Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska (1971/FLAC-HD)

Odyssey of Iska is the fourteenth album by American jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, released on Blue Note Records in 1971.

Odyssey of Iska was the outcome of the second recording session with Shorter that was produced by Duke Pearson. (The first session, Moto Grosso Feio on April 3, 1970, was not issued until 1974.) With the exception of Ron Carter there was a completely different line-up, although with a similar instrumentation: Shorter's saxophone as the only horn, guitar instead of keyboards, two double bass players, and various percussion instruments including marimba and vibraphone. The same emphasis on percussion is also found on a recording date led by Joe Zawinul only some two weeks before, on August 10, where Wayne Shorter had a guest appearance on "Double Image" (released on Zawinul).

Wayne Shorter had just married Ana Maria Patricio, whom he had met four years earlier. The name "Iska" in the album title refers to their daughter. She was born around the time the record was made.

One of the percussionists on Odyssey of Iska, Frank Cuomo, is the father of rock group Weezer's frontman, Rivers Cuomo. The other drummers are Billy Hart and Alphonse Mouzon.  

All compositions by Shorter, except "Depois do Amor, o Vazio" written by Bobby Thomas.

1.     "Wind" – 8:00
2.     "Storm" – 8:22
3.     "Calm" – 3:25
4.     "Depois do Amor, o Vazio" (After Love, Emptiness) (Bobby Thomas) – 11:40
5.     "Joy" – 9:00

Personnel

    Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

    Gene Bertoncini – guitar

    Ron Carter, Cecil McBee – bass

    Billy Hart, Alphonse Mouzon – drums

    Frank Cuomo – drums, percussion

    David Friedman – vibraphone, marimba

Ethel Waters - Chronogical Classics 1921-1947 (7 CD/FLAC)

 Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.

Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Academy Award.

 

Kenny Drew – Six Classic Albums (3 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

Piano – Kenny Drew

Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard 

Bass – Curly Russell, Eugene Wright, Leroy Vinnegar, Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Wilbur Ware
Drums – "Philly" Joe Jones, Art Blakey, Larance Marable, Louis Hayes
Saxophone – Hank Mobley, Joe Maini

CD1: 

  New Faces, New Sounds (1953)

1-1 Yesterday's 5:18

1-2 Stella By Starlight 2:26

1-3 Gloria 3:21

1-4 Be My Love 2:41

1-5 Lover, Come Back To Me 3:30

1-6 Everything Happens To Me 4:39

1-7 It Might As Well Be Spring 2:47

1-8 Drew's Blues 2:24 

  Talkin' & Walkin' (1955)

1-9 Talkin' & Walkin' 6:19

1-10 In The Prescribed Manner 5:02

1-11 Prelude To A Kiss 5:30

1-12 Wee-Dot 5:42

1-13 Hidden Channel 4:46

1-14 Deadline 3:17

1-15 I'm Old Fashioned 4:53

1-16 Minor Blues 5:37

1-17 Walkin' & Talkin' 5:36

CD2:

 

        The Ideation Of Kenny Drew (1954)

2-1 Four And Five 3:16

2-2 Polka Dots And Moonbeams 4:21

2-3 Kenny's Blues 5:59

2-4 Lo Flame 3:37

2-5 52nd Street Theme 3:24

2-6 Chartreuse 4:32 

  The Kenny Drew Trio (1956)

2-7 Caravan 4:49

2-8 Come Rain Or Come Shine 6:01

2-9 Ruby, My Dear 5:39

2-10 Weird-O 3:59

2-11 Taking A Chance On Love 4:35

2-12 When You Wish Upon A Star 5:12

2-13 Blues For Nica 5:23

2-14 It's Only A Paper Moon 6:19

CD3: 

  Pal Joey (1959)

3-1 Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 4:10

3-2 Do It The Hard Way 5:47

3-3 I Didn't Know What Time It Was 4:00

3-4 Happy Hunting Horn 4:15

3-5 I Could Write A Book 4:40

3-6 What Is A Man 5:05

3-7 My Funny Valentine 4:05

3-8 The Lady Is A Tramp 5:40 

  Undercurrent (1961)

