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Dinah Washington: For Those In Love

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In June 1955, “EmArcy” label released “For Those in Love”, the seventh Dinah Washington album. It was recorded in March 1955, and was produced by Bob Shad.

Personnel:

  • Dinah Washington – lead vocals
  • Wynton Kelly – piano
  • Barry Galbraith – guitar
  • Paul Quinichette – tenor saxophone
  • Cecil Payne – baritone saxophone
  • Clark Terry – trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
  • Keter Betts – bass
  • Jimmy Cobb – drums

Track listing:

  1. I Get a Kick Out of You – Cole Porter
  2. Blue Gardenia – Lester Lee, Bob Russell
  3. Easy Living – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  4. You Don’t Know What Love Is – Don Raye, Gene de Paul
  5. This Can’t Be Love – Rodgers and Hart
  6. My Old Flame – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
  7. I Could Write a Book – Rodgers and Hart
  8. Make the Man Love Me – Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz

Joe Roland: Joe Roland Quintette

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In June 1955, “Bethlehem” label released “Joe Roland Quintette”, the second Joe Roland studio album. It was recorded in March 1955, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Joe Roland – vibraphone
  • Fredie Redd – piano
  • Dick Garcia – guitar
  • Dante Martucci – bass
  • Ron Jefferson – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Burt Goldblatt – design

Track listing:

  1. Easy Living – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  2. Stairway to the Steinway – Fredie Redd
  3. Soft Winds – Benny Goodman
  4. Teach Me Tonight – Gene De Paul, Sammy Cahn
  5. Robin – Ismael Ugarte
  6. Sweet Lorraine – Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish
  7. Goodbye Bird – Joe Roland
  8. After You’ve Gone – Turner Layton, Henry Creamer
  9. Anticipation – Dick Garcia
  10. I Cover the Waterfront – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman
  11. The Moon Got in My Eyes – Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke
  12. Street of Dreams – Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis

Ben Webster: The Warm Moods

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In February 1961, “Reprise” label released “The Warm Moods”, the twelve Ben Webster album. 

Personnel:

  • Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
  • Donn Trenner – piano
  • Alfred Lustgarten, Lisa Minghetti – violin
  • Cecil Figelski – viola
  • Armond Kaproff – cello
  • Don Bagley – bass
  • Frank Capp – drums
  • Merle Shore – art direction
  • Phil Stern – design

Track listing:

  1. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi – Bryan Stokes, Dudley Vernor
  2. Stella by Starlight – Ned Washington, Victor Young
  3. With Every Breath I Take – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  4. Accent on Youth – Vee Lawnhurst, Tot Seymour
  5. But Beautiful – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
  6. Time After Time – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) – Van Heusen, Phil Silvers
  8. I’m Beginning to See the Light – Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James
  9. It Was So Beautiful – Harry Barris, Arthur Freed
  10. The Whiffenpoof Song – Tod Galloway, Meade Minnigerode, George S. Pomeroy
  11. It’s Easy to Remember – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  12. There’s No You – Tom Adair, Hal Hopper

Lee Morgan: Introducing Lee Morgan

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In December 1956, “Savoy” label released “Introducing Lee Morgan”, the second Lee Morgan album. It was recorded in November 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Ozzie Cadena.

Personnel:

  • Lee Morgan – trumpet
  • Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
  • Hank Jones – piano
  • Doug Watkins – bass
  • Art Taylor – drums
  • Rudy van Gelder – recording, lacquer cut
  • H. Alan Stein – liner notes
  • Ozzie Cadena – supervision

Track listing:

  1. Hank’s Shout – Hank Mobley
  2. Nostalgia – Fats Navarro
  3. Bet – Doug Watkins
  4. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise – Oscar Hammerstein, Sigmund Romberg
  5. P.S. I Love You – Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer
  6. Easy Living – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  7. That’s All – Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes

Clifford Brown: Memorial Album

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In September 1956, “Blue Note” label released “Memorial Album”, the 13th Clifford Brown album (it was released posthumously). It was recorded in June 1953, at “WOR Studios” in New York City, August 1953, at “Audio-Video Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Clifford Brown – trumpet
  • Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone
  • Elmo Hope – piano
  • Percy Heath – bass
  • Philly Joe Jones – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Francis Wolff – photography
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Hymn of the Orient – Gigi Gryce
  2. Easy Living – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  3. Minor Mood – Clifford Brown
  4. Cherokee – Ray Noble
  5. Wail Bait – Quincy Jones
  6. Brownie Speaks – Clifford Brown
  7. De-Dah – Elmo Hope
  8. Cookin’ – Lou Donaldson
  9. You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
  10. Carving the Rock – Elmo Hope, Sonny Rollins

The Montgomery Brothers: Groove Yard

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On January 3, 1961, “Riverside” label released “Groove Yard”, the third Montgomery Brothers (The) album. It was recorded in 1960, and was produced by Orrin Keepnwes.

