Riverside – RLP 12-221Rec. Dates : July 19, 1956, August 22, 1956Stream this Album Trombone : Matthew GeeAlto Sax : Ernie HenryBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : John Simmons, Wilbur WareDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Joe KnightTenor Sax : Frank FosterTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Billboard : 01/12/1957Score of 68 Trombonist Gee plays in the romantic, robust manner of Bennie Green, and occasionally goes a little more modern.…
Riverside – RLP 12-214Rec. Dates : March 14, 1956, March 21, 1956Stream this Album Piano : Randy WestonBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : Ahmed Abdul-MalikDrums : Wilbert Hogan Billboard : 10/13/1956Score of 71 The critics’ New Star pianist isn’t at his most impressive in this set, tho an element is added in the shape of baritone saxman Cecil Payne. This…
Riverside – RLP 12-209Rec. Dates : March 17, 1956, April 3, 1956Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Art Blakey Billboard : 12/31/1955Score of 73 The diskery has hit on the all-Ellington gimmick as a method of introducing this pioneer pianist, acknowledged as a prime inventor of the idiom, to a wilder audience than he…
Riverside – RLP 12-201Rec. Date : July 21, 1955, July 27, 1955Stream this Album Piano : Thelonious MonkBass : Oscar PettifordDrums : Kenny Clarke Billboard : 12/31/1955Score of 73 The diskery has hit on the all-Ellington gimmick as a method of introducing this pioneer pianist, acknowledged as a prime inventor of the idiom, to a wilder audience than he…
Riverside – RLP 377 / 9377Rec. Dates : February 28, 1961, May 9, 1961, May 15, 1961Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball Adderley, George DorseyArranger : Ernie Wilkins, Bob BrookmeyerBaritone Sax : Arthur ClarkeBass : Sam JonesConductor : Ernie WilkinsDrums/Percussion : Charlie Persip, Louis Hayes, Michael Olatunji, Ray BarrettoFlute : George Dorsey, Oliver Nelson, Jerome RichardsonPiano : Wynton KellyTenor Sax : Oliver Nelson, Jerome RichardsonTrumpet : Nat Adderley, Ernie…
