Interplay is a 1963 album from legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans, originally released on the Riverside label. Joining Evans are Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Jim Hall (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums). This new edition of the album is released as part of the Original Jazz Classics Series on 180-gram vinyl pressed at […]
Presented here is the complete original LP Outward Bound, Eric Dolphy’s first album as a leader. The album features Dolphy in a quintet format with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, George Tucker on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. This was the first of various collaborations between Dolphy and Hubbard, and one […]
“On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colors and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and God.” Joining Shorter in his […]
2 LP “Influential DJ, producer, radio-presentator and founder of the Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud labels Gilles Peterson has handpicked his jazz favourites from the immense catalog of the Dutch jazz Timeless label. Included are Pharaoh Sanders cosmic jazz “”Moonchild”, vocal-jazz from Carter Jeffersons “”Why””, danceable-jazz from Tom Grant “”No Me Esqueca””, Art Blakey & […]
A heavyweight entry in the Rollins catalog, East Broadway Run Down was recorded in 1966 and released the following year by Impulse Records. It was his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six-year hiatus. “Around the ten-minute mark of the title track, things get very interesting indeed — moody and spooky […]
Died too young (at 42) Tina Brooks recorded few albums. Here is his one and only (recorded June 25, 1960) as a leader. Surrounded by fabulous musicians (Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Duke Jordan on piano, Sam Jones on bass & Art Taylor on drums)… Brooks gave us a Hard-Bop album… Unbelievable, including several compositions with […]
JOHN COLTRANE, tenor & soprano sax ERIC DOLPHY, alto sax & flute [appearing as George Lane on the original LP] FREDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet McCOY TYNER, piano ART DAVIS (out on A2), bass REGGIE WORKMAN (out on B2), bass ELVIN JONES, drums New York, Thursday, May 25, 1961. 1. Ole 18:14 2. Aisha 7:38 3. Dahomey […]
