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Dave Pell - Four Classic Albums (1955-1957) [2CD Reissue 2013]

Posted By: gribovar
Dave Pell - Four Classic Albums (1955-1957) [2CD Reissue 2013]

Dave Pell - Four Classic Albums (1955-1957) [2CD Reissue 2013]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 518 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 360 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Jazz, West Coast Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Avid Jazz (EMSC 1076)

Avid Jazz here presents four classic Dave Pell albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered double CD.
The subject may be “Jazz and Romantic Places” and the locations may range from Paris to Rio but the jazz is strictly West Coast and Cool! Dave Pell on tenor sax is joined by the cream of jazz players from the Les Brown band with whom Pell had played for many years. The band having found time between their lucrative “day job” on the Bob Hope TV show to join their old band mate for the trip! For “Jazz Goes Dancing” Dave Pell writes in the original sleeve notes that for this project he was determined to create a jazz album to dance to, just like in the old dance band days…

Dave Brubeck & Jay & Kai - Dave Brubeck And Jay & Kai at Newport (HD Remastered) (1956/2019)

Posted By: Rtax
Dave Brubeck & Jay & Kai - Dave Brubeck And Jay & Kai at Newport (HD Remastered) (1956/2019)

Dave Brubeck & Jay & Kai - Dave Brubeck And Jay & Kai at Newport (HD Remastered) (1956/2019)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 104 MB
44:15 | Jazz, Cool Jazz | Label: Reborn recordings

Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport is a split live album featuring selections from Dave Brubeck's Quartet with Paul Desmond and the J. J. Johnson/Kai Winding Quintet performances at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival which was released on the Columbia label.

Sonny Criss - The Complete Imperial Sessions [Recorded 1956] (2000) (New Rip)

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Sonny Criss - The Complete Imperial Sessions [Recorded 1956] (2000) (New Rip)

Sonny Criss - The Complete Imperial Sessions [Recorded 1956] (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 609 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 285 MB | Covers - 35 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 24564 2 0)

This double disc reissue on Blue Note contains the three releases that alto saxophonist Sonny Criss did for Imperial: Jazz U.S.A., Go Man!, and Plays Cole Porter. These sessions were all recorded in 1956 at a time when Criss had honed his amazing bebop alto precision. These 34 performances contain only five of his originals and are surrounded by mainly standards. The bands consisted of solid lineups with Sonny Clark or Kenny Drew on piano; Barney Kessel on guitar; Leroy Vinnegar, Buddy Clark or Bill Woodson on bass; Larry Bunker on vibes; and Larance Marable or Chuck Thompson taking care of drumming duties. While Criss had a career that erratically spanned the '70s, these Imperial sessions (reissued in glorious mono) contained highly regarded performances of passionate blues, moving ballads, and energetic up-tempo pieces.

Cal Tjader - Cal Tjader Quartet (1956) Remastered 1997

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Cal Tjader - Cal Tjader Quartet (1956) Remastered 1997

Cal Tjader - Cal Tjader Quartet (1956) Remastered 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 221 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Scans included
Label: Fantasy, Original Jazz Classics | # 3-227, OJCCD-950-2 | Time: 00:40:23
Bop, Cool, Mainstream Jazz, Vibraphone Jazz, Latin Jazz

Vibraphonist Cal Tjader took a brief vacation from playing Afro-Cuban jazz to record this fine straight-ahead bop set. The 1956 LP matches Tjader with the underrated but always swinging pianist Gerald Wiggins, bassist Eugene Wright (shortly before he joined the Dave Brubeck Quartet), and drummer Bill Douglass. They perform four basic originals (two apiece by Wiggins and Wright) and five standards, including a swinging "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Our Love Is Here to Stay." On this date, more than almost any other one, Tjader displays his debt to Milt Jackson's style.

Herbie Nichols Trio - Herbie Nichols Trio (1956) [Japanese Edition 1995]

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Herbie Nichols Trio - Herbie Nichols Trio (1956) [Japanese Edition 1995]

Herbie Nichols Trio - Herbie Nichols Trio (1956) [Japanese Edition 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 137 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 102 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Toshiba-EMI (TOCJ-1519)

