John Coltrane - Live at Birdland (1964)

Live:
1. Afro Blue
2. I Want to Talk About You
3. The Promise

Studio:
4. Alabama
5. Your Lady
6. Vilia

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums

Merl Saunders ‎– Merl Saunders (1974)

1. Aunt Monk
2. It's Cheaper To Keep Her
3. Wondering Why
4. Easy Evil
5. Bolinas Brown
6. An't No Woman Like The One I've Got
7. When I Die
8. Righteousness

Merl Saunders- vocals, organ, clavinet, electric piano
Billy Fender, Joel Cohen, Michael Howell - guitar
Bill Upchurch, John Kahn - bass
Tony Saunders - bass, backing vocals
Martin Fierro - saxophone
King Errisson - congas
Kenneth Nash - percussion
Gaylord Birch, Eccleston W. Wainwright, Jimmy Nelson - drums

Charles Tyler / Ensemble ‎– Voyage From Jericho (1975)

1. Voyage From Jericho
2. Return To The East
3. Just For Two
4. Children's Music March
5. Surf Ravin

Charles Tyler - Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone
Arthur Blythe - Alto Saxophone
Earl Cross - Trumpet
Ronnie Boykins - Bass
Steve Reid - Drums

Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags (1958)

1. Close Your Eyes
2. Stuffy
3. Don't Take Your Love From Me
4. Get Happy
5. Sandra's Blues
6. Indian Blues

Milt Jackson – vibes
Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Eddie Jones - bass
Connie Kay - drums

Oliver Nelson - Straight Ahead (1961)

1. Images
2. Six and Four
3. Mama Lou
4. Ralph's New Blues
5. Straight Ahead
6. 111-44

Oliver Nelson - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Richard Wyands - piano
George Duvivier - double bass
Roy Haynes - drums

Kenny Burrell - Ode to 52nd Street (1967)

1. Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 1: So Little Time
2. Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 2: Growing
3. Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 3: Round and Round We Go
4. Suite for Guitar and Orchestra Theme 4: Recapitulation
5. I Want My Baby Back
6. Con Alma
7. Soulero
8. Wild Is the Wind
9. Blues Fuse

Kenny Burrell - guitar
Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Evans

Jorge Ben - 10 Anos Depois (1973)

1. Por Causa de Você, Menina / Chove Chuva / Mas que Nada
2. Agora, Ninguém Chora Mais / Charles Anjo 45 / Caramba... Galileu da Galileia
3. A Minha Menina / Que Maravilha / Zazueira
4. Bebete Vãobora / Crioula / Cadê Teresa
5. País Tropical / Fio Maravilha / Taj Mahal
6. Vendedor de Bananas / Cosa Nostra / Bicho do Mato
7. Que Nega É Essa / Que Pena / Domingas
8. Vinheta

The Joe Cuba Sextet ‎– Bustin' Out (1972)

1. What A Baby
2. Pud-Da-Din
3. Ain't It Funny What Love Can Do
4. Ohh! Ah
5. Do You Feel It?
6. A Thousand Ways
7. Joe Cuba's Madness Part 1
8. Joe Cuba's Madness Part 2

Shirley Scott - One For Me (1974)

1. What Makes Harold Sing?
2. Keep on Movin' On
3. Big George
4. Don't Look Back
5. Do You Know a Good Thing When You See One?

Shirley Scott - organ, mellotron
Harold Vick - tenor saxophone
Billy Higgins - drums
Jimmy Hopps - cowbell (track 2)

Gil Evans - Blues in Orbit (1969/1971)

1 Thoroughbred
2. Spaced
3. Love In the Open
4. Variation on the Misery
5. Blues In Orbit
6. Proclamation
7. General Assembly
8. So Long

Gil Evans - piano, electric piano, arranger, conductor
Johnny Coles (tracks 1 & 5), Mike Lawrence (tracks 2-4 & 6-8), Ernie Royal (tracks 1 & 5), Snooky Young (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) -

trumpet
Garnett Brown (tracks 1 & 5), Jimmy Cleveland, Jimmy Knepper (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) - trombone
Ray Alonge (tracks 1 & 5), Julius Watkins (tracks 2-4 & 6-8) - French horn
Howard Johnson - tuba, baritone saxophone
Hubert Laws - flute (tracks 2-4 & 6-8)
Billy Harper - tenor saxophone
George Marge - flute, tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 5)
Joe Beck - guitar (tracks 2-4 & 6-8)
Gene Bianco - harp
Herb Bushler - bass
Elvin Jones (tracks 2-4 & 6-8), Alphonse Mouzon (tracks 1 & 5) - drums
Sue Evans, Donald McDonald - percussion

