Riverside – RLP 12-221Rec. Dates : July 19, 1956, August 22, 1956Stream this Album Trombone : Matthew GeeAlto Sax : Ernie HenryBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : John Simmons, Wilbur WareDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Joe KnightTenor Sax : Frank FosterTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Billboard : 01/12/1957Score of 68 Trombonist Gee plays in the romantic, robust manner of Bennie Green, and occasionally goes a little more modern.…
Riverside – RLP 12-214Rec. Dates : March 14, 1956, March 21, 1956Stream this Album Piano : Randy WestonBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : Ahmed Abdul-MalikDrums : Wilbert Hogan Billboard : 10/13/1956Score of 71 The critics’ New Star pianist isn’t at his most impressive in this set, tho an element is added in the shape of baritone saxman Cecil Payne. This…
Riverside – RLP 12-209Rec. Dates : March 17, 1956, April 3, 1956Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Art Blakey Billboard : 12/31/1955Score of 73 The diskery has hit on the all-Ellington gimmick as a method of introducing this pioneer pianist, acknowledged as a prime inventor of the idiom, to a wilder audience than he…
Riverside – RLP 12-201Rec. Date : July 21, 1955, July 27, 1955Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Kenny Clarke Billboard : 12/31/1955Score of 73 The diskery has hit on the all-Ellington gimmick as a method of introducing this pioneer pianist, acknowledged as a prime inventor of the idiom, to a wilder audience than he…
Riverside – RLP 377 / 9377Rec. Dates : February 28, 1961, May 9, 1961, May 15, 1961Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball Adderley, George DorseyArranger : Ernie Wilkins, Bob BrookmeyerBaritone Sax : Arthur ClarkeBass : Sam JonesConductor : Ernie WilkinsDrums/Percussion : Charlie Persip, Louis Hayes, Michael Olatunji, Ray BarrettoFlute : George Dorsey, Oliver Nelson, Jerome RichardsonPiano : Wynton KellyTenor Sax : Oliver Nelson, Jerome RichardsonTrumpet : Nat Adderley, Ernie…
Riverside – RLP 372 / 9372Rec. Dates : April 14, 1961, April 20, 1961Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Jimmy HeathBass : Percy HeathDrums : Albert HeathFrench Horn : Julius WatkinsPiano : Cedar WaltonTrumpet : Freddie Hubbard Philadelphia Daily NewsHarold Angel : 08/23/1961 The Heath brothers (Jimmy, Percy, Albert), comprising Philadelphia’s first family of jazz, have been reunited under Jimmy’s leadership on The Quota.…
Prestige – PRLP 7100Rec. Dates : April 19, 1957, April 24, 1957, April 26, 1957, May 1, 1957 Vocals : Barbara LeaArranger : Dick Cary Listening to Prestige : #226, #228, #231Stream this Album Billboard : 07/22/1957Score of 70 Although there are few jazz elements in this thrush’s style, jazz backing, the label and some cult attraction determine the specialty…
Prestige – PRLP 7099Rec. Dates : 1956-1957 Listening to Prestige : #200Stream this Album Billboard : 10/07/1957Score of 63 Moondog, an eccentric to most, a poet who versifies in sound to others, who plays by night in the Broadway area on an assemblage of drums, is presented on this recording verbally (in dialog with Bebe Barron) rhythmically…
Prestige – PRLP 7098Rec. Date : April 5, 1957 Piano : Ray BryantBass : Ike IsaacsDrums : Specs Wright Listening to Prestige : #221Stream this Album Billboard : 08/12/1957Special Merit Jazz Album Bryant, a fast-maturing modern pianist, in a set of sensitively turned performances. Especially laudable for his excellent touch and development of ideas to a point of eloquence…
Prestige – PRLP 7097Rec. Date : April 26, 1957 Baritone Sax : Gil MelleBass : George DuvivierDrums : Shadow WilsonGuitar : Joe Cinderella Listening to Prestige : #229Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 08/26/1957Score of 71 An emphatic modern date that sports the thoughtful, melodic compositions of baritonist Melle, some fine blowing from the leader guitarist J. Cinderella plus stellar rhythmic support from S.…
