Savoy – MG 12072Rec. Dates : March 5 & 7, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax, Flute : Frank WessBass : Eddie JonesDrums : Kenny ClarkeGuitar : Kenny BurrellTenor Sax : Frank FosterTrombone : Benny Powell, Henry Coker Jazz MonthlyAlbert McCarthy : 04/1957 Frank Wess and Frank Foster have been promising young tenor players for…
Savoy – MG 12096Rec. Date : January 15, 1957Stream this Album (YT Only) Trumpet : Harold “Shorty” Baker, Emmett Berry, Art Farmer, Ernie Royal, Charlie ShaversArranger/Director : Ernie WilkinsBass : Wendell MarshallDrums : Bobby DonaldsonPiano : Don Abney Billboard : 05/13/1957Score of 82 A follow-up to Top Brass (MG 12044) featuring trumpets and rhythm. Wealth of solo…
Savoy – MG-12021Rec. Date : July 26, 1955Album is Not Streamable Cornet : Nat AdderleyBass : Wendell MarshallDrums : Kenny ClarkeFlute : Jerome RichardsonPiano : Hank JonesTenor Sax : Jerome Richardson Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, FL)Robert E. (Bob) Dickey : 10/30/1955 Julian, Nat Blow Up A Storm The fine music of the two brightest…
Savoy – MG 12018Rec. Date : July 14, 1955 Stream this Album Alto Sax : Cannonball AdderleyCornet : Nat AdderleyBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : Hank Jones Billboard : 11/26/1955 After the big buildup, here’s the proof: Cannonball is quite an alto man. He’s directly in the tradition of Charlie Parker; has similar…
Savoy – MG 15050Rec. Date : October 31, 1954 Stream this Album Bass : Charles MingusAlto Sax : John LaPortaBaritone Sax : Teo Macero, George BarrowClarinet : John LaPortaDrums : Rudy NicholsPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Teo Macero, George Barrow MetronomeBill Coss : April, 1955LP Rating: B+ This LP, the best Mingus has…
Savoy – MG-12075Rec. Date : March 21, 1956 Stream this Album Piano : Ronnie BallBass : Wendell MarshallDrums : Kenny ClarkeTenor Sax : Ted BrownTrombone : Willie Dennis Cornwall Daily-Standard (Cornwall, ON)Hal Lee : 01/05/1957 London’s Savoy series is coming up with some of the smoothest combo music anyone could wish to listen to and…
Savoy MG-12132Rec. Dates : September 26, 1958, October 6, 1958Stream this Album (YT only) Composer/Arranger : A.K. SalimAlto Sax : Phil WoodsBaritone Sax : Sahib ShihabBass : George DuvivierDrums : Wilbur HoganFlute : Seldon PowellPiano : Eddie Costa, Oscar DennardTenor Sax : Seldon PowellTrombone : Buster CooperTrumpet : Nat Adderley, Paul Cohen, Joe Wilder Cashbox : 03/28/1959 Composer-conductor-arranger Salim has surrounded himself with an impressive aggregation of jazz names…
Savoy – MG 12103Rec. Date : April 9, 1957Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Yusef LateefBass : Ernie FarrowDrums : Louis HayesFlute : Yusef LateefPiano : Hugh LawsonTrombone : Curtis FullerPercussion : Doug Watkins, Yusef Lateef, Curtis Fuller, Ernie Farrow Detroit Free PressUnknown : 10/04/1957 The rabad, a musical instrument played thousands of years ago in the time of King…
Savoy – MG 12092Rec. Dates : July 23, 1956, November 7, 1956Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Hank MobleyBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Kenny Clarke, Art TaylorPiano : Barry Harris, Hank JonesTrumpet : Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan Billboard : 05/27/1957Score of 74 A blowing session of some heat and significance on material in the hard, clipped, boppish idiom. Lengthiness of tracks lend…
Savoy – MG 12091Rec. Dates : November 5, 1956, November 7, 1956Stream this Album Trumpet : Lee MorganBass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Hank JonesTenor Sax : Hank Mobley Down Beat : 04/18/1957Nat Hentoff : 4 stars Actually, Blue Note first “introduced” Morgan with an LP by him as a leader. This is really Mobley’s date, and the story I…
