Charlie Parker

‘Chaka Khan’ is her eponymous fourth solo album released on November 17, 1982 by Warner Bros. Records. Track Listing : 1.Tearin’ It Up (Bunny Sigler, Jane Lumibao) – 06:39 . 2.Slow Dancin’ (Featuring Rick James) (Loz Netto) – 05:22 . 3.Best In The West (Dominick Bugatti, Frank Musker) – 04:00 . 4.Got To Be There […]

Quincy Jones’ ‘Q’s Jook Joint’ is an album (his first in six years) released on November 7, 1995 by Qwest. Track Listing : 1.Jook Joint Intro (Quincy Jones) – 01:32 . 2.Let The Good Times Roll (Fleecie Moore, Sam Theard) – 02:55 . 3.Cool Joe, Mean Joe (Killer Joe) (Benny Golson, Quincy Jones, Queen Latifah) […]

‘Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House’ is a live album recorded on October 10, 1957, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and released the same year by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Billie’S Bounce (Charlie Parker) – 09:45 . 2.My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 08:10 . 3.Crazy Rhythm (Irving Caesar, […]

Tom Harrell’s ‘Time’s Mirror’ is a big band album released on September 14, 1999 by Rca Victor. Track Listing : 1.Shapes (Tom Harrell) – 08:19 . 2.Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 03:32 . 3.Daily News (Tom Harrell) – 04:01 . 4.Dream (Johnny Mercer) – 02:47 . 5.Chasin’ The Bird (Charlie Parker) […]

‘Nearness’ by Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau is their first album together, recorded live in Europe in 2011 and released on September 9, 2016. Track Listing : 1.Ornithology (Benny Harris, Charlie Parker) – 08:40 – . 2.Always August (Brad Mehldau) – 10:57 – . 3.In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk) – 09:58 – . 4.Mehlsancholy Mode […]

Kurt Rosenwinkel’s ‘Intuit’ is his second album as a band leader, recorded on August 14 and 15, 1998 and released in 1999 by Criss Cross Jazz. Track listing : 1.How Deep Is the Ocean (Irving Berlin) – 09:25 . 2.Conception I (George Shearing) – 05:17 . 3.Darn That Dream (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – […]

‘The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1’ is an album recorded on August 9, 1949 in quintet and May 1, 1951 in trio and released the same year In 1951 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Un Poco Loco (Bud Powell) – 04:42 . 2.Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen, E.Y. Yip Harburg) – 02:55 . 3.Ornithology […]

‘The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2’ is a live album recorded on August 3 & 31, 1958 with Sonny Rollins appearing on two numbers and released in 1959 By Atlantic. Track Listing : 1.Medley: Stardust/I Can’T Get Started/Lover Man (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish/Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin/Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – […]

Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘Montreux ’77’ is a live album recorded on July 17, 1977 with the Tommy Flanagan Trio and released In 1977 by Pablo Track Listing : 1.Too Close For Comfort (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 03:27 . 2.I Ain’T Got Nothin’ But The Blues (Duke Ellington, Don George) – 04:07 . […]

Keith Jarrett’s ‘Still Live’ is a live album recorded on July 13, 1986 at Philharmonic Hall in Munich, with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette and released the same year by ECM. Track Listing : 1.My Funny Valentine (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 10:51 . 2.Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 10:24 . […]

‘Bird & Diz’ by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie is a studio album recorded (primarily) on June 6, 1950 with Thelonious Monk and Buddy Rich and released in 1952 by Clef. Track Listing : 1.Bloomdido (Charlie Parker) – 03:25 . 2.My Melancholy Baby (Ernie M. Burnett, George A. Norton) – 03:24 . 3.Relaxin’ With Lee […]

Miles Davis’ ‘Round About Midnight’ is an album recorded on October 26, 1955; June 5 and September 10, 1956 and released on March 18, 1957 by Columbia. Track listing . 1.’Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 06:00 . 2.Ah-Leu-Cha (Charlie Parker) – 05:55 . 3.All of You (Cole Porter) – 07:05 . 4.Bye Bye […]

Brad Mehldau Trio’s ‘Blues and Ballads’ is an album featuring Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums and released on June 3, 2016 by Nonesuch. Track Listing : 1.Since I Fell For You (Buddy Johnson) – 10:56 . 2.I Concentrate On You (Cole Porter) – 07:23 . 3.Little Person (Jon Brion) – 03:55 […]

Dexter Gordon’s ‘Our Man in Paris’ is an album recorded on May 23, 1963 in Paris, with Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Pierre Michelot and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Scrapple From The Apple (Charlie Parker) – 07:22 . 2.Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronell) – 08:47 . 3.Broadway (Billy […]

‘Cannonball Adderley & the Poll-Winners’ is an album recorded on May 21, June 5, 1960, with Wes Montgomery, Ray Brown, Victor Feldman and Louis Hayes and released in 1961 by Riverside. . Track Listing : 1.The Chant (Victor Feldman) – 06:36 . 2.Lolita (Barry Harris) – 08:06 . 3.Azule Serape (Victor Feldman) – 06:29 . […]

This day (May 19, 1969), in New York City, New York, died Coleman Hawkins, an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

‘Jazz at Massey Hall’ by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach a.k.a. ‘The Quintet’ is a live album recorded on May 15, 1953 and released the same year In 1953 by Debut. Track Listing : 1.Perdido (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengfelder, Ervin M. Drake) – 07:47 . 2.Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie, […]

‘Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics’ is an album recorded on March 12, 24 & May 12, 1959 with a jazz big band conducted and arranged by Marty Paich and released the same year by Contemporary. Track Listing : 1.Move (Denzil Best) – 03:26 . 2.Groovin’ High (Dizzy Gillespie) – 03:22 . 3.Opus […]

‘Michel Petrucciani & NHOP’ is a collaboration album between Petrucciani, the pianist and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, the bassist recorded on April 18, 1994 at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse and released on March 24, 2009 by Dreyfus Records. Track Listing : 1.All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein Ii,Jerome Kern) – 06:43 . 2.I Can’T Get Started […]

Gil Evans’ ‘New Bottle Old Wine’ is an album featuring Cannonball Adderley as the only soloist, recorded between April 9 and May 26, 1958 and released the same year by World Pacific. Track Listing : 1.St. Louis Blues (W. C. Handy) – 05:26 . 2.King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) – 03:19 . 3.Willow Tree […]