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ratatoskm15: Up & Down by Horace Parlan 1961 Classic hard bop on Blue Note Personnel Horace Parlan - piano Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone Grant Green - guitar George Tucker - bass Al Harewood - drums
buchino: The Rumproller by Reid Miles, 1965
One of my favourite jazz photographs of all time. bainer: Lee Morgan’s trumpet, Hank Mobley’s tenor, and Jackie McLean’s alto taking a break during Lee Morgan’s superlative Charisma session, Englewood Cliffs NJ, September 29, 1966 (photo by Francis Wolff) Listen to Charisma: Hey Chico, Sweet Honey Bee, The Murphy Man, The Double Up
Michael Cuscuna - Episode 3 - Commentary
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Listen: Traneumentary - Michael Cuscuna discusses Blue Train by John Coltrane (Source)

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ratatoskm15: Movin’ & Groovin’ by the Horace Parlan Trio 1960 Hard bop piano for y’all Horace Parlan’s debut album for Blue Note, Movin’ and Groovin’, is a thoroughly impressive affair, establishing Parlan as a distinctive hard bop stylist. Working with bassist Sam Jones and drummer Al Harewood, Parlan steals the show, playing hard-driving, bluesy bop and lyrical ballads. If it weren’t for the inventive chord voicings and percussive right-hand attack, it would be impossible to tell that he was missing two fingers on his right hand, since his playing is remarkably agile and fluid. Parlan sounds vital on swinging blues, slow ballads, and straight-ahead bop, and Jones and Harewood provide appropriately empathetic support on this collection of standards, blues, bop, jazz, and originals. Everything swings, no matter the tempo, and the end result is a fine debut from a distinctive pianist. AMG
delightfulee: Pete La Roca. Basra  (1965)
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Sonny Clark - Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
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Sonny Clark - Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You (1958)

More of the good stuff.

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atane: The Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Quintet/Sextet Studio Sessions

20 minute excerpt from an interview with Rudy Van Gelder, from the DVD ‘Perfect Takes’.

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