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May 29, 2025Puro Jazz 28 de mayo, 2025
ERIC REED “OUT LATE”
New York, c. 2024
Glow, Shadoboxing, Out late
Nicholas Payton (tp) Eric Alexander (ts) Eric Reed (p,comp) Peter Washington (b) Joe Farnsworth (d)
JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET “CRESCENT”
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, April 27, 1964
Crescent, Wise one, Bessie’s blues
John Coltrane (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Jimmy Garrison (b) Elvin Jones (d)
PASQUALE GRASSO “FERVENCY”
New York ?, c. 2024
Sub city, Milestones, Bean and the boys, Bags’ groove
Pasquale Grasso (g) Ari Roland (b) Keith Balla (d)
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59 min
May 28, 2025Puro Jazz 27 de mayo, 2025
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA “AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL”
New York, August 28, 1967
Blood count (ct out), Upper Manhattan Medical Group, Raincheck (ct out), Lotus blossom (DE piano solo)
Cat Anderson, Herbie Jones, Cootie Williams, Mercer Ellington (tp) Clark Terry (flhrn) Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, Chuck Connors (tb) Jimmy Hamilton (cl,ts) Russell Procope (as,cl) Johnny Hodges (as) Paul Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (bar,cl,b-cl) Duke Ellington (p) Aaron Bell (b) Steve Little (d)
JIMMY RUSHING “AND HIS ALL STARS”
Brooklyn, NY, August 16, 1955
Everyday (I have the blues), Evenin’, Don’t cry baby
Jimmy Rushing (vcl) acc by Emmett Berry (tp) Lawrence Brown (tb) Rudy Powell (as,cl) Buddy Tate (ts) Pete Johnson (p) Freddie Green (g) Walter Page (b) Jo Jones (d)
BUCK CLAYTON “BUCKIN’ THE BLUES”
Brooklyn, NY, March 14, 1957 Buck huckles, Claytonia, The queen’s express
Buck Clayton (tp) Vic Dickenson (tb) Earl Warren (as) Hank Jones (p) Kenny Burrell (el-g) Aaron Bell (b) Jo Jones (d)
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59 min
May 27, 2025Puro Jazz 26 de mayo, 2025
JIM SNIDERO “FOR ALL WE KNOW”
Saylorsburg, PA, October 24, 2023
For all we know, Naima, Blackberry winter, Parker’s mood
Jim Snidero (as) Peter Washington (b) Joe Farnsworth (d)
JOAQUÍN FUENTES “QUINTA TEMPORADA”
2022 – 2024 Milestones (New), Carta de Amor
Joaquín Fuentes (piano) Jorge Vargas (bajo) y Sebastián Acevedo (batería)
DAVE BASS “NO BOUNDARIES”
New York, 2019
Lennie’s pennies, Agenbite of Inwit, Danzon
Ted Nash (fl,alto-fl,cl,b-cl,sop,as,ts) Dave Bass (p) Carlos Henriquez (b) Jerome Jennings (d)
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59 min
May 24, 2025Puro Jazz 23 de mayo, 2025
INGRID LAUBROCK “PURPOSING THE AIR”
Mt. Vernon, NY, June 6 & 7, 2024
Koan 28, 55, 15, 11, 43, 58
Mariel Roberts (chelo) Ingrid Laubrock (comp) Fay Victor (voz)
MICHAEL ATTIAS “NERVE DANCE”
Paramus, NJ, February 15, 2016
Dark net, La part maudite, Nasheet Michael Attias (as) Aruan Ortiz (p) John Hebert (b) Nasheet Waits (d)
RICH HALLEY “TERRA INCOGNITA”
Brooklyn, New York, in August 2018
Centripetal, The elms, Terra incognita
Rich Halley (ts) Matthew Shipp (p) Michael Bisio (b) Newman Taylor Baker (d)
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59 min
May 22, 2025Puro Jazz 21 de mayo, 2025
WAYNE SHORTER “JUJU”
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., August 3, 1964
Juju, Mahjong
Wayne Shorter (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Reggie Workman (b) Elvin Jones (d)
LENA BLOCH “ROSE OF LIFTA”
Hampton, NJ, June 12, 2019
Rose of Lifta, Old home
Lena Bloch (ts) Russ Lossing (p) Cameron Brown (b) Billy Mintz (d)
STEVE HOLT “IMPACT”
Toronto, Canada, March 6-7, 2025
Impact, Second Voyage, The Cup Bearers
Kevin Turcotte (t/flgl) Perry White (st) Steve Holt (p/tcl) Duncan Hopkins (b) Terry Clarke (dr)
