Oliver Nelson - The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions (Disc 4), (Disc 5), (Disc 6)

Album: The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions (Disc 4)
Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:28
Size: 140,1 MB
Art: Front

(6:14) 1. Let The Word Go Forth
(2:34) 2. A Genuine Peace
(3:54) 3. The Rights Of All
(3:20) 4. Tolerance
(3:26) 5. The Artists' Rightful Place
(2:12) 6. Jacqueline
(3:37) 7. Day In Dallas
(3:17) 8. John Kennedy Memory Waltz
(2:46) 9. Love Is Just Around The Corner
(2:15) 10. This Is It
(3:09) 11. Memories Of You
(3:48) 12. Pee Wee's Blues
(2:25) 13. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(3:43) 14. Ja-Da
(2:51) 15. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
(2:55) 16. Bopol
(4:16) 17. I'm Coming Virginia
(3:36) 18. Six And Four

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Album: The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions (Disc 5)
Time: 66:40
Size: 154,2 MB

(5:55) 1. Walk On The Wild Side
(3:56) 2. Ol' Man River
(4:25) 3. In A Mellow Tone (Album Version)
(4:13) 4. Step Right Up (Album Version)
(4:46) 5. Hobo Flats
(4:56) 6. Blueberry Hill
(3:31) 7. Walk Right In
(4:24) 8. Trouble In Mind (Album Version)
(6:15) 9. The Preacher (Album Version)
(3:06) 10. Meditation (Album Version)
(4:29) 11. I Can't Stop Loving You
(7:08) 12. Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
(4:29) 13. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolff? (Pt. 1)
(5:00) 14. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolff? (Pt. 2)

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Album: The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions (Disc 6 )
Time: 76:39
Size: 176,7 MB

(4:08) 1. The Cat The Grandfather
(9:37) 2. Peter's Theme Meal Time
(7:14) 3. Elegy For A Duck
(5:19) 4. Cat In A Tree
(1:13) 5. Capture Of The Wolf
(4:44) 6. Parade Peter Plays Some Blues
(5:27) 7. One Mint Julep
(5:24) 8. Blues And The Abstract Truth
(9:59) 9. Down By The Riverside
(6:45) 10. Night Train
(5:19) 11. 13 (Death March)
(4:08) 12. Milestones
(7:17) 13. 'Round Midnight

Oliver Nelson was one of the more distinctive arrangers to be active in jazz, the studios, and popular music of the '60s. While most Nelson reissues focus on his always-excellent saxophone playing (whether on tenor or alto), this six-CD set, Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions, focuses on Oliver Nelson the arranger-composer-bandleader. He does take solos on some of these dates on tenor, alto,and soprano (his only recorded solos on that instrument), but it his writing that takes center stage. Included are his albums Full Nelson, Fantabulous, Jazzhattan Suite (which finds the ensemble called the Jazz Interactions Orchestra), Sound Pieces, and his unusual and reverent tribute set Musical Tribute to JFK: The Kennedy Dream.

In addition, Nelson's writing for Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz All Stars is here, plus his contributions (usually just part of each record) for sets by organist Shirley Scott (Roll 'Em), a group co-led by Ray Brown and Milt Jackson, and clarinetist Pee Wee Russell (The Spirit of '67). Topping off this well-conceived box are all of the music for organist Jimmy Smith's Hobo Flats, Peter and the Wolf (a classic jazz version), and Smith's first collaboration with guitarist Wes Montgomery, plus a few numbers from Smith's Bashin', Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Hootchie Coochie Man.

In addition to the playing of Jimmy Smith (who was really at his peak during this period), Wes Montgomery, Shirley Scott, and Pee Wee Russell, the most memorable soloists are altoist Phil Woods, cornetist Nat Adderley (on the Feather date), and flugelhornist Clark Terry plus Nelson himself. There is plenty of classic material here (such as the Smith/Montgomery blues jamming on "Down by the Riverside") which, even when the big-band writing is secondary, serves as a superior tribute to the underrated Oliver Nelson. By Scott Yanow

https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-argo-verve-and-impulse-big-band-studio-sessions-mw0000407387

The Argo, Verve And Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions(Disc 4),(Disc 5), (Disc 6 )

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Ed Cherry - First Take

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:45
Size: 152.8 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[7:51] 1. Jean-Pauline
[9:18] 2. Little Sunflower
[5:46] 3. Lorenzo's Wings
[6:54] 4. Third Stone From The Sun
[6:09] 5. Serious
[6:10] 6. In A Sentimental Mood
[8:49] 7. Inner Circle
[8:20] 8. Rachel's Step
[7:24] 9. Blues Interrogation

Born in New Haven,Connecticut, Ed moved to New York in 1978 to play guitar with Dizzy Gillespie from 1978 to 1992 performing in Gillespie's quartet, big band and with The United Nation Orchestra which recorded the Grammy Award-winning Live at Royal Festival Hall (Enja). Gillespie died in 1993, and Cherry released his first recording as a leader, 'First Take' (Groovin' High). That same year, Ed recorded with Paquito D'Riveras' small group which recorded "Havana Cafe" (Chesky Records). Ed also worked with composer/saxophonist Henry Threadgill for two years and recorded three cds with Henry's 'Very Very Circus' group.

