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 | Gil Melle Quartet: The Complete Prestige Recordings 1956-1957 (CD: Fresh Sound, 2 CDs)
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Curtis Fuller: Complete Savoy Recordings (CD: Lone Hill Jazz, 3 CDs)
The complete recordings Curtis Fuller made for the Savoy label under his own name, comprising five complete quintet/sextet albums and all the known alternate takes. Contains the complete LPs “Jazz… It’s Magic” (1957); “Blues-Ette” (1959) (4 stars in Down Beat); “Arabia” (1959); “Imagination” (1959) & “Images of Curtis Fuller” (1960).Featuring many top jazz stars : Thad Jones, Lee Morgan (tp), Benny Golson, Yusef Lateef (ts), Sonny Redd (as), Tommy Flanagan, Wynton Kelly, McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison, Paul Chambers, Milt Hinton (b), Louis Hayes, Dave Bailey & Charlie Persip (d), etc. (Discovery Records)
Price: £21.99
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 | Curtis Fuller: The Opener (CD: Blue Note RVG)
When Curtis Fuller visited New York in early 1957 with Yusef Lateef’s Detroit-based group, he decided to stay. His incredible technique and vivid, fiery playing soon came to Blue Note’s attention. A flurry of sessions that summer resulted in Fuller being the only trombone soloist to record with Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, and John Coltrane, and his debut album as a leader. The Opener was recorded on June 16, 1957 with some of Blue Note’s finest: Hank Mobley, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor. This Rudy Van Gelder remaster uses the original stereo tapes rather than the mono LP master. (Blue Note Records)
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Sahib Shihab: Complete Sextets Sessions 1956-1957 (CD: Fresh Sound, 2 CDs)
This 2-CD set features veteran bop era saxophonist Sahib Shihab (aka Edmund Gregory) recorded in New York City, 1956 and Hackensack, New Jersey, 1956-1957 - featuring a truly all-star line-up: Eddie Bert (tb), Sahib Shihab (as, bars), Phil Woods (as), Benny Golson (ts), Bobby Jaspar (ts, fl), Hank Jones, Bill Evans (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Paul Chambers, Oscar Pettiford (b), Kenny Clarke, Elvin Jones(d).After playing alto saxophone with Luther Henderson and Fletcher Henderson’s bands, he tuned into the new music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Despite his association with stars such as Roy Eldridge, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Tadd Dameron, Lucky Thompson, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, he remains greatly underrated. While with Gillespie in 1951 he started to play baritone sax and since then alternated in both instruments, although the big horn became his main voice. In 1956 and 1957, before he went to Europe, he made—along with several outstanding sidemen—some great sextet recordings on baritone, as a leader, mostly for Savoy Records, except one early alto session for Epic Records. Here, for the first time on CD, are all these sextet sides plus two swinging dates he recorded with Mort Herbert’s group, also for Savoy. This collection surely will put him in the place he deserves in the jazz field. (Discovery Records)
Price: £19.99
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 | J. R. Monterose (CD: Blue Note RVG)
Tenor saxophonist J. R. Monterose was a big-toned, hard-swinging hard-bopper whose elusive career gained him legendary status. His one Blue Note album, recorded on October 21, 1956, is a steaming affair with Ira Sullivan (on trumpet exclusively), Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware, and Philly Joe Jones. (Blue Note Records)
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J. R. Monterose: Complete Studio Recordings (CD: Gambit, 2 CDs)
This 2CD Gambit edition includes the complete original albums : “The Message” (1959), “In Action” (1964), “J.R. Monterose” 1956) and as a bonus, all the Monterose tracks from the George Wallington album “The Prestidigitator” (1957).Personnel : J.R. Monterose, tenor sax on all tracks, plus musicians including : Tommy Flanagan, Jimmy Garrison, Pete La Roca, Ira Sullivan, Horace Silver, Philly Jo Jones, Wilber Ware, Teddy Kotick, etc. This set collates all the studio recordings made by ‘J.R.’ in quartet and quintet format under his own name, during the 1950’s and 60s. (Discovery Records)
Price: £16.99
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 | Louis Smith: Here Comes Louis Smith (CD: Blue Note RVG)
Memphis-born, Atlanta-based trumpeter Louis Smith was the discovery of Tom Wilson who originally produced this album for his own Transition label but ultimately sold the master to Blue Note, who immediately signed Smith which eventually led to his joining Horace Silver’s quintet. The only example of him with Silver is the recently released Horace Silver - Live at Newport ’58 (Blue Note). On his debut here, he is teamed with Cannonball Adderley (billed on the original album as Buckshot LaFunke) and a first-class New York rhythm section. Smith’s playing is as clean and inventive as that of his influences Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown. Had he not returned to music education, he would have been a major jazz star in an era of giants. (Blue Note Records)
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Bunky Green: Playing For Keeps (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
Previously unavailable on CD, this release contains the complete original album alongside another, 'Testifyin' Time'.
Price: £10.99
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 | Tommy Turrentine (CD: Stereo Time)
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Bennie Green: Back On The Scene (Vinyl LP: Classic/ Blue Note- US Import)
Quiex 200g audiophile pressing.
