Blue Note – BLP 1521Rec. Date : February 21, 1954 Stream this Album Drums : Art BlakeyAlto Sax : Lou DonaldsonAnnouncer : Pee Wee MarquetteBass : Curley RussellPiano : Horace SilverTrumpet : Clifford Brown Featured LinksFull Vinyl VideoBlueNote33RPM Billboard : 09/01/1956Score of 78 Re-issue of material formerly on 10-inch, and worthy inventory for all ships…
Blue Note – BLP 1520Rec. Dates : October 9, 1952, October 20, 1952, November 23, 1953 Piano : Horace SilverBass : Gene Ramey, Curley Russell, Percy HeathDrums : Art Blakey, Sabú Martínez Strictlyheadies : 01/28/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 01/19/1957Score of 77 Re-issue of material previously available on Blue Note 10-inch LPs Nos BLP 5018 and BLP 5034. The silver trio sides…
Blue Note – BLP 1519Rec. Date : August 1, 1955, August 7, 1955, April 19, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Herbie NicholsBass : Al McKibbon, Teddy KotickDrums : Max Roach Billboard : 10/20/1956Score of 76 In jazz avant-garde circles Herbie Nichols has been touted for some time as one of “the” pianists to watch.…
Blue Note – BLP 1518Rec. Dates : November 13, 1954, February 6, 1955 Stream this Album Piano : Horace SilverBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art BlakeyTenor Sax : Hank MobleyTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Billboard : 10/06/1956Score of 77 Two earlier Blue Note 10-inchers are combined. Half were originally grouped under the Silver Quintet, which, on…
Blue Note – BLP 1517Rec. Date : April 1, 1956 Stream this Album Baritone Sax : Gil MelléBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Ed ThigpenGuitar : Joe CinderellaTrombone : Eddie Bert Cashbox : 10/27/1956 This five man combo, headed here by Gil Mellé (baritone sax), swing lightly but persuasively through several Mellé composed numbers and two…
Blue Note – BLP 1516Rec. Date : April 5, 1956 Piano : Jutta HippBass : Peter IndDrums : Ed Thigpen Strictlyheadies : 01/24/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 12/02/1957Score of 67 Miss Hipp is impressive in the way she gets around the piano, and for her facility with jazz language. However, the fire and uniformity of performance of the “important” jazz…
Blue Note – BLP 1515Rec. Date : April 5, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Jutta HippBass : Peter IndDrums : Ed Thigpen Saturday ReviewWhitney Balliett : 08/11/1956 Miss Hipp is a thirty-one-year-old German-born pianist who settled here last fall. This was made one night recently at the Hickory House in New York. Peter Ind…
Blue Note – BLP 1514Rec. Date : March 27, 1956 Stream this Album Organ : Jimmy SmithDrums : Donald BaileyGuitar : Thornel Schwartz Billboard : 05/26/1956 In New York this past winter, Smith occasioned much interest with his unusual jazz work on the Hammond organ. Count Basie and others have found this instrument to have…
Blue Note – BLP 1513Rec. Date : March 13, 1956 Stream this Album Trumpet : Thad JonesBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Shadow WilsonGuitar : Kenny BurrellPiano : Tommy FlanaganTenor Sax : Billy Mitchell Saturday ReviewWhitney Balliett : 08/11/1956 Thad Jones (no relation to Jonah), the Detroit trumpeter now with Basie, is rapidly moving into the…
Blue Note – BLP 1512Rec. Date : February 18, 1956 Stream this Album Organ : Jimmy SmithDrums : Bay PerryGuitar : Thornel Schwartz Billboard : 07/21/1956Score of 77 The Jimmy Smith LP with the title reviewed in The Billboard May 26, 1956, issue was Volume II of a series. The first set more than confirms…
