Blue Note Works 1500 series Vol.1581-1590

 

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label, owned by Universal Music Group and currently operates in conjunction with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. While the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Many great jazz musicians recorded for Blue Note, but the man responsible for the quality of label’s recordings – their high dynamic and tonal range and lifelike presence – was sound engineer, Rudy Van Gelder. It was his recording equipment, choice and placement of microphones, the work at the mixing desk, the selection and rejection of takes, and the active supervision of the whole recording process from monitoring the dials through to cutting of the master lacquer, that created the “Blue Note sound”.

Van Gelder always sought to be at the forefront of recording technology – the Scully lathe he used for cutting lacquer masters was the first to feature variable pitch/depth control to optimise groove-width and loudness. He deployed the newest Neumann/ Telefunken U-47 condenser microphone, which he had specially modified for use very close to instruments. His recordings were made on the latest Ampex tape recorders.

Blue Note made the switch to 12" LPs late in 1955. The Modern Jazz Series continued with the following 12" LPs. Many of these were issued in both monaural versions (BLP series) and stereo versions (BST 81500 series), sometimes in electronically rechanneled stereo. In certain cases, the stereo versions of recordings from 1957 onwards only appeared many years later. Beginning in 1956 with BLP 1509, Reid Miles designed most of the Blue Note LP covers. The 1500 series has been systematically reissued by Toshiba-EMI in Japan ("Blue Note Works 1500" series, 20-bit 88.2 kHz CDs); the catalog numbers are TOCJ-1501, etc.

 

BN.1581- Sonny Rollins- 1957- A Night at the Village Vanguard {RVG Remaster}
BN.1582- Clifford Jordan- 1957- Cliff Craft
BN.1583- Curtis Fuller- 1957- Curtis Fuller Vol.3
BN.1584- Louis Smith- 1957- Here Comes Louis Smith {RVG Remaster}
BN.1585- Jimmy Smith- 1957- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise vol.1 {RVG Remaster}
BN.1586- Jimmy Smith- 1957- Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise vol.2 {RVG Remaster}
BN.1587- Bennie Green- 1958- Back On The Scene
BN.1588- Sonny Clark- 1958- Cool Struttin' {RVG Remaster}
BN.1589- Horace Silver- 1958- Further Explorations {RVG Remaster}
BN.1590- Lee Morgan- 1958- Candy {RVG Remaster}

Yusef Lateef with Art Farmer - Autophysiopsychic (1997/2017/FLAC-HD)

In 1977, the genius Latif, who developed a unique musicality that transcended genres by fusing jazz, blues, R & B, world music, etc., and made full use of all lead instruments such as saxophone and flute, was at CTI. With a funky fusion touch sound arranged by David Matthews, saxophone, flute, shakuhachi, vocals, and Art Farmer's flugelhorn are also featured, a danceable but unique world view.

 

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City on October 19, 20 & 21, 1977

• Yusef Lateef - flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, shahnai, vocals
• Art Farmer - flugelhorn
• Clifford Carter - keyboards
• Eric Gale - electric guitar
• Gary King - electric bass
• Jim Madison - drums
• Sue Evans - percussion
• Frank Floyd, Babi Floyd, Milt Grayson, Norberto Jones - backing vocals

01 - Robot Man 06:39

02 - Look on the Right Side 05:10

03 - Yl 07:58

04 - Communication 09:23

05 - Sister Mamie 10:06

Mills Blue Rhythm Band - Chronogical Classics 1931-1937 (5 CD)

 

This fine big band was originally formed by drummer Willie Lynch as the Blue Rhythm Band in 1930 and as the Coconut Grove Orchestra, provided backup to Louis Armstrong on some records. In 1931, Irving Mills became their manager and the group was renamed the Mills Blue Rhythm Band. Lynch's departure later that year resulted in Baron Lee fronting the band until Lucky Millinder took over in 1934. The big band recorded frequently during 1931-1937 (all of the recordings have been reissued on five Classics CDs) and, although the orchestra never really caught on or developed its own personality, its recordings did document many fine performances. Among the sidemen were pianist Edgar Hayes, altoist Charlie Holmes, Joe Garland on tenor, drummer O'Neil Spencer, and by 1934, trumpeter Red Allen, trombonist J.C. Higginbotham, and clarinetist Benny Bailey. Later editions included altoist Tab Smith, pianist Billy Kyle, and trumpeters Charlie Shavers and Harry "Sweets" Edison. When the group broke up in 1938, Lucky Millinder formed his own big band. 

