Tag: Frank Isola

  • Mose Allison, Back Country Suite, 1957 on Prestige

    Mose Allison, Back Country Suite, 1957 on Prestige

    Mose Allison’s debut album, recorded at Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack in March 1957, with Taylor La Fargue (bass) and Frank Isola (drums). Largely instrumental. The song titled here just “Blues” was later recorded on Live at Leeds by the Who as “Young Man Blues”: Well a young man ain’t got nothing in the world…

  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Paris Concert,  1955 on World Pacific Records

    Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Paris Concert, 1955 on World Pacific Records

    Great find via Mel’s Record Shop in Amesbury MA. Recorded live at the Pleyel Hall June 1st, 1954, with the valve trombone of Bob Brookmeyer replacing Chet Baker’s trumpet, with Red Mitchell on bass and Frank Isola on drums. I especially love the sequence of Moonlight in Vermont followed by The Lady is a Tramp and…