Prestige – PRLP 7041Rec. Date : April 13, 1956 Trombone : Bennie GreenTrumpet : Art FarmerBass : Addison FarmerDrums : Philly Joe JonesPiano : Cliff Smalls Listening to Prestige : #168Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 09/15/1956Score of 71 A trombone-trumpet formula is not overly common among current jazz combos. To offset the unrelieved brassiness of the sound, Green and Farmer provide variety in the…
Prestige – PRLP 7040Rec. Dates : April 20, 1956, June 1, 1956 Baritone Sax : Gil MelleBass : Billy PhillipsDrums : Edmund ThigpenGuitar : Joe Cinderella Listening to Prestige : #173Stream this Album Billboard : 09/15/1956Score of 75 “Primitive modern” is a rather misleading way to characterize baritone saxophonist Gil Melle‘s kind of music. Modern, yes; but primitive, no. In the…
Prestige – PRLP 7039Rec. Date : April 23, 1956 Tenor Sax : Gene AmmonsAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Addison FarmerCongas : CandidoDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Duke JordanTrumpet : Art Farmer Listening to Prestige : #169Stream this Album Billboard : 07/28/1956Score of 81 Ammons‘ tenor has not been conspicuous on the jazz scene the past few years, but the warmth and facility…
Prestige – PRLP 7038Rec. Date : March 22, 1956 Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Richie PowellTrumpet : Clifford Brown Listening to Prestige : #167Stream this Album Billboard : 08/25/1956Score of 80 Altho Rollins gets top billing here (for contractual reasons) this is the same combo that cut the most recent, excellent Max Roach–Clifford Brown disk on…
Prestige – PRLP 7037Rec. Date : March 9, 1956 Piano, Arranger : Tadd DameronAlto Sax – Sahib ShihabBaritone Sax : Cecil PayneBass : John SimmonsDrums : Shadow WilsonTenor Sax : Joe AlexanderTrombone : Henry CokerTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Listening to Prestige : #165Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 07/28/1956Score of 78 Dameron, who has been hibernating out Cleveland way for some time, makes a…
Prestige – PRLP 7036Rec. Date : December 12, 1955 Tenor Sax, Alto Sax : James MoodyBaritone Sax : Pee Wee MooreBass : John LathanDrums : Clarence JohnstonPiano : Jimmy BoydTrombone : William ShepherdTrumpet : Dave Burns Listening to Prestige : #160Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 10/27/1956Score of 78 Set valiantly aims to please the general public, but without compromising principles.…
Prestige – PRLP 7035Rec. Date : January 27, 1956 Alto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Arthur TaylorTrumpet : Donald ByrdPiano : Elmo Hope Listening to Prestige : #163Stream this Album Billboard : 06/23/1956Score of 80 Interest is evenly divided here between the truly outstanding work of McLean on alto and of Donald Byrd on trumpet. Both have been coming to the foreground…
Prestige – PRLP 7034Rec. Date : August 5, 1955 Trumpet : Miles DavisVibes : Milt JacksonAlto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Percy HeathDrums : Arthur TaylorPiano : Ray Bryant Listening to Prestige : #151Stream this Album Billboard : 09/08/1956Score of 83 Davis – and his featured soloists, Jackie McLean and Milt Jackson – cover quite a variety of material here to produce an exceptionally interesting and musically…
Prestige – PRLP 7033Rec. Date : January 13, 1956 Trumpet : Jon EardleyAlto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Nick StabulasPiano : George SyranTenor Sax : Zoot SimsTrombone : Milt Gold Listening to Prestige : #162Stream this Album Billboard : 07/14/1956Score of 79 Jon Eardley‘s “Seven” frame the trumpeter in familiar company: Zoot Sims, his present colleague in the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, and…
Prestige – PRLP 7032Rec. Date : January 20, 1956 Piano : George WallingtonAlto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Art TaylorTrumpet : Donald Byrd Listening to Prestige : #163Stream this Album Billboard : 07/14/1956Score of 80 Wallington continues to improve as a pianist, and here, in company with some of the brighter young virtuosi, he delivers his most salable set…
