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Larry Young: Of Love And Peace

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In September 1967, “Blue Note” label released “Of Love and Peace”, the seventh Larry Young album. It was recorded in July 1967, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Larry Young – organ
  • James Spaulding – alto saxophone, flute
  • Herbert Morgan – tenor saxophone
  • Eddie Gale – trumpet
  • Wilson Moorman III – drums
  • Jerry Thomas – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Pavanne – Morton Gould
  2. Of Love and Peace – Larry Young
  3. Seven Steps to Heaven – Miles Davis, Victor Feldman
  4. Falaq – Larry Young

Sonny Rollins: Now’s The Time

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In September 1964, “RCA Victor” label released “Now’s the Time”, the 23rd Sonny Rollins album. It was recorded January, February and April 1964, in New York City, and was produced by George Avakian.

Personnel:

  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
  • Herbie Hancock – piano 
  • Thad Jones – cornet 
  • Ron Carter – bass 
  • Bob Cranshaw – bass
  • Roy McCurdy – drums

Track listing:

  1. Now’s the Time – Charlie Parker
  2. Blue ‘n’ Boogie – Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli
  3. I Remember Clifford – Benny Golson
  4. 52nd Street Theme – Thelonious Monk
  5. St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins
  6. ‘Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk
  7. Afternoon in Paris – John Lewis
  8. Four – Miles Davis

Miles Davis: Cookin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet

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In July 1957, “Prestige” label released “Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet”, album by the Miles Davis Quintet. It was recorded in October 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Bob Weinstock.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet, bandleader
  • John Coltrane – tenor saxophone 
  • Red Garland – piano
  • Paul Chambers – double bass
  • Philly Joe Jones – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

Track listing:

  1. My Funny Valentine – Richard Rodgers
  2. Blues by Five – Miles Davis
  3. Airegin – Sonny Rollins
  4. Tune Up/When Lights Are Low – Miles Davis/Benny Carter, Spencer Williams

Billy Bang: Da Bang!

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On June 18, 2013, “Tum Records” label released “Da Bang!”, the 30th Billy Bang album. It was recorded in February 2011, at “Studio MI” of the “Finnish Broadcasting Company” in Helsinki, Finland.

Personnel:

  • Billy Bang – violin
  • Dick Griffin – trombone
  • Andrew Bemkey – piano
  • Hilliard Greene – double bass
  • Newman Taylor Baker – drums

Track listing:

  1. Da Bang – Barry Altschul
  2. Guinea – Don Cherry
  3. Daydreams – Billy Bang
  4. Law Years – Ornette Coleman
  5. All Blues – Miles Davis
  6. St. Thomas – Sonny Rollins

Miles Davis: We Want Miles

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In May 1982, “Columbia” label released “We Want Miles”, album by Miles Davis. It was recorded June, July – October 1981, at “KIX” in Boston, “Avery Fisher Hall” in New York City and special stage in “Nishi-Shinjuku” Tokyo, Japan, and was produced by Teo Macero.

 Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet, keyboards
  • Bill Evans – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • Mike Stern – electric guitar
  • Marcus Miller – bass guitar
  • Al Foster – drums
  • Mino Cinelu – percussion
  • Bud Grahm – engineer
  • Don Puluse – engineer
  • Hank Altman – engineer
  • Ted Brosnan – engineer
  • David Hewitt – engineer
  • Ted Brosnan – engineer
  • Yasuhisa Yoneda – cover photography
  • Bruce Talamon – inside photography
  • Henri Renaud – series producer
  • George Butler – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Miles Davis except where indicated.

  1. Jean-Pierre
  2. Back Seat Betty
  3. Fast Track
  4. Jean-Pierre
  5. My Man’s Gone Now – DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin
  6. Kix

Miles Davis: Young Man With A Horn

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In March 1953, “Blue Note” label released “Young Man with a Horn”, the second Miles Davis album. It was recorded in May 1952, at “WOR” in New York City, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet, arrangements
  • Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
  • Jay Jay Johnson – trombone
  • Gil Coggins – piano
  • Oscar Pettiford – bass
  • Kenny Clarke – drums

Track listing:

  1. Dear Old Stockholm – traditional, Stan Getz
  2. Would’n You – Dizzy Gillespie
  3. Yesterdays – Jerome Kern, Otto Hatbach
  4. Chance It – Oscar Pettiford
  5. Donna – Miles Davis
  6. How Deep Is the Ocean – Irving Berlin

