Prestige – PRLP 7128Rec. Dates : October 9 & December 12, 1952, September 29 & December 24, 1953, December 7, 1954 Vocals : King Pleasure, Annie Ross(Extensive credits in liner notes) Listning to Prestige : #66, #72, #93, #99, #128Stream this Album Billboard : 04/07/1958Special Merit Jazz Album Pleasure and Miss Ross gained fame by adding lyrics to great…
Prestige – PRLP 7127Rec. Date : October 18, 1957 Tenor Sax : Paul QuinichetteBass : Walter PageDrums : Jo JonesGuitar : Freddie GreenPiano : Nat PierceTrumpet : Shad Collins Listening to Prestige : #216Stream this Album Billboard : 03/31/1958Four stars This tribute to the Count by a group of top jazzmen will interest a lot…
Prestige – PRLP 7126Rec. Date : December 7, 1956 Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Kenny DrewVocal : Earl Coleman Listening to Prestige : #196Stream this Album Billboard : 02/24/1958Three stars This album is truly a tour de force for Sonny Rollins. He gets a chance on almost every…
Columbia – CL 590Rec. Dates : December 1953, March 30 & July 22, 1954 Stream this Album Piano : Dave BrubeckAlto Sax : Paul DesmondBass : Bob Bates, Ron CrottyDrums : Joe Dodge Billboard : 11/20/1954Score of 86 Dave Brubeck, now riding with one of the highest-selling jazz albums of 1954, could have another solid…
Savoy – MG 15050Rec. Date : October 31, 1954 Stream this Album Bass : Charles MingusAlto Sax : John LaPortaBaritone Sax : Teo Macero, George BarrowClarinet : John LaPortaDrums : Rudy NicholsPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Teo Macero, George Barrow MetronomeBill Coss : April, 1955LP Rating: B+ This LP, the best Mingus has…
Candid – CJM-8011 / CJS-9011Rec. Date : 11/25/1960Stream this Album Trumpet : Benny BaileyAlto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Buddy CatlettBass Clarinet : Phil WoodsDrums : Art TaylorFlute : Les SpannFrench Horn : Julius WatkinsGuitar : Les SpannPiano : Tommy Flanagan Cashbox : 04/15/1961 From the sounds of this album, Benny Bailey is sorely…
Blue Note – BLP 4034Rec. Date : 04/28/1960 Trumpet : Lee MorganAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Art BlakeyPiano : Bobby Timmons Strictlyheadies : 09/21/2019Stream this Album Cashbox : 04/29/1961 This is essentially a Jazz Messengers date with an expanded spotlight on Lee Morgan. Blakey is here to lay down a vitally…
Blue Note – BLP 4033Rec. Date : May 12, 1960 Trumpet : Dizzy ReeceBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Walter Bishop, Jr. Strictlyheadies : 09/20/2019Stream this Album Cashbox : 09/17/1960 The open-horned honesty, the straight-from-the-shoulder sincerity and clarity that Reece displays right from the opening bars of “A Ghost of a Chance” makes…
Blue Note – BLP 4032Rec. Dates : December 5, 1959, January 23, 1960 Alto Sax : Sonny RedBass : Sam Jones, Paul ChambersDrums : Roy Brooks, Jimmy CobbPiano : Wynton Kelly Strictlyheadies : 09/19/2019Stream this Album Down Beat : 12/08/1960Pete Welding : 3 stars It’s almost inevitable that 27-year-old Red, who here makes his recording…
Blue Note – BLP 4030Rec. Date : January 4, 1960 Organ : Jimmy SmithDrums : Donald BaileyGuitar : Quentin Warren Strictlyheadies : 09/06/2019Stream this Album Cashbox : 09/03/1960 One of the few organists who can really swing the thing, Smith guides his instrument over the rippling waves of A Night in Tunisia, Mack the Knife, Makin’ Whoopee and What’s New,…
