Kenny Dorham’s Quiet Kenny is one of the loveliest albums ever made by a trumpeter and a rhythm section. Recorded for the Prestige subsidiary New Jazz, the session is not entirely "quiet”; while ballad readings of standards cast a late-night spell, Dorham’s three tuneful blues originals, plus "Mack the Knife," swing jauntily.

Reissue of Original 1959 Vee/Jay Album also featuring Matt "Guitar"Murphy (Of Blues Brothers Fame). Includes Four Bonus Tracks from 50's Singles.

VMP Classics record of the month for October 2022. (AAA) Lacquers Cut From the Original Mono Tapes by Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound. Pressed on 180g Black Audiophile Vinyl at RTI.

Ben Webster and Associates is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

Topping off a wealth of full-band recordings, the various stars of Ellington's great outfit recorded many combo sides under their own names. And while not on the same sophisticated level of classic Ellingtonia, the late-'30s material cut by Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, and Rex Stewart is packed with tasty solo work and some of the finest examples of early small-group swing. These later examples from 1958-1959 feature Hodges backed by both Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on piano and such non-Duke luminaries as Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and Jo Jones. Like its companion album, Back to Back, Side by Side has a loose, jam session feel, with all the soloists stretching out. Hodges is in top form throughout, while Edison and Webster man their spots just fine. Highlights include the sveltely swinging "Going Up" and Hodges' bluesy closer, "You Need to Rock." A must for fans of vintage combo swing. © Stephen Cook

The digitalization of the analog tape was done by Jonathan Stokes and Neil Hutchinson, engineers of the Classic Sound Ltd, who both used to be colleagues of the Decca Record Company. Answering the request from Stereo Sound, the two experienced engineers digitized the signal with great care and transferred it to mediums without any sound treatments such as sound compression. Hence, noises and sound dropouts present on the original master tape were kept intact, but we are now able to provide audio enthusiasts with the ultimate sound that is as close to the original master tape as possible and that only those involved in the recording process could have listened to.

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter-composer Miles Davis.

Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on one track, "Freddie Freeloader". The album was recorded in two sessions on March 2 and April 22, 1959, at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

Kelly Blue is an album by American jazz pianist Wynton Kelly, released in 1959.

It was the great Duke Ellington who in 1949 recommended Ruth Brown, who had once been fired from the Lucky Millinder band, to Herb Abramson and his young label Atlantic Records. Also good, because it was Ruth Brown who made Atlantic famous, here one should not confuse cause and effect. She achieved this with 24 R&B hit singles from 1949 to 1960, five of which also entered the Billboard pop charts.

Comes in a mini-LP style gatefold cardboard sleeve, with obi, Japanese liner notes insert and Acoustic Sounds series promo sheet. Recorded February 3, 1959, and originally released in 1960. DSD mastering.

Together, Doráti and the Philharmonia Hungarica would go on to make a celebrated cycle of Haydn symphonies for Decca in the early 1970s.

Driving intensity, rhythmic flair and demonstration-quality sound are brought to the fore in a new anthology of Antal Doráti's early recordings with the Philharmonia Hungarica on Mercury and Philips.

The Philharmonia Hungarica was first established in Baden bei Wien near Vienna by Hungarian musicians who had fled their homeland after it was invaded by Soviet troops.

The repertoire played to the strengths of both label and musicians: mostly Hungarian music from the last half century, vividly coloured and coursing with rhythmic energy.