Tag: Analogue Productions

  • Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book, 1964 on Prestige

    Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book, 1964 on Prestige

    Sixth full-length with Ervin as leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, for Prestige. Ervin is joined here by Jaki Byard (piano), Richard Davis (bass), and Alan Dawson (who was a drum instructor at Berklee in Boston) (drums). My copy—via a private sale—is the 2023 Analogue Productions / Craft Recordings reissue, in the Prestige…

  • Bill Evans, At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1968 on Verve

    Bill Evans, At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1968 on Verve

    Second 1968 Bill Evans performance I’ve posted this week, this one has the trio (again with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette) at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, and was recorded by the technical department of Radio Suisse Romande. My copy (via a private sale) is the 2020 Analogue Productions reissue on two 45rpm 200g records,…