Tag: 1958
Recorded in August 1958, but not released until 2022, this concert followed the release of the Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook LP. The concert was conducted…
Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Paul Quinichette, & Wardelll Grey, Tenors Anyone?, 1958 on Dawn. My copy is a 1980 reissue on Biograph Great compilation
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk, 1958 on Atlantic. My copy is a 1977 reissue with the Rockefeller Plaza address. Classic collaboration
Betty Carter, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, 1976 on ABC Impulse! Reissue of two earlier LPs, Out There With Betty Carter (1958) and The Modern Sound of…
Erroll Garner, Paris Impressions, 1958 on Columbia. Multiple songs feature Garner on harpsichord, first heard on this LP.
Tiny Grimes / J.C. Higginbotham, Callin’ The Blues, 1958 on Prestige. With Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Ray Bryant, Wendell Mardhall, and Osie Johnson. 80s reissue as part of the…
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous, 1958 on Sun Records. My copy is a 2015 reissue by Org Music – great pressing. Cash’s…
Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol. My copy is an early 70s reissue – Sinatra’s first collaboration with Billy May (arranger and conductor). A little…
Abbey Lincoln, It’s Magic, 1958 on Riverside. Lincoln’s third LP and second on Riverside. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue and is a fantastic pressing.
Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin, 1958 on Mercury. MG 20316, mono. ” Long Playing Microgroove” labels Great thrift shop find. Though the…
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…
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…
Gerry Mulligan, Mulligan Plays Mulligan, 1956 on Prestige, reissued 1982 in the Original Jazz Classics series. Gerry Mulligan, A Profile of Gerry Mulligan, 1958 on Mercury, original pressing….
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, Reunion with Chet Baker, 1958 on World Pacific. Mine’s a late 60s reissue on Pacific Jazz Records with liner notes from 1962