Savoy – MG 12083Rec. Date : April 30, 1956, May 9, 1956Stream this Album (YT only) Baritone Sax : Pepper AdamsBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Kenny ClarkeGuitar : Kenny BurrellPiano : Tommy Flanagan Billboard : 02/16/1957Score of 75 With the exception of Kenny Clarke, the quintet on this date have a Detroit origin in common. Most have come on the modern jazz…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-134Rec. Date : January 1956Stream this Album Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Billboard : 01/12/1957Score of 80 This LP might be subtitled “Study in piano styles.” Taylor has outdone himself to find a distinctive way of presenting each selection in the set; as a result, a many-faceted program is offered here. London House, is…
Vanguard – VRS-8503Rec. Dates : August 11, 1955, August 16, 1955Stream this Album Drums : Jo JonesBass : Walter PageClarinet : Rudy PowellGuitar : Freddie GreenePiano : Count Basie, Nat PierceTenor Saxophone : Lucky ThompsonTrombone : Bennie Green, Lawrence BrownTrumpet : Emmett Berry Billboard : 01/14/1956Score of 78 To all who can’t understand the current Basie boom, and certainly to those who do, this set is urgently…
Storyville – STLP 907Rec. Date : January 31, 1956Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Zoot SimsBass : Wyatt ReutherDrums : Gus JohnsonPiano : Hank JonesValve Trombone : Bob BrookmeyerVocals : Zoot Sims San Francisco ChronicleRalph J. Gleason : 06/26/1956 A tall, sandy-haired young man by the name of Zoot Sims is one of the few good tenor saxophone players who hasn’t half…
Savoy – MG 12063Rec. Date : January 19, 1956Stream this Album Trumpet : Joe WilderBass : Wendell MarshallDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : Hank Jones Billboard : 06/02/1956Score of 80 Trumpeter Wilder, on the basis of this program, should become a much bigger jazz name. He gets a gorgeous, full tone and plays like a warmer, tastier edition of Charlie Shavers. Also,…
Roost – RLP 2208Rec. Dates : December 15, 1955, December 16, 1955Stream this Album (YT only) Alto Saxophone : Sonny StittBass : Wendell MarshallDrums : Shadow WilsonGuitar : Freddie GreenePiano : Hank Jones Billboard : 05/05/1956Score of 79 The heir-apparent to the “top alto sax man” crown of the late and great Charlie Parker is generally conceded to be Sonny Stitt, who gives a…
Roost – RLP 2204Rec. Dates : September 30, 1955, October 9, 1955Stream this Album (YT only) Alto Saxophone : Sonny Stitt, Anthony OrtegaArranger/Conductor : Quincy JonesBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Jo JonesFlute : Anthony OrtegaGuitar : Freddie GreenePiano : Hank JonesTenor Saxophone : Seldon PowellTrombone : Jimmy Cleveland, J.J. JohnsonTrumpet : Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Jimmy Nottingham, Ernie Royal Billboard : 02/25/1956Score of 77 Besides Stitt on alto sax,…
RCA Victor – LPM-1162Rec. Dates : June 24, 1955, June 25, 1955Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Al Cohn, Richie Kamuca, Bill PerkinsBass : John BealDrums : Chuck FloresGuitar : Barry Galbraith, Jimmy RaneyPiano : Hank Jones Billboard : 02/56/1956Score of 77 This album must have been conceived as a hopeful experiment: Three tenor saxophones are pitted against rhythm section. Such an arrangement…
Pacific – PJ-1216Rec. Dates : November 12, 1954, January 4, 1956, February 10, 1956, February 13, 1956Stream this Album Drums : Chico HamiltonAlto Sax : Buddy ColletteBass : Carson SmithCello : Fred KatzClarinet : Buddy ColletteGuitar : Jim HallFlute : Buddy ColletteTenor Sax : Buddy Collette Billboard : 05/26/1956Spotlight on… selection Hamilton‘s first 12-inch LP (PJ 1209) was an unusual…
Pacific – PJ-1215Rec. Date : January 25, 1956Stream this Album Alto Sax : Bud ShankBass : Don PrellDrums : Chuck FloresFlute : Bud ShankPiano : Claude Williamson Billboard : 05/05/1956Score of 79 These sides were cut in January, just after Shank formed his quartet to bring into the Haig, the Wilshire Boulevard jazzery. On his own now, Shank seems to…
