JACKIE MCLEAN “HIPNOSIS” – Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 3, 1967 Hipnosis, The breakout Grachan Moncur, III (tb) Jackie McLean (as) Lamont Johnson (p) Scotty Holt (b) Billy Higgins (d)             HORACE PARLAN “US THREE” – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., April 20, 1960 Us three, I wanna be loved, Walkin’ Horace Parlan […]

    MELBA LISTON “MELBA LISTON & HER ‘BONES” – New York, December 22, 1958 You don’t say, Blues Melba Melba Liston, Bennie Green, Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb) Kenny Burrell (g) Jamil Nasser (b) Charlie Persip (d) – New York, December 24, 1958 The dark before dawn (1), Pow ! Melba Liston, Jimmy Cleveland, […]

  RONNIE MATHEWS “LEGACY” – New York, September 21, 1979 Legacy, Ichi ban, Song for leslie [untitled blues] (bh,rf out) Bill Hardman (tp) Ricky Ford (ts) Ronnie Mathews (p) Walter Booker (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)             EDWARD SIMON “SIMPLICITAS” – Brooklyn, NY, May 3, 2004 Infinite one, You’re my everything, […]

  YUSEF LATEEF “THREE FACES OF YUSEF LATEEF” – New York, May 9, 1960 I’m just a lucky so and so (2), Salt water blues (2), Lateef minor 7th (3) Yusef Lateef (oboe-2,fl-3) Hugh Lawson (p) Ron Carter (cello) Herman Wright (b) Lex Humphries (d)             MCCOY TYNER “TIME FOR […]

JABBO SMITH “THE RHYTHM ACES”: – Chicago, March 1, 1929 Take me to the river (js vcl,1), Aces of rhythm (1) Jabbo Smith (cnt,vcl) Omer Simeon (cl-1,as-2) Cassino Simpson (p) Ikey Robinson (bj) Hayes Alvis (tu-3) – Chicago, April 4, 1929 Decatur Street tutti (js vcl,1), Till times get better (js vcl,1) Earl Frazier (p) […]

  MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA “DATA LORDS” – Mount Vernon, NY, August 30-September 2, 2019 Bluebird, Sputnik Greg Gisbert, Mike Rodriguez, Nadje Noordhuis, Tony Kadleck (tp,flhrn) Keith O’Quinn, Marshall Gilkes, Ryan Keberle (tb) George Flynn (b-tb) Dave Pietro (as,cl,fl,alto-fl,pic) Steve Wilson (as,sop,cl,fl,alto-fl) Rich Perry (ts) Donny McCaslin (ts,fl) Scott Robinson (bar,Bb-cl,b-cl,contrabass-cl,muson) Gary Versace (accor) Frank Kimbrough […]

  WAYNE SHORTER “SCHIZOPHRENIA” – Engelwood Cliffs, N.J., March 10, 1967 Tom Thumb, Schizophrenia (1) Curtis Fuller (tb) James Spaulding (as,fl-1) Wayne Shorter (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b) Joe Chambers (d)           AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE “ON THE TENDER SPOT OF EVERY CALLOUSED MOMENT” – Brooklyn, N Y, c. 2019 Tide […]

SONNY ROLLINS “SONNY ROLLINS, VOL. 2” – New York, April 14, 1957 Why don’t I ?, Misterioso (1) Poor butterfly J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Horace Silver (p) Thelonious Monk (p-1) Paul Chambers (b) Art Blakey (d)             RON MCCLURE “MATCH POINT” – New York, August, 2001 Cellular expansion, […]

  HANK MOBLEY “SOUL STATION” – Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 7, 1960 Remember, This I dig of you Hank Mobley (ts) Wynton Kelly (p) Paul Chambers (b) Art Blakey (d)             STEVE CÁRDENAS “BLUE HAS A RANGE” – New York, July, 2019 Lost and found, Blue language, Language of love […]

AL COHN “THE NATURAL SEVEN” – New York, February 3, 1955 Doggin’ around, Jump the blues away, Jack’s kinda swing, The natural thing to do, A.C. meets Osie Joe Newman (tp) Frank Rehak (tb) Al Cohn (ts,arr) Nat Pierce (p) Freddie Green (g) Milt Hinton (b) Osie Johnson (d)           CARL […]