Results for "Storyville Records"

Duke Ellington Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 1

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

On April 7, 1945, Duke Ellington begand a series of shows sponsored by the U. S. Treasury Department which ended 45 shows later on October 5, 1946. These albums were released by Sweden's Phontastic label's Nostalgia Series beginning in the early 1980's. Now almost 20 years later, Denmark's excellent Storyville label begins an undertaking to reissue ...

Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in this country because of bigotry, left the United States for Europe and never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor saxophonist to take up Bop, Byas never let ...

Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in this country because of bigotry, left the United States for Europe and never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor saxophonist to take up Bop, Byas never let ...

Mary Lou Williams Trio at Rick's Cafe Americain

By Mary Lou Williams

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Recorded in Chicago, November 14, 1979. Total playing time=67:36. * Autumn Leaves; I Can't Get Started; You Can't Take That Away from Me; Satin Doll; The Jeep is Jumping; St. James Infirmary; Surrey with the Fringe on Top; My Funny Valentine; Mack the Knife; What's Your Story Morning Glory; Without a Song; Caravan; A Grand Night for Swinging.

Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Trio at Rick's Cafe Americain

by Bob Jacobson
February 1, 2000

This CD is one of a handful by Mary Lou Williams finally appearing in “record" bins. Here's Mary Lou at age 69 and at the height of her powers (despite, as we're told by biographer Linda Dahl, physical ailments and a recent diagnosis of cancer). Also on board were Milton Suggs, bass, and Drashear Khalid, drums ...

Ways of Seeing

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 1999

'Ahi va el Negro'

By Erling Kroner

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 1999

Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: Ways of Seeing

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 1999

The resourceful Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, which is quite adept a cooking up appetizing straight–ahead big–band Jazz but prefers a more piquant menu, varies the ingredients for maximum taste appeal on Ways of Seeing, a concert performance recorded in October ’97 at Sydney, Australia’s leading Jazz club, The Basement. The easily digested mainstream fare (“This Bass ...

Erling Kroner Dream Quintet: 'Ahi va el Negro'

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 1999

Denmark’s JAZZPAR project, nearing the end of its first decade, not only bestows one of Europe’s most prestigious awards each year to an outstanding Jazz musician (past winners have included Gary Burton, David Murray, Hank Jones, Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan, Roy Haynes, Bob Brookmeyer, Geri Allen and Jim Hall), it gives a prominent Danish musician the ...

Master Of Jazz: Tenor Titans

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 1998