On July 8, 2022, Tyshawn Sorey self-released “Mesmerism”, his ninth album (credited to Tyshawn Sorey Trio). It was recorded in May 2021, at “Bunker Studio” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Michael Carvin.
Personnel:
Tyshawn Sorey – drums, executive producer
Aaron Diehl – piano
Matt Brewer – bass
Aaron Nevezie – recording
David Darlington – mixing, mastering
John Rogers – photography
Track listing:
Enchantment – Horace Silver
Detour Ahead – Herb Ellis, Johhny Frigo, Lou Carter
Autumn Leaves – Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma
In July 1963, “Impulse!” label released “Today and Now”, the 37th Coleman Hawkins album. It was recorded in September 1962, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, and was produced by Bob Thiele.
Personnel:
Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Major Holley – bass
Eddie Locke – drums
Rudy van Gelder – recording
Track listing:
Go Li’l Liza – traditional
Quintessence – Quincy Jones
Don’t Love Me – Bill Katz, Pauline Rivelli, Ruth Roberts
Love Song from “Apache” – Johnny Mercer, David Raksin
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnett – Stanley Murphy, Percy Wenrich
Swingin’ Scotch – Coleman Hawkins
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) – Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias
In July 1963, “Impulse” label released “Nights of Ballads & Blues”, the third McCoy Tyner album. It was recorded in March 1963, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Bob Thiele.
Personnel:
McCoy Tyner – piano
Steve Davis – double bass
Lex Humphries – drums
Rudy van Gelder – recordings
Track listing:
Satin Doll – Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn
We’ll Be Together Again – Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine
‘Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk
For Heaven’s Sake – Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer
Star Eyes – Gene De Paul, Don Raye
Blue Monk – Thelonious Monk
Groove Waltz McCoy Tyner
Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer
In July 1957, “Prestige” label released “Rollins Plays for Bird”, the seventh Sonny Rollins album. It was recorded in October 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Bob Weinstock.
Personnel:
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Kenny Dorham – trumpet
Wade Legge – piano
George Morrow – bass
Max Roach – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Ira Gitler – liner notes
Bob Weinstock – supervision
Track listing:
All tracks by Sonny Rollins, except where noted.
Bird Medley: I Remember You/My Melancholy Baby/Old Folks/They Can’t Take That Away From Me/Just Friends/My Little Suede Shoes/Star Eyes – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger/Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton/Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison/George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin/John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis/Charlie Parker/Gene DePaul, Don Raye
Kids Know
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
On June 24, 1997, “Steeple Chase” label released “Dearly Beloved”, the 111th Lee Konitz album. It was recorded in October 1996, and was produced by Nils Winther.
Personnel:
Lee Konitz – alto and soprano saxophone
Harold Danko – piano
Jay Anderson – bass
Billy Drummond – drums
Track listing:
The Way You Look Tonight – Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Cole Porter
Someday My Prince Will Come – Frank Churchill, Larry Morey
Bye Bye Blackbird – Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon
Dearly Beloved – Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes – Jerry Brainin, Buddy Bernier
In June 1965, “Verve” label released “Trio ’65”, the 27th Bill Evans album. It was recorded in 1965, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, in New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.
Personnel:
Bill Evans – piano
Chuck Israels – bass
Larry Bunker – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Val Valentin – engineer
Acy R. Lehman – design
Fred Seligo – liner notes
Don Nelsen – liner notes
Track listing:
Israel – John Carisi
Elsa – Earl Zindars
‘Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams
Our Love Is Here to Stay – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
How My Heart Sings – Earl Zindars
Who Can I Turn To? – Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley
Come Rain or Come Shine – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
If You Could See Me Now – Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman
On May 30, 1966, “Reprise” label released “Strangers in the Night”, the 43rd Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded April – May 1966, in Hollywood, and was produced by Jimmy Bowen. At the 1967 “Grammy Awards”, Frank Sinatra won “Record of the Year” and “Best Male Vocal Performance”. Ernie Freeman’s arrangement of the title track won him the “Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist”, and Eddie Brackett and Lee Herschberg’s engineering earned them the “Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical”. The album was certified Platinum in Us by the “RIIA”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Glen Campbell, Al Viola – guitar
Artie Kane – Hammond B3 organ
Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis, Ray Triscari – trumpet
Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Tom Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Chuck Gentry, Bill Green, Justin Gordon, Harry Klee, Ronny Lang – saxophone
Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson, Richard Perissi – French horn
Bill Green, Andreas Kostelas – flute
Sidney Sharp, Lennie Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushe, John De Voogdt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Victor Amo, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, Harry Bluestone – violin
Harry Hyams, Joseph Di Fiore, Darrel Terwilliger, Alex Neiman, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Armand Kaproff – viola
Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff – vielle
Bill Miller, Michel Rubini – piano
Alvin Casey, William Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Chuck Berghofer, Ralph Pefla – bass
Hal Blaine, Irving Cottler – drums
Eddie Brackett Jr., Emil Richards – percussion
Ernie Freeman – arrangements
Donnie Lanier, Nelson Riddle – conductor
Track listing:
Strangers in the Night (from the “Universal” picture “A Man Could Get Killed” – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind – Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer
All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
Call Me – Tony Hatch
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Walter Donaldson
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
My baby Just Cares for Me – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Downtown – Tony Hatch
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
In May 1966, “Capitol” label released “Great Love Themes”, the 35th Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley album. It was recorded in April 1966, in New York City, and was produced by Tom Morgan.
Personnel:
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Nat Adderley – cornet
Joe Zawinul – piano
Herbie Lewis – bass
Roy McCurdy – drums
Unidentified strings
Ray Ellis – conductor, arranger
Track listing:
Somewhere – Leonard Bernstein
The Song Is You – Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
Autumn Leaves – Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer
I Concentrate on You – Cole Porter
This Can´t Be Love – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Stella By Starlight – Victor Young, Ned Washington
Morning of the Carnival (Manhã de Carnaval) – Luis Bonfá, Antônio Maria
In May 1961, “Savoy” label released “Cookin’”, the second Booker Ervin album. It was recorded in November 1960, in Newark, New Jersey, and was produced by Herman Lubinsky.
Personnel:
Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
Richard Williams – trumpet
Horace Parlan – piano
George Tucker – bass
Dannie Richmond – drums
Paul Cady – engineer
Lee Jack Morton – design
Tom Wilson – recording supervisor, liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Booker Ervin, except where noted.
Dee Da Do
Mr. Wiggles
You Don’t Know What Love Is – Gene de Paul, Don Raye
Down In the Dumps
Well, Well
Autumn Leaves – Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert
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