Blue Note – BLP 4015Rec. Date : April 15, 1959 Drums : Art BlakeyBass : Jymie MerrittPiano : Bobby TimmonsTenor Sax : Hank MobleyTrumpet : Lee Morgan Strictlyheadies : 08/04/2019Stream this Album Down Beat : 01/07/1960John S. Wilson : 2 stars The Jazz Messengers hit a high point in their next to last edition, which consisted of Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Jymie…
Riverside – RLP 12-311Rec. Dates : 10/18 & 10/20/1959Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyBass : Sam JonesCornet : Nat AdderleyDrums : Louis HayesPiano : Bobby Timmons Billboard : 12/28/1959 Cannonball and company generate a lot of live excitement on this “on location” assignment. The set was cut at San Francisco’s Jazz Workshop, with Adderley introducing the numbers. The…
Riverside – RLP 12-298Rec. Dates : February 19, March 10, April 20, 1959Stream this Album Piano : Wynton KellyBass : Paul ChambersCornet : Nat AdderleyDrums : Jimmy CobbFlute : Bobby JasparTenor Sax : Benny Golson Cashbox : 09/12/1959 Kelly, Miles Davis‘ pianist and one of the top new pianists on the scene, leads his own recording group here on a bill…
Riverside – RLP 12-286Rec. Date : 10/28/1958Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyBass : Percy HeathDrums : Art BlakeyPiano : Wynton KellyVibes : Milt Jackson Boston GlobeRalph J. Gleason : 03/25/1959 Today you can with considerable safety order any LP that has Cannonball Adderley on it and be sure it’s a valuable jazz album. And when you have Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Art…
Blue Note – BLP 4014Rec. Dates : September 16 & 28 1958, February 11, 1959 Bass : Andy SimpkinsDrums : Bill DowdyPiano : Gene Harris Strictlyheadies : 07/31/2019Stream this Album Cashbox : 08/01/1959 Comprised of Gene Harris, piano and celeste; Andrew Simpkins, bass; and Bill Dowdy, drums, the Three Sounds offer their jazz interpretation of eight pop tunes, among them Besame Mucho, Angel Eyes, I…
Blue Note – BLP 4013Rec. Date : May 2, 1959 Alto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Pete La RocaPiano : Walter Davis, Jr.Trumpet : Donald Byrd Strictlyheadies : 07/30/2019Stream this Album Cashbox : 10/31/1959 McLean is one of the individual and important new alto voices today and this Blue Note date enables him to demonstrate his surging, hard driving…
Blue Note – BLP 4012Rec. Date : February 18, 1959 Alto Sax : Lou DonaldsonBass : Andy SimpkinsDrums : Bill DowdyPiano : Gene Harris Strictlyheadies : 07/27/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 11/23/1959 Altoist Lou Donaldson is featured with the Three (Gene Harris, Andy Simpkins, Bill Dowdy) Sounds here and the merger is a good one. Donaldson blows brightly and the rhythm group backs him…
Blue Note – BLP 4011Rec. Dates : August 25, 1957, February 25, 1958 Organ : Jimmy SmithAlto Sax : George Coleman, Lou DonaldsonDrums : Donald Bailey, Art BlakeyGuitar : Eddie McFadden, Kenny BurrellTenor Sax : Tina BrooksTrombone : Curtis FullerTrumpet : Lee Morgan Strictlyheadies : 07/24/2019Stream this Album Delaware County Daily TimesBill Kagler : 02/12/1960 Sixteen years ago, a 14-year-old pianist was pulled off the bandstand…
Columbia – CL 1347Rec. Dates : April 22/23, 1959Stream this Album Piano : Dave BrubeckAlto Sax : Paul DesmondBass : Eugene WrightDrums : Joe Morello Billboard : 08/24/1959 The Brubeck Quartet has another likely big seller with their latest. Set includes a group of standards and folk tunes. As usual, Paul Desmond on alto and Joe Morello lend first rate backing. Gene Wright is on bass. Tunes…
Blue Note – BLP 4010Rec. Date : January 25, 1959 Trombone : Bennie GreenBass : George TuckerDrums : Al DrearesTenor Sax : Eddy WilliamsPiano : Gildo Mahones Strictlyheadies : 07/23/2019Stream this Album San Francisco ExaminerC.H. Garrigues : 06/14/1959 Walkin’ and Talkin’ shows Bennie Green as a solider, more imaginative trombonist than I remembered him and, in addition displays an astonishingly competent new (to…