Marilyn Mazur

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On December 12, 2025, Marilyn Mazur died aged 70. She was percussionist, performed and recorded with Six Winds, Alex Riel, Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter, Jan Garbarek, Lindsay Cooper, Makiko Hirabayashi. Pierre Dørge, Makiko Hirabayashi, Frans Bak, Frans BakJon Balke, Peter Bastian, Harry Beckett, Kirsten Braten Berg, Ketil Bjornstad,  Kristian Blak, Birgit Bruel, Etta Cameron, Nikolaj Hess, Carsten Dahl, Lars Danielsson, Laurent Cugny, Yelena Eckemoff, Agnes Buen Garnas, Caroline Henderson, Nikolaj Hess, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Robert Irving III, Morten Kaersa, Iver Kleive, Peter Kowald, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Michala Petri, Jean-Michel Pilc, Caecilie Norby, Charlie Mariano, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Rena Rama, Helge Sunde, Eje Thelin, Trondheim Voices, Hans Ulrik, Andreas Vollenweider, Dhafer Youssef, Eberhard Weber and Miles Davis. As leader she released 14 albums.

Jack DeJohnette

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On October 26, 2025, Jack DeJohnette died aged 83. He was musician (drums, piano) and composer, regarded as one of the most influential jazz drummers of all time. He recorded and performed with some of the best known jazz musicians, including Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Lloyd, John Abercrombie, Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, and John Scofield. In 2007, he was inducted into the “Modern Drummer Hall of Fame”, and won two “Grammy Awards”. As leader DeJohnette released 38 albums.

MIles Davis: Live At The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

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On July 31, 2007, “Monterey Jazz Festival Records” label released “Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival”, a live Miles Davis album. It was recorded in September 1963, at “Monterey Jazz Festival”, and was produced by Tim “T-Bone” Jackson and Glen Barros.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet
  • George Coleman – tenor saxophone
  • Herbie Hancock – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Tony Williams – drums
  • Wally Heider – engineer
  • Joe Tarantino – mastering
  • Larissa Collins – art director, design
  • Greg Allen – art director, design
  • Ray Avery – photography
  • Mary Hogan – project assistant
  • Randy Rood – project assistant
  • Ben Conrad – project assistant
  • Stuart Kremsky – project assistant
  • Jesse Nichols – project assistant
  • Chris Clough – production assistant
  • Shawn Anderson – project assistant
  • Rikka Arnold – editor
  • Jason Olaine – A&R, digital editor
  • Simone Giuliani – A&R assistant, digital editor

Track listing:

All tracks by Miles Davis, except where noted.

  1. Waiting for Miles
  2. Autumn Leaves – Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma
  3. So What
  4. Stella by Starlight – Ned Washington, Victor Young
  5. Walkin’ – Richard Carpenter
  6. The Theme

Lalo Schifrin: More Jazz Meets the Symphony

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On July 26, 1994, “Atlantic” label released “More Jazz Meets the Symphony”, album by Lalo Schifrin. It was recorded in December 1993, at “CTS Studios” in London, and was produced by Lalo Schifrin. The album was the second in Schifrin’s “Jazz Meets the Symphony” series.

Personnel:

  • Lalo Schifrin – piano, arrangements, conductor
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Jon Faddis – trumpet
  • Paquito D’Rivera – clarinet, alto saxophone
  • James Morrison – trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone
  • Ray Brown – bass
  • Grady Tate – drums

Track listing:

  1. Sketches of Miles: All Blues / So What / Milestones / Concierto de Aranjuez / On Green Dolphin Street / Oleo / Four / Move – Miles Davis / Miles Davis / Miles Davis / Joaquin Rodrigo / Bronislaw Kaper / Sonny Rollins / Miles Davis / Denzil Best
  2. Down Here on the Ground – Lalo Schifrin
  3. Chano – Lalo Schifrin
  4. Begin the Beguine – Cole Porter, arranged by Lalo Schifrin
  5. Django – John Lewis
  6. Old Friends – Lalo Schifrin
  7. Madrigal – Lalo Schifrin
  8. Portrait of Louis Armstrong: Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen / When It’s Sleepy Time Down South / Someday / After You’ve Gone / St. Louis Blues / Some of These Days / Struttin’ with Some Barbeque / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (traditional / Clarence Muse, Leon René, Otis René / Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye / Henry Creamer, Turner Layton / W. C. Handy/Shelton Brooks / Louis Armstrong / Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh