Results for "Blue Note Records"

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Roots and Herbs

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 1, 2000

Arguably one of the best bands to ever be assembled under the Jazz Messengers moniker, drummer Art Blakey’s crew from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s included such legendary figures as Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and Bobby Timmons. Blue Note producer Alfred Lion surely knew he had a good thing going because he kept these guys ...

Grant Green: Talkin' About

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 1, 2000

Although it has now arrived posthumously, guitarist Grant Green is finally being recognized for the immense talent that he was. Through a recent biography and the active sampling of his ‘70s work by the acid jazz crowd, Green has become a hot commodity after the fact. The core of his most profound work is documented on ...

Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 1, 2000

The integrity and consistency of trumpeter Lee Morgan’s work for the Blue Note label starting in the mid-‘50s and running through to the early ‘70s was such that in some ways it must have been taken for granted at the time. Even taking into consideration the commercial pressures that had to be present following the success ...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: The Witch Doctor

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 1, 2000

Like the other newly-reissued Blakey set, Roots and Herbs, the music contained on The Witch Doctor was recorded in 1961 and came out on LP much after the fact. It too features the great line-up with Morgan, Shorter, and Timmons, but this time the writing is more a group effort, with two cuts apiece from Morgan ...

Soundtrack To Human Motion

By Jason Moran

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Gangsterism Oncanvas; Snake Stance; Le Tombeau de Couperin (States of Art); Still Moving; Jamo Meets Samo; Kinescis; Aquanaut; Retrograde; Release from Suffering; Root Progression.

These Are Soulful Days

By Benny Green

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999

The Kicker

By Bobby Hutcherson

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999

Romance With The Unseen

By Don Byron

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: A Mural From Two Perspectives; Sad Twilight; Bernard Goetz, James Ramseur, and Me; I'll Follow the Sun; 'Lude; Homegoing; One Finger Snap; Basquiat; Perdido; Closer to Home.

Six Views Of The Blues

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: St. Louis Blues; The Swinging Shepherd Blues; Blues No. 1; Blues No. 2; Blues No. 3; Blues No. 4. (Total Playing Time 48:55).

Personnel : Jimmy Smith: Organ; Cecil Payne: Baritone Saxophone; Kenny Burrell: Guitar; Art Blakey: Drums; Donald Bailey: Drums.

Friendly Fire

By Greg Osby

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999