Blue Note – BLP 1525Rec. Dates : June 17 & 18, 1956 Stream this Album Organ : Jimmy SmithDrums : Donald BaileyGuitar : Thornel Schwartz Billboard : 10/27/1956Score of 79 Smith’s first two LPs have restored the legitimacy of the organ as a jazz instrument – and also have established Smith as one of the…
Blue Note – BLP 1523Rec. Dates : May 29, 1956, May 30, 1956 Stream this Album Guitar : Kenny BurrellBass : Paul ChambersCongas : CándidoDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : Tommy Flanagan Billboard : 09/29/1956Score of 76 This is another of those Blue Note “firsts” that should become valuable inventory in time. Burrell is certainly one…
Blue Note – BLP 1522Rec. Date : February 21, 1954 Stream this Album Drums : Art BlakeyAlto Sax : Lou DonaldsonAnnouncer : Pee Wee MarquetteBass : Curley RussellPiano : Horace SilverTrumpet : Clifford Brown Billboard : 01/05/1957Score of 81 Tremendous modern “hard bop” session cut at the jazz clue during working hours in 1954. Line-up…
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 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 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…