Sarah Vaughan - Dreamy (1960)

1. Dreamy
2. Hands Across the Table
3. The More I See You
4. I'll Be Seeing You
5. Star Eyes
6. You've Changed
7. Trees
8. Why Was I Born
9. My Ideal
10. Crazy He Calls Me
11. Stormy Weather
12. Moon Over Miami

Sarah Vaughan - vocals
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
Gerald Sanfino - flute, alto flute, alto saxophone
Barry Galbraith - guitar
Janet Soyer - harp
Ronnell Bright – piano, celeste
Richard Davis - double bass
George Duvivier - bass
Percy Brice - drums
Produced by Jimmy Jones

Lester Young and Harry Edison - Pres and Sweets (1955)

1. Mean to Me
2. Red Boy Blues
3. Pennies from Heaven
4. That's All
5. One O'Clock Jump
6. She's Funny That Way
7. It's the Talk of the Town
8. I Found a New Baby (not on original release)

Lester Young - tenor saxophone
Harry Edison - trumpet
Oscar Peterson - piano
Herb Ellis - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Buddy Rich - drums

Charles Earland - Intensity (1972)

Sorry for the delay in posts! I had to get a new computer and transfer all my music but I am back. Here's more Earland which includes Lee Morgan's last recording before his death.

1. Happy 'Cause I'm Goin' Home
2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
3. 'Cause I Love Her
4. Morgan
5. Lowdown (not on original release)
6. Speedball (not on original release)

Charles Earland - organ
Jon Faddis, Virgil Jones, Lee Morgan, Victor Paz - trumpet
Dick Griffin, Jack Jeffers, Clifford Adams - trombone
Hubert Laws - flute, piccolo flute
Billy Harper - tenor saxophone
William Thorpe - baritone saxophone
John Fourie, Greg Millar, Maynard Parker - guitar
Billy Cobham - drums
Sonny Morgan - congas

Charles Earland - Black Drops (1970)

1. Sing a Simple Song
2. Don't Say Goodbye
3. Lazy Bird
4. Letha
5. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
6. Buck Green

Charles Earland – organ
Virgil Jones – trumpet
Clayton Pruden – trombone
Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Maynard Parker – guitar
Jimmy Turner – drums

Charles Earland - Living Black! (1970)

Live at the Key Club in New Jersey

1. Key Club Cookout
2. Westbound No. 9
3. Killer Joe
4. Milestones
5. More Today Than Yesterday (not on original release)
6. Message from a Black Man (not on original release)

Charles Earland - organ
Gary Chandler - trumpet
Grover Washington Jr. - tenor saxophone
Maynard Parker - guitar
Jesse Kilpatrick - drums
Buddy Caldwell - congas

Ahmad Jamal - Genetic Walk (1975)

1. Genetic Walk
2. Spartacus Love Theme
3. Chaser
4. La Costa
5. Pablo Sierra
6. Bellows
7. Don't Ask My Neighbors
8. Time For Love

Ahmad Jamal – keyboards
Calvin Keys – guitar (tracks 5 & 6)
Danny Leake – guitar (track 7)
Richard Evans – bass (track 4, 7)
Roger Harris – bass (track 1)
John Heard – bass (tracks 2, & 5, 6 & 8)
Jamil Nasser – bass (track 3)
Steve Cobb – drums (track 4)
Frank Gant – drums (tracks 3 & 6)
Morris Jenkins – drums (track 1, 7)
Eddie Marshall – drums (track 2)
Harvey Mason – drums (track 5)

Les McCann Ltd. ‎Plays The Truth (1960)

1. Vacushna
2. A Little 3/4 For God & Co
3. I'll Remember April
4. Fish This Week
5. How High The Moon
6. This Can't Be Love
7. For Carl Perkins
8. The Truth

Les McCann - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Ron Jefferson - drums

