CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET IN CHICAGO – Chicago, IL, February 3, 1959 Limehouse blues, Wabash, Grand central Cannonball Adderley (as) John Coltrane (ts) Wynton Kelly (p) Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)             EMBER AUGUST IN MARCH – Samurai Hotel, Astoria, NY, December 3rd, 2022 Flotation Device and the Shivers, Suspense, […]

NATHAN DAVIS THE HIP WALK  – Villingen, Germany, September 1, 1965 The hip walk (1,2), Carmell’s Black Forest waltz (nd out,1), B’s blues (1,3) Carmell Jones (tp-1) Nathan Davis (ts-2,sop-3,fl-4) Francy Boland (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Kenny Clarke (d) HERB GELLER YOU’RE LOOKING AT ME  – Hollywood, CA, February 25 & 26, 1997 You’re looking […]

MIKE CLARK PLAYS HERBIE HANCOCK  – New York, June, 2022 Toys, Speak like a child Jon Davis (p) Leon Lee Dorsey (b) Mike Clark (d) Herbie Hancock (comp) BILL EVANS & JIM HALL UNDERCURRENT  – New York, May 14, 1962 My funny Valentine, Skating in Central Park, Darn that dream Bill Evans (p)  Jim Hall […]

CHARLIE JOHNSON’S ORIGINAL PARADISE TEN  – New York, February 25, 1927Paradise wobble, Birmingham black bottom, Don’t you leave me here. Charlie Johnson’s Original Paradise Ten : Jabbo Smith, Leonard Davis, Tom Morris (cnt) Charlie Irvis (tb) Benny Carter (cl,sop,as) Ben Whitted (cl,as) Elmer Harrell (cl,ts) Charlie Johnson (p) Bobby Johnson (bj) Cyrus St. Clair (tu) […]

LAGE LUND TERRIBLE ANIMALS  – New York, April 26, 2018 Hard eights, Aquanaut, Haitian ballad Sullivan Fortner (p) Lage Lund (g,effects) Larry Grenadier (b) Tyshawn Sorey (d) TRAVIS SHOOK TRAVIS SHOOK  – New York, 1993 Astarte (1), Witchcraft (tw out), Dewey north Bunky Green (as-1) Travis Shook (p) Ira Coleman (b) Tony Williams (d) BENNIE […]

BOB MOSES TIME STOOD STILL  – New York, August, 1993: “Felonious Thunk” Miles Evans (tp) Rob Scheps (ts) Bryan Carrott (vib) Yossi Fine, Matthew Garrison (b) Bob Moses (d,talking d,keyboards,rap) Simon Haggiag (cga) Billy Martin (perc) Ben Wittman (perc,d) The Boston Illharmonic : Mike Peipman (tp,flhrn) Walter Platt (tp) or Scott Cowens (tp) Bob Pilkington […]

JOHNATHAN BLAKE PASSAGE  – c. 2022 – Passage, Groundhog day Immanuel Wilkins (as) Joel Ross (vib) David Virelles (p) Dezron Douglas (b) Johnathan Blake (d,comp) VINCENT GARDNER THREE-FIVE  – New York, March, 2008Sweet’n’sour, Long as you’re living, Dee wee Derrick Gardner (tp) Vincent Gardner (tb) Mark Gross (ts) Aaron Goldberg (p) Greg Williams (b) Ali […]

MILES DAVIS BAGS’ GROOVE  – Hackensack, NJ, December 24, 1954 Bags’ groove (Tk1) Miles Davis (tp) Milt Jackson (vib) Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b) Kenny Clarke (d)  – Hackensack, NJ, June 29, 1954 Airegin, Doxy Miles Davis (tp) Sonny Rollins (ts) Horace Silver (p) Percy Heath (b) Kenny Clarke (d) MIKE CLARK PLAYS HERBIE […]

COOTIE WILLIAMS COOTIE & REX IN THE BIG CHALLENGE  – New York, April 30, May 6, 1957 Alphonse and Gaston, Do nothin’ till you hear from me, When your lover has gone, I gotta right to sing the blues Rex Stewart (cnt) Cootie Williams (tp) Lawrence Brown, J.C. Higginbotham (tb) Coleman Hawkins, Bud Freeman (ts) […]

WOODY SHAW BLACKSTONE LEGACY   – New York, December 8 & 9, 1970 Think on me (1,2), A deed for Dolphy (1,2) Woody Shaw (tp) Gary Bartz (as,sop) Bennie Maupin (ts,b-cl,fl) George Cables (p,el-p) Ron Carter (b-1) Clint Houston (b-2) Lenny White (d) TIM RAY TRIO FIRE & RAIN  – Boston, MA, February 20 & 21, […]