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Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
by Joel Roberts
During his heyday at Capitol in the 1950s, when he recorded his definitive hard-swinging albums with big bands led by Nelson Riddle and Billy May, and indeed throughout most of his long career, Frank Sinatra has seldom appeared and almost never recorded with just a small band backing. This never-before-released live recording, just ...
Ray Charles: Genius+Soul=Jazz/My Kind of Jazz
by Joel Roberts
During his creative peak in the late '50s and early '60s, Ray Charles put his soulful imprint on virtually every genre of American popular music. After he laid the foundation for the future of soul with his seminal Atlantic albums, and just before he bridged the gap between rhythm 'n' blues and country ...
Joe Henderson: The Joe Henderson Big Band
by Joel Roberts
Throughout the 1960s, Joe Henderson was the busiest tenor saxophonist at Blue Note, releasing several outstanding albums as a leader and appearing often as a highly-regarded sideman with most of the label's talented and innovative stable of jazz artists. ( Henderson's ubiquity makes his box set The Blue Note Years probably the best ...
Van Morrison: Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison
by Joel Roberts
From his earliest recordings in the mid '60s with the British invasion rock group Them, Van Morrison's music has always been firmly rooted in the blues. Unlike many of his rock contemporaries, who merely borrowed -- or, depending on one's mood and generosity, stole -- riffs and affectations from older blues artists, Morrison ...
Horace Silver Quintet: Six Pieces of Silver
by Joel Roberts
This 1956 recording by the Silver Quintet, featuring Hank Mobley on tenor sax and Donald Byrd on trumpet, is pure hard-bop heaven created by some of the masters of the genre. After spending the previous two years playing piano on some of Miles Davis' classic Prestige and Blue Note albums, and touring with the Art Blakey ...
Paul Chambers: Bass on Top
by Joel Roberts
In July of 1957, when Paul Chambers recorded “Bass on Top," his third and final Blue Note release as a leader, he was already in his third year with the most influential jazz group of the time, the first great Miles Davis Quintet; he had just taken part in the Davis/Gil Evans Orchestra sessions ...
