Miles Davis & John Coltrane – Copenhagen 1960
Miles Davis – tr
John Coltrane – sax
Wynton Kelly – p
Paul Chambers – b
Jimmy Cobb – dr
Rec. March 1960 in Copenhagen
Previously unissued, rare and beautiful!
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Anecdote to this CD:
Miles asks Coltrane the reason why he improvises for such a long time, Coltrane: “Because I don’t know how to stop!”, Miles: “Just take the saxophone out of your mouth!”
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich – The Drum Battle at JATP (1952)
Rec. Live at the JATP 1952 (Jazz At The Philharmonics)
Tracks 1-5:
The Gene Krupa Trio:
Gene Krupa – dr
Willie Smith – sax
Hank Jones – p
Track 6:
Gene Krupa versus Buddy Rich – dr
Track 7:
Battle goes on with
Roy Eldridge – tr
Charlie Shavers – tr
Benny Carter – sax
Flip Phillips – sax
Lester Young – sax
Oscar Peterson – p
Barney Kessel – guit
Ray Brown – b
Ella Fitzgerald – voc
Whooa, man, WOW!
JazzCrisis: * * * * * + 1 “Rhythm Heaven” Bonus Point
Miscellaneous Miles Davis 1955-57
Miles Davis – tr
with:
(Tracks 1-4)
Zoot Sims – sax
Gerry Mulligan – sax
Thelonious Monk – p
Percy Heath – b
Connie Kay – dr
Jam Session at Newport Festival 17 Jul 1955, (previously unissued)
Tracks 5-7:
Lester Young – sax
Rene Urtreger – p
Pierre Michelot – b
Christian Garros – dr
Live at the Kongresshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, 19 Nov 1956, (previously unissued)
Tracks 8 & 9:
Bobby Jaspar – sax
Tommy Flanagan – p
Paul Chambers – b
Philly Joe Jones – dr
Rec. at Birdland, NY, 17-30 Oct 1957
Tracks 10-12:
Horst Jankowski -p
Peter Witte – b
Herman Mutschler – dr
Erwin Lehn – cond.
rest unknown musicians
Rec. at the Beethoven Saal, Stuttgart, Germany, 18 Dec 1957, (previously unissued)
That’s my favourite Miles!
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars
Louis Armstrong – tr
Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines – p
Jack Teagarden – trombone
Barney Bigard – clarinet
Big Sid Catlett – dr
Arvell Shaw – b
Velma Middleton – voc
Rec. possibly 1951 (?) or later
Wow, that’s a cool session!
This is my favourite ‘Satchmo’ – Recording! Velma Middleton sings very great, especially on “Blue Skies”.
You can listen a 1000 times! (minimum)
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
George Lewis – Oxford Series Vol. 3 (1952)
George Lewis – cl
Percy G. Humphrey – tr
Jim Robinson – trombone
Alton Purnell – piano
Lawrence Marrero – banjo
“Slow Drag” Alcide Pavageau – b
Joe Watkins – dr
Recorded 1952
“The following music by the George Lewis Ragtime Band was recorded, in concert, for study purposes for the American Folklore Group of Miami Univerity English Department, Oxford, Ohio.”
AND
The audience….. listen to the audience…… They are shouting as if they were at an average death-metal-concert. They are applauding as if there is no tomorrow. So the musicians play at their best.
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream (1962)
Thelonious Monk – p
Charlie Rouse – sax
John Ore – b
Frankie Dunlop – dr
Rec. Oct & Nov 1962
This is a very very good recording of Thelonious! There is a cool interplay between John Ore (playing his unique drag-hop-style) and Thelonious Monk.
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Fatty George – A Tribute To Vienna (1958)
Fatty George – clarinet
featuring:
Joe Zawinul – p
Oskar Klein – tr
and many more
This is the very best recording of the viennese legend FATTY GEORGE!
The Story about this Disc:
In 1958, the Austrian Radio asked the well-known Fatty George to produce 80 titles “easy-listening” – music (for filling pauses), but he had to choose only austrian songs or songwriters. So Fatty George set up his band, featuring Joe Zawinul (those are Zawinul’s exactly last records before going to the USA to join Cannonball Adderley), Oskar Klein and more, and turned this set to a not-easy-listening cool piece of Jazz-Music: He took traditional viennese folk songs and mixed it with his two favourite styles: Cool Jazz and Dixieland.
Those are the last surviving 12 Tracks, because the other 68 had already been deleted by the Radio-Station. (Great done, stupid!) The last song is a live-recording feat. Al “Fats” Edwards on voc.
Fatty George plays very melodic, but never easy!
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Thelonious Monk – Live at the 1964 Monterery Jazz Festival
Thelonious Monk – p
Charlie Rouse – sax
Steve Swallow – b
Ben Riley – dr
tracks 5 & 6 with:
Buddy Collette – sax, fl
Lou Blackburn – trombone
Jack Nimitz – sax
Bobby Bryant – tr
Mevin Moore – tr
Rec. on 20 Sep 1964
WOW!!! This is one of the best Monk records ever! Fantastic!
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Thelonious Monk – Underground (1967-68)
Thelonious Monk – p
Charlie Rouse – sax
Larry Gales – b
Ben Riley – dr
Rec. on 14 & 21 Dec 1967 and 14 Feb 1968
Wow! Not only the cover is fascinating, but the complete recording. Monk never composed that much in his lifetime, so it’s verry interesting that this album has many compositions he did not play that often.
This is one of Monk’s best albums!
JazzCrisis: * * * * *
Yeah, this will pull you out of a very very big Jazz-Crisis!
Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah (1961) with Bonus Track
This is not the proletarian LP cover, this is the ‘88 CD-Edition with Bonus Track
Nesuhi Ertegun – interviews Charles Mingus, then his secretary comes and says, that Mr Ertegun has to go and Charles Mingus interviews himself.
Musicians:
Charles Mingus – piano (!)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – sax, fl,siren etc.
Booker Ervin – tenor sax
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Doug Watkins – b
Dannie Richmond – dr
Recorded on 6 Nov 1961
Oh Yeah! There’s a lot to tell about this album. First: Mingus is not playing the bass, but piano. Second: He’s shouting “Oh Yeah” at least 20 times per track. And: there’s a rare interview that tells everything…..
I do not know if this is the best Jazz – record ever, or if this is the best record ever.
I think that everybody in the whole world should listen to this album, and then humankind will have a spiritual evolution and there will be no more wars and so. But that’s my personal opinion.
JazzCrisis: * * * * * *
“Eat that chicken pie-pie-doo-dee
Who’s gonna do this? (…)
Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! (…)”
(Charles Mingus, ‘eat that chicken’)
