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Freddie Hubbard was one of the most prolific jazz trumpeters in the business He played a hot and sassy horn! When he was teamed up with George Benson, Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter (just to name a few) on this one of many Creed Taylor-produced collaborations, he most deservedly won the Grammy! The opening title song "First... -
Flugelhornist Art Farmer and guitarist Jim Hall had had a regular group for a time in the mid-'60s but (except for one occasion) had not played together since, until this 1978 LP This is an unusual effort for CTI in that it is a quintet set without added horns, strings or keyboards Farmer and Hall are joined by vibraphonist Mike... -
A rare 1964 American live performance by Ben Webster gets a vinyl upgrade from Pure Pleasure RecordsKansas City native Ben Webster had a varied music training Before becoming an elite tenor saxophonist, he trained on violin and piano In his early career, he played in bands led by Lester Young, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Fletcher... -
For a label that wasn't around long, Strata East achieved the same sort of label recognition that Impulse! or Blue Note managed to build In other words, you knew what you were getting when you bought a record on the label, even if you didn't know the names on the outside of the cover This is no exception Who is Shamek Farrah Who... -
Outside there was the rain and the bone-freezing chill of November in Manchester, England Inside the concert hall it was warm and it was beautiful Duke was alive and well, and his orchestra was playing with all the flaring genius that has entranced us since first this musical miracle of our century found his vocation of... -
Recording with a sextet at the New York jazz club Sweet Basil in August 1977, McBee’s band included Chico Freeman on reeds, Dennis Moorman on piano, Joe Gardner on trumpet, Steve McCall on drums, and Famoudou Don Moye on percussion Two complete albums of music were released by Enja Records from this engagement, the ground... -
From its opening bars, with Bill Salter's bass and Rahsaan's flute passionately playing Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine", you know this isn't an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them) As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree's guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is... -
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Recorded in 1963, The Sheriff features the Modern Jazz Quartet in fine swinging form The program is not as sharply focused as on some of the earlier Atlantic releases, but it is compelling nonetheless There are four originals by pianist John Lewis, including the fleeting, bluesy title cut, and the moody, spacious "In a Crowd" --... -
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Happy Trails is the 1969 follow-up to Quicksilver Messenger Service's self-titled folk-rock inflected debut Largely recorded live in concert, the album opens with a 25 minute, six-part suite of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and is anchored with a version of his song "Mono" One of the first releases to successfully capture the San... -
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Leadbelly's last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues ("Grasshoppers In My Pillow"), pounding piano-driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks", with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn't usually recognized),... -
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Black, Brown, & Beige is Duke Ellington’s musical representation of the African American experience in the United States It is arguably The Maestro’s greatest work The triumph of telling so important a story so well through music alone makes Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown, & Beige a masterpiece Black, Brown, &... -
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LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created in 1986 to promote the compositional legacy of musician and composer Charles Mingus through publishing, education, archival preservation, and performanceCharles Mingus is recognized as a major 20th century composer, whose entire works have been acquired by... -
Even back in the early '50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early '50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of... -
"Criss-Cross" - Thelonious Monk's second album for Columbia Records – features some of the finest work that Monk ever did in the studio with his '60s trio and quartet Whether revisiting pop standards or reinventing Monk's own classic compositions, Monk and Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums)... -
THouse’s recording session ran over a few days and saw the studio set up like a small club with an invited audience I remember John (Hammond) running around crazed, as was Son’s manager, Dick Waterman (a man to whom Son owed everything) Al Wilson of Canned Heat was sat alongside Son, and once the recording started occasionally... -
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Chet Baker recorded "Chet Is Back!" (RCA Victor PML-10307) on January 5, 1962, just three weeks after having been released from his drug-related imprisonment in Italy He was accompanied on the LP by a number of highly talented European players, among them two Belgian stars: tenor saxophonist, flutist and composer Bobby Jaspar, and... -
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The musicians are aiming high with their desire for a “Super Session”, for it’s not something that can be planned Only when the time, place, and audience play along, when one’s lucky star is shining brightly, and the musicians have a good day, then one of music’s great moments might be captured on tape Not forgetting the... -
Ever since his time with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971–1973), the drummer Billy Cobham is one of electric fusion jazz’s greatest heroes "Total Eclipse" was the third album he made as a leader within just a few months, and here again he composed all the numbers himself In the opening 'suite' entitled... -
The global corporation Columbia recorded and released only two LPs with pianist Bill Evans A meagre result when one considers the numerous concerts that the new trio undertook between 1969 and 1974 Together with Eddie Gomez, a phenomenon on the bass, and drummer Marty Mortell, the three established a firm – and ever better –... -
Quite simply, Endtroducing… is a defining moment for instrumental hip-hop, and a miraculous crystallisation of sample-based composition as an unapologetically post-modern art form DJ Shadow’s opus is a true labour of love, built from a wide array of disparate sounds gathered from the basement storage of the producer’s... -
Of the three ‘incarnations’ by the spiritually inspired Mahavishnu Orchestra, the first is the most full-bodied The enlightened John McLaughlin and his musicians were immortalized through their début album “The Inner Mounting Flame”, which was included in the list of the 100 Best Jazz Albums; a short time later they... -
Three giants of West Coast Jazz came together in this deeply swinging session recorded for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific label in 1953 Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary trumpeter Chet Baker on a half-live, half-studio program of standards along with one... -
