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Henry Mancini: The Music From Peter Gunn

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In January 1959, “RCA Victor” label released “The Music from Peter Gunn”, the fourth Henry Mancini album. It was recorded August – September 1958, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Simon Rady. In 1998, the album was inducted into the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.

Personnel:

  • Pete Candoli, Ray Linn, Frank Beach, Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo – trumpet
  • Dick Nash, Jimmy Priddy, Milt Bernhart, Karl DeKarske – trombone
  • John Graas, Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, John Cave – French horn
  • Ted Nash, Plas Johnson, Ronny Lang, Paul Horn, Gene Cipriano – reeds
  • John Williams – piano
  • Bob Bain, Al Hendrickson – guitar
  • Victor Feldman, Larry Bunker – vibraphone
  • Rolly Bundock – bass
  • Shelly Manne, Alvin Stoller, Jack Sperling – drums

Track listing:

  1. Peter Gunn
  2. Sorta Blue
  3. The Brothers Go to Mother’s
  4. Dreamsville
  5. Session at Pete’s Pad
  6. Soft Sounds
  7. Fallout!
  8. The Floater
  9. Slow and Easy
  10. A Profound Gass
  11. Brief and Breezy
  12. Not from Dixie

Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Lightly

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In December 1958, “Verve” label released “Ella Swings Lightly”, album by Ella Fitzgerald. It was recorded in November 1958, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Norman Granz. This album won Ella Fitzgerald the 1960 Grammy award for the Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

Personnel:

  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocal
  • Marty Paich’s Dek-Tette: Bud Shank – alto saxophone 
  • Bill Holman – tenor saxophone
  • Med Flory – baritone saxophone 
  • Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino – trumpet
  • Bob Enevoldsen – valve trombone, tenor saxophone 
  • Vincent DeRosa – French horn
  • Lou Levy  – piano
  • Joe Mondragon – bass 
  • Mel Lewis – drums 

Track listing:

  1. Little White Lies – Walter Donaldson
  2. You Hit the Spot – Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
  3. What’s Your Story, Morning Glory? – Jack Lawrence, Paul Francis Webster, Mary Lou Williams
  4. Just You, Just Me – Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages
  5. As Long as I Live – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  6. Teardrops from My Eyes – Rudy Toombs
  7. Gotta Be This or That – Sunny Skylar
  8. Moonlight on the Ganges – Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace
  9. My Kinda Love – Louis Alter, Jo Trent
  10. Blues in the Night – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  11. If I Were a Bell – Frank Loesser
  12. You’re an Old Smoothie – Nacio Herb Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Richard A. Whiting
  13. Little Jazz – Roy Eldridge, Buster Harding
  14. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me – Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Peter Norman
  15. Knock Me a Kiss – Mike Jackson
  16. 720 in the Books – Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Leo Watson

Elvis Presley: Jailhouse Rock

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On October 30, 1957, “RCA Victor” label released “Jailhouse Rock”, an EP by Elvis Presley, featuring songs from the movie of the same name. It was recorded April – May 1957, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Jeffrey Alexander.

Personnel:

  • Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar, electric bass
  • Scotty Moore – electric lead guitar
  • Bill Black – double bass, electric bass
  • D. J. Fontana – drums

The Jordanaires

  • Gordon Stoker – backing vocals
  • Neal Matthews – backing vocals
  • Hoyt Hawkins – backing vocals
  • Hugh Jarrett – backing vocals
  • Dudley Brooks – piano
  • Thorne Nogar – engineer
  • Fred Mulculpin – engineer
  • Mike Stoller – piano, production assistant
  • Jerry Leiber – production assistant

Track listing:

  1. Jailhouse Rock – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  2. Young and Beautiful – Aaron Schroeder, Abner Silver
  3. I Want to Be Free – Jerry Leiber, Ben Weisman
  4. Don’t Leave Me Mow (movie version) – Aaron Schroeder, Ben Weisman
  5. (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller

Ray Charles And Betty Carter: Ray Charles And Betty Carter

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In August 1961, “ABC” label released “Ray Charles and Betty Carter”, album by Ray Charles and Betty Carter. It was recorded August 1960 – June 1961, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Sid Feller.

Personnel:

  • Betty Carter – vocals
  • Ray Charles – vocals, keyboards
  • Hank Crawford – alto saxophone
  • David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone
  • Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone
  • Bill Pitman – guitar
  • Edgar Willis – bass guitar
  • Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums
  • The Jack Halloran Singers – backing vocals
  • Marty Paich – arrangements, conductor
  • Sid Feller – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Cole Porter
  2. You and I – Meredith Willson
  3. Intro: Goodbye / We’ll Be Together Again – Gordon Jenkins / Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine
  4. People Will Say We’re in Love – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
  5. Cocktails for Two – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
  6. Side by Side – Harry M. Woods, Gus Kahn
  7. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Frank Loesser
  8. Together – Lew Brown, Buddy De Sylva, Ray Henderson
  9. For All We Know – J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis
  10. Takes Two to Tango – Al Hoffman, Dick Manning
  11. Alone Together – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
  12. Just You, Just Me – Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages

Joe Pass: Joe’s Blues

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On July 21, 1998, “Laserlight” label released “Joe’s Blues”, the 65th Joe Pass album. It was recorded in 1968, at “Radio recorders” in Hollywood, and was released posthumously in 1998.

