PuroJazz

BUD POWELL – THE AMAZING BUD POWELL – TIME WAITS – Hackensack, NJ, May 25, 1958 Time Waits, Monopoly, John’s Abbey Bud Powell (p) Sam Jones (b) Philly Joe Jones (d) MILES DAVIS – BOPPING THE BLUES – October 18, 1946, Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California Don’t Explain to Me Baby; Baby, Don’t Sing Me the […]

  VINCE GUARALDI TRIO A Charlie Brown Christmas – Berkeley, CA, prob c. 1964 O Tannenbaum, What child is this ?, Christmas is coming, Greensleeves Vince Guaraldi (p,org) Monty Budwig (b) Colin Bailey (d) ELLA FITZGERALD Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas – New York, July 15 & 16, 1960 Let It Snow! Let It […]

OSCAR PETERSON An Oscar Peterson Christmas – Toronto, January 15-16, May 23-24, June 23 & July 30, 1995 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, White Christmas, I’ll Be Home for Christmas Jack Schantz (flhrn) Dave Samuels (vib) Oscar Peterson (p) Lorne Lofsky (g) Dave Young (b) Jerry Fuller (d) + […]

  THAD JONES/MEL LEWIS – VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA – New York, April 28, 1967 The little pixie, Lover man Thad Jones (cnt) Snooky Young, Bill Berry, Jimmy Nottingham, Richard Williams, Marvin Stamm (tp) Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb) Tom McIntosh, Garnett Brown (tb) Cliff Heather (b-tb) Jerome Richardson (sop,as,fl,cl) Jerry Dodgion (as,fl) Joe Farrell (ts,fl) Eddie Daniels […]

SONNY ROLLINS – ROLLINS IN HOLLAND – Studio 5 Hilversum, the Netherlands, May 5, 1967 Blue room, Four , Tune up Sonny Rollins (ts) Ruud Jacobs (b) Han Bennink (d) AYAKO SHIRASAKI – SOME OTHER TIME – Brooklyn, NY, May 10, 2013 3 steps forwards, Some other time, Oleo, April in Paris Ayako Shirasaki (p) […]

  LEE MORGAN – SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., February 15, 1964 The joker, Melancholee, Morgan the pirate Lee Morgan (tp) Wayne Shorter (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Grant Green (g) Reggie Workman (b) Billy Higgins (d) HERBIE MANN/BILL EVANS – NIRVANA – New York, December 8, 1961 & New York, May […]

  ELVIN JONES – COALITION – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., July 17, 1970 5/4 thing, Ural stradania, Simone George Coleman (ts) Frank Foster (ts) Wilbur Little (b) Elvin Jones (d) Candido Camero (cga) DICK KATZ – IN HIGH PROFILE – New York, May 7, 1984 Laverne walk, No matter what, But not for me Jimmy Knepper […]

  DEXTER GORDON GO! – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., August 27, 1962 Three o’clock in the morning, I guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry, Cheese cake Dexter Gordon (ts) Sonny Clark (p) Butch Warren (b) Billy Higgins (d) BILL SMITH – BRUBECK A LA MODE – New York, May-June, 1960 Dorian dance, Peace, brother, […]

BILLY KYLE AND HIS SWING CLUB BAND – The Chronological Billie Kyle 1937-38 Girl of my dreams, Handle my heart with care Charlie Shavers (tp) Tab Smith (as) Ronald Haynes (ts) Billy Kyle (p) Danny Barker (g) Johnny Williams (b) Fran Marx (d) Leon Lafell (vcl) – Billy Kyle Trio – New York, May 23, […]

MCCOY TYNER – THE REAL MCCOY – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., April 21, 1967 Passion dance, Search for peace Joe Henderson (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Ron Carter (b) Elvin Jones (d) BUDDY RICH – THE SWINGING BUDDY RICH – Los Angeles, August 26, 1955 Sonny and Sweets, The two mothers, A smooth one Harry “Sweets” Edison […]