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Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, 1956 on Riverside. My copy is an 1982 pressing in the Original Jazz Classics series – jacket reproduced from the 1958…
Ray Brown, This is Ray Brown, 1958 on Verve My copy is an 80s Japanese pressing by Polydor K.K., part of the Original Verve Jazz Classics series. Includes…
Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady, 1958 on Verve An original 1958 mono pressing – one of my favorite recent finds. With Ray Brown on bass…
Ella Fitzgerald, Like Someone In Love, 1957 on Verve. Black and silver Verve labels without mention of MGM Ella with Frank DeVol and his Orchestra – classic Via…
Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and Sarah Vaughan; Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah; 1958 compilation on Harmony. Harmony was a “budget” sub-label of Columbia, revived in 1957,selling LPs…
Oscar Peterson, Pastel Moods, 1956 on Verve. Part of a group of older jazz LPs I picked up via Everything But the House With Ray Brown, Herb Ellis…
Ella Fitzgerald, Get Happy!, 1959 on Verve. Part of a whole lot of jazz vinyl I got via an @ebth auction. Verve Records black and silver labels with…
Oscar Peterson, Plays The George Gershwin Songbook, 1959 on @ververecords Picked up a lot of Oscar Peterson related jazz records via @ebth – some great early deep groove…
Erroll Garner, Soliloquy, 1957 on Columbia. Mono pressing with the six-eye Columbia label “Records always sound best on Columbia phonographs” Via Residency Records, Salem MA
Buck Clayton, The Huckle-Buck and Robbin’s Nest: A Buck Clayton Jam Session, 1954 on Columbia. Buck Clayton and a team of long standing swing players including portions of…
Erroll Garner, Afternoon Of An Elf, 1955 on Mercury. Long-playing microgroove LP from the fifties. Garner cut these tunes with the index finger of his left hand in…
Ray Charles, The Genius of Ray Charles, 1959 on Atlantic. My copy is a 1962 pressing in mono – sounds great. Can’t go wrong with Ray Charles via…
Billie Holiday, Lady Sings The Blues, 1956 on @ververecords Classic Billie – first on Clef in 1956, then on Verve My copy is a 2020 Vinyl Me, Please…
Billie Holiday, Music For Torching With Billie Holiday, 1955 on Clef, 1957 on Verve. Originally on Clef, then released on Verve (which absorbed Clef in 1956 – both…
Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Flies High, 1957 on Riverside. Mine’s the 2020 @vinylmeplease reissue with the spine labeled “Hawkins Files High” which sounds like he overpays his taxes…
Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, Billy and Sarah, 1959 on Lion. The namesake jazz musicians/vocalists for WordPress 5.5 and 4.7 respectively An original 1959 pressing – reissued in…
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dave Brubeck At Storyville 1954, 1954 on Columbia Storyville was a Boston jazz institution in the 1940s, run by George Wein (the same that…
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Volume 2, 1959 on Verve. Came out in 1957 on “His Master’s Voice” in the UK. There…
Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite, 1958 on Riverside. Another excellent Vinyl Me, Please reissue from September 2020 via Craft Recordings Pressed at QRP from lacquers cut by Ryan Smith…
Gerry Mulligan Quartet, What Is There To Say?, 1959 on Columbia Mulligan is one of my favorites from the cool jazz era – he played with Miles Davis,…