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Barney Kessel: Plays For Lovers
by Russell Moon
Guitarist Barney Kessel was the backbone of what I consider to be the most romantic album ever made, Julie London's Julie Is Her Name. It was only a natural choice for Fantasy to add Kessel's name to its list of Plays For Lovers compilations. Barney Kessel Plays For Lovers is 67 minutes of generally gorgeous music ...
Sonny Simmons: Burning Spirits
by Jeff Stockton
The name Sonny Simmons is variously preceded by the words “underrated," “underappreciated," or even “unknown." Based on the evidence presented on Burning Spirits, a session from late 1970 – released the following year as a double LP and just been reissued by Fantasy Records – the neglect and indifference of jazz listeners has been criminal. Simmons ...
Shelly Manne & His Friends: Li'l Abner
by Derek Taylor
Breaking stride with many of his jazz contemporaries, Shelly Manne always had an ear attuned toward popular entertainment. In the 1950s, Broadway musicals, film scores and television shows were the fodder of the day--and the drummer regularly mined these sources for material. The Contemporary label was ready and willing to release the results of these jazz-commercial ...
Sonny Rollins: Way Out West
by C. Michael Bailey
Way Out West was Sonny Rollins’ first tenor saxophone-bass-drums recording. He would follow this with the trio recordings A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1999) and Freedom Suite (Riverside/OJC, 1991). Unlike the piano-less quartets of Gerry Mulligan, Rollins did not have a counterpoint foil, as did Mulligan did in Chet Baker and later Bob ...
Art Pepper: Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics
by C. Michael Bailey
Only a handful of jazz recordings can be described as truly classic. Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics is a member of that handful. Recorded between March and May 1959, + Eleven has the distinction of being excellent on multiple planes. One is Pepper himself. A journeyman multi-reedist who was already a veteran of big ...
Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
By Art Pepper
Label: Contemporary
Released: 2002
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; Red Pepper Blues; Imagination;
Waltz Me Blues; Straight Life; Jazz Me Blues; Tin Tin Deo; Star Eyes; Birk's Works; The Man I Love.
One on One
By Russ Freeman
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Getting Sentimental over You; How about That; I'm Old Fashioned; Green Dolphin Street; Take the "A" Train; Prime Time; Loose as a Goose; Lullaby of the Leaves; Blue Monk; One on One; Name that Tune; Blue Monk (alternate); Loose as a Goose (alternate); Green Dolphin Street (alternate); Lullaby of the Leaves (alternate).
Volume 5: The Sextet
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Thou Swell; I Wished On the Moon; Knee Deep; Fond Memories; Take It From Me; Belle of the Ball; As Long as I Live; Ill Wind; Three of a Kind; Elbow Room.
One More Time
By Terry Gibbs
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Fuzz; The Subtle Sermon; Opus One; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Slittin' Sam (the Shaychet Man); Prelude to a Kiss; Flying Home; I Remember You; The Fat Man; Just Plain Meyer; Sometimes I'm Happy; Moonlight in Vermont; Lover Come Back to Me; Jumpin' at the Woodside (77:02).
Checkmate
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Checkmate/ The Isolated Pawn/ Cyanide Touch/ The King Swings/ En
Passant/ Fireside Eyes/ The Black Knight.
