PuroJazz

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) […]

  BRUCE HARRIS      SOUNDVIEW – Astoria, NY, October 25, 2020 Saucer eyes, Bird of red and gold (smc vcl), Ellington suite : Black beauty – Drop me off in Harlem – Echoes of Harlem Bruce Harris (tp) Sullivan Fortner (p) David Wong (b) Aaron Kimmel (d) Samara Joy McClendon (vcl)       […]

CHU BERRY AND HIS LITTLE JAZZ ENSEMBLE  – November 10, 1938 Body and soul, Sittin’ in, Star dust, Forty-Six West Fifty-Two Roy Eldridge (tp) Chu Berry (ts) Clyde Hart (p) Danny Barker (g) Artie Shapiro (b) Sidney Catlett (d) CLIFF JACKSON SEPIA SERENADERS   – New York, December 14, 1934 Ridiculous blues, Nameless blues, Dallas blues […]

RAY GALLON MAKE YOUR MOVE – Brooklyn, NY, c. 2020 Kitty paws, Out of whack, Harm’s way Ray Gallon (p,comp) David Wong (b) Kenny Washington (d)               SONNY ROLLINS ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM THE SCORE “ALFIE” – New York, January 26, 1966 Alfie’s theme, Street runner with child, On Impulse, […]