 

 

Larry Coryell discography [1967-2016]

Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist known as the "Godfather of Fusion".

Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands the Jailers, the Rumblers, the Royals, and the Flames. He also played with the Checkers from nearby Yakima, Washington. He then moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington. He played in a number of popular Northwest bands, including the Dynamics, while living in Seattle.

In 1965, Coryell moved to New York City where he became part of Chico Hamilton's quintet, replacing Gabor Szabo. In 1967 and 1968, he recorded with Gary Burton. Also during the mid-1960s he played with The Free Spirits. His music during the late-1960s and early-1970s combined the influences of rock, jazz and eastern music. He formed his own group, The Eleventh House, in 1973. The album sold well in college towns and the ensemble toured widely to support that. Following the break-up of this band, Coryell played mainly acoustic guitar, but returned to electric guitar later in the 1980s. In 1979, Coryell formed "The Guitar Trio" with jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. The group toured Europe briefly, eventually releasing a video recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London entitled "Meeting of Spirits". In early 1980, Coryell's drug addiction led to him being replaced by Al Di Meola.

In 2007, Coryell published an autobiography titled Improvising: My Life in Music. Larry's two sons, Julian Coryell and Murali Coryell are also actively involved in the music business.

Coryell died of heart failure in New York City, at the age of 73.

 

 

Bennie Green - Mosaic Select 3 (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 

Trombonist Bennie Green's Blue Note albums were almost completely overlooked until this Mosaic Select compilation appeared in 2003. The first session, originally issued as Back on the Scene, features Charlie Rouse joining Green in the front line. Green's up-tempo "Bennie Plays the Blues" is the best blowing vehicle, while he and Rouse both contribute lyrical solos in Melba Liston's "Melba's Mood." Pianist Gildo Mahones wrote three of the six tracks recorded for Walkin' & Talkin', with Eddy Williams taking Rouse's place. The overall session isn't up to Green's Blue Note debut, but his snappy blues "Walkin' and Talkin'" contains some of his hottest playing within this boxed set. Williams is also on hand for the ten selections first released in Japan as The 45 Sessions with pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jerry Segal. The solos are consistently hot and the quintet never wraps things in a perfunctory manner as one would expect with recordings made for jukeboxes. All of the instrumentals rate high praise, especially the loping "On the Street Where You Live" and the leader's "Ain't Nothin' But the Blues." The addition of singer Babs Gonzales on the last three cuts mar some otherwise excellent performances. Tenor saxophonists Gene Ammons and Billy Root are on hand for the session which produced Soul Stirrin'. While the material on this date is uneven, Green's interpretation of "That's All" is very satisfying. Unfortunately, Gonzales appears for two more numbers. The last five songs come from a date led by tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec (eventually issued as Congo Lament), adding Stanley Turrentine, Milt Hinton, and Art Blakey to join Green and Clark. Green's exotic "Congo Lament" and Turrentine's upbeat "Cue's Pill" are impressive. Unlike the full-sized box set from Mosaic, this collection is in a small cubed package, but with many session photographs and the original liner notes for each date. 

• Bennie Green - trombone
• Joe Knight, Gildo Mahones, Sonny Clark - piano
• Milt Hinton, Paul Chambers, Ike Isaacs, George Tucker - bass
• Louis Hayes, Art Blakey, Al Dreares, Jerry Segal, Elvin Jones - drums
• Babs Gonzales - vocal (on “Soul Stirrin', “Lullaby Of The Doomedon, “Encore”)
• Billy Root, Gene Ammons, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine,
• Eddy Williams, Charlie Rouse - tenor sax

 

 

Cassandra Wilson discography [1985-2015]

 

