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Article: Album Review

Tina Brooks Quintet: The Complete Recordings

Read "The Complete Recordings" reviewed by Chris May


Mosaic Records' spring 2020 release The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70, the second of the label's box sets devoted to the copiously recorded (and rightly so) Hank Mobley, prompts thoughts of another of Blue Note's singular hard-bop tenor saxophone stylists. Unlike Mobley, Tina Brooks was woefully under-recorded, making just four albums under his own ...

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Sonny Clark

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Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of {{jny: Pittsburgh}}. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at age 20, Clark decided to stay and began working with saxophonist {{m: Wardell Gray = 7187}}. Clark went to {{jny: San Francisco}} with {{m: Oscar Pettiford = 10261}} and after a couple months, was working with clarinetist {{m: Buddy DeFranco = 6196}} in 1953. Clark toured the U.S. and Europe with DeFranco until January 1956, when he joined The Lighthouse All-Stars, led by bassist {{m: Howard Rumsey = 3966}}.

Wishing to return to the east coast, Clark served as accompanist for singer {{m: Dinah Washington = 11174}} in February 1957 in order to relocate to {{jny: New York City}}

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Prima Del Tramonto

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2019
Track listing: Gennarino; Pasolini; Thinking Of You; Never; Cherokee; Sweet Love Of Mine; Looking Up; Blue Minor; Solitude / C Jam Blues; Prima Del Tramonto;

Album

Blue Note Now

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2019
Track listing: Moanin'; Cool Struttin'; Cantaloupe Island; Un Poco Loco; A Night In Tunisia; Midnight Blue; Love For Sale; Song For My Father; Moment's Notice; Candy; Don't Know Why; Liquid Spirit; Here Come The Girls; Carry On; Come To My Door; Novocaine Heart; Black Hole; Bardo; Message Of Hope; Embers;

Album

Preach Brother!

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2019
Track listing: Jeanie-Weenie; Homesick Blues; Dem Tambourines; Camp Meetin'; The Eldorado Shuffle; Pigeon Peas;

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Seven Classic Albums

Label: Reel To Reel Music Company
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dial 'S' For Sonny (1957); Dial 'S' For Sonny; Bootin' It; It Could Happen To You; Sonny's Mood; Shoutin' On A Riff; Love Walked In; Sonny's Crib (1957); With A Song In My Heart; Speak Low; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Sonny's Crib; News For Lulu; Sonny Clark Trio (1957); Be-Bop; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Two Bass Hit; Tadd's Delight; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; I'll Remember April; Cool Struttin' (1958); Cool Struttin'; Blue Minor; Sippin' At Bells; Deep Night; My Conception (1959); Junka; Blues Blue; Minor Meeting (Second Version); Royal Flush (Second Version); Some Clark Bars; My Conception; Sonny Clark Trio (1960); Minor Meeting; Nica; Sonny's Crib; Blues Mambo; Blues Blue; Junka; My Conception; Sonia; Leapin' And Lopin' (1961); Somethin' Special; Deep In A Dream; Melody For C; Eric Walks; Voodoo; Midnight Mambo;

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Article: Album Review

Fabrizio Sciacca: Gettin' It There

Read "Gettin' It There" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Make no mistake about it, Fabrizio Sciacca isn't merely “gettin' it there." He's already got it here. This debut from the Berklee- and Manhattan School of Music-trained bassist presents an artist with solid intonation, impeccable time, a warm and enveloping tone, and an ear for melody. In short, he has it all. Leading ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

July Jazz Birthdays

Read "July Jazz Birthdays" reviewed by Marc Cohn


Celebrate and give thanks for these jazz voices—honored in this month of their births. Playlist Junior Cook “Illusion of Grandeur" from Somethin's Cookin' (Muse) 00:00 Cal Tjader “Mood For Milt" from Latin Concert (Fantasy) 09:25 Cal Tjader “Cubano Chant" from Latin Concert (Fantasy) 13:49 Don Patterson “S'Bout Time" from The Exciting New Organ ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sonny Clark

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Clark's birthday today! Conrad Yeatis “Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom. Contents Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town southeast of Pittsburgh. At age 12, he moved to Pittsburgh. When visiting an aunt in California at ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Discoveries... and Re-Discoveries

Read "Discoveries... and Re-Discoveries" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


Two major reissues and one highly publicized discovery from the 1960s provide the core of this round's podcast, as the boys discuss the latest album from the John Coltrane Quartet (despite the insistence of one internet denizen that “Coltrane's creativity really dropped off in the seventies") and then look at lavishly repacked work from Sonny Clark ...


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