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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: The Complete Studio Recorded Duets
by David Rickert
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis ArmstrongThe Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Studio Recorded DuetsAvid Records UK2011 Was there ever a match made in heaven like singer Ella Fitzgerald and singer/trumpeter Louis Armstrong? When Norman Granz had them together on the Verve label, the impulse to put them ...
John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy: Complete 1961 Copenhagen Concert
by Warren Allen
John Coltrane Quintet with Eric DolphyComplete 1961 Copenhagen ConcertGambit Records2009 Without a doubt, saxophonist John Coltrane's band after he left trumpeter Miles Davis in 1960 is one of the defining groups of jazz, and for the year or so during which multi- instrumentalist Eric Dolphy joined Coltrane ...
Louie Bellson: Tasteful Drummer, Sweeter Guy
by Jack Bowers
To say that drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson, who left us on February 14, 2009 at age eighty-four, had a remarkable career would be to explicitly understate the record. Bellson's success at age 17 in a nationwide contest sponsored by one of his idols, Gene Krupa, and Slingerland Drums set the talented wunderkind on a path that ...
Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)
by Samuel Chell
How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...
Jazz At The Philharmonic '75
By Norman Granz
Label: Eagle Eye Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Presentation By Nat Hentoff; For You; Autumn Leaves; Sunday; If I Had You; I Never Knew;
Carnegie Hall, 1949
By Norman Granz
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Leap Here, Indiana, Lover Come Back To Me, Rifftide, Sophisticated Lady, The Things We Did Last Summer, Stuffy.
Norman Granz' J.A.T.P.: Carnegie Hall, 1949
by David Rickert
This release, one might suspect, is a tribute to Norman Granz, who died late last year. A tireless promoter of jazz, one of Granz’s first projects was the Jazz at the Philharmonic series, which successfully presented jazz to a more cultured audience. Although criticized by some as vaudeville for pandering to the masses, the concerts were ...
Presents Improvisation
By Norman Granz
Label: Not On Label (Norman (15) Self-released)
Released: 1996
J.A.T.P. In London, 1969
By Norman Granz
Label: Not On Label (Norman (15) Self-released)
Released: 1989
1950s
By Norman Granz
Label: Verve Records
Released: 1974
Track listing: Jam Session Blues; Ballad Medley (I Didn't Know What Time It Was - All Of Me - Tenderly - I Can't Get Started - My Old Flame); The Blues; The Trumpet Battle; The Oscar Peterson Trio; Sweet Georgia Brown; Cheek To Cheek; C Jam Blues; Nuages; Should I; The Gene Krupa Trio; Idaho; Sophisticated Lady; Somebody Loves Me; Laura; The Gene Krupa Quartet; Sleepy Lagoon; The Lester Young Quintet; Lester's Blues; I Cover The Waterfront; Lester Gambols; The JATP Quintet (Buddy DeFranco Quintet); It's Only A Paper Moon; Easy Living; I'll Remember April; Autumn Leaves; Now's The Time; The JATP Sextet (Lionel Hampton Sextet); How High The Moon; Body And Soul; Flying Home;
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