Blessed with a distinctive, flexible voice and genre-bending taste, Mississippi-born singer Cassandra Wilson is one of the best and most celebrated jazz singers of her generation. Influenced by the innovative styles of Betty Carter, Shirley Horn, and Nina Simone, Wilson emerged from Steve Coleman's M-Base Collective in the late '80s as a highly individualistic performer. Although she is an adept interpreter of the standards and blues-based jazz tradition, she's equally at home reinventing the songs of folk, pop, and country artists like Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Hank Williams, and the Beatles. It's an approach that has won her accolades, including Grammy Awards for 1995's New Moon Daughter and 2009's Loverly. Nonetheless, she remains deeply connected to her jazz roots, drawing upon influences such as Billie Holiday on her 2015 Lady Day tribute, Coming Forth by Day. Her virtuoso talents have also been utilized by her peers, including work with Dave Holland, the Roots, and Bill Frisell, as well as performing on Wynton Marsalis' Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood on the Fields. Along with her Grammy Awards, Wilson has also earned a Django d'Or, an Edison Music Award, and a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. 

 

Cassandra Wilson.1985 - Point Of View

Cassandra Wilson.1987 - Days Aweigh

Cassandra Wilson.1988 - Blue Skies

Cassandra Wilson.1989 - Jumpworld

Cassandra Wilson.1990 - She Who Weeps

Cassandra Wilson.1991 - After The Beginning Again

Cassandra Wilson.1991 - Live

Cassandra Wilson.1992 - Dance To The Drums Again

Cassandra Wilson.1993 - Blue Light 'til Dawn

Cassandra Wilson.1995 - New Moon Daughter

Cassandra Wilson.1996 - Songbook

Cassandra Wilson.1998 - Rendezvous (With Jacky Terrasson)

Cassandra Wilson.1999 - Traveling Miles

Cassandra Wilson.2002 - Belly Of The Sun

Cassandra Wilson.2002 - Sings Standards

Cassandra Wilson.2003 - Glamoured

Cassandra Wilson.2004 - Love Phases Dimensions (From The JMT Years)

Cassandra Wilson.2006 - Thunderbird

Cassandra Wilson.2008 - Loverly

Cassandra Wilson.2009 - Closer To You - The Pop Side

Cassandra Wilson.2010 - Silver Pony

Cassandra Wilson.2012 - Another Country

Cassandra Wilson.2015 - Coming Forth By Day

Bill Dixon - The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (9 CD, 2010/FLAC)

 

Bill Dixon's Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note is an enormous nine-disc affair. It showcases a very productive and important period for the trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, and offers a fine portrait of his highly individual contribution to avant-garde jazz between the years 1980 and 1998. While it's true that three offerings here, In Italy, Vol. 1, Vade Mecum, and Papyrus could be considered double albums (example: In Italy, Vol. 2 contains the same players and was recorded during the same sessions as volume one, and the same is true respectively for the other two titles mentioned) disregarding them for music that was left off the initial volumes as inferior or merely as outtakes is a mistake. What the companion volumes underscore is just how deep Dixon's well was; it fleshes out the ideas on the initial volumes. The single album titles here are November 1981, Thoughts, and Sons of Sisyphus. One need only gauge the level of the players on these sides to judge their importance: some include -- but are not limited to -- Alan Silva, Freddie Waits, Mario Pavone, Barry Guy, Tony Oxley, and William Parker. Particular favorites in the set are November 1981, with Pavone, Laurence Cook, and Silva; Vade Mecum, with Guy, Parker, and Oxley, and Papyrus, a duet session with Oxley, where the smallest details, nuances, and notions of space in Dixon's compositional and improvisational languages reveal themselves readily. For anyone who has any of the original LPs or CDs and is questioning whether the investment is worth it, the answer is a resounding "yes." The remastering quality is very high, making (nearly) crystalline the sonic details blurred by the original releases. In the case of compact discs, the thin, brittle sound that marred earlier CDs on Soul Note and Black Saint is much fuller, warmer, and rounder here. Price-wise, there is a very wide range: real bargains can be had by anyone willing to put in a little work on the internet. While many of the sets in this series are wonderful, Dixon's is truly special.

