Norgran – MGN 2000Rec. Date : November 8, 1954, November 9, 1954Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Stan GetzBass : Bill AnthonyDrums : Art Mardigan, Frank IsolaPiano : John WilliamsValve Trombone : Bob Brookmeyer Billboard : 04/02/1955Score of 80 With an ambitious concert album like this under his belt, Stan Getz may be said to have gotten the final measure of recognition of…
Pacific – PJ-1201Rec. Dates : November 12, 1954, December 14, 1954Album is Not Streamable Baritone Sax : Gerry MulliganBass : Red MitchellDrums : Chico Hamilton, Larry BunkerPiano : Gerry Mulligan, Bob BrookmeyerTenor Sax : Zoot SimsTrumpet : Jon EardleyValve Trombone : Bob Brookmeyer Billboard : 05/07/1955Score of 81 In December, 1954, Mulligan temporarily disbanded his quartet. Two of the last concerts before doing so…
Pacific – PJ-1209Rec. Dates : August 4, 1955, August 23, 1955Stream this Album Drums : Chico HamiltonAlto Sax : Buddy ColletteBass : Carson SmithCello : Fred KatzClarinet : Buddy ColletteGuitar : Jim HallFlute : Buddy ColletteTenor Sax : Buddy Collette Billboard : 12/03/1955Score of 74 Interesting, off-beat jazz that sounds more Julliard than jungle. Fred Katz‘ cello is the really “different”…
Savoy – MG 12017Rec. Dates : June 28, 1955, July 14, 1955Stream this Album Drums : Kenny ClarkeAlto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyBass : Paul ChambersCornet : Nat AdderleyFlute : Jerome RichardsonPiano : Horace Silver, Hank JonesTenor Sax : Jerome RichardsonTrumpet : Donald Byrd Billboard : 12/03/1955Score of 76 Some of the freshest, most imaginative jazz sounds around have been etched into this fine…
Atlantic – 1217Rec. Dates : June 14, 1955, June 15, 1955Stream this Album Alto Sax : Lee KonitzTenor Sax : Warne MarshBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Kenny ClarkeGuitar : Billy BauerPiano : Sal Mosca, Ronnie Ball Billboard : 12/17/1955Score of 80 This album is remarkable not only for the superb modern musicianship of Konitz (on alto) and Marsh (on tenor), but for their successful use of…
Atlantic – 1220Rec. Dates : March 29, 1955, April 1, 1955Stream this Album Trumpet : Tony FruscellaBaritone Sax : Danny BankBass : Bill AnthonyDrums : Junior BradleyPiano : Bill TrigliaTenor Sax : Allen EagerTrombone : Chauncey Welsch Billboard : 12/03/1955Score of 75 Here’s one that should kick up some excitement along critics’ row, and eventually garner good sales therefrom. Fruscella is a brand…
Atlantic – 1223Rec. Date : May 11, 1955, May 12, 1955Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Jack MontroseBaritone Sax : Bob GordonBass : Red MitchellDrums : Shelly MannePiano : Paul Moer Billboard : 11/26/1955Spotlight on… selection It takes an album like this to indicate the full extent of the loss to modern jazz in the recent death of Bob Gordon at 28.…
Capitol – T6510Rec. Dates : April 4, 1955, April 5, 1955Stream this Album Baritone Sax : Serge ChaloffAlto Sax : Boots MussulliBass : Everett EvansDrums : Jimmy ZitanoPiano : Ray SantisiTrumpet : Herb Pomeroy Cashbox : 10/01/1955 The Kenton Presents Jazz series offers a new sextet featuring the baritone sax of Serge Chaloff, supported by Boots Mussulli, alto sax; Herb Pomeroy, trumpet; Ray Santisi,…
Clef – MG C-640Rec. Date : December 14, 1954Album is Not Streamable Baritone Sax : Harry CarneyBass : Wendell MarshallBass Clarinet : Harry CarneyClarinet : Jimmy HamiltonDrums : Louis BellsonFrench Horn : Tony MirandaGuitar : Billy BauerPiano : Leroy LovettStrings : UnknownTenor Sax : Jimmy HamiltonTrumpet : Ray Nance Billboard : 04/23/1955Score of 74 There can be few interested in jazz who are…
Clef – MG C-641Rec. Date : October 29, 1954Stream this Album Trumpet : Roy Eldridge, Dizzy GillespieBass : Ray BrownDrums : Louis BellsonGuitar : Herb EllisPiano : Oscar PetersonVocals : Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie Billboard : 03/19/1955Score of 79 Roy and Diz playing together? Hard to believe, but true. These two great trumpet players, the outstanding stars of two different jazz eras, combine for…
