SERGE CHALOFF “BLUE SERGE” – Los Angeles, March 14 & 16, 1956 A handful of stars, The goof and I, Thanks for the memory Serge Chaloff (bar) Sonny Clark (p) Leroy Vinnegar (b) Philly Joe Jones (d)             RUDY ROYSTON “RISE OF ORION” – Paramus, NJ , February 29, […]

JIMMY GIUFFRE “THE EASY WAY” – Chicago, IL, August 6 & 7, 1959 The easy way, Ray’s time, Off centre Jimmy Giuffre (cl,ts) Jim Hall (g) Ray Brown (b)             BUD SHANK “THE BUD SHANK QUARTET” – Los Angeles, January 25, 1956 Bag of blues, All this and heaven too, […]

JACKIE MCLEAN “HIPNOSIS” – Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 3, 1967 Hipnosis, The breakout Grachan Moncur, III (tb) Jackie McLean (as) Lamont Johnson (p) Scotty Holt (b) Billy Higgins (d)             HORACE PARLAN “US THREE” – Englewood Cliffs, N.J., April 20, 1960 Us three, I wanna be loved, Walkin’ Horace Parlan […]

    MELBA LISTON “MELBA LISTON & HER ‘BONES” – New York, December 22, 1958 You don’t say, Blues Melba Melba Liston, Bennie Green, Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb) Kenny Burrell (g) Jamil Nasser (b) Charlie Persip (d) – New York, December 24, 1958 The dark before dawn (1), Pow ! Melba Liston, Jimmy Cleveland, […]

  RONNIE MATHEWS “LEGACY” – New York, September 21, 1979 Legacy, Ichi ban, Song for leslie [untitled blues] (bh,rf out) Bill Hardman (tp) Ricky Ford (ts) Ronnie Mathews (p) Walter Booker (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)             EDWARD SIMON “SIMPLICITAS” – Brooklyn, NY, May 3, 2004 Infinite one, You’re my everything, […]

  YUSEF LATEEF “THREE FACES OF YUSEF LATEEF” – New York, May 9, 1960 I’m just a lucky so and so (2), Salt water blues (2), Lateef minor 7th (3) Yusef Lateef (oboe-2,fl-3) Hugh Lawson (p) Ron Carter (cello) Herman Wright (b) Lex Humphries (d)             MCCOY TYNER “TIME FOR […]

JABBO SMITH “THE RHYTHM ACES”: – Chicago, March 1, 1929 Take me to the river (js vcl,1), Aces of rhythm (1) Jabbo Smith (cnt,vcl) Omer Simeon (cl-1,as-2) Cassino Simpson (p) Ikey Robinson (bj) Hayes Alvis (tu-3) – Chicago, April 4, 1929 Decatur Street tutti (js vcl,1), Till times get better (js vcl,1) Earl Frazier (p) […]

  MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA “DATA LORDS” – Mount Vernon, NY, August 30-September 2, 2019 Bluebird, Sputnik Greg Gisbert, Mike Rodriguez, Nadje Noordhuis, Tony Kadleck (tp,flhrn) Keith O’Quinn, Marshall Gilkes, Ryan Keberle (tb) George Flynn (b-tb) Dave Pietro (as,cl,fl,alto-fl,pic) Steve Wilson (as,sop,cl,fl,alto-fl) Rich Perry (ts) Donny McCaslin (ts,fl) Scott Robinson (bar,Bb-cl,b-cl,contrabass-cl,muson) Gary Versace (accor) Frank Kimbrough […]

  WAYNE SHORTER “SCHIZOPHRENIA” – Engelwood Cliffs, N.J., March 10, 1967 Tom Thumb, Schizophrenia (1) Curtis Fuller (tb) James Spaulding (as,fl-1) Wayne Shorter (ts) Herbie Hancock (p) Ron Carter (b) Joe Chambers (d)           AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE “ON THE TENDER SPOT OF EVERY CALLOUSED MOMENT” – Brooklyn, N Y, c. 2019 Tide […]

SONNY ROLLINS “SONNY ROLLINS, VOL. 2” – New York, April 14, 1957 Why don’t I ?, Misterioso (1) Poor butterfly J.J. Johnson (tb) Sonny Rollins (ts) Horace Silver (p) Thelonious Monk (p-1) Paul Chambers (b) Art Blakey (d)             RON MCCLURE “MATCH POINT” – New York, August, 2001 Cellular expansion, […]