#LunchtimeLP Jacknife by Jackie McLean is a 1975 double LP on Blue Note. Sides A and B were recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on this date in 1965. With Lee Morgan and Charles Tolliver on trumpets, Larry Willis on piano, Larry Ridley or Don Moore on bass, and Jack DeJohnette on drums. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today. Soultrane was my first Coltrane LP and I still love it. W/ Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor, It was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1958. It was his final session for Prestige before he took some giant steps over to Atlantic #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP The Gifted Ones by Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie with Ray Brown and Mickey Roker was recorded in 1977 for Pablo Records. And the music is fantastic, they found common ground in the blues. It has the feeling of an after hours jam session. Highly recommended. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on this date in 1966 for Verve records. Pioneering musicians Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery are each highly influential on their respective instruments. They play here with a large ensemble arranged by Oliver Nelson. #jazzsky
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My review of new ECM Records release Keith Jarrett’s ROMA, The Final Recording From His Final European Tour #jazzsky : www.jazzpolice.com/archives/20790
#LunchtimeLP Chico Hamilton was born 105 years ago today. His Quintet In Hi Fi with Buddy Collette, Jim Hall and Carson Smith was released in 1956. Jackie McLean's Destination... Out! with Gracham Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley and Roy Haynes was recorded on this date in 1963 #jazzsky
Music for the cocktail 🍸 hour, Kenny Burrell Trio A Night at the Village Vanguard recorded in 1959 with Richard Davis and the great Roy Haynes. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Guitarist Charlie Byrd was born 101 years ago today. He was influenced by Django Reinhardt and took lessons from Segovia. Byrdland is hos 1966 album released on Columbia with Hal Posey on trumpet, Tony Macero on saxophone, Joe Byrd bass and Bill Reichenbach on drums. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP John Coltrane's Blue Train was recorded 69 years ago today by Rudy Van Gelder with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones. It was Coltrane's only recording for Blue Note records and it is an enduring hard bop classic. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP , Kenny Dorham's Trompeta Toccata with Joe Henderson, Tommy Flanagan, Richard Davis, and Albert Heath was Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on this date in 1964 for Blue Note. It features three Durham originals plus "Mamacita" by Joe Henderson,. It's a lively set with great solos. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Sonny Side Up by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins, recorded in 1957 and released in 1959 on Verve with the rhythm section Ray Bryant, Tommy Bryant, and Charlie Persip. I Love hearing Stitt and Rollins swapping fours. It's all excellent upbeat bop and blues. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Africa/Brass with John Coltrane quartet with large ensemble was recorded in 1960 by Rudy Van Gelder and released in 1961 on Impulse. Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner collaborated on the arrangements. Side A is one track, the expansive "Africa", Side B has Greensleeves + Blues Minor #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Jazz organist Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette was born 93 years ago today. He appears on Lou Donaldson's Here 'Tis from 1961 along with Grant Green and Dave Bailey. This is an excellent Hard Bop/ Soul Jazz album. #jazzsky
Last Saturday Beverly and I heard the Will Kjeer trio at Berlin in Minneapolis with Charlie Lincoln, and Dave King playing Will's original music. It's one of the best live trio performances I've heard in a long time. For the last tune Laeton Olaleye sat in and it was the icing on the cake. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Drummer Elvin Jones was born 99 years ago today. He appears on many of my favorite records including Olé Coltrane from 1961 with Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, and Art Davis on John Coltrane's last recording session for Atlantic Records. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Bassist Wilbur Ware was born 103 years ago today. He was on Zoot! by Zoot Simms on Riverside with George Handy, Wilbur Ware, and Osie Johnson in 1956. He was on Dial "S" for Sonny by Sonny Clark on Blue Note with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Hank Mobley, and Louis Hayes in 1957 #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Sonny Rollins was born 96 years ago today. More From The Vanguard was recorded live by Rudy Van Gelder on November 3rd, 1957 with Sonny Rollins, Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones except on track one from the afternoon set with Donald Bailey and Pete LaRoca. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Charnett Moffett was born on this date in 1967. He played bass on the Wynton Marsalis 1985 album Black Codes (From the Underground) with Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and Jeff 'Tain' Watts. Ron Carter plays bass on one of the six tracks. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef was recorded on this date in 1961 by Rudy Ban Gelder. It was originally released on the Moodsville imprint of Prestige records in 1962. Lateef's rhythm section included Barry Harris and also Lex Humphries and Ernie Farrow. This is one superb LP #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Gerald Wilson was born this date in 1918. His album Moment Of Truth was released by Pacific jazz in 1961, this is a 1981 reissue. There's a very nice arrangement of Miles Davis's "Milestones" and some great solos by Harold Land. Bud Shank, and Joe Pass. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Verve records. Side one features a big band with arrangements by Oliver Nelson and side two is Jimmy Smith's trio with Jimmy Warren and Don Bailey. I prefer side two. OG #jazzsky
I heard the sad news that Cassandra Wilson passed away yesterday. I.loved her voice and her phrasing. I had her records but first heard her live at the now defunct Rossi's Blue Star room in Minneapolis in 2004, then again several years later at the Dakota. Blue Light 'til Dawn. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP pianist and composer Horace Silver was born 98 years ago today. Horace Silver Quintet is a 10" recorded in 1954 with Kenny Durham. Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. It was combined with another 10", into a 12" LP titled Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers in 1956. #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Pianist Gene Harris was born on this date in 1933 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. He recorded The Three Sounds. Play Jazz on Broadway in 1962 for Mercury records. Gene Harris and The Three Sounds Live at the It Club was recorded in 1970 but not released until 1996 by Blue Note. #jazzsly
#LunchtimeLP Kenni Dorham was born 102 years ago. Kenny Dorham And Friends is a 1962 LP from two sessions. Side 1 is from 1959 with Cannonball Adderley, Cecil Payne, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb. Side 2 is from 1957 with Sonny Rollins, Hank Jones, Oscar Pettiford, Max Roach #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP South Side Soul by the John Wright Trio was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on this date in 1960. This is the first of five albums Wright would record for Prestige in the early '60s. It's a solid hard bop session featuring Chicago theme tunes. Mine is the 2024 Craft records reissue #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP A Swingin' Affair by Dexter Gordon recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on this date in 1962, two days after he recorded Go! with the same line-up.. The solid rhythm section includes Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. It is indeed a swingin' affair #jazzsky
#LunchtimeLP Kenny Drew was born on this date in 1928. Drew moved to Europe in 1961. He recorded Everything I Love for Steeplechase records in Denmark in 1973. In 1976 it was released on Inner City records in the US. It's s an excellent jazz piano album that I wholeheartedly recommend. #jazzsky