3-9 Undercurrent 7:17

3-10 Funk-Cosity 8:27

3-11 Lion's Den 4:53

3-12 The Pot's On 6:06

3-13 Groovin' The Blues 6:19

3-14 Ballade 5:29

Credits:

    Bass – Curly Russell (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Eugene Wright (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Leroy Vinnegar (tracks: 1-9 to 1-17), Paul Chambers (3) (tracks: 2-7 to 2-14), Sam Jones (tracks: 3-9 to 3-14), Wilbur Ware (tracks: 3-1 to 3-8)

    Drums – "Philly" Joe Jones (tracks: 2-7 to 2-14, 3-1 to 3-8), Art Blakey (tracks: 1-1 to 1-8), Larance Marable (tracks: 1-9 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-6), Louis Hayes (tracks: 3-9 to 3-14)

    Piano – Kenny Drew

    Saxophone – Hank Mobley (tracks: 3-9 to 3-14), Joe Maini (tracks: 1-9 to 1-17)

    Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard (tracks: 3-9 to 3-14)

Notes:

Tracks 1-1 to 1-8 Are Recorded In 1953

Tracks 1-9 to 1-17 Are Recorded In 1955

Tracks 2-1 to 2-6 Are Recorded In 1954

Tracks 2-7 to 2-14 Are Recorded In 1956

Tracks 3-1 to 3-8 Are Recorded In 1959

Tracks 3-9 to 3-14 Are Recorded In 1961

Verve Jazzclub - Originals [34 CD]

 

 

Universal/Verve music The JAZZ CLUB series adds an attractive budget line to the Verve catalogue. With its modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the JAZZ CLUB is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.

Art van Damme - So Nice! (2009)

Astrud Gilberto - Astrud Gilberto + James Last (2009)

Charly Antolini - In The Groove (2009)

Chet Baker - Tenderly (2008)

Clark Terry - Clark After Dark - The Ballad Album (2007)

Connie Francis - Connie & Clyde - Hit Songs Of The Thirties (2011)

Count Basie - On The Sunny Side Of The Street (2006)

Dexter Gordon & Slide Hampton - A Day In Copenhagen (2009)

Django Reinhardt - The Art Of Swing (2011)

Don Ellis - Soaring (2008)

Ella Fitzgerald - Lady Be Good! (2006)

Eugen Cicero - Classics In Rhythm (2009)

Eugen Cicero - Marching The Classics & Balkan Rhapsody (2012)

Freddie Hubbard - Rollin' (2009)

Freddie Hubbard - The Hub Of Hubbard (2009)

Friedrich Gulda & Klaus Weiss - It's All One (2009)

George Gruntz - Jazz Goes Baroque & Jazz Goes Baroque 2 (2012)

Grover Washington, Jr. - Soulful Sax (2013)

Jacques Loussier - Play Bach Highlights (2008)

John Coltrane - Coltrane For You (2010)

Johnny Griffin - Night Lady (2009)

Kai Warner - Warner Plays Wagner & Swingin' Johann (2012)

Kurt Edelhagen - Plays The Hits Of Jimmy Webb (2007)

Miles Davis - Going Miles (2010)

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Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (2007)

Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Chariots Of The Gods (2009)

Pharoah Sanders - Spiritual Blessings (2013)

Quincy Jones - Songs For Pussycats & Quincy In Rio (2012)

Shirley Horn - The Swingin' Shirley Horn (2009)

Supersax - Chasin' The Bird & Dynamite!! (2012)

Svend Asmussen - Amazing Strings & Rockin' Bach Dimensions (2012)

The Singers Unlimited - Christmas (2012)

The Singers Unlimited - Sentimental Journey (2009)

The Swingle Singers - Christmas With The Swingle Singers (2012)

Gene Harris discography [1974-2013]

 

Gene Harris (September 1, 1933, Benton Harbor, Michigan – January 16, 2000) was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.

From 1956 to 1970, he played in The Three Sounds trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy. During this time, The Three Sounds recorded regularly for Blue Note and Verve.

