https://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/03/hampton-hawes-for-real-2/musicalphabeten2026-08-03T09:06:03+00:00Hampton Hawes: For Real!Los Angeles, 1958, March, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, I Love You, Hampton Hawes, Billy Moll, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, Scott LaFaro, Frank Butler, Harry Barris, Harold Land, Lester Koenig, Benny Harris, Contemporary, For Real!, Crazeology, August 1961, Numbers Game, For Real, Hip, 12 album, Karpld Land, Contemporary Record Studioshttps://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/03/jimmy-smith-crazy-baby/musicalphabeten2026-08-03T09:00:28+00:00Jimmy Smith: Crazy! BabyBlue Note, Sonny Rollins, New Jersey, Dizzy Gillespie, 1960, traditional, Leonard Feather, Jimmy Smith, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Van Gelder Studio, January, 16th album, Gus Kahn, Johnny Burke, Walter Donaldson, Reid Miles, Englewood Cliffs, Alfred Lion, Mack the Knife, Rudy Van Gelder, Donald Bailey, A Night in Tunisia, August 1960, What's New?, Makin' Whoopee, Bob Haggart, Quentin Warren, Sonnymoon for Two, Crazy Baby, Alfredo, Bob Ganley, When Johnny Comes Marching Homehttps://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/03/yusef-lateef-cry-tender/musicalphabeten2026-08-03T08:54:12+00:00Yusef Lateef: Cry! Tender1967, New Jersey, 1959, October, Carl Sigman, Van Gelder Studio, Esmond Edwards, Jerome Kern, Hackensack, Wilbur Harden, Al Hoffman, Otto Harbach, Yesterdays, Lonnie Hillyer, Tadd Dameron, Rudy Van Gelder, Tender, New Jazz, If You Could See Me Now, August 1960, Yusef Lateef, Hugh Lawson, Ernie Farrow, Herman Wright, Frank Gant, Oliver Jackson, Dopolous, Butter's Blues, The Snow Is Green, Ecaps, Dick Manning, Sea Breeze, 12 album, Cry!, Cry! Tenderhttps://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/01/george-russell-new-york-n-y-2/musicalphabeten2026-08-01T22:31:52+00:00George Russell: New York, N.Y.John Coltrane, New York, second album, Decca, Max Roach, Bill Evans, Phil Woods, Jon Hendricks, Ira Gershwin, Manhattan, Benny Golson, Ernie Royal, Hal McKusick, Richard Rodgers, Art Farmer, Vernon Duke, George Duvivier, Jimmy Cleveland, Lorenz Hart, N.Y., Ralph Freed, Joe Wilder, George Russell, Frank Rehak, Tom Mitchell, Burton Lane, Milt Hinton, Barry Galbraith, Doc Severinsen, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Charlie Persip, Don Lamond, Gene Allen, August 1959, Sol Schlinger, Joe Ferrante, Al Epstein, Big City Blues, East Side Medley: Autumn in New York / How About You?, A Helluva Town, Manhattan: Ricohttps://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/01/frank-sinatra-swing-easy/musicalphabeten2026-08-01T22:23:53+00:00Frank Sinatra: Swing EasyFrank Sinatra, Hollywood, Johnny Mercer, August 2, Capitol, Jule Styne, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Harry Warren, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, April, Vernon Duke, eighth album, 1954, Harold Arlen, Just One of Those Things, Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young, Billy Moll, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, Nelson Riddle, Voyle Gilmore, All of Me, Sunday, Chester Conn, Harry Barris, Benny Krueger, John Latouche, Ned Miller, Jeepers Creepers, Get Happy, Taking a Chance on Love, Ted Fetter, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter), 10” vinyl format, Swing Easy!https://musicalphabet.com/2026/08/01/june-christy-something-cool/musicalphabeten2026-08-01T22:10:20+00:00June Christy: Something Cool1953, Paul Smith, debut album, Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, June Christy, Johnny Mercer, March, Mel Torme, August 2, Capitol, Kurt Weill, Midnight Sun, Paul Horn, Sonny Burke, oscar Hammerstein II, August, Vincent DeRosa, Ted Nash, Conte candoli, Jimmy Giuffre, Langston Hughes, Bob Gordon, 1954, Ollie Mitchell, John Rotella, Bud Shank, Sammy Cahn, Buddy Collette, Nick DiMaio, Larry Bunker, Joe Mondragon, Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke, Milt Bernhart, Barney Kessel, Shorty Rogers, Dick Reynolds, Frank Rosolino, Shelly Manne, Robert Wells, Howard Roberts, Ben Oakland, Russ Freeman, It Could Happen to You, George Roberts, I Should Care, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Lonely House, Billy Barnes, Bob Fitzpatrick, Bob Cooper, Harry Betts, Conrad Gozzo, Alvin Stoller, Ray Triscari, Jimmy Zito, Joe Comfort, Harry Klee, Willie Schwartz, Dick Noel, Chuck Gentry, Tommy Pederson, Paul Sarmento, John Graas, Pete Rugolo, Jack Marshall, Frank Beach, Claude Williamson, Ray Linn, Skeets Herfurt, Uan Rasey, Joe Castro, Lee Gillette, A Stranger Called the Blues, I’ll Take Romance, Something Cool, Geoff Clarkson, Frank Carlson, Tony Rizzi, Harry Babasin, Herbie Harper, Phil Stephens, Fred Falensby, 10” vinyl format, Gus Bivona