Results for "Capitol Records"

Chico Hamilton Quintet: The Original Ellington Suite

by Jim Santella
September 1, 2000

The late 1950s were significant to jazz. Fresh ideas were being developed and new directions were about to become reality. The same is true, of course, for our world history of that era. Everyone was affected. Previously unissued, The Original Ellington Suite was recorded August 22, 1958 in Los Angeles. A different Chico Hamilton Quintet (his ...

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Them Dirty Blues

by Jim Santella
August 1, 2000

Quite familiar to the world’s jazz audience, “Dat Dere," “Work Song" and many more were brought to us by the Adderley brothers. This reissue brings together two sessions, recorded February 1 and March 29, 1960 in New York and Chicago. The New York date features Bobby Timmons, while the later, Chicago date substitutes Barry Harris. Originally ...

Chet Baker: This Time The Dream's On Me

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2000

Completists! Documentarians! While it's necessary to get things straight, especially for an artistic form as historically nebulous as jazz, let's not let the analysis and sorting of dates and places lead us astray from the reason we listen to the music itself. James A. Harrod does a fine job of describing the ...

Don Ellis: Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2000

Don Ellis wrote and arranged in unusual meters, and yet was able to make each composition swing. He’d drive home the time signature to his audience by providing for congas, timbales, cowbell and three double basses to repeat the meter in an ostinato fashion. And of course the whole band would get into the action, accenting ...

Jumpin' With Jonah Jones: Jonah Jones

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2000

Swing trumpeter Jonah Jones was quite popular in the late 1950s when this recording was made. He had begun his professional career performing on Mississippi riverboats in the 1920s with smaller trad jazz ensembles and had moved into the big band arena early. From 1941 to 1952 Jones performed with the Cab Calloway orchestra. That exciting ...

Best Of The Capitol Years

By Nelson Riddle

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1999

Brasil Guitar Magic

By Laurindo Almeida

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1999

Peggy Cone And The Central Park Stompers

By Peggy Cone

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1999

Swingin' At Capitol

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1999

Pretty Eyes / Guitars Ala Lee

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1999