Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band Live at Ronnie Scott's (1969)

1. Box 703
2. Griff's Groove
3. Volcano
4. Love Which To No Loved One Permits Excuse For Loving
5. Now Hear My Meanin'
6 And Thence We Issued Out Again To See The Stars
7. Rue Chaptal
8. I Don't Want Nothin' From Nobody And I Ain't Giving Nothin' Away
9. Sax No End
10. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
11. The Minor Blues
12. The Girl & The Turk
13. Kenny & Kenny

Eric Van Lier, Nat Peck, Ake Persson - trombone
Benny Bailey, Dusko Gojkovic*, Idrees Sulieman, Tony Fisher - trumpet
Ron Mathewson -bass
Francy Boland - piano
Derek Humble, Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Sahib Shihab - saxophone
Tony Coe – saxophone, clarinet
Kenny Clare, Kenny Clarke - drums

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Buddy Rich and Harry "Sweets" Edison - Buddy and Sweets (1955)

1. Yellow Rose of Brooklyn
2. Easy Does It
3. All Sweets
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It
5. Barney's Bugle
6. Now's the Time
7. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
Barney Kessel – guitar
Jimmy Rowles – piano
John Simmons – bass
Buddy Rich – drums

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Donald Byrd - The Creeper (1967)

1. Samba Yanta
2. I Will Wait for You
3. Blues Medium Rare
4. The Creeper
5. Chico-San
6. Early Sunday Morning
7. Blues Well Done

Donald Byrd - trumpet
Sonny Red - alto saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Chick Corea - piano
Miroslav Vitouš - bass
Mickey Roker - drums

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Bill Evans and Don Elliott - Tenderly: An Informal Session (1956-57)

1. Tenderly
2. I'll Take Romance
3. Laura
4. Blues No. 1
5. I'll Know
6. Like Someone in Love
7. Love Letters
8. Thou Swell
9. Airegin
10. Everything Happens to Me
11. Blues No. 2
12. Stella by Starlight
13. Funkallero

Bill Evans - piano
Don Elliott - vibraphone, vocal percussion

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Hampton Hawes - For Real! (1958)

1. Hip
2. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
3. Crazeology
4. Numbers Game
5. For Real
6. I Love You

Hampton Hawes - piano
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Scott LaFaro - bass
Frank Butler - drums

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)

Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963 at the Montmartre jazz club.


1. Consequences
2. Monk's Mood
3. Emotions
4. Wo Wo
5. Trio
6. Crepuscule With Nellie
7. O.C.
8. When Will the Blues Leave?
9. The Funeral
10. Mick

Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone
John Tchicai - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - trumpet
Don Moore - bass
J. C. Moses - drums

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Ira Kris - Jazzanova (1971)

1. Canto De Ossanha
2. Inside My Head
3. Rio
4. Reza
5. Canto De Iemanja
6. Juanito
7. Casa Forte

Ira Kris, Juan Romero - guitar
Frank St. Peter - flute
Jimmy Woode - bass
Tony Inzalaco - drums