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - Central Park North (1969)

1. Tow Away Zone
2. Quietude
3. Jive Samba
4. The Groove Merchant
5. Big Dipper
6. Central Park North

Thad Jones – flugelhorn
Mel Lewis – drums
Roland Hanna – piano
Richard Davis – bass
Barry Galbraith – guitar
Sam Brown – guitar
Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone
Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone
Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone
Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone
Joe Temperley – baritone saxophone
Snooky Young – trumpet
Richard Williams – trumpet
Danny Moore – trumpet
Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Benny Powell – trombone
Eddie Bert – trombone
Cliff Heather – trombone

produced by Sonny Lester

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra - Live at the Village Vanguard (1967)

1. The Little Pixie
2. A- That's Freedom
3. Bachafillen
4. Don't Git Sassy
5. Willow Tree
6. Samba Con Getchu
7. Quietude
8. The Second Race
9. Lover Man

Thad Jones – flugelhorn
Mel Lewis – drums
Roland Hanna – piano
Richard Davis – bass
Sam Herman – guitar
Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute
Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone, flute
Eddie Daniels – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone, clarinet
Richard Williams – trumpet
Bill Berry – trumpet
Snooky Young – trumpet
Marvin Stamm – trumpet
Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
Bob Brookmeyer – trombone
Garnett Brown – trombone
Tom McIntosh – trombone
 Cliff Heather – trombone

Rusty Bryant - Soul Liberation (1970)

1. Cold Duck Time
2. The Ballad of Open Bliss
3. Lou-Lou
4. Soul Liberation
5. Freeze-Dried Soul

Rusty Bryant - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Virgil Jones - trumpet
Charles Earland - organ
Melvin Sparks - guitar
Idris Muhammad - drums

The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet - Calypso Blues (1965)

1. Ebony Samba
2 Tin Tin Deo
3 Please Don't Leave
4 Lush Life
5 The Man From Potter's Crossing
6. Wives And Lovers
7. Ensadinado
8. Lorraine
9. Love Hungry
10. Balafon
11. Day By Day
12. Calypso Blues
13. Invitation
14. Insensatez
15. Serenata
16. Con Alma
17. Just Give Me Time
18. Born To Be Blue
19. Lilemor
20. Sconsolato

Francy Boland - piano, arranger
Sahib Shihab - flute
Joe Harris - percussion
Jimmy Woode - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums
Fats Sadi - vibraphone, percussion
Produced by Gigi Campi

Ramsey Lewis Trio - Standing Out (1960)

1. Li'l Liza Jane
2. This Is My Night to Dream
3. Scarlet Ribbons
4. Here 'Tis
5. My Ship
6. Put Your Little Foot Right Out
7. Solo Para Ti
8. These Foolish Things
9. When the Spirit Moves You
10. A Portrait of Jennie

Ramsey Lewis - piano
El Dee Young - bass
Issac "Red" Holt - drums

The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975)

1. Young and Foolish
2. The Touch of Your Lips
3. Some Other Time
4. When in Rome
5. We'll Be Together Again
6. My Foolish Heart
7. Waltz for Debby
8. But Beautiful
9. Days of Wine and Roses

Tony Bennett - vocals
Bill Evans - piano

Ben Webster and Associates (1959)

1. In a Mellow Tone
2. De-Dar
3. Young Bean
4. Time After Time
5. Budd Johnson

Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone
Roy Eldridge - trumpet
Les Spann - guitar
Jimmy Jones - piano
Ray Brown - bass
Jo Jones - drums

The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band Live at Ronnie Scott's (1969)

1. Box 703
2. Griff's Groove
3. Volcano
4. Love Which To No Loved One Permits Excuse For Loving
5. Now Hear My Meanin'
6 And Thence We Issued Out Again To See The Stars
7. Rue Chaptal
8. I Don't Want Nothin' From Nobody And I Ain't Giving Nothin' Away
9. Sax No End
10. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
11. The Minor Blues
12. The Girl & The Turk
13. Kenny & Kenny

Eric Van Lier, Nat Peck, Ake Persson - trombone
Benny Bailey, Dusko Gojkovic*, Idrees Sulieman, Tony Fisher - trumpet
Ron Mathewson -bass
Francy Boland - piano
Derek Humble, Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Sahib Shihab - saxophone
Tony Coe – saxophone, clarinet
Kenny Clare, Kenny Clarke - drums