Personnel:

  • Joe Pass – guitar
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Monty Budwig – bass
  • Colin Bailey – drums
  • Adam Ross – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin
  2. Look for the Silver Lining – Jerome Kern, Buddy DeSylva
  3. Joe’s Blues – Joe Pass
  4. Georgia – Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
  5. When You’re Smiling – Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin
  6. The Shadow of Your Smile – Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
  7. What Have They Done to My Song, Ma – Melanie Safka
  8. You Stepped Out of a Dream – Herb Nacio Brown, Gus Kahn
  9. Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey

Illimois Jacquet: Swing’s The Thing

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In December 1956, “Clef” label released “Swing’s the Thing”, the twelve Illinois Jacquet album. It was recorded in October 1956, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Illinois Jacquet – tenor saxophone
  • Roy Eldridge – trumpet
  • Jimmy Jones – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ray Brown – bass
  • Jo Jones – drums
  • Phil Stern – cover photography

Track listing:

  1. Las Vegas Blues – Roy Eldridge
  2. Harlem Nocturne – Earle Hagen, Dick Rodgers
  3. Can’t We Be Friends? – Paul James, Kay Swift
  4. Achtung – Illinois Jacquet
  5. Have You Met Miss Jones? – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  6. Lullaby of the Leaves – Bernice Petkere, Joe Young

Johnny Hodges: The Blues

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In October 1956, “Norgran” label released “The Blues”, the fifth Johnny Hodges album. It was recorded July 1952 – September 1953 – July 1954, at “Radio Recorders” in Los Angeles, in San Francisco and New York City, and was produced by Norman Granz.  

Personnel:

  • Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
  • Emmett Berry, Shorty Baker – trumpet
  • Lawrence Brown – trombone
  • Arthur Clarke, John Coltrane, Ben Webster, Rudy Williams – tenor saxophone
  • Ted Brannon, Call Cobbs, Leroy Lovett – piano
  • Ray Brown, Red Callender, Barney Richmond, John Williams – bass
  • Louis Bellson, J. C. Heard, Al Walker – drums
  • Alex De Paola – cover photography
  • Phil Stern – photography
  • Norman Granz – supervision

Track listing:

All tracks by Johnny Hodges, except where noted.

  1. Rosanne – Glenn Osser, Edna Osser, Dick Manning
  2. Hodge-Podge – Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington
  3. Jappa
  4. Through for the Night – Trummy Young
  5. The Sheik of Araby – Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler
  6. Latino
  7. Johnny’s Blues – Edith Cue Hodges
  8. Indiana – Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley
  9. Easy Going Bounce – Leroy Lovett
  10. Burgundy Walk

Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come

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In November 1959, “Atlantic” label released “The Shape of Jazz to Come”, the third Ornette Coleman album. It was recorded in May 1959, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Nesuhi Ertegun. In 2012, the “Library of Congress” added the album to the “National Recording Registry”. Magazine “Rolling Stone” included the album in its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2015, the album was inducted into the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.

Personnel:

  • Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry – cornet
  • Charlie Haden – bass
  • Billy Higgins – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ornette Coleman.

  1. Lonely Woman
  2. Eventually
  3. Peace
  4. Focus on Sanity
  5. Congeniality
  6. Chronology

Leseter Young and Harry Edison: Pres and Sweets

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In December 1955, “Norgran” label released “Pres and Sweets”, an album by Lester Young and Harry Edison, It was recorded in November 1955, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Lester Young – tenor saxophone
  • Harry Edison – trumpet
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ray Brown – bass
  • Buddy Rich – drums

Track listing:

  1.  Mean to Me – Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk
  2. Red Boy Blues – Lester Young
  3. Pennies from Heaven – Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke
  4. That’s All – Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes
  5. One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie
  6. She’s Funny That Way – Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting

Ornette Coleman: Twins

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On October 4, 1971, “Atlantic” label released “Twins”, the tenth Ornette Coleman album. It was recorded 1959 – 1961, assembled without Coleman’s input, comprising outtakes from recording sessions of 1959 to 1961 for “The Shape of Jazz to Come”, “This Is Our Music”, “Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation”, and “Ornette!”. Sessions for “Monk and the Nun” took place at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, for “First Take” at “A&R Studios” in New York City, and all others at “Atlantic Studios” in Manhattan. The album was produced by Nesuhi Ertegün.

Personnel:

  • Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry – pocket trumpet; cornet
  • Charlie Haden – bass 
  • Scott LaFaro – bass 
  • Billy Higgins – drums 
  • Ed Blackwell – drums 
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet 
  • Eric Dolphy – bass clarinet 

Track listing:

All tracks by Ornette Coleman.

  1. First Take
  2. Little Symphony
  3. Monk and the Nun
  4. Check Up
  5. Joy of a Toy