Art Pepper - 12 Classic Albums 1954-1962 (6 CD, 2015, FLAC)

 

This six CD set contains the 12 albums, in their newly digitised, re-mastered glory, that Pepper released between 1954 and 1962, the period during which he undoubtedly made the finest music of his career. Showcasing the most exhilarating and challenging work Art ever produced, the collection demonstrates lucidly why this pioneering musician continues to receive such vast acclaim and praise in the jazz community.

 

Tony Williams - Civilization [1987/2014] (24-192)

 

Although he had recorded the year before using trumpeter Wallace Roney and pianist Mulgrew Miller on Foreign Intrigue, Civilization was the debut record by drummer Tony Williams' hard bop quintet, a group also including Billy Pierce on tenor and soprano, and bassist Charnett Moffett (who would later be succeeded by Ira Coleman). The leader's loud and forceful drumming forced the other soloists to use their maximum power, and his eight originals gave his sidemen challenging compositions to play. With Roney emulating Miles Davis as usual, Williams must have been pleased to have his former boss' sound at his disposal. Although none of the songs caught on as standards, this is an excellent effort.

• Tony Williams, drums
• Billy Pierce, soprano & tenor saxophones
• Wallace Roney, trumpet
• Mulgrew Miller, piano
• Charnette Moffett, bass

Recorded at Capitol Records, Studio B, on November 24, 25 and 26, 1986

01. Geo Rose (7:26)

02. Warrior (5:34)

03. Ancient Eyes (5:27)

04. Soweto Nights (6:39)

05. The Slump (6:29)

06. Civilization (4:29)

07. Mutants On The Beach (5:56)

08. Citadel (6:43)

  

Mal Waldron Quintets - The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (4 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959. 

Sun Ra All Stars - Milan, Zurich, West Berlin, Paris (5 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 5 concerts from Milan, Zurich, West Berlin and Paris. Recorded on the European tour between October 27, 1983 and November 1, 1983.

• Sun Ra - piano, keyboards, vocals
• Lester Bowie - trumpet
• Don Cherry - trumpet, vocals
• Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
• John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, vocals
• Archie Shepp - tenor & soprano saxophones, vocals
• Richard Davis - bass
• Famoudou Don Moye - drums, percussion
• Philly Joe Jones - drums
• Clifford Jarvis - drums

 

John Patitucci discography [1987-2019]

 

John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959, Brooklyn, New York) is an American Grammy-winning jazz double bass and jazz fusion electric bass player.

Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he began playing the electric bass at age 10, composing and performing at age 12, as well as playing the acoustic bass at 15, and the piano one year later. After moving west, he studied classical bass at San Francisco State University and Long Beach State University.

Patitucci has released 13 albums as a leader. In addition to his solo work, he has played on albums by B.B. King, Chick Corea, Clare Fischer, Joanne Brackeen, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, Was Not Was, Roby Duke, Dave Grusin, Natalie Cole, Bon Jovi, Queen Latifah, Sting, The Manhattan Transfer, Carly Simon, Everything But The Girl and Twila Paris.

JAPO Records releases [1970-1985, 41 CD]

 

 JAPO Records was a German record label founded in 1970 that specialized in jazz. It was a division of ECM Records. JAPO stands for Jazz by Post. The label existed from 1970 until 1985 and produced over 40 jazz fusion and free jazz records from musicians all over the world, the majority of them European. It was based in Munich, Germany.

JAPO's catalogue includes Dollar Brand, Mal Waldron, Elton Dean, George Gruntz, Barry Guy, Alfred Harth, Ken Hyder, Herbert Joos, Bobby Naughton, Manfred Schoof, Barre Phillips, Jiří Stivín & Rudolf Dašek, Stephan Micus, Enrico Rava, Lennart Åberg, Edward Vesala, and the Globe Unity Orchestra.

Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams - Third Plane (1977-2015) [192-24]

 Third Plane is an album by jazz bassist Ron Carter, released on the Milestone label in 1977. It features performances by Carter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams. 

• Ron Carter – bass
• Herbie Hancock – piano
• Tony Williams – drums

01. Third Plane (5:54) 

02. Quiet Times (7:55)

03. Lawra (6:07) 

04. Stella By Starlight (8:26)

05. United Blues (3:02) 

06. Dolphin Dance (8:18)

Lena Horne - The Best Of - The United Artists & Blue Note Recording (2 CD, 2007/FLAC)

 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne born - on Jun 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY

Died - May 9, 2010 in New York, NY 

Singer/actress Lena Horne’s primary occupation was nightclub entertaining, a profession she pursued successfully around the world for more than 60 years, from the 1930s to the 1990s. In conjunction with her club work, she also maintained a recording career that stretched from 1936 to 2000 and brought her three Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989; she appeared in 16 feature films and several shorts between 1938 and 1978; she performed occasionally on Broadway, including in her own Tony-winning one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, in 1981-1982; and she sang and acted on radio and television. Adding to the challenge of maintaining such a career was her position as an African-American facing discrimination personally and in her profession during a period of enormous social change in the U.S. Her first job in the 1930s was at the Cotton Club, where blacks could perform but not be admitted as customers; by 1969, when she acted in the film Death of a Gunfighter, her character’s marriage to a white man went unremarked in the script. 

Fats Waller — Hall Of Fame (5 CD, 2002/FLAC)

 Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, violinist, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano. His best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999. Waller copyrighted over 400 songs, many of them co-written with his closest collaborator, Andy Razaf. Razaf described his partner as "the soul of melody... a man who made the piano sing... both big in body and in mind... known for his generosity... a bubbling bundle of joy". It is likely that he composed many more popular songs than he has been credited with: when in financial difficulties he had a habit of selling songs to other writers and performers who claimed them as their own.

 

Art Pepper - Promise Kept: The Complete Artists House Recordings [5 CD, 2019] (FLAC-HD + 320)

 

Art Pepper had had a brilliant career as a jazz soloist and band leader until the mid-1950s when he started using heroin. After that, incarcerations and treatments in prisons and hospitals, kept him off the stages and out of the studios. He was only able to record sporadically until he got (relatively) sober in Synanon in 1972, and married Laurie—me. Then, in the last ten years of his life, he composed, recorded, and toured more ambitiously than ever before, focused on securing his place among the true jazz greats—where he knew he belonged.”