Tag: Montreal QC

  • Mose Allison, Down Home Piano, 1966 on Prestige

    Mose Allison, Down Home Piano, 1966 on Prestige

    This 1966 release collects instrumental performances from six albums he released on Prestige in the late 50s and early 60s. There’s a similar Mose Allison Sings which collects “the vocal side of his talents.” The performers include Allison, Addison Farmer (Art Farmer’s twin brother) on bass, and Ronnie Free / Nick Stabulas on drums. Liner…

  • Gerry Mulligan Tentette & Quartet, Walking Shoes, 1953 on Capitol

    Gerry Mulligan Tentette & Quartet, Walking Shoes, 1953 on Capitol

    This LP was a reissue of what had been a 10″ record – Gerry Mulligan And His Ten-Tette – with two tracks from Gene Norman Presents The Gerry Mulligan Quartet added. Just as labels created bonus tracks when reissuing LPs on CD, these were bonus tracks added when the 10″ became a 12″ LP. The…

  • Abbey Lincoln, Abbey is Blue, 1960 on Riverside

    Abbey Lincoln, Abbey is Blue, 1960 on Riverside

    I first discovered Abbey Lincoln via Vinyl Me Please’s reissue of It’s Magic from 1958, in the VMP Classics Series. This album was a followup to that, her fourth full-length album and the third on Riverside. Musicians here include Stanley Turrentine, his broth Tommy Turrentine (on trumpet), Max Roach (to whom Lincoln was later married),…

  • Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Hollywood Stampede, 1972 on Capitol

    Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Hollywood Stampede, 1972 on Capitol

    Seventies reissue – volume 5 in the Capitol Jazz Classics series – with songs taken from sessions in February and March of 1945. Players joining Hawkins on these tracks include Howard McGhee (trumpet), Sir Charles Thompson (piano), Allan Reuss (guitar), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Denzil Best (drums), Vic Dickenson (trombone), John Simmons (bass). Great classic jazz…