On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colors and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and God” Joining... -
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It was certainly a motley crew that came together with Elvin Jones, the legendary ex-Coltrane drummer, in the NYC Atlantic Studio in March 1966 His trumpeter brother Thad was first class, but Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) on the piano, Don Moore on the bass and sax player Hank Mobley, who always came up as second choice behind... -
"Just As I Am" – anyone who sets off on a late career can already have earned himself quite a reputation, although in the case of Bill Withers it had had nothing to do with music at this stage Withers served for many years with the US Navy, had a job as a milkman, and installed toilets in jets for American aeroplane construction... -
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What connects celebrity chefs and pop stars is their fine nose for ingredients, especially when hot and spicy ones are mixed with milder elements to create an aromatic result A combination of 'sweet' and 'funky' is the secret of Al Green’s gloriously sentimental and sensual pop songs, which in the sexually free Seventies were... -
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Except for the taping of a live performance at the Portland Festival, Miles Davis’s discography for 1966 only lists the recordings made for the LP "Miles Smiles"! How strange when one considers the usual large output of Miles and his ensembles for Columbia Records in the Sixties The bass player Ron Carter was best suited for the... -
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By the time he was aged 22, Ry Cooder was already a veteran of the music business and in great demand as a studio musician and sideman Shortly after signing a contract with Warner Music in 1969, he released his first album under his own name, placing his confidence in the musical talent he had developed since being a child and on... -
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t was John Lewis, pianist of the Modern Jazz Quartet, who brought Ornette Coleman to the renowned Atlantic label, having heard him play in Los Angeles »Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz …« he reportedly said The present initial Atlantic album was released just in time to coincide with the New York... -
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It's 1964 and the first Berlin Jazz Festival is about to reach its absolute peak: the final concert on the night of Friday, 25th September by Miles Davis And the European subsidiary of Columbia Records, CBS, couldn’t wait to release this legendary event on LP The new quintet, for the first time with Wayne Shorter on the tenor... -
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Patti Smith, »the first published poet to move her poetry completely into rock 'n' roll and to entice experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinatory fantasy« (New York Times), began her musical career unconventionally It took off at a poetry reading where she was backed by Lenny Kaye on guitar; later star... -
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Around the year 1970, almost everything appeared to have been said about the style of music over the past two decades, which was a mix of samba and cool jazz Adventurous musicians such as Luis Bonfa, Baden Powell, Charly Byrd, João and Astrud Gilberto, and the saxophonist Stan Getz lent fire and sentiment to the “new trend”... -
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The soulful and elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of all-Clark originals recorded in 1959 but not released until 1979 Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Blakey on drums Highlights... -
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Trio ‘64, Bill Evans' first trio album for Verve, marked a reunion with drummer Paul Motian and Evans' only recorded work with bassist Gary Peacock The album matches up with Evans' finest trio sessions, with his shimmering piano lines dancing between Peacock's sharp bass lines and Motian's usual sublime work on the drums Peacock... -
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"the third (Billie Holiday album) to receive the two-disc 45 RPM treatment by Analogue Productions Billie sounds like she's at the microphone in your living room The instruments are spread out between the speakers and there is plenty of depth A pristine original has a bit more pronounced vocal sibilance and air, and this reissue... -
Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature On the aptly-named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Gary Bartz on alto saxophone, Ron Carter on cello, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Freddie Waits on drums Stand-out tracks in a program of four Tyner... -
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It was a clever move by George Avakian, producer at Atlantic Records, to record live the Charles Lloyd Quartet during their appearance in Monterey, and to release the LP under the title “Forest Flower” Although the hippy flower-power movement tended towards a rather different musical genre at the end of the Sixties, they... -
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Exorcising personal demons and reflecting on midlife circumstance, Paul Simon frames Still Crazy After All These Years as a post-divorce statement yet retains cutting humor and lighthearted cynicism that make every song universally appealing A succession of brooding vocals, jazz-laden arrangements, contagious hooks, and an... -
The first of Sonny’s albums for Impulse!, this 1965 collection caught Rollins at the peak of his creative powers, and is arguably the tenor hero’s best for the label–an intense, freewheeling set, featuring classic takes on "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Three Little Words" in the company of Ray Bryant (piano), Walter Booker... -
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Blues And The Abstract Truth is Oliver Nelson’s triumph Featuring his all-time classic "Stolen Moments", Nelson assembled one of the most potent modern jazz sextets ever Lead trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is at his peak of performance, while alto saxophonists Nelson and Eric Dolphy (Nelson doubling on tenor) team to form an unlikely... -
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This is a reissue of a now out-of-print album from live trio date by the legendary LA-based pianist, composer and multi-bandleader, Horace Tapscott Pianist Horace Tapscott is always at his best when he is leading a trio Around 1977, Horace reorganized the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra with the help of several old friends and... -
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Where have you gone, Charles Tolliver There was such promise in the concept of Music Inc, and in Strata East, but evidently, the music world’s attention was elsewhere and this tremendous live set was probably heard by only a few hundred sets of ears On the back of the record sleeve, Tolliver undersigned his mission statement:...
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