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Tag: Original Jazz Classics

  • 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…

  • Sonny Rollins, Way Out West, 1957 on Contemporary

    Sonny Rollins, Way Out West, 1957 on Contemporary

    This was the first Rollins album with Ray Brown and Shelly Manne, and the first time he recorded with only bass and drums. I love this cover photo emphasizing the New York native was out west. My copy—direct from Craft Recordings—is the 2009 Original Jazz Classics reissue which was remastered back in 1988 and repressed…

  • Thelonious Monk, The Unique Thelonious Monk, 1956 on Riverside

    Thelonious Monk, The Unique Thelonious Monk, 1956 on Riverside

    Monk recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, with Oscar Pettiford on bass and Art Blakey on drums, produced by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer – originally Riverside RLP 12-209 with a different cover. My copy, via Academy Records in NYC, is the 1983 reissue in the Original Jazz Classics series, issued by Fantasy which acquired the…

  • Oscar Peterson, Return Engagement, 1974 on Verve

    Oscar Peterson, Return Engagement, 1974 on Verve

    Double LP compilation from the mid-seventies, collecting tracks from: The Trio: Live From Chicago, Very Tall, West Side Story, Affinity, Night Train, We Get Requests, Something Warm, Night Train Vol. 2 and The Oscar Peterson Collection. There was a whole series of “Return Engagement” releases, including Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Cal Tjader, and…

  • Bill Evans Trio, Portrait in Jazz, 1960 on Riverside.

    Bill Evans Trio, Portrait in Jazz, 1960 on Riverside.

    Bill Evans Trio, Portrait in Jazz, 1960 on Riverside. My copy is a reissue from 2011 in the Original Jazz Classics series (OJC-088). Evans with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian One of my favorite Jazz LPs

  • Tiny Grimes / J.C. Higginbotham, Callin’ The Blues, 1958 on Prestige.

    Tiny Grimes / J.C. Higginbotham, Callin’ The Blues, 1958 on Prestige.

    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 Original Jazz Classics series – recorded by Rudy Van Gelder Quite an all star band

  • Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, 1956 on Riverside.

    Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, 1956 on Riverside.

    Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, 1956 on Riverside. My copy is an 1982 pressing in the Original Jazz Classics series – jacket reproduced from the 1958 reissue.

  • 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, 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.