Personnel:

  • Wes Montgomery – guitar
  • Buddy Montgomery – piano
  • Monk Montgomery – double bass
  • Bobby Thomas – drums

Track listing:

  1. Bock to Bock (Back to Back) – Buddy Montgomery
  2. Groove Yard – Carl Perkins
  3. If I Should Lose You – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  4. Delirium – Harold Land
  5. Just For Now – Buddy Montgomery
  6. Doujie – Wes Montgomery
  7. Heart Strings – Milt Jackson
  8. Remember – Irving Berlin

Kurt Rosenwinkel: Deep Song

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On March 1, 2005, “Verve” label released “Deep Song”, the sixth Kurt Rosenwinkel album. It was recorded in 2004, and was produced by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Anders Chan-Tidemann, Joshua Redman and James Farber.

Personnel:

  • Kurt Rosenwinkel – guitar
  • Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Brad Mehldau – piano
  • Larry Grenadier – bass
  • Jeff Ballard – drums
  • Ali Jackson – drums 
  • James Farber – engineer
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Hollis King – art direction
  • Rika Ichiki – design
  • Ian Gittler – photography
  • Gary Gershoff – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kurt Rosenwinkel, except where noted.

  1. The Cloister
  2. Brooklyn Sometimes
  3. The Cross
  4. If I Should Lose You – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  5. Synthetics
  6. Use of Light
  7. Cake
  8. Deep Song – George Cory, Douglass Cross
  9. Gesture (Lester)
  10. The Next Step

Nina Simone: Wild is the Wind

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In September 1966, “Phillips” label released “Wild Is the Wind”, the sixth Nina Simone studio album. It was recorded 1964 – 1965, in New York City, and was produced by Hal Mooney. In 2020, it was ranked 212 on “Rolling Stone’s” list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Nina Simone – vocals, piano, arranger
  • Horace Ott – arranger
  • Sid Mark – liner notes
  1. I Love Your Lovin’ Ways – Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus
  2. Four Woman – Nina Simone
  3. What More Can I Say – Horace Ott, Wade Brown Jr.
  4. Lilac Wine – James Shelton
  5. That’s All I Ask – Horace Ott
  6. Break Down and Let It All Out – Van McCoy
  7. Why keep On Breaking My Heart – Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus
  8. Wild is the Wind – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
  9. Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair – traditional
  10. If I Should Lose You – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  11. Either Way I Lose – Van McCoy

Sonny Stitt: Burnin’

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In May 1960, “Argo” label released “Burnin’”, the 18th Sonny Stitt album. It was recorded in August 1958, in Chicago, and was produced by Jordi Pujol.

Personnel:

  • Sonny Stitt – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Barry Harris – piano
  • William Austin – bass
  • Frank Gant – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Sonny Stitt, except where noted.

  1. Ko-Ko – Charlie Parker
  2. A Minor Sax
  3. Lover Man – Jimmy Davis, James Sherman, Roger Ramirez
  4. Reed and a Half
  5. How High the Moon – Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton
  6. I’ll Tell You Later
  7. Look for the Silver Lining – Jerome Kern, Buddy G. DeSylva
  8. Easy Living – Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
  9. It’s Hipper Than That

David Grisman & Martin Taylor: Tone Poems 2

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On October 31, 1995, “Acoustic Music” label released “Tone Poems 2”, an album by David Grisman and Martin Taylor. It was recorded in January 1995, at “Dawg Studios”, and was produced by David Grisman.

Personnel:

  • David Grisman – mandolin, mandola, mandocello, guitar, tenor guitar
  • Martin Taylor – guitar
  • David Dennison – recording
  • Paul Stubblebine – mastering
  • D. Brent Hauseman – design, photography
  • Craig Miller – production coordinator

Personnel:

  1. Swanee – George Gershwin, Irving Caesar
  2. Teasin’ the Frets – Nick Lucas
  3. It Had to Be You – Isham Jones, Gus Kahn
  4. Please – Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin
  5. Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills
  6. Anything Goes – Cole Porter
  7. Blue Moon – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  8. Lulu’s Back In Town – Harry Warren, Al Dubin
  9. Tears – Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt
  10. Jeepers Creepers – Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer
  11. Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg
  12. Musette for a Magpie – Martin Taylor
  13. Mairzy Doats – Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston
  14. Bésame Mucho – Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar
  15. Unforgettable – Irving Gordon
  16. Here’s That Rainy Day – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
  17. My Romance – Rodgers, Hart
  18. Out of Nowhere – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman
  19. Crystal Silence – Chick Corea, Neville Potter