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Frank Rosolino / Carl Fontana: Trombone Heaven
by John Barron
Truly an unearthed gem, Trombone Heaven is a previously unreleased concert recording from 1978 at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver, Canada, featuring the late slide legends Frank Rosolino and Carl Fontana. The spirited set is anchored by the swinging rhythm section of pianist Elmer Gill, bassist Torban Oxbol and drummer George Ursan. Given the loose, jam-session ...
Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
Label: Uptown Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Intro; Bebop; A Night In Tunisia; Groovin'High; Salt Peanuts; Hot House; Fifty Second Street
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Town Hall, New York City 1945
Label: Uptown Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Intro; Bebop; A Night in Tunisia; Groovin' High; Salt Peanuts; Hot House; Fifty-Second
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Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
by Samuel Chell
After the recent bonanza discovery of the 1957 Monk-Coltrane Carnegie Hall concert, this previously unissued recording of a 1945 Gillespie-Parker concert may strike some listeners as anticlimactic if not somewhat disappointing. There's no denying its historical significance--the only extended “live" recording of Diz and Bird from this seminal period--but collectors who have the Parker Dial and ...
Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City 1945
by Norman Weinstein
This is absolutely a find, a well-recorded (for 1945) live concert of Bird and Diz and Max Roach in peak form. The numbers were quite familiar to these artists at the time ("A Night in Tunisia," “Salt Peanuts," “Groovin' High"), but these are slashingly brilliant versions to be treasured.Gillespie sounds unusually florid and assured, ...
Charles "Baron" Mingus: West Coast, 1945-49
Label: Uptown Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: The Texas Hop, Baby Take A Chance With Me, Lonesome Woman Blues, Swingin' An Echo, Ain't Jivin' Blues, Shuffle Bass Boogie, Weird Nightmare, Make Believe, Bedspread, This Subdues My Passion, Pipe Dream, Mingus Fingers, These Foolish Things, Story Of Love, He's Gone, Pennies From Heaven, Lyon's Road, Say It Isn't So, Boppin' In Boston, The Story Of Love, Inspiration, Dialogue Between Mingus And Ralph Manza
Charles Mingus: Charles "Baron" Mingus: West Coast, 1945-49
by AAJ Staff
For documentarians and jazz enthusiasts fascinated by Charles Mingus' career and musical aesthetic, Charles 'Baron' Mingus: West Coast 1945-1949 is a vastly significant CD. For it compiles into one package all of Mingus' first vinyl recordings as a band leader in Los Angeles.Performing in venues along Central Avenue, honing his craft through lessons with ...