Herbie Nichols is just slightly less off-kilter than Thelonious Monk, but they're in the same ballpark. Clearly, he can play a tune straight, but doesn't choose to. Each tune is full of odd pauses and note choices and rhythms that are a tiny bit off - intentionally. It's enough to make every composition interesting. It's cerebral bop, but not quite as extreme as a typical Monk tune. Max Roach on drums and either Al McKibbon or Teddy Kotick on bass provide the beat, but stay pretty much in the background. This is almost entirely Nichols' show.
The biggest surprise is "Lady Sings the Blues." Yes, that song. Nichols co- wrote it with Billie Holiday, and while it's Lady Day's version you remember, slow and soulful, Nichols' version has a life of its own. The melody is recognizable, but the pace is faster and the improvisation has a whole different, boppish feel…

Domenico Savino - Hi-Fi Christmas Party (1956/2023)

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Domenico Savino - Hi-Fi Christmas Party (1956/2023)

Domenico Savino - Hi-Fi Christmas Party (1956/2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 217 MB | Cover | 35:42 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 83 MB
Christmas | Label: RCA - Legacy

This is a 50's Christmas record titled "Hi-Fi Christmas Party". It features Domenico Savino and his orchestra. This is a RCA Camden recording, and I believe it is from the 50's.

Kenny Drew - Kenny Drew Trio with Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones (1956) [Japanese Edition 1985]

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Kenny Drew - Kenny Drew Trio with Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones (1956) [Japanese Edition 1985]

Kenny Drew - Kenny Drew Trio with Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones (1956) [Japanese Edition 1985]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 209 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 45 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Victor (VDJ-1507)

Kenny Drew, with the assistance of bassist Paul Chambers (whose bowed solos are always welcome) and drummer Philly Joe Jones, explores six standards and two of his originals. Although Drew would have to move to Europe in the early '60s in order to get the recognition he deserved, it is obvious (in hindsight) from this enjoyable date that he was already a major improviser.

Carmen McRae - Blue Moon (Stereo Edition - High Definition Remaster 2023) (1956/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Carmen McRae - Blue Moon (Stereo Edition - High Definition Remaster 2023) (1956/2023)

Carmen McRae - Blue Moon (Stereo Edition - High Definition Remaster 2023) (1956/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 217 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 84 MB
35:26 | Jazz, Vocal | Label: Binaural Dimension Records

Much of the music on this excellent (but obscure) Carmen McRae LP has not been reissued, and certainly not in complete form. Accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by either Tadd Dameron or Jimmy Mundy, McRae performs both standards and obscurities, ballads and medium-tempo tunes. The big band is pretty anonymous but fine in ensemble work; the main focus is on the singer's voice anyway. Highlights include "Blue Moon", "My Foolish Heart", "I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket" and Mundell Lowe's "All This Could Lead to Love".

Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound Vol. 1-2 (1955-1956) [Reissue 2000] (Repost)

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Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound Vol. 1-2 (1955-1956) [Reissue 2000] (Repost)

Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound Vol. 1-2 (1955-1956) [Reissue 2000]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 477 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 192 MB | Covers - 96 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Swing | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music

Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound Vol. 1 (1955). Lionel Hampton joins forces with a number of top French musicians for this 1955 studio session, reissued in Verve's Jazz in Paris series. Three of the four compositions are Hampton's, swinging tunes arranged by Christian Chevalier. The first, "Voice of the North," is primarily for the leader's matchless vibes with the rhythm section, though individual soloists are featured, including fellow Americans Nat Adderley and Benny Bailey on trumpets and David Amram on French horn, as well as clarinetist Maurice Meunier and baritone saxophonist William Boucaya. It's just Hampton and the rhythm section (pianist René Urtreger, bassist Guy Pedersen, and drummer Jean-Baptiste Reilles) for the long workout of "À la French"…

Dave Brubeck - Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) [Reissue 2009]

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Dave Brubeck - Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) [Reissue 2009]

Dave Brubeck - Brubeck Plays Brubeck (1956) [Reissue 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 105 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 85 MB | Covers - 84 MB
Genre: Jazz, Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Legacy (88697491942)

Recorded late at night in his Oakland, California, home, it was Brubeck's first full solo-piano recording and also his first all-original record, and it illustrates his marvelously elegant fusion of classical and cocktail conceptions. Brubeck understands blues and swing, but he uses these elements as tools for effect, not as default settings. Brubeck instead offers a fuller palette of emotions and ideas - playful, sober, stern, happy, pensive, cerebral. While "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke" have become standards, the album includes obscure gems such as the minisuite "Two-Part Contention," with its many tempo, mood, and stylistic turns, and the discreetly swinging "Walkin' Line," although he lapses into melodrama with "Weep No More"…

The Lawrence Marable Quartet (Featuring James Clay) - Tenorman (1956) [Japanese Edition 2001]

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The Lawrence Marable Quartet (Featuring James Clay) - Tenorman (1956) [Japanese Edition 2001]

The Lawrence Marable Quartet - Tenorman (1956) [Japanese Edition 2001]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 179 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 3 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Toshiba-EMI (TOCJ-9340)

While nominally Lawrence Marable is a leader, the star is the Texas Tenor James Clay. But this 1956 LP is a classic not only because of Clay (who here was a fresh faced 20 year old) but because of presence of the always great Sonny Clark. Rounding out band is Jimmy Bond on bass and the titular leader Lawrence Marable.

Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956) [Reissue 2006]

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Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956) [Reissue 2006]

Jimmy Raney - Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956) [Reissue 2006]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 108 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 82 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602498883334)

Though Jimmy Raney recorded under his own name as early as 1953, this 1956 set is regarded as his arrival as a leader. Raney is as fine an arranger as he is a guitarist. These eight tracks with Bob Brookmeyer on trombone (another fine arranger in a soloist's role) shine with the ease and fluidity of the best of the cool sessions recorded at the dawn of hard bop. One of the finest examples of the interplay between Raney and Brookmeyer occurs at the beginning of the album's second track, "How Long Has This Been Going On?," where the pair engage in a brief contrapuntal dialogue before Brookmeyer solos on the melody and Raney gently fills the space behind him by whispering his chords and fills through the trombonist's phrasing, before taking his own solo and slipping an inverted harmonic pattern on the tune's lyric line…

Kenny Burrell - Jazzmen Detroit (1956) [Japanese Edition 2010]

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Kenny Burrell - Jazzmen Detroit (1956) [Japanese Edition 2010]

Kenny Burrell - Jazzmen Detroit (1956) [Japanese Edition 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 187 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 79 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Savoy Jazz (COCB-53953)

As Detroiters like Kenny Burrell, Pepper Adams, and Tommy Flanagan were migrating to New York in the mid-'50s in a modern jazz takeover, Pittsburgh drummer Kenny Clarke made known his intentions to support these new Young Lions by being their drummer of choice. This album is nearly the same as the equally excellent and highly recommended effort Kenny Clarke Meets the Detroit Jazzmen, save one extra selection. Burrell is the ostensible leader on this six-track set, but the members of this finely honed quintet (including dual Detroit/Pittsburgh claimant citizen bassist Paul Chambers) can all take equal roles, and eventually would as frontmen in their own right…

Lennie Niehaus - Vol. 5: The Sextet (1956) [Reissue 2001]

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Lennie Niehaus - Vol. 5: The Sextet (1956) [Reissue 2001]

Lennie Niehaus - Vol. 5: The Sextet (1956) [Reissue 2001]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 284 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Covers - 4 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Contemporary Records (OJCCD-1944-2 (C-3524))

It was a sad day for cool jazz when Lennie Niehaus made film music - not jazz - his primary focus. From a jazz standpoint, the Los Angeles resident had so much going for him. Niehaus had an attractive tone along the lines of Lee Konitz and early Bud Shank, and he was a talented arranger to boot. Produced by Lester Koenig in L.A. in 1956, Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 5: The Sextet is quite representative of Niehaus' Contemporary output of the 1950s. This album, which Fantasy reissued on CD on its Original Jazz Classics imprint in 2001, finds Niehaus leading a sextet that boasts Bill Perkins on tenor sax and flute, Jimmy Giuffre on baritone sax, Stu Williamson on trumpet and valve trombone, Buddy Clark on upright bass, and Shelly Manne on drums - in other words, the cream of the southern California crop…

Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones (1956) [RVG Edition 2007]

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Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones (1956) [RVG Edition 2007]

Thad Jones - The Magnificent Thad Jones (1956) [RVG Edition 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers - 49 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (0946 3 92768 2 0)

In 1956, trumpeter Thad Jones was making his way forward as a leader and apart from his important role with the Count Basie Orchestra, having recorded for the Charles Mingus owned "Debut" and Period labels. But this release for Blue Note most firmly established him as one of the premier musicians and composers in modern jazz; it's titled "Magnificent" for many great reasons. There are several precedents set here; the initial foray out of Detroit for the young pianist and fellow Michiganian Barry Harris, the identifying of a personalized small group, as well as individual sound of Jones, and his ability to easily bring great jazz icons together as a team. With Detroit's Billy Mitchell on tenor sax, Percy Heath's bass, and stellar drummer Max Roach, this quintet makes truly great jazz music together…