In 1995, Cherry released his second project as a solo artist, entitled A Second Look (Groovin' High Records). During that same period Ed worked with Hammond organist John Patton recording three critically acclaimed cds with Patton's quartet-'Blue Planet Man','Minor Swing' and 'This ones for Jah'(DIW). From 1997 to 1998, Cherry worked in Roy Hargrove's “Crisol” Latin jazz band, which performed in Havana, Cuba. During this same period, he also worked w/baritone saxophonist, Hamiett Bluiett, recording Bluiett's cd 'With Eyes Wide Open' on Justin-Time records.In 2001, Cherry toured Europe for the first time with his own group. He also released his cd, 'The Spirit Speaks' on the Canadian Justin Time Records label, inspired by the great jazz organist Jimmy Smith with whom he had also recently worked.Ed was asked to perform at the 'Vodaphone Madarao Jazz festival'in 2002 in Madarao Japan with his quartet featuring trumpeter Jon Faddis.

More recently , Ed toured with the great Hammond organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, recording one critically acclaimed cd, 'In The Beginning' on Pilgrimage Records in 2012. Currently Ed has a brand new second recording released on Posi-Tone Records. ('It's All Good' his first release in 2012 for Posi-Tone stayed in the JazzWeek charts for 3 months) his second recording for the label is titled "Soul Tree" ( release date February 19 2016 ) featuring Kyle Koehler on Hammond B3 organ and drummer Anwar Marshall. As of this pre release date, it's already gathering rave reviews. Ed continues to work nationally and internationally ; concerts, workshops, jazz clubs.

First Take

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Eric Reed Trio - Blue Monk

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:44
Size: 132,7 MB
Art: Front

(9:23)  1. Blue Monk
(4:30)  2. Am I Blue?
(4:34)  3. Blue Daniel
(4:54)  4. Blue Rose
(5:33)  5. Born to Be Blue
(7:20)  6. Black and Blue
(4:28)  7. Very Near Blue
(3:35)  8. Wild Man Blues
(4:57)  9. Blue and Green
(3:35) 10. Blue Chopsticks
(4:51) 11. Light Blue

Pianist Eric Reed is one of a large number of talented musicians who emerged from Wynton Marsalis' bands to pursue a rewarding solo career in his own right. Born in Philadelphia in 1970, Reed's first exposure to music came through his father, a minister and local gospel singer; he began playing piano at age two and soon discovered jazz, quickly developing into a musical prodigy. He entered music school at age seven, and resisted classical training in favor of jazz, inspired early on by Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Art Blakey, and Horace Silver. Four years later, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he digested enough jazz history that he was able to begin playing around the city's jazz scene as a teenager, both as a leader and a sideman for the likes of Gerald Wilson, Teddy Edwards, John Clayton, and Clora Bryant. He first met Wynton Marsalis at age 17, and toured briefly with the trumpeter the following year (his first and only at Cal State-Northridge). In 1989, Reed officially joined Marsalis' band as the replacement for Marcus Roberts; the following year, he issued his debut album as a leader, A Soldier's Hymn, on Candid, with backing by his regular trio of bassist Dwayne Burno and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. In 1991 and 1992, Reed worked with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson as a sideman, returning to Marsalis' group by the end of 1992. He cut a pair of well-received albums for MoJazz, It's All Right to Swing and The Swing and I, in 1993 and 1994, and in 1995 embarked on his first tour as leader of his own group. Two more dates for Impulse!, 1996's Musicale and 1997's Pure Imagination, found his style maturing and his critical and commercial success growing; he also spent 1996-1998 playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. 1999's Manhattan Melodies, his first outing for Verve, was a colorful and sophisticated tribute to New York City; that year, he also undertook the most prominent of several film-scoring projects, the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence comedy Life. Reed also continued to record with Marsalis up into the new millennium. 2001 brought the acclaimed Happiness on Nagel-Heyer, and the next year saw two releases, the well-received From My Heart and a duet album with frequent cohort Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, We. He recorded and played frequently during subsequent years, including a second volume with Gordon (We, Vol. 2) and several sessions for Savant. In 2009, Reed released the gospel-inspired Stand! and returned the following year with Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul, a duet album with Cyrus Chestnut. Beginning with 2011's The Dancing Monk, Reed embarked on an ongoing recording project of Thelonious Monk's music; a theme he revisited on 2012's Baddest Monk and 2014's The Adventurous Monk. ~ Steve Huey https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eric-reed-mn0000799352/biography

Personnel:  Eric Reed – piano; Ron Carter – bass; Car Allen – drums

Blue Monk

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