Buddy Rich and Harry "Sweets" Edison - Buddy and Sweets (1955)

1. Yellow Rose of Brooklyn
2. Easy Does It
3. All Sweets
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It
5. Barney's Bugle
6. Now's the Time
7. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
Barney Kessel – guitar
Jimmy Rowles – piano
John Simmons – bass
Buddy Rich – drums

Donald Byrd - The Creeper (1967)

1. Samba Yanta
2. I Will Wait for You
3. Blues Medium Rare
4. The Creeper
5. Chico-San
6. Early Sunday Morning
7. Blues Well Done

Donald Byrd - trumpet
Sonny Red - alto saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Chick Corea - piano
Miroslav Vitouš - bass
Mickey Roker - drums

Bill Evans and Don Elliott - Tenderly: An Informal Session (1956-57)

1. Tenderly
2. I'll Take Romance
3. Laura
4. Blues No. 1
5. I'll Know
6. Like Someone in Love
7. Love Letters
8. Thou Swell
9. Airegin
10. Everything Happens to Me
11. Blues No. 2
12. Stella by Starlight
13. Funkallero

Bill Evans - piano
Don Elliott - vibraphone, vocal percussion

Hampton Hawes - For Real! (1958)

1. Hip
2. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
3. Crazeology
4. Numbers Game
5. For Real
6. I Love You

Hampton Hawes - piano
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Scott LaFaro - bass
Frank Butler - drums

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)

Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963 at the Montmartre jazz club.


1. Consequences
2. Monk's Mood
3. Emotions
4. Wo Wo
5. Trio
6. Crepuscule With Nellie
7. O.C.
8. When Will the Blues Leave?
9. The Funeral
10. Mick

Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone
John Tchicai - alto saxophone
Don Cherry - trumpet
Don Moore - bass
J. C. Moses - drums

Ira Kris - Jazzanova (1971)

1. Canto De Ossanha
2. Inside My Head
3. Rio
4. Reza
5. Canto De Iemanja
6. Juanito
7. Casa Forte

Ira Kris, Juan Romero - guitar
Frank St. Peter - flute
Jimmy Woode - bass
Tony Inzalaco - drums

Carmen McRae - Alive! (1965)

Live in NY at The Village Gate.

1. Sometimes I'm Happy
2. Don't Explain
3. Woman Talk
4. Kick Off Your Shoes
5. The Shadow of Your Smile
6. The Sweetest Sounds
7. Where Would You Be Without Me?
8. Feeling Good
9. Run Run Run
10. No More
11. Look at That Face
12. I Wish I Were in Love Again
13. You Better Go Now
14. Love for Sale
15. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
16. Miss Brown to You
17. Perdido
18. Too Close for Comfort
19. Midnight Sun
20. Trav'lin' Light
21. Love Is Here to Stay

Carmen McRae - vocals
Ray Beckenstein - flute
Jo Puma - guitar
Norman Simmons - piano
Paul Breslin - double bass
Jose Mangual - bongos
Frank Severino - drums

Slide Hampton/Joe Haider Orchestra ‎– Give Me A Double (1974)

Live in Munich

1. Tribute
2. Grandfather's Garden
3. Think
4. Like A Blues
5. Tante Nelly
6. What Is Happening
7. Quiet Nights
8. Waltz For My Lady
9. A Time For Love

Slide Hampton, Bob Burgess - trombone
Joe Haider - piano
Ferdinand Povel - alto saxophone, flute
Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone
Andy Scherrer - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Ack Van Rooyen, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman - trumpet, flugelhorn
Eric Van Lier - tuba, bass trombone
Isla Eckinger - bass
Billy Brooks - drums

The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra (1964)

1. Ecclusiastics
2. By Myself
3. Roland Speaks
4. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
5. Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
6. I've Got Your Number
7. Between the Fourth and the Fifth Step
8. April Morning
9. Get in the Basement
10. Abstract Improvisation

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren
Harold Mabern: piano (tracks 1-9)
Abdullah Rafik: bass (tracks 6-9)
Sonny Brown: drums (tracks 6-9)

