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  1. Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, Ella at Duke’s Place, 1966 on Verve

    The album is divided between “The Pretty, The Lovely, The Tender, The Hold-Me-Close Side” and “The Finger-Snapping, Head-Shaking, Toe-Tapping, Go-For-Yourself Side.” Recorded by Val Valentin and produced by Norman Granz (those are his black & white photos), this is Verve at its mid-60s best.

    In addition to Ellington and Fitzgerald, personnel included Louis Bellson on drums; John Lamb on […]

    #1960s #1966 #BusterCooper #CatAnderson #ChuckConners #CootieWilliams #DukeEllington #EllaFitzgerald #HarryCarney #HerbJones #jazz #JimmyHamilton #JimmyJones #JohnnyHodges #LawrenceBrown #LeonardFeather #LouisBellson #MercerEllington #NormanGranz #PaulGonsalves #RusselProcope #ValValentin #Verve #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot

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  2. Milt Jackson, Ballads & Blues, 1956 on Atlantic

    Jackson’s most well know as the vibraphonist in the Modern Jazz Quartet but he also collaborated and recorded with many other bop musicians. Here he is joined by Lucky Thomson (sax), John Lewis (piano), Skeeter Best (guitar), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums), Barney Kessel (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), Lawrence Marable (drums), and Barry Gailbraith (guitar). (Lewis and Clarke had […]

    #1950s #1956 #2019 #Atlantic #BarneyKessel #BarryGailbraith #Bop #jazz #JohnLewis #KennyClarke #LawrenceMarable #LuckyThomson #MiltJackson #ModernJazzQuartet #NesuhiErtegun #OscarPettiford #PercyHeath #Reissue #SkeeterBest #SpeakersCornerRecords #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot

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  3. Herbie Hancock, Empyrean Isles, 1964 on Blue Note

    Early jazz Herbie Hancock – this was his fourth studio LP for Blue Note, backed by Freddie Hubbard on cornet, Ron Carter on bass, and Anthony Williams on drums. Recorded on June 17th, 1964 at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

    The most well known track here is “Cantaloupe Island” which became something of a standard and was sampled in US3’s song “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” in […]

    #1960s #1964 #2023 #AnthonyWilliams #BlueNote #BlueNoteClassicVinylSeries #FreddieHubbard #herbieHancock #jazz #Reissue #RonCarter #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Worces #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot

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