Norgran – MGN 1037Rec. Date : August 1, 1955Stream this Album Vibes: Lionel HamptonTenor Sax : Stan GetzBass : Leroy VinnegarDrums : Shelly MannePiano : Lou Levy Billboard : 12/31/1955Spotlight on… selection Differently oriented as Lionel Hampton and Stan Getz are in their basic approach to jazz, this first record session of theirs together is surprisingly successful. Hampton is the strong spirit of the…
Clef – MG C-671Rec. Date : October 29, 1954Stream this Album Trumpet : Roy Eldridge, Dizzy GillespieBass : Ray BrownDrums : Louis BellsonGuitar : Herb EllisPiano : Oscar PetersonVocals : Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie Billboard : 11/26/1955Score of 80 The first Roy-Diz set set, provocative as it was, struck many as more of a “cutting contest” than a collaboration. While the…
Prestige – PRLP 7099Rec. Dates : 1956-1957 Listening to Prestige : #200Stream this Album Billboard : 10/07/1957Score of 63 Moondog, an eccentric to most, a poet who versifies in sound to others, who plays by night in the Broadway area on an assemblage of drums, is presented on this recording verbally (in dialog with Bebe Barron) rhythmically…
Prestige – PRLP 7019Rec. Date : circa summer 1955 Piano : Sanford Gold Listening to Prestige : #148Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 03/10/1956Score of 67 In the few recordings on which Sanford Gold has been heard so far, he was in the company of some highly stimulating modern instrumentalists, and contributed some fine piano work along Bud Powell…
