron / John Coltrane - Mating Call
Billy Taylor - Cross Section
James Moody - Moody
Prestige All-Stars - All Night Long
Hank Mobley / Al Cohn / John Coltrane / Zoot Sims - Tenor Conclave
Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins - Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
Miles Davis All-Stars - Walkin'
Sonny Stitt - Kaleidoscope
Teddy Charles - Evolution
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Phil Woods / Donald Byrd - The Young Bloods
Prestige All-Stars - All Day Long
Hank Mobley Quintet - Mobley's 2nd Message
Gene Ammons - Funky
Thad Jones / Frank Wess / Teddy Charles / Mal Waldron / Doug Watkins / Elvin Jones - Olio
Art Farmer - When Farmer Met Gryce
Red Garland Trio - Red Garland's Piano
Jackie McLean - Jackie McLean & Co.
Kenny Burrell - Kenny Burrell
Jimmy Raney - A
Mal Waldron Quintet - Mal-1
Mose Allison - Back Country Suite
Art Farmer / Donald Byrd / Idrees Sulieman - Three Trumpets
Billy Taylor Trio - At Town Hall
Miles Davis Quintet - Cookin'
Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird
Ray Draper Quintet - Tuba Sounds
Ray Bryant Trio - Piano Piano Piano
Herbie Mann - Flute Soufflé
Prestige All-Stars - Earthy
Paul Quinichette - On the Sunny Side
John Coltrane - Coltrane
Webster Young - For Lady
Curtis Fuller - New Trombone
Prestige Jazz Quartet - Prestige Jazz Quartet
Miles Davis - Bags Groove
Gene Ammons - Jammin' in Hi Fi
Mal Waldron - Mal/2
Idrees Sulieman / Webster Young / John Coltrane / Bobby Jaspar - Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors
Red Garland - Groovy
Phil Woods / Gene Quill - Phil & Quill With Prestige
Phil Woods / Gene Quill / Sahib Shihab / Hal Stein - Four Altos
Art Taylor - Taylor's Wailers
Prestige All-Stars - After Hours
Cecil Payne - Cecil Payne
1958
Hank Mobley Sextet - Hank
Lou Donaldson Quintet - Swing and Soul
John Jenkins / Kenny Burrell - John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell
Prestige All-Stars – Roots
Jackie McLean / John Jenkins - Alto Madness
Kenny Burrell / Jimmy Raney - 2 Guitars
Gil Evans - Gil Evans & Ten
Mose Allison - Local Color
Yusef Lateef Quintet - The Sounds of Yusef
John Coltrane - Traneing In
Herbie Mann & Bobby Jaspar - Flute Flight
Steve Lacy - Soprano Sax
Sonny Rollins - Tour De Force
Paul Quinichette - For Basie
King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings
Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin'
Red Garland Quintet - All Mornin' Long
Frank Wess - Wheelin' & Dealin'
Gene Ammons - The Big Sound
Sonny Stitt - Stitt's Bits
Tommy Flanagan - Overseas
Hal McKusick - Triple Exposure
Herbie Mann - Mann in the Morning
Mose Allison - Young Man Mose
Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins - Blues Groove
Red Garland Trio - Manteca
Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Cookbook
Shirley Scott - Great Scott!
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham - Callin' the Blues
Prestige Blues-Swingers - Outskirts of Town
1959
Hank Mobley / Lee Morgan - Peckin' Time
Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk
Jimmy Smith - The Sermon
Horace Silver - Blowin' the Blues Away
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Gene Ammons - Blue Gene
Miles Davis - And the Modern Jazz Giants
1960
Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand
The Three Sounds - Good Deal
Duke Pearson - Profile
Jackie McLean - Swing Swang Swingin'
Lou Donaldson - The Time is Right
Freddie Redd Quartet - Music from The Connection
Sonny Red - Out of the Blue
Dizzy Reece - Soundin' Off
Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing
Stanley Turrentine - Look Out!
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Tina Brooks - True Blue
1961
Lee Morgan - Lee-Way
Thelonious Monk - With John Coltrane
1963
Art Blakey - Caravan