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 7059Rec. Dates : December 22, 1952, June 16, 1954 Vibes : Milt JacksonBass : Percy HeathDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : John Lewis, Horace SilverTrumpet : Henry Boozier Listening to Prestige : #74, #113Stream this Album Billboard : 01/19/1957Album Cover of the Week Sometimes the simplest design is the most fetching, and this is an example of that principle. The repeated…
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 7057Rec. Dates : June 25, 1953, December 23, 1954, January 9, 1955 Vibes : Milt JacksonBass : Percy HeathDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : John Lewis Listening to Prestige : #89, #130, #135Stream this Album Billboard : 01/19/1957Score of 85 One of the two MJQ re-issue packages available this month, both of which have been remastered and regrouped on 12-inch…
Prestige – PRLP 7056Rec. Dates : September 29, 1954, January 28, 1955, August 24, 1955, December 12, 1955 Tenor Sax, Alto Sax : James MoodyBaritone Sax : Pee Wee MooreBass : John LathanDrums : Clarence JohnsonPiano : Jimmy BoydTrombone : William ShepherdTrumpet : Dave BurnsVocals : Eddie Jefferson Listening to Prestige : #122, #136, #152, #160Album is Not Streamable Liner Notes by Ira Gitler James Moody‘s…
Prestige – PRLP 7055Rec. Dates: June 11, 1953, September 15, 1953 Trumpet : Clifford Brown, Idress Sulieman, Art FarmerAlto Sax : Gigi Gryce, Arne DomnerusBaritone Sax : Oscar Estell, Lars GullinBass : Percy Heath, Gunnar JohnsonClarinet : Arne DomnerusDrums : Philly Joe Jones, Jack NorenPiano : Tadd Dameron, Bengt HallbergTenor Sax : Benny GolsonTrombone : Herb Mullins, Ake Persson Listening to Prestige : #88, #92Stream this Album Liner Notes by Ira Gitler…
Prestige – PRLP 7054Rec. Dates : May 19, 1953, March 15, 1954, April 3, 1954 Trumpet : Miles DavisAlto Sax : Dave SchildkrautBass : Percy HeathDrums : Max Roach, Art Blakey, Kenny ClarkePiano : John Lewis, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver Listening to Prestige: #86, #106, #107Stream this Album Billboard : 10/13/1956Score of 77 Re-mastering by Rudy Van Gelder of some choice sides by Miles Davis and his Quartet…
Prestige – PRLP 7053Rec. Dates : November 13, 1953, May 11, 1954 Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Percy Heath, Curly RussellDrums : Willie Jones, Art BlakeyFrench Horn : Julius WatkinsTenor Sax : Sonny Rollins, Frank FosterTrumpet : Ray Copeland Listening to Prestige: #97, #109Stream this Album Liner Notes by Ira Gitler November 13, 1953 was a Friday. At WOR Studios preparations were being made for the…
Prestige – PRLP 7052Rec. Dates : June 10, 1955, September 22, 1955 Trombone : Bennie GreenBass : Paul ChambersCongas : CandidoDrums : Osie JohnsonPiano : Cliff SmallsTenor Sax : Charlie Rouse Listening to Prestige : #146, #153Stream this Album Billboard : 07/28/1956Score of 75 Green‘s broad, middle-of-the-road trombone is the product of his experience in a wide variety of commercial bands and…
Prestige – PRLP 7051Rec. Date : September 07, 1954 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayCongas : CándidoDrums : Percy Brice Listening to Prestige : #120Stream this Album Billboard : 09/01/1956Score of 79 A re-issue of all the material on Prestige 10-inch LP 188 plus two previously unrecorded selections: A boppish Taylor original Declivity with some nice work by Cándido on conga…