 

 

Blue Note Works 1500 series Vol.1566-1580

 

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label, owned by Universal Music Group and currently operates in conjunction with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. While the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Many great jazz musicians recorded for Blue Note, but the man responsible for the quality of label’s recordings – their high dynamic and tonal range and lifelike presence – was sound engineer, Rudy Van Gelder. It was his recording equipment, choice and placement of microphones, the work at the mixing desk, the selection and rejection of takes, and the active supervision of the whole recording process from monitoring the dials through to cutting of the master lacquer, that created the “Blue Note sound”.

Van Gelder always sought to be at the forefront of recording technology – the Scully lathe he used for cutting lacquer masters was the first to feature variable pitch/depth control to optimise groove-width and loudness. He deployed the newest Neumann/ Telefunken U-47 condenser microphone, which he had specially modified for use very close to instruments. His recordings were made on the latest Ampex tape recorders.

Blue Note made the switch to 12" LPs late in 1955. The Modern Jazz Series continued with the following 12" LPs. Many of these were issued in both monaural versions (BLP series) and stereo versions (BST 81500 series), sometimes in electronically rechanneled stereo. In certain cases, the stereo versions of recordings from 1957 onwards only appeared many years later. Beginning in 1956 with BLP 1509, Reid Miles designed most of the Blue Note LP covers. The 1500 series has been systematically reissued by Toshiba-EMI in Japan ("Blue Note Works 1500" series, 20-bit 88.2 kHz CDs); the catalog numbers are TOCJ-1501, etc.

 

BN.1566- Lou Donaldson- 1957- Swing And Soul
BN.1567- Curtis Fuller- 1957- The Opener {RVG Remaster}
BN.1568- Hank Mobley- 1957- Hank Mobley {RVG Remaster}
BN.1569- Paul Chambers- 1957- Bass on Top {RVG Remaster}
BN.1570- Sonny Clark- 1957- Dial 'S' for Sonny {RVG Remaster}
BN.1571- Bud Powell- 1957- Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol.3)
BN.1572- Curtis Fuller- 1957- Bone & Bari {RVG Remaster}
BN.1573- John Jenkins- 1957- John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell
BN.1574- Hank Mobley & Lee Mogran- 1958- Peckin' Time {RVG Remaster}
BN.1575- Lee Morgan- 1957- City Lights {RVG Remaster}
BN.1576- Sonny Clark- 1957- Sonny's Crib
BN.1577- John Coltrane- 1957- Blue Train {RVG Remaster}
BN.1578- Lee Morgan- 1957- The Cooker {RVG Remaster}
BN.1579- Sonny Clark- 1957- Sonny Clark Trio {RVG Remaster}
BN.1580- Johnny Griffin- 1957- The Congregation {RVG Remaster}

Lenny White discography [1975-2010]

 

Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White (born December 19, 1949) is an American jazz fusion drummer, born in New York City, best known for being the drummer of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.

White was self-taught on drums and he largely started his career on top, playing regularly with Jackie McLean (1968) and recording "Bitches Brew" with Miles Davis in 1969. White was soon working with some of the who's who of jazz including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Gato Barbieri, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke and Stan Getz among others. As a member of Return To Forever during 1973-76, White gained a strong reputation as one of the top fusion drummers, but he was always versatile enough to play in many settings. After the breakup of RTF, Lenny White headed several fusion projects but none of the recordings (for Nemperor and Elektra) have dated well at all, emphasizing commercial funk. However his work with the Echoes Of An Era and Griffith Park all-star groups were been more successful and he has been a valuable sideman for a wide variety of projects.

Lenny White-(1975)-Venusian Summer

Lenny White-(1977)-Big City

Lenny White-(1978)-Streamline

Lenny White-(1978)-The Adventures of the Astral Pirates

Lenny White-(1983)-Attitude

Lenny White-(1995)-Present Tense

Lenny White-(1996)-Renderers Of Spirit

Lenny White-(1999)-Edge

Lenny White-(2008)-Hancock Island- The Music Of Herbie Hancock

Lenny White-(2010)-Anomaly

 

VA - Diva series (Verve, 10 CD, 2003)

 

Perfect 9+1 CD series from Verve

• Anita O'Day
• Astrud Gilberto
• Billie Holiday
• Blossom Dearie
• Carmen McRae
• Dinah Washington
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Nina Simone
• Sarah Vaughan
• The Ultimate Diva Collection