Atlantic – 1224Rec. Date : xx/xx/1955, June 11, 1955 Stream this Album Piano : Lennie TristanoAlto Sax : Lee KonitzBass : Peter Ind, Gene RameyDrums : Jeff Morton, Arthur Taylor Billboard : 3/24/1956Score of 77 Pioneering modernist Tristano has his first album in several years. As expected, there are some strikingly original ideas advanced, but…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-129Rec. Dates : July 23, 1956, August 1, 1956 Stream this Album Guitar : Jimmy RaneyValve Trombone : Bob BrookmeyerBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Osie JohnsonPiano : Dick Katz, Hank Jones Billboard : 11/03/1956Score of 78 In this LP, guitarist Raney is framed by B. Brookmeyer on valve trombone and three rhythm. The…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-122Rec. Date : April, 1956 Stream this Album Trumpet : Kenny DorhamBass : Sam JonesDrums : Arthur EdgehillPiano : Dick KatzTenor Sax : J.R. Monterose Billboard : 09/01/1956Score of 73 Ex-jazz Messenger Dorham in his first disk with his new group. The idiom is rugged post-bop, like the Messengers, but Dorham’s trumpet is…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-112Rec. Date : January 1, 1956, January 2, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Billboard : 04/14/1956Score of 80 In this, even more than in his previous LPs on Prestige, the incomparable modern jazz pianist offers turns and style and facility to satisfy all varieties…
Riverside – RLP 12-202 Rec. Date : August, 1953 Album is Not Streamable Piano : Joe Sullivan Bass : Dave Lario Drums : Smokey Stover Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) Maitland Zane : 03/18/1956 Under the Riverside label this week are three 12-inches by three pianists, all exceptionally well-recorded. For his efforts, the veteran Chicagoan Joe…
Riverside – RLP 12-214Rec. Dates : March 14, 1956, March 21, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Randy WestonBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : Ahmed Abdul-MalikDrums : Wilbert Hogan Billboard : 10/13/1956Score of 71 The critics’ New Star pianist isn’t at his most impressive in this set, tho an element is added in the shape…
Riverside – RLP 12-209Rec. Dates : March 17, 1956, April 3, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Art Blakey Billboard : 08/25/1956Score of 77 Along with his other Riverside release, this rates as the most accessibie of all the Monk LP’s. Instead of the usual heavy emphasis on “originals,”…
Riverside – RLP 12-201Rec. Date : July 21, 1955, July 27, 1955 Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Kenny Clarke Billboard : 12/31/1955Score of 73 The diskery has hit on the all-Ellington gimmick as a method of introducing this pioneer pianist, acknowledged as a prime inventor of the idiom, to…
Prestige – PRLP 7061 Rec. Date : July 20, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Hank Mobley Alto Sax : Jackie McLean Bass : Doug Watkins Drums : Art Taylor Trumpet : Donald Byrd Piano : Barry Harris Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #180July 20, 1956 Billboard : 01/19/1957 Score of 78 Mobley’s long-lined…
Prestige – PRLP 7060Rec. Date : July 13, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Gene AmmonsAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Mal WaldronTrumpet : Donald Byrd, Art Farmer Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #178July 13, 1956 MetronomeJack Maher : January, 1957 Jammin’ with Gene, which serves as a…