He was mostly retired to Boise, Idaho, starting in the late 1970s, although he performed regularly at the Idanha Hotel there. Then, Ray Brown convinced him to go back on tour in the early 1980s. He played with the Ray Brown Trio and then led his own groups, recording mostly on Concord Records, until his death from kidney failure in 2000.

Harris's rendition of "Ode to Billie Joe" is known as a jazz classic.  One of his most popular numbers was his "Battle Hymn of the Republic," a live version of which is on his Live at Otter Crest album, published by Concord.

 

Blue Note Works 4000-4100 series [4071-4085]

 

...The Modern Jazz Series continued into the 1970s with the LPs listed below. Many were issued in both monaural versions (BLP series) and stereo versions (BST 84000 series).  Most of the 4000 series have been reissued by Toshiba-EMI in Japan ("Blue Note Works 4000" series); the catalog numbers are TOCJ-4###


BN.4071- Grant Green- 1961- Green Street {RVG Remaster}
BN.4073- Freddie Hubbard- 1961- Hub Cap {RVG Remaster}
BN.4074- Horace Parlan- 1961- On The Spur Of The Moment {RVG Remaster}
BN.4075- Donald Byrd- 1961- The Cat Walk {RVG Remaster}
BN.4076- Horace Silver- 1961- Doin' The Thing- At the Village Gate {RVG Remaster}
BN.4077- Dexter Gordon- 1961- Doin' Allright {RVG Remaster}
BN.4078- Jimmy Smith- 1960- Midnight Special {RVG Remaster}
BN.4079- Lou Donaldson- 1961- Gravy Train {RVG Remaster}
BN.4080- Hank Mobley- 1961- Workout {RVG Remaster}
BN.4081- Stanley Turrentine- 1961- Dearly Beloved {RVG Remaster}
BN.4082- Horace Parlan- 1961- Up & Down {RVG Remaster}
BN.4083- Dexter Gordon- 1961- Dexter Calling... {RVG Remaster}
BN.4084- Baby Face Willette- 1961- Stop and Listen {RVG Remaster}
BN.4085- Freddie Hubbard- 1961- Ready For Freddie {RVG Remaster}

Woody Shaw - The Complete CBS Studio Recordings (3 CD, 1992/FLAC)

 The bulk of Shaw's great sessions were recorded for independent labels (Muse & Contemporary,) ensuring them widespread critical evaluation but little audience except with the hardcore faithful. Things seemed about to change in the late '70s when Miles Davis suggested to Columbia that they record Shaw's group. They actually took his suggestion and signed Shaw. He issued a string of remarkable but low-selling records, and Columbia cut him loose after four years and four albums. They compounded the crime by deleting the records shortly after Shaw departed. Mosaic has corrected that slight with another of their marvelously produced and comprehensively notated and packaged box sets. This three-disc collection covers Shaw's Columbia sessions. While it is sad that Shaw's stay at Columbia was not more personally beneficial, it was quite musically productive.

Trumpeter Woody Shaw flourished when jazz didn`t, a pity for both. He found a steady, distinctive voice built on a set of coherent ideas new to his instrument and he offered them to an audience most interested in electronics and extremes.

Nonetheless, he was able to leave something behind when he died in 1989 after a long, painful physical and emotional slide. From 1977 to 1981 he recorded for CBS, and Mosaic Records has resurrected the work with care.

Some of it suffers the pretentiousness of the times (particularly the early pieces in the collection), but even they are models of restraint compared with what others were doing at the time. Most of the tunes are straight ahead and intriguing. It is good that Woody Shaw did not have to be totally forgotten before he was remembered.

Personnel: Woody Shaw (tp, flg), Joe Henderson (ts), Frank Wess (fl, picc), Curtis Fuller (tb), Art Webb (fl), James Vass (ss, as), Rene McLean (ss, ts), Carter Jefferson (ss, ts), Steve Turre (tb, b tb), Janice Robinson (tb), Onaje Allan Gumbs (p, elec p), Clint Houston (b), Victor Lewis (d), Sammy Figueroa (congas), Armen Halburian (perc), Lois Colin (harp), Mulgrew Miller (p), Stafford James (b), Tony Reedus (d) and others…

 

Curtis Amy - Mosaic Select 7 (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 

Relatively unknown as far as storming tenor players go, Texas-born Curtis Amy perhaps wasn't so storming after all, as this set suggests.