The Benny Golson Orchestra (tracks 1-5)
Benny Golson - conductor, arranger
Richard Williams, Virgil Jones - trumpet
Charles Greenlee, Tom McIntosh: trombone
Don Butterfield: tuba
Richard Davis: bass
Albert Heath: drums

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Reeds & Deeds (1963)

1. Land of Peace
2. Lonesome August Child
3. Limbo Boat
4. Hay Ro
5. Waltz of the Friends
6. This Is Always
7. Reeds and Deeds
8. Song of the Countrymen

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, flute, siren
Virgil Jones - trumpet
Charles Greenlee - trombone (tracks 1-5)
Harold Mabern - piano
Abdullah Rafik: bass (tracks 1-5)
Walter Perkins: drums
Tom McIntosh: trombone (tracks 6-8)
Richard Davis: bass (tracks 6-8)
Benny Golson: arranger (tracks 6-8)

Kenny Drew - This Is New (1957)

1. This Is New
2. Carol
3. It's You or No One
4. You're My Thrill
5. Little T
6. Paul's Pal
7. Why Do I Love You?

Kenny Drew - piano
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
Wilbur Ware - bass
G.T. Hogan - drums

Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance (1961)

1. Five Will Get You Ten
2. Subdued
3. Sundu Clark
4. A Fickle Sonance
5. Enitnerrut
6. Lost

Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
Tommy Turrentine – trumpet
Sonny Clark – piano
Butch Warren – bass
Billy Higgins – drums

Bud Shank ‎– Bud Shank and Three Trombones (1954)

1. Valve In Head
2. Cool Fool
3. Little Girl Blue
4. Mobile
5. Wailing Vessel
6. Baby's Birthday Party
7. You Don't Know What Love Is
8. Sing Something Simple

Bud Shank - alto sax
Bob Enevoldsen - trombone
Maynard Ferguson - trombone
Stu Williamson - trombone
Claude Williamson - piano
Joe Mondragon - bass
Shelly Manne - drums

Tony Camillo's Bazuka - Dynomite (1975)

1. T.C.'s Inferno
2. Side Dish
3. Come To Me
4. Bazuka Limited
5. I'm Gonna Love Lovin' You
6. Love Explosion
7. Shark Bite
8. Walkin' Tall
9. Dynomite
10. Earthquake
11. T.C.'s Inferno (Reprise)

Jimmy Heath - Picture of Heath (1975)

1. For Minors Only
2. Body and Soul
3. Picture of Heath
4. Bruh Slim
5. All Members
6. C.T.A.

Jimmy Heath - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Barry Harris - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Billy Higgins - drums

Louis Bellson and Gene Krupa - The Mighty Two (1963)

1. The Mighty Two
2. The Three Drags
3. Paradiddle Song
4. Accent on Flamboyance
5. Rolls ala Bossa Nova
6. The Mighty Two Alone Together
7. Rolls ala Bossa Nova #2
8. More Flams
9. Swingin' the Rudiments
10. Que Sticks
11. Two in One
12. Rhythmic Excursion

Louis Bellson, Gene Krupa - drums
Joe Newman, Joe Wilder - trumpet
Tyree Glenn - trombone
Phil Woods - alto saxophone
Dick Hyman - piano
Mary Osborne - guitar
Milt Hinton - bass
Fred Thompson - arranger

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis (1956)

1. Can't We Be Friends?
2. Isn't This a Lovely Day?
3. Moonlight in Vermont
4. They Can't Take That Away from Me
5. Under a Blanket of Blue
6. Tenderly
7. A Foggy Day
8. Stars Fell on Alabama
9. Cheek to Cheek
10. The Nearness of You
11. April in Paris

Louis Armstrong - vocals, trumpet
Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
Ray Brown - bass
Herb Ellis - guitar
Oscar Peterson - piano
Buddy Rich - drums
Buddy Bregman - Arranger / Conductor

Hank Mobley - Peckin' Time (1959)

1. High and Flighty
2. Speak Low
3. Peckin' Time
4. Stretchin' Out
5. Git-Go Blues
6. High and Flighty [alternate take]
7. Speak Low [alternate take]
8. Stretchin' Out [alternate take]

Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan - trumpet
Wynton Kelly - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Charlie Persip - drums