I was brought up on those pink Vogues.
Horricks wrote some informative monographs inthe early days on Gerry Mulligan,Diz and others.
The early days…. Before Google.
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Another one from the hauling of LPs. This was signed by a Paz lineup in 1979, including D. Crouch, Ray Warleigh and Geoff Castle. I was looking for guitarist Phil Lee but noticed that his replacement, Allan Holdsworth, had signed it on the bottom.
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Sonny Rollins - ‘Moving Out’, streaming the CD version on Spotify.
Originally a 1956 Prestige release composed of the 10 inch of his Quintet All Stars (with Elmo Hope-p, Percy Heath-b, Art Blakey-d, featuring Kenny Dorham-t) plus a track from ‘Sonny Rollins And Thelonious Monk’ (with Tommy Porter-b, Art Taylor-d. The tracks were recorded at Van Gelder Studios in 1954.
Side 1
- “Moving Out”
- “Swingin’ for Bumsy”
- “Silk ‘n’ Satin”
Side two
- “Solid”
- “More Than You Know”
All tracks except ‘More Than You Know’ are Rollins compositions.
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Cracking sounding recording by the great Roy DuNann on Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Records all of my favourite and the great sax players like Coltrane, Rollins, Henderson and Pepper play ballads in a way and in a voice that is unmistakably them.
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Sonny Rollins - Work Time (Worktime on some re-issues). Another Prestige release recorded in 1955 at Van Gelder Studios.
Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone)
Ray Bryant (piano)
George Morrow (bass)
Max Roach (drums)
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Awesome - cued for later
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The famous Prestige release ‘Saxophone Colossus’. The Analogue Productions 2013 vinyl cut by Kevin Gray is a favorite (re-pressed in 2022). Recorded in June 1956 at the Van Gelder Studio, days before his then bandmates’ fatal car cash.
Quote from wiki:
"Rollins was a member of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet at the time of the recording, and the recording took place four days before his bandmates Brown and Richie Powell died in a car accident on the way to a band engagement in Chicago (Rollins was not travelling in the car carrying Brown and Powell).
Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Doug Watkins - bass
Max Roach - drums
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I have been introduced to the music of Wadada Leo Smith, via two very different albums.
Najwa, with its heavy distorted guitars is very different from the more laid back Love Sonnet for Billie Holliday.
Najwa reminds me of some of Miles Davis’s electric albums in a good way.
Both albums need a couple of listens before they click.
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Adding these two fantastic Colin Steele albums to the couple already posted in this thread. I don’t usually go in for “covers” jazz as they can be verging on or fully blown lift music. However these are great.
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Does Jazz music get much better?
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HiRes download - great stuff, playing it again !
Erik Truffaz (t)
Andrina Bollinger (voc)
Benoit Corboz (p) (key)
Marcello Giuliani (b)
Arthur Hnatek (d)
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Whilst sorting old club flyers a bit earlier, this one from the Jazz Bakery - run by singer Ruth Price - in Culver City, LA shows just how astonishing the club lineups there were until at least late '96. Caught the Jackie McLean gig and he and his band of Cedar Walton, David Williams and Billy Higgins (definitive ‘A’ Team) have all signed it. Sadly, I wasn’t there long enough to catch the Joe Henderson trio gig (bet it was awesome).
Sadly, very few of these great artists are still with us.
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Some great musicians there. Very envious.
I did return to Jazz Bakery a few years later and caught a couple of nights of solo Cecil Taylor there. That was an experience !
I’m sure I caught other bands there too but can’t recall who - might have been McCoy Tyner or Elvin Jones. I remember seeing artistic director Ruth Price - who’d recorded for Contemporary Records - do a few numbers singing.
Another LA-area venue that was still doing jazz at the time was The Lighthouse, in Hermosa Beach. Each Sunday would have a jazz brunch hosted by Ozzie Cadena, formerly producer for Savoy and Prestige and then resident in the area. A great enthusiast for live jazz and very approachable.
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(23 Sep) Happy Birthday John Coltrane. Blue Train - recorded in September 1957 at Van Gelder Studios and released by Blue Note in January 1958.
Tracks (All but B2 are Coltrane’s compositions)
A1. Blue Train
A2. Moment’s Notice
B1. Locomotion
B2. I’m Old Fashioned
B3. Lazy Bird
The band:
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Curtis Fuller - trombone
Kenny Drew - piano
Paul Chambers - double bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums
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The People’s People Present The Spirit of David - Q Street
Released sometime this week I believe
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