Familiar to rock fans for his solo on the Doors' "Touch Me, Amy was more restrained, more a player of shadings and touch, than his reputation and birthright might lead one to believe. These sessions for the Pacific Jazz label, all cut in the early '60s, open with two albums 

 

Andrew Hill discography [1963-2007]

Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s. His most-lauded work was recorded for Blue Note Records, spanning nearly a decade and a dozen albums.

 

Andrew Hill-(1963)-Black Fire {RVG Edition}

Andrew Hill-(1963)-Smoke Stack

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Andrew!!!

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Compulsion

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Judgment! {Blue Note-Japan}

Andrew Hill-(1964)-Point of Departure

Andrew Hill-(1965)-Pax

Andrew Hill-(1966)-Change {BN Connoisseur}

Andrew Hill-(1968)-Dance With Death

Andrew Hill-(1968)-Grass Roots

Andrew Hill-(1969)-Lift Every Voice

Andrew Hill-(1969)-Passing Ships

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Blue Black

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Divine Revelation

Andrew Hill-(1975)-One for One

Andrew Hill-(1975)-Spiral

Andrew Hill-(1976)-Nefertiti

Andrew Hill-(1980)-Strange Serenade

Andrew Hill-(1981)-Eternal Spirit

Andrew Hill-(1987)-Shades

Andrew Hill-(1987)-Verona Rag

Andrew Hill-(1990)-But Not Farewell

Andrew Hill-(1999)-Dusk

Andrew Hill-(2002)-A Beautiful Day

Andrew Hill-(2003)-The Day the World Stood Still

Andrew Hill-(2005)-Mosaic Select [3 CD]

Andrew Hill-(2006)-Time Lines

Andrew Hill-(2007)-Andrew Hill-Solo (3 CD, Mosaic)

Carmen McRae - The Singles & Albums Collection 1946-58 (4 CD, 2021)

 

Usually, when people start getting into the pioneers of modern jazz female vocalists, they begin with the triumvirate of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. For some reason, Carmen McRae (1922-94) gets overlooked these days, although at one time her patented behind-the-beat phrasing was the style most imitated by singers in her wake, most notably in ladies like Diana Krall. This four disc-97 song boxed set tries to get her name back in the upper echelon, where it belongs.

The collection includes singles from the late 40s to 50s, beginning with her stint with Mercer Ellington’s orchestra with a vibrant “Pass Me By”, and concluding her time with Decca singles with a big band with strings that features trumpeter Charlie Shavers with rich reads of “Invitation” and “Moonray”. Subsequently, included is her 1955 eponymous Bethlehem album, supported by Herbie Mann/fl, Tony Scott/p-cl, Mundell Lowe/g and Kenny Clarke/dr with irresistible reads of “Old Devil Moon” and “Easy To Love”. In 1956, her Decca album Torchy features her with orchestra and strings along with Joe Wilder/tp, Al Klink/ts for luscious versions of “Yesterdays” and “But Beautiful”, with McRae pouring her heart out. The same year, she delvered a small group beauty with Dick Katz/p, Wendell Marshall/b, Kenny Clarke/dr and Mundell Lowe/g, Herbie Mann/fl and Mat Mathews/acc for a bopping  “Yardbird Suite” and swaggering “Sometimes I’m Happy”. Two albums from 1957 have McRae backed by Jimmy Mundy’s orchestra for a collection of after late night ballads including “My Foolish Heart” and  “Lush Life”, contrasted with a swinging date with McRae at the piano alternating with Ronnell Bright with Specs Wright/dr and Ike Isaacs/b for riveting ballads such as “Guess Who I Saw Today” and bouncy swingers such as “Nice Work If You Can Get It”.