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1 hr
May 21, 2025Puro Jazz 20 de mayo, 2025
PLANET JAZZ “LIVE SMALLS JAZZ CLUB”
New York, August 23 & 24, 2009
The intimacy of the blues
Joe Magnarelli (tp) Jerry Weldon (ts) Spike Wilner (p) Peter Bernstein (g) Neal Miner (b) Joe Strasser (d)
JAKOB BRO “TAKING TURNS”
New York, March, 2014
Haiti, Milford sound, Pearl River
Lee Konitz (as,sop) Jason Moran (p) Jakob Bro (g,comp) Bill Frisell (g) Thomas Morgan (b) Andrew Cyrille (d)
BOB HURST “A PALINDROME”
Brooklyn, NY, October, 2001
Indiscreet in da street, Little queen, Jamming [Ichaba]
Marcus Belgrave (tp,flhrn) Bennie Maupin (alto-fl,b-cl,ts,sop) Branford Marsalis (ts,sop) Robert Glasper (p,el-p) Robert Hurst (b) Jeff “Tain” Watts (d) Adam Rudolph (perc)
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59 min
May 20, 2025Puro Jazz 19 de mayo, 2025
LEON ANDERSON “LIVE SNUG HARBOR”
New Orleans, LA, c. 2023
P.J.’s, Vengeance
John Michael Bradford (tp) Ricardo Pascal (sax) Oscar Rossignoli (p) Rodney Jordan (b) Leon Anderson (d,comp)
GILAD HEKSELMAN FAR STAR “DOWNHILL FROM HERE”
Live “Samurai Hotel”, Queens, NY, December 21, 2023
Downhill from here, Navanad, Like a wildflower
Gilad Hekselman (g,comp) Larry Grenadier (b) Marcus Gilmore (d)
ALTIN SENCALAR “UNLEASHED”
June 17, 2024, Brooklyn, NY
Unleashed, Obsession, 17 West
Altin Sencalar (tbn) Greg Tardy (st/cl) Bruce Williams (flt/saxos) Behn Gillece (vib) Boris Kozlov (b) E.J.
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59 min
May 17, 2025Puro Jazz 16 de mayo, 2025 segundo programa especial dedicado a Charles Mingus
CHARLES MINGUS OCTET “MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MONTEREY, 1965, NOT HEARD… PLAYED IN ITS ENTIRETY AT UCLA – CONCERT “ROYCE HALL”.
Los Angeles, CA, September 25, 1965″
Meditations on inner peace, Ode to Bird and Dizzy (hd,jo,jw,hj out) The arts of Tatum and Freddie Webster, Twelfth Street rag [Muskrat ramble] Don’t be afraid, the clown’s afraid too
Lonnie Hillyer, Hobart Dotson (tp) Jimmy Owens (tp,flhrn) Julius Watkins (fhr) Howard Johnson (tu) Charles McPherson (as) Charles Mingus (b,p) Dannie Richmond (d)
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1 hr
May 16, 2025Puro Jazz 15 de mayo, 2025 Programa especial dedicado a Charles Mingus
THE CHARLES MINGUS JAZZ WORKSHOP “PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS”
New York, January 30, 1956
Pithecanthropus erectus [suite]: Evolution – Superiority-complex – Decline – Destruction
Jackie McLean (as) J.R. Monterose (ts) Mal Waldron (p) Charles Mingus (b) Willie Jones (d)
“THE CLOWN”
New York, February 13, March 12, 1957
Haitian fight song (1), Reincarnation of a lovebird (1)
Jimmy Knepper (tb) Shafi Hadi (as-1,ts-2) [aka Curtis Porter (as,ts) ] Wade Legge (p) Charles Mingus (b) Dannie Richmond (d,tamb)
“MINGUS AH UM”
New York, May 5, 1959
Better get it in your soul, Goodbye pork pie hat, Fables of Faubus
Jimmy Knepper (tb) John Handy (cl-1,as) Shafi Hadi (as-2,ts) Booker Ervin (ts) Horace Parlan (p) Charles Mingus (b,p-3) Dannie Richmond (d)
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59 min
May 15, 2025Puro Jazz 14 de mayo, 2025
CARL WINTHER “STEEP STEPS”
Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2023
You know, Steep steps Carl Winther (p) Richard Andersson (b) Jeff “Tain” Watts (d)
RICK HOLLANDER QUARTET “ACCIDENTAL FORTUNE”
Hayward, CA., September 17 & 18, 1992
Accidental fortune, Big Stacey, Pull
Tim Armacost (ts) Walter Lang (p) Will Woodard (b) Rick Hollander (d)
BILLY MOHLER “THE ETERNAL”
Los Angeles, c .2024
Hawk wind, Sooner, Tsunami
Devin Daniels (as) Jeff Parker (g) Billy Mohler (b,comp) Damion Reid (d)
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58 min