TEDDY CHARLES COLLABORATION WEST – Los Angeles, August 21, 1953 Variations on a motive by Bud, Wailing dervish Prestige, Further out, Etudiez le cahier Shorty Rogers (tp) Teddy Charles (vib,p) Curtis Counce (b) Shelly Manne (d)             ADAM KOLKER FLAG DAY – Brooklyn, NY, June 14, 2007 Gnash, Don’t let […]

    ALPHONSO TRENT AND HIS ORCHESTRA – Richmond, Indiana, October 11, 1928 Black and blue rhapsody, The nightmare Chester Clark, Irving “Mouse” Randolph (tp) Snub Mosley (tb,vcl) James Jeter, Charles Pillars, Lee Hilliard (as) Hayes Pillars (ts,bar) STUFF SMITH (vln,vcl) Alphonso Trent (p,dir) Eugene Crooke (bj,g) Robert “Eppie” Jackson (tu) A.G. Godley (d) – […]

CAMILLE THURMAN ORIGINS – Union City, NJ, October 3 & 4, 2011 & Queens, NY, January 3 & 4, 2013 The dreamweaverer (3,4,6), In duetime (2,3,5), Revisiting the past (3,4) Camille Thurman (ts,sop,fl,voice) Luis Perdomo (p-2) Brandee Younger (harp-6) Corcoran Holt (b-3) Rudy Royston (d-4) Shirazette Tinnin (d-5,cajon-5             SPHERE […]

LOU DONALDSON LOU TAKES OFF – Hackensack, N.J., December 15, 1957 Dewey Square, Groovin’ high Donald Byrd (tp) Curtis Fuller (tb) Lou Donaldson (as) Sonny Clark (p) Jamil Nasser (b) Art Taylor (d)         CHARLIE HADEN / HAMPTON HAWES DUO AS LONG AS THERE’S MUSIC – Burbank, CA, January 25, 1976 Rain […]

CHET BAKER – IN TOKYO – June 14, 1987 Four, For all we know (cb vcl) Chet Baker (tp,vcl) Harold Danko (p) Hein van de Geyn (b) John Engels (d)             MATT SLOCUM WITH LOVE AND SADNESS – June 30, 2021 Prelude, First Light, America Revisited Walter Smith, III (ts) […]

SONNY STITT – BLOWS THE BLUES – Los Angeles, December 21 & 22, 1959 Blue devil blues, Home free blues, Birth of the blues Sonny Stitt (as,ts) Lou Levy (p) Leroy Vinnegar (b) Mel Lewis (d)             TERELL STAFFORD – FORGIVE AND FORGET – Brooklyn, NY, January 4, 2016 No, […]

CHICK WEBB AND HIS ORCHESTRA – New York, March 30, 1931 Heebie jeebies Shelton Hemphill, Louis Hunt (tp) Louis Bacon (tp,vcl) Jimmy Harrison (tb) Benny Carter (cl,as,arr) Hilton Jefferson (cl,as) Elmer Williams (cl,ts) Don Kirkpatrick (p) John Trueheart (bj,g) Elmer James (tu,b) Chick Webb (d,celeste,bells) AND HIS SAVOY ORCHESTRA – New York, December 20, 1933 […]

BOOKER ERVIN THE BOOK COOKS – New York, April 6, 1960 Git it, The blue book Tommy Turrentine (tp) Booker Ervin, Zoot Sims (ts) Tommy Flanagan (p) George Tucker (b) Dannie Richmond (d)             URI CAINE CATBIRD – New York, April 27 & 28, 2018 Catbird, Pun, Wetbed, Entanglement, Scrambled […]

PAUL DESMOND TAKE TEN – New York, June 5, 1963 Take Ten, Alone together, Out Of Nowhere Paul Desmond (as) Jim Hall (g) Gene Cherico (b) Connie Kay (d)             JOHNNY HODGES/DUKE ELLINGTON PLAY THE BLUES BACK TO BACK – New York, February 20, 1959 Wabash Blues, Weary blues, St. […]

MAXINE SULLIVAN y: CLAUDE THORNHILL AND HIS ORCHESTRA – New York, Junio, 1937 Stop, you’re breaking my heart, Gone with the wind (ms vcl) Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra : Manny Klein, Charlie Spivak (tp) Jack Lacey (tb) Toots Mondello, Jess Caranell (as) Babe Russin (ts) Eddie Powell (bar,fl) Claude Thornhill (p,vib,arr) Artie Bernstein (b) […]