Price: £25.99
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 | Johnny Coles: Little Johnny C (CD: Blue Note)
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Oscar Pettiford: Complete Big Band Studio Recordings (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
Price: £10.99
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 | Jimmy Woods Sextet: Conflict (CD: Contemporary- US Import)
Price: £15.49
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Dizzy Reece: Progress Report (CD: Jasmine)
Following on from JASMINE CD "A New Star", this "Progress Report" follows the development of West Indian born trumpeter Dizzy Reece. These TEMPO sessions are from late 1956 to the Autumn of 1958 and show how the Modern Jazz styling of Reece had progressed. The last four titles were specially composed by Reece for the 1958 film "Nowhere To Go" and feature Tubby Hayes on sax. 15 tracks running for a generous 72 minutes. (Jasmine Records)
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Dizzy Reece: Blues In Trinity (Vinyl LP: Blue Note- US Import)
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 | James Moody: Hey! It's James Moody (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
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James Moody: James Moody (CD: Argo/ Verve LPR)
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 | George Braith: Two Souls In One (Vinyl LP: Blue Note- US Import)
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Roy Haynes/ Phineas Newborn/ Paul Chambers: We Three (CD: New Jazz RVG)
Price: £9.99
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 | Roy Haynes Quartet: Out Of The Afternoon (CD: Impulse- US Import)
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Paul Quinichette: On The Sunny Side (CD: Prestige- US Import)
Yet another example of the informal creativity of the Prestige jam session format, in this case bringing together the Lester Young'd tenor stylings of "Vice-President" Paul Quinichette with two Bird-like alto men, John Jenkins and Sonny Red, and the J.J. Johnson-inspired trombone of Curtis Fuller.Jenkins (from Chicago) and Red and Fuller (from Detroit) were newly arrived in New York in 1957, the year this session was taped. The fresh combination helped revitalize Quinichette, whose career was flagging at the time. Pianist Mal Waldron supplied three originals on which everyone plays and the number from which the album derives its title--Jimmy McHugh's "On the Sunny Side of the Street"--is mellowed out by Quinichette and Jenkins as the only horns. Jenkins is not currently active and Quinichette and Sonny Red are dead. On this jam their music is very much alive. (Fantasy, Inc.)
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 | Paul Quinichette: The Kid From Denver- Complete Dawn Sessions (CD: Dawn)
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Paul Quinichette All Stars: Basie Reunion (CD: Jazz Track)
This release on the Jazz Track label combines two outstanding albums under the leadership of tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette, which both pay homage to Count Basie. “Basie Reunion” (1958) and “For Basie” (1957). Both albums feature well-known members or ex-members of the Basie band, including : Buck Clayton, Walter Page, Freddie Green, Jo Jones, Jack Washington and Nat Pierce (‘playing Basie’). The music chosen consisted of Basie classics from the band’s golden days with Lester Young.Quinichette - a musician heavily influenced by ‘Pres’ (and nick-named ‘Vice-Pres’) - plays here mostly ‘a la Young’ on these two albums which fully capture the soul and swing of the Basie style. (Discovery Records)
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 | John Graas: Jazz Studio 1/2 (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
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Dave Pike: It's Time For Dave Pike (CD: Riverside- US Import)
Dave Pike occupies a distinctive niche in modern jazz. A vibraharpist with an attack and sound like no other, he plays with a concentrated strength that makes his improvised lines all but take physical shape. He had his sonic qualities and his relentlessly rolling swing from the beginning of his professional career. The evidence is here in It's Time for Dave Pike, recorded when he was 22 years old. Pianist Barry Harris was one of Pike's most enthusiastic advocates after the young vibist appeared on the New York scene in the early 1960s. Harris leads the rhythm section supporting Pike, with the emerging stars Reggie Workman and Billy Higgins on bass and drums. Pike's energy and infectious rhythmic qualities are in full display on his appropriately named blues "Forward." His unaccompanied version of "Little Girl Blue" shows his gifts for melodic and harmonic invention. (Fantasy, Inc.)
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 | Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (CD: Decca/ Verve LPR)
This 1964 recording by a master of the vibraphone offers the best of two worlds: first-rate jazz improvisation anchored by irresistible Afro-Cuban rhythms. With an all-star supporting cast including Chick Corea, Hubert Laws, Attila Zoller, and Willie Bobo. (Verve Music Group)
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Duke Pearson Quintet: Hush! (CD: Lone Hill Jazz)
This release contains Duke Pearson’s complete “Hush!” session (1962), including one track and three alternate takes that weren’t issued on the original album. This edition also includes both of Pearson’s compositionsfrom a 1963 date as bonus tracks. (Discovery Records)
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 | Duke Pearson: Sweet Honey Bee (CD: Blue Note RVG)
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Duke Pearson: Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (CD: Blue Note)
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 | Duke Pearson: The Right Touch (CD: Blue Note RVG)
As an arranger, composer, pianist and producer, Duke Pearson was Blue Note’s secret weapon for a decade or more. This 1967 all-star octet session features 6 great Pearson tunes and arrangements. Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding and Stanley Turrentine are the primary soloists. This music pops with vitality. An alternate take of “Los Malos Hombres” has been added to the original LP. (Blue Note Records)
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Duke Pearson: The Phantom (CD: Water/ Blue Note- US Import)
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 | Duke Pearson Nonet: Honeybuns (CD: Collectables- US Import)
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Kenny Drew: Undercurrent (CD: Blue Note RVG)
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 | Walter Davis Jr: Davis Cup (CD: Blue Note RVG)
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Johnny Coles: The Warm Sound (CD: Jazz Collectors)
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 | Slide Hampton: Two Sides Of Slide (CD: Fresh Sound)
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