Bethlehem – BCP-6023Rec. Date : October 9 & 11, 1957Stream this Album Drums : Art BlakeyBass : Spanky DeBrestPiano : Sam Dockery, Junior ManceTenor Sax : Johnny GriffinTrumpet : Bill Hardman Billboard : 12/23/1957Special Merit Jazz Album One of the best Messenger sets to hit the market in quite some time. Material treated is…
Bethlehem – BCP-1019Rec. Date : 12/17/1954 Stream this Album Bass, Cello : Oscar PettifordAlto Sax : Dave SchildkrautBaritone Sax : Danny BankClarinet : Jimmy HamiltonDrums : Osie JohnsonPiano : Earl KnightTenor Sax : Jimmy HamiltonTrombone : Jimmy ClevelandTrumpet : Clark Terry, Joe Wilder San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)Ralph J. Gleason : 04/03/1955Pettiford – The…
Bethlehem – BCP 6019Rec. Date : August 6, 1957Stream this Album Bass : Charles MingusAlto Sax : Shafi HadiDrums : Dannie RichmondTrombone : Jimmy KnepperPiano : Bill EvansTenor Sax : Shafi HadiTrumpet : Clarence Shaw American Record GuideMartin Williamson : March, 1958 Mingus has no fear of originality. A colleague has justly called Jimmy Knepper the first original trombonist J.J. Johnson, and, like Mingus,…
Bethlehem – BCP-36Rec. Date : September 18, 1955 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Dexter GordonBass : Leroy VinnegarDrums : Lawrence MarablePiano : Kenny Drew Billboard : 11/24/1956Score of 78 Gordon plays some top-flight, Lester Young-inspired tenor here, with a more robust sound than that of the master or most of his other disciples. It’s…
Bethlehem – 6005Rec. Dates : February 7 & 8, 1956 Stream this Album Orchestra : Duke Ellington Billboard : 12/8/1956Score of 83 These sides were cut in February, 1956, and are representative of what the Ellington band has been doing this year. There have been greater Ellington ensembles and greater individual soloists in his organization,…
