Prestige – PRLP 7080Rec. Date : November 2, 1956 Alto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Charlie PersipPiano : Al HaigTrumpet : Donald Byrd Listening to Prestige : #192Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 04/29/1957Score of 79 This package, which features the blowing of Woods and Byrd, will sell itself on the strength of their solo efforts. In addition, the Parker-designed or oriented…
Prestige – PRLP 7066Rec. Dates : January 6, 1954, June 30, 1955 Valve Trombone : Bob BrookmeyerPiano : Bob BrookmeyerBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Ed Shaughnessy, Mel LewisGuitar : Jimmy RaneyPiano, Vibes : Teddy Charles Listening to Prestige : #148Stream this Album Glamorgan GazetteBridgend, Wales : 05/31/1957 Outstanding examples of modern jazz “chamber music” are presented in this Long Playing release by…
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…
Prestige – PRLP 7018Rec. Date : November 25, 1955 Alto Sax : Phil WoodsBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Nick StabulasPiano : John Williams Listening to Prestige : #158Stream this Album Billboard : 05/05/1956Score of 76 Get Happy, one of the more impressive bands in this set, could very well have served as the title of this LP, for that seems…
Blue Note – BLP 1589Rec. Date : January 13, 1958 Piano : Horace SilverBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Louis HayesTenor Sax : Clifford JordanTrumpet : Art Farmer Strictlyheadies : 05/08/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 05/19/1958Two stars This new set featuring Horace Silver, one of the best of the hard-bop school of swinging pianists, is an attempt to fit Silver’s driving style into…
Blue Note – BLP 1562Rec. Date : May 8, 1957 Piano : Horace SilverBass : Teddy KotickDrums : Louis HayesTenor Sax : Hank MobleyTrumpet : Art Farmer Strictlyheadies : 03/27/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 10/07/1957Score of 78 Hard modern swinging is the prescription here. The straightforward yet emotionally penetrating Silver compositions, plus top drawer performances from. Art Farmer, H. Mobley, Silver, etc., make this an…
Blue Note – BLP 1519Rec. Date : August 1, 1955, August 7, 1955, April 19, 1956 Piano : Herbie NicholsBass : Al McKibbon, Teddy KotickDrums : Max Roach Strictlyheadies : 01/27/2019Stream this Album Billboard : 10/20/1956Score of 76 In jazz avant-garde circles Herbie Nichols has been touted for some time as one of “the” pianists to watch. His richly chorded style, with…
