Tag: 1958
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Ray Brown, This is Ray Brown, 1958 on Verve
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 (playing organ rather than piano on some tracks), Herb Ellis, and Osie Johnson plus Jerome Richardson on flute My favorite bassist in any genre Via…
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Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady, 1958 on Verve
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 and Gene Gammage on drums via Everything But The House
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Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and Sarah Vaughan; Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah; 1958 compilation on Harmony.
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 for $1.98, often reissuing material from other Columbia LPs I picked this one up in a lot of LPs from Everything But The House – a great…
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Gerry Mulligan, Mulligan Plays Mulligan, 1956 on Prestige, reissued 1982 in the Original Jazz Classics series.
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. Two daily albums today – cool bop jazz from Blbaritone sax genius Gerry Mulligan.
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Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite, 1958 on Riverside.
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 at Sterling Sound
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Reunion with Chet Baker, 1958 on World Pacific.
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