Norgran – MGN-1017Rec. Dates : December 16, 1954, January 11 & 12, 1955Album is Not StreamableThis YouTube playlist has other period Powell Piano : Bud PowellBass : Percy Heath, Lloyd TrotmanDrums : Max Roach, Art Blakey Billboard : 04/02/1955 The title aptly describes Bud Powell, who is a prime influence among progressive musicians, and whose disks have a substantial-enough hard-core market. This…
Impulse! A-16Rec. Dates : February 15-26-27, 1962Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachBass : Art DavisConductor : Coleridge PerkinsonPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Clifford JordanTrombone : Julian PriesterTrumpet : Richard WilliamsVocals : Abbey Lincoln16-member chorus Billboard : 08/18/1962Four Stars Angry jazz with a civil rights message is carved out here by Max Roach with chorus and ork, with all of the music composed by…
Impulse! A-8Rec. Dates : August 1 / 3 / 8 / 9, 1961Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachAlto Sax : Eric DolphyBass : Art DavisBass Clarinet : Eric DolphyPercussion : Carlos “Patato” Valdés, Carlos EugenioPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Clifford JordanTrombone : Julian PriesterTrumpet : Booker LittleVocals : Abbey Lincoln Cashbox : 10/21/1961 Solidly embarked on a wave of music-for-freedom (initially established…
EmArcy – MG 36108Rec. Dates : October 12, 1956, March 18, 1957, March 20, 1957, March 21, 1957Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Ray Bryant, Bill WallaceTenor Sax : Sonny RollinsTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Billboard : 10/14/1957Spotlight on… selection New idea in jazz sets has all the selections in waltz tempos. This in no way limits Roach from…
EmArcy – MG 36102Rec. Date : August 11, 1954Album is Not Streamable Trumpet : Clifford BrownAlto Sax : Herb Geller, Joe MainiBass : Curtis CounceDrums : Max RoachPiano : Kenny DrewTenor Sax : Walter Benton Billboard : 05/06/1957Score of 75 Package should move with dealers who cater to modern jazz clientele, for Brown‘s recent death has created demand for his recorded efforts. Set…
EmArcy – MG 36098Rec. Dates : September 17, 1956, September 19, 1956Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Ray BryantTenor Sax : Sonny RollinsTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Audio : July, 1957Charles A. Robertson This is the first record made by the Max Roach Quintet since the tragic deaths in an automobile accident last summer of Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, though…
EmArcy – MG 36070Rec. Date : January 4, 1956Stream this Album Trumpet : Clifford BrownDrums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Richie PowellTenor Sax : Sonny Rollins Billboard : 08/11/1956Spotlight on… selection The erstwhile team has made the best-selling list before, and this new issue could be the best of all their disk efforts. Here one may realize the…
Debut – DEB-123Rec. Date : December 23, 1955Stream this Album Bass : Charles MingusDrums : Willie Jones, Max RoachPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : George BarrowTrombone : Eddie Bert San Francisco ExaminerC.H. Garrigues : 08/19/1956 … Here Mingus is joined by Eddie Bert on trombone, George Barrow on tenor, Mal Waldron on piano and Willie Jones on drums for five very fine tracks of modern jazz. But as a special added…
EmArcy – MG 36037Rec. Dates : February 23, 1955, February 24, 1955, February 25, 1955Stream this Album Trumpet : Clifford BrownDrums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Richie PowellTenor Sax : Harold Land Down Beat : 01/11/1956Nat Hentoff : 4 stars Study in Brown is another powerfully rhythmic, emotionally driving session by this vibrant quintet whose leaders are its chief…
EmArcy – MG-36008Rec. Dates : August 2, 3, 5 & 6 1954 Stream this Album Trumpet : Clifford BrownDrums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Richie PowellTenor Sax : Harold Land Minneapolis SpokesmanJ. Henry Randall : 06/24/1955 New albums in the modern vein occupied our attention this week, and we hasten to say, they are of the stuff that…
