Prestige – PRLP 7062Rec. Date : August 3, 1956 Trumpet : Donald Byrd, Art FarmerAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsFlugelhorn : Art FarmerDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Barry Harris Listening to Prestige : #182Stream this Album Billboard : 01/26/1957Score of 78 The trumpets of Farmer and Byrd are framed in a familiar setting: Jackie McLean on alto, Barry Harris on piano, Art Taylor on drums and Doug Watkins on bass. Farmer and…
Prestige – PRLP 7061Rec. Date : July 20, 1956 Tenor Sax : Hank MobleyAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorTrumpet : Donald ByrdPiano : Barry Harris Listening to Prestige : #180Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 01/19/1957Score of 78 Mobley‘s long-lined offerings in the framework of the Jazz Messengers are now well-known to all aficionados of the more…
Prestige – PRLP 7060Rec. Date : July 13, 1956 Tenor Sax : Gene AmmonsAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Mal WaldronTrumpet : Donald Byrd, Art Farmer Listening to Prestige : #178Stream this Album Down Beat : 01/23/1957Nat Hentoff : 3 stars Except for most of the leader’s contributions, this is a blowing session with some areas of…
Prestige – PRLP 7058Rec. Dates : August 18, 1954, October 25, 1954 Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : Tommy Potter, Percy HeathDrums : Art Blakey, Art TaylorPiano : Elmo Hope, Thelonious MonkTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Listening to Prestige : #118, #123Stream this Album Liner Notes by Ira Gitler When the title Movin’ Out is applied to this album, it bears no reference to leaving one…
Prestige – PRLP 7048Rec. Dates : July 13, 1956, July 20, 1956 Alto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Hank MobleyTrumpet : Donald Byrd Listening to Prestige : #179Stream this Album Billboard : 11/24/1956Score of 77 Altoist McLean is heard in three different frameworks. In the quartet he is assisted by Mal Waldron,…
Prestige – PRLP 7044Rec. Dates : January 30, 1953, March 16, 1956 Trumpet : Miles DavisBass : Paul Chambers, Percy HeathDrums : Art Taylor, Philly Joe JonesPiano : Tommy Flanagan, Walter BishopTenor Sax : Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker Listening to Prestige : #79, #166Stream this Album Pittsburgh Courier : 12/15/1956Harold L. Keith : 4 stars This is one of those things where one is hard pressed…
Prestige – PRLP 7039Rec. Date : April 23, 1956 Tenor Sax : Gene AmmonsAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Addison FarmerCongas : CandidoDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Duke JordanTrumpet : Art Farmer Listening to Prestige : #169Stream this Album Billboard : 07/28/1956Score of 81 Ammons‘ tenor has not been conspicuous on the jazz scene the past few years, but the warmth and facility…
Prestige – PRLP 7032Rec. Date : January 20, 1956 Piano : George WallingtonAlto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Art TaylorTrumpet : Donald Byrd Listening to Prestige : #163Stream this Album Billboard : 07/14/1956Score of 80 Wallington continues to improve as a pianist, and here, in company with some of the brighter young virtuosi, he delivers his most salable set…
Prestige – PRLP 7021Rec. Date : October 4, 1955 Piano : Elmo HopeBass : John OreDrums : Art TaylorTenor Sax : Frank FosterTrumpet : Lee Freeman Listening to Prestige : #154Album is Not Streamable Down Beat : 09/05/1956Nat Hentoff : 3.5 stars On Hope Meets Foster, Basie tenorman Frank Foster blows with pianist Elmo Hope, bassist John Ore, drummer Arthur Taylor, and on three numbers, trumpeter Lee…
Blue Note – BLP 1594Rec. Date : March 30, 1958 Trumpet : Louis SmithBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Sonny ClarkTenor Sax : Charlie Rouse Strictlyheadies : 05/14/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 08/11/1958Two stars Louis Smith, whose trumpet style is derivative of both Parker and Miles Davis, appears to be turning into one of the more capable of modern trumpet men according…
