Quintet

The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall, Remastered

by C. Michael Bailey
September 20, 2002

A new shine on old shoes...

Few recordings can boast the deep lore of Jazz at Massey Hall. It has a long and storied history deserving of a bit of review. In 1953, Modern Jazz or Be Bop, had crested and settled into the established mainstream rather than the cutting edge movement it had been in the early 1940s. Jazz as a style collective had begun to fray and Be Bop yielded to a variety of styles all considered reactions ...

Archival Releases From The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Dizzy Gillespie And Cal Tjader Out May 17 From Liberation Hall

Source: Prime Mover Media
March 22, 2024

Liberation Hall has announced archival jazz releases from Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cal Tjader. All titles will arrive in stores May 17 and be distributed by MVD Entertainment Group (USA) and Wienerworld (UK). The Cannonball Adderley QuintetLive in Montreal May 1975(Liberation Hall, 2024) The great Julian “Cannonball" Adderley rose to prominence in the hard-bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. After a successful stint with Miles Davis’s sextet —including being featured on the seminal Davis records Milestones ...
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Backgrounder: Pepper Adams Quintet,' 1957

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 30, 2023

Stu Williamson was a gorgeous trumpeter and valve trombonist. His smooth tone and ease with which he played and soloed landed him in the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., Williamson moved to Los Angeles in 1949. Sadly, he struggled with drug addiction for much of his career. The younger brother of West Coast pianist Claude Williamson, Stu Williamson died in 1991 at age 58. Williamson played on just one album with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams. Recorded ...
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Backgrounder: Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
July 10, 2023

Two of the finest jazz flutists in New York in the mid-1950s were united by producer Creed Taylor when he was at Bethlehem Records. The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet was recorded in October 1955 and released in 1956. It featured Herbie Mann, Sam Most (fl), Joe Puma (g), Jimmy Gannon (b) and Lee Kleinman (d). Sam Most had more experience under his belt than Mann at the time, having played with Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields, Boyd Raeburn and Don Redman ...
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Smoke Jazz Club Announces June Line-Up With NEA Jazz Master George Coleman, Vocal Great Mary Stallings, A New Project From Vincent Herring, An Album Release By Orrin Evans All-Star Quintet, And More

Source: AMT Public Relations
May 4, 2023

George Coleman Quintet (Jun 1-4); Orrin Evans All-Star Quintet record release (Jun 8-11); Vincent Herring and Something Else! (Jun 15-18); Mary Stallings (Jun 22-25); and more… Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), Smoke Jazz Club kicks off the start of summer with some of today’s living legends. NEA Jazz Master George Coleman returns with his special quintet (Jun 1-4), soulful saxophonist Vincent Herring gets inspired by the classic Blue Note album Something Else! (Jun 15-18), ...
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Joe Harriott Quintet: At the BBC

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 25, 2022

Given up for adoption in Kingston, Jamaica, soon after he was born in 1928, Joe Harriott learned to play the clarinet, starting at age 10, while attending the city's Alpha Boys School. In 1951, when Harriott turned 23, he toured in the U.K. as a member of Ossie DaCosta's band. After the tour, Harriott decided to remain in London, since British subjects didn't need work permits or immigration visas. His entry into the London jazz scene came while sitting in ...
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Color Videos: Horace Silver Quintet

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 7, 2022

While writing yesterday, I fell into a Horace Silver groove. Funk meets hard bop, with a twist of Silver's spectacular rhythmic counterpoint and chord voicings. Which sent me onto YouTube to see what was new with Horace. There, I found a bunch of videos that had been colorized. Now you can see and hear them, too. Here are seven Horace Silver color videos: Here's Nutville and Song for My Father, colorized on the Danish TV show Jazz Omkring Midnat, in ...
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Drummer Paul Mullikin Presents Orchestral Quintet Musician-Teacher-Composer

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
November 4, 2021

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Paul Mullikin was born into a musical family and realized at an early age that music was his calling. Following a 2019 residency at Denver’s Nocturne Club, drummer Paul Mullikin hit the studio with his Orchestral Quintet. With the help of a “Pathways to Jazz" grant, the group was able to capture the unique sound they had been crafting—an eclectic set of Classical works, presented through the lens of improvisation and modern jazz. These timeless works ...
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Bill Warfield & The New York Jazz Quintet - September 27th At The Keystone Korner Baltimore!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
September 23, 2020

BILL WARFIELD & The New York Jazz Quintet September 27th at the Keystone Korner Baltimore Trumpeter Bill Warfield and Todd Barkan host an on-line and in-person Jazz Event in Bill's hometown of Baltimore, MD. Bill teams up with tenor saxophonist Dave Riekenberg, keyboardist Cecilia Coleman, bassist Jay Leonhart, and drummer Scott Neumann to bring you a selection of standards and some originals by Bill and Jay. The event is 'live' with limited indoor and outdoor seating from 5:00-8:00PM, September 27th ...
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Lennie Best Quintet, 1984

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 18, 2020

A superb vibraphonist who was well known in the U.K. but not so much in the U.S. was Lennie Best. Strangely, he barely recorded as a leader or sideman. In this televised gig that was part of England's Bracknell Jazz Festival in 1984, the Lennie Best Quintet performed on the BBC. The show was edited down to a half hour. Here's Best (vib), Kathy Stobart (ts, ss), Alan Berry (p), Tony Archer (b) and Tony Kinsey (d), with Ruth Allan ...
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George Shearing: Quintet Xmas

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 12, 2019

At JazzWax, 12 is the number of years I've posted annually on my selection for the JazzWax Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame. The point of this is to offer up perfect holiday music that conjures up feelings of a time long past or is just superbly executed seasonal music. Combined on your iTunes or Spotify playlist, all of these albums shuffled should do the trick this month. My choice for induction this year is Christmas With the George Shearing ...
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