Tag: jazz
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Herbie Hancock, Takin’ Off, 1962 on Blue Note.
Herbie Hancock, Takin’ Off, 1962 on Blue Note. Another from the Vinyl Me, Please anthology of Herbie Hancock With Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren, and Billy Higgins Blue Note BLP 4109
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Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, 1965 on Blue Note
Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, 1965 on Blue Note. (BlP 4195). Beautiful rainy day music for the weekend. My copy is from the Vinyl Me, Please anthology Story of Herbie Hancock.
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Art Tatum, The Genius, 1973 on Black Lion
Art Tatum, The Genius, 1973 on Black Lion Conpilation of recordings from 1944 and 1945 UK label founded in the late 60s that did a lot of reissues
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Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, 1+1, 1997 on Verve
Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, 1+1, 1997 on Verve Previously only available on CD, but now part of the Vinyl Me, Please anthology The Story of Herbie Hancock. Hancock and Shorter played together in the Miles Davis Quintet circa 1964-1968 Beautiful vinyl pressing, mastering, and packaging – not sure if this will later be available outside…
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Chet Baker Sextet, Chet Is Back!, 1962 on RCA Victor.
Chet Baker Sextet, Chet Is Back!, 1962 on RCA Victor. As the barcode on the rear cover suggests, my copy is a reissue from 2012 by Org Music Chet Baker, Benoit Quersin, Daniel Humair, René Thomas, Amedeo Tommasi, and Bobby Jaspar 180g pressing by Schallplattenfabrik Pallas in Germany
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Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, 1968 on Columbia
Art Tatum, Piano Starts Here, 1968 on Columbia Recordings made in 1933 and 1949, originally put out on vinyl in 1968. The 1949 tracks here are from the Gene Norman Presents an Art Tatum Concert that came out in 1952
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Miles Davis, Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall, 1962 on Columbia.
Miles Davis, Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall, 1962 on Columbia. Recorded May 19th, 1961 – on “nonbreakable” Columbia Records vinyl in mono Cover artwork by Joe Eula, with Gil Evans, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly Via Anntiques in Ipswich, MA
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Erroll Garner, Afternoon Of An Elf, 1955 on Mercury.
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 a splint!
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Dave Brubeck Trio With Gerry Mulligan & The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Erich Kunzel Conduxtor, Brubeck / Mulligan / Cincinnati, 1971 on Decca.
Dave Brubeck Trio With Gerry Mulligan & The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Erich Kunzel Conductor, Brubeck / Mulligan / Cincinnati, 1971 on Decca. Recorded May 1970 – based on the date on the marquee, maybe on my birthday. Via Anntiques in Ipswich, MA
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Billie Holiday, Music For Torching With Billie Holiday, 1955 on Clef, 1957 on Verve
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 were founded by Norman Grantz). My copy is actually a 1979 reissue by the Book of the Month Club, which had an audio offshoot for a time.…
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Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Flies High, 1957 on Riverside.
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 (or just does them while under the influence?)
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Oscar Peterson Trio, West Side Story, 1962 on Verve
Oscar Peterson Trio, West Side Story, 1962 on Verve Bop version of the musical’s songs – Maria, I Feel Pretty, Somewhere, etc. Via Anntiques in Ipswich, MA
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Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, Billy and Sarah, 1959 on Lion.
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 1963 by World Record Club but not (so far as I know) since then. Via Anntiques in Ipswich MA
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dave Brubeck At Storyville 1954, 1954 on Columbia
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 started the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival ). It started in the Copley Square Hotel but in 1950 moved to the first floor of…
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Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 1975 on Preservation Hall records.
Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 1975 on Preservation Hall records. My copy is a 1976 reissue with lacquers cut at Trutone Mastering Labs. Recorded at what was the the relatively new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in 1964 “Technical assistance” credit for an Earl Eckman, no relation so far as I know, even…
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Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book Volume 2, 1959 on Verve.
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 are a ton of great Ella Song Book releases: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Harold Arellano, Gershwin, etc. I love the My Funny Valentine…
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Gábor Szabó, Dreams, 1968 on Skye Records.
Gabor Szabo, Dreams, 1968 on Skye Records. My copy is a 2020 reissue on Modern Harmonic through Vinyl Me, Please – fabulous pressing by QRP. Szabó was a Hungarian guitarist and attended Berklee College
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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