HANK MOBLEY – DIPPIN’ – Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 18, 1965 The dip The breakthrough,I see your face before me, The vamp Lee Morgan (tp) Hank Mobley (ts) Harold Mabern (p) Larry Ridley (b) Billy Higgins (d)             GERALD WILSON – YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT – Los Angeles, September 9, […]

BUSTER BAILEY  – And His Seven Chocolate Dandies – New York, December 28, 1934 Call of the delta, Shanghai shuffle Henry “Red” Allen (tp) J.C. Higginbotham (tb) Buster Bailey (cl) Benny Carter (as) Charlie Beal (p) Danny Barker (g) Elmer James (b) Walter Johnson (d) Fletcher Henderson (arr) – And His Rhythm Busters – New […]

THE COOKERS – LOOK OUT! – Englewood Cliffs, NJ, c. 2020 Destiny is yours, Traveling lady Eddie Henderson, David Weiss (tp) Donald Harrison (as) Billy Harper (ts) George Cables (p) Cecil McBee (b) Billy Hart (d)           WYNTON KELLY – KELLY BLUE – New York, February 19, 1959 Kelly blue Nat […]

  RED GARLAND – REDISCOVERED MASTERS   – Hackensack, NJ, June 27, 1958 Blues in mambo (1) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Art Taylor (d) Ray Barretto (cga-1) – August 12, 1959 Blues in the closet Red Garland (p) Doug Watkins (b) Specs Wright (d) – March 16, 1961 Skinny’s blues Richard Williams (tp) […]

LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S BIG BAND – New York, October 3, 1935 I’m in the mood for love, La Cucaracha, Got a bran’ new suit Louis Armstrong (tp,vcl) Louis Bacon, Leonard Davis, Gus Aiken (tp) Harry White, Jimmy Archey (tb) Henry Jones, Charlie Holmes (as) Bingie Madison (cl,ts) Greely Walton (ts) Luis Russell (p) Lee Blair (g) […]

GEORGE SHEARING & THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS – Los Angeles – October 9, 1961 Double deal, No hard feelings, Darn that dream, Love for sale Buddy Montgomery (vib) George Shearing (p) Wes Montgomery (g) Monk Montgomery (b) Walter Perkins (d) – October 10, 1961 Stranger in paradise, Mambo in chimes (wp out) Armando Peraza (cga) Rimaro […]

THE COTTON PICKERS – New York, March 27 & May 16 (1), 1929 Rampart Street blues, St. Louis gal (hc,sl vcl), Kansas City Kitty, No parking (1) Tommy Dorsey (tp) Glenn Miller (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Arthur Schutt (p) Perry Botkin (bj) Joe Tarto (b) Stan King (d) Hoagy Carmichael, Scrappy Lambert (vcl) prob. Carl […]

ART DAVIS – A TIME REMEMBERED – Hollywood, CA, January, 1995 Everybody’s doing it, Evidence, Every time we say goodbye Ravi Coltrane (ts,sop) Herbie Hancock (p) Art Davis (b) Marvin “Smitty” Smith (d)             JOE FARNSWORTH – CITY OF SOUNDS – New York, febrero 2021 New York Attitude, Bud-Like, No […]

LEE KONITZ & MARTIAL SOLAL – LIVE AT THE BERLIN JAZZ DAYS – Berlin, Germany, October 30, 1980 A ballad for Lennie, Improvisation No. 53, Subconcious-Lee Lee Konitz (as) Martial Solal (p)           BILL HOLMAN – KENTON PRESENTS JAZZ – Los Angeles, July 13, 1955 The mild one, My buddy, Where […]

  BUDDY RICH – THE SWINGING BUDDY RICH – Los Angeles, August 26, 1955 Sonny and Sweets [Blues in the closet], The two mothers, A smooth one Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp) Sonny Criss (as) Jimmy Rowles (p) John Simmons (b) Buddy Rich (d)         NAT KING COLE – AFTER MIDNIGHT – Los […]