Contemporary – M3562Rec. Date : June 9, 1958Stream this Album Piano : Cecil TaylorBass : Buell NeidlingerDrums : Dennis CharlesVibra-harp : Earl Griffith Billboard : 11/23/1959 The Cecil Taylor Quartet has a six-track set that swings all the way. Taylor’s style is his own, and the interplay he achieves with vibra-harpist Earl Griffith on…
Prestige – PRLP 7146Rec. Date : May 2, 1958 Tenor Sax : Gene AmmonsBaritone Sax : Pepper AdamsBass : Doug WatkinsCongas : Ray BarrettoDrums : Arthur TaylorPiano : Mal WaldronTrumpet : Idrees Suileman Listening to Prestige : #274Stream this Album MetronomeBill Coss : August, 1959 Mal wrote all the lines and, as is most often…
Columbia – CL 1307Rec. Dates : December 17 & 23, 1958, January 15, 1959Stream this Album Baritone Sax : Gerry MulliganBass : Bill CrowDrums : Dave BaileyTrumpet : Art Farmer Accompanying Longread: New Yorker Profile of Gerry Mulligan, March 1959 (21,000 words) Cashbox : 04/18/1959 Mulligan’s ubiquitous baritone sax is once again an LP…
Atlantic – 1317Rec. Date : May 22, 1959 Stream this Album Alto Sax : Ornette ColemanBass : Charlie HadenCornet : Don CherryDrums : Billy Higgins Billboard : 11/09/1959 Ornette Coleman is one of the controversial new artists to spring from the modern jazz scene. By some he is considered an important new innovator and creator;…
Verve – MGV-8205Rec. Date : January 13, 1956Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Lester YoungBass : Gene RameyDrums : Jo JonesPiano : Teddy Wilson Additional Background Reading on Lester Young and his place in Jazz History: The Parent Style – April, 1949 Lester Young interview – February, 1959 The Jazz Panorama – April, 1959…
United Artists – UAL 4029Rec. Date : January 30, 1959Stream this Album Alto Sax : Frank StrozierBass : Jamil NasserDrums : Charles CrosbyGuitar : Calvin NewbornPiano : Phineas Newborn, Jr.Tenor Sax : George ColemanTrumpet : Booker Little, Louis Smith Billboard : 07/20/1959 Fine four-track package offers some time solo and group work on the parts of the principals. Star Eyes is an especially rewarding…
Blue Note – BLP 4017Rec. Dates : August 29 & 30, 1959, September 13, 1959 Stream this Album Piano : Horace SilverBass : Gene TaylorDrums : Louis HayesTenor Sax : Junior CookTrumpet : Blue Mitchell Billboard : 11/23/1959 Real funky jazz in the progressive vein is this new Horace Silver LP, with all seven tunes…
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…
