Robert Sour

Betty Carter’s ‘Finally’ is a live album recorded on December 6, 1969 in New York City and released in 1975 By Roulette. Track Listing : 1.Medley – 08:25 . – Seems Like Old Times (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) . – I Remember You/Remember (Irving Berlin) . 2.Blue Moon (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 02:03 . […]

Jimmy Smith’s ‘Groovin’ at Smalls’ Paradise’ is a live album recorded on November 15, 1957 and released the same year by Blue Note. Track Listing : Imagination (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 07:56 . Walkin’ (Richard Carpenter) – 11:41 . My Funny Valentine (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 11:03 . It’S Only A Paper […]

Thelonious Monk’s ‘Monk’s Dream’ is an album recorded between October 31 and November 6, 1962 and released in 1963 by Columbia. Track Listing : 1.Monk’S Dream (Thelonious Monk) – 06:26 . 2.Body And Soul (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 04:29 . 3.Bright Mississippi (Thelonious Monk) – 08:34 . 4.Five Spot Blues […]

Wes Montgomery’s ‘Movin’ Along’ is his fifth album recorded on October 12, 1960. Track Listing : 1.Movin’ Along (Wes Montgomery) – 05:40 . 2.Tune-Up (Miles Davis) – 04:27 . 3.I Don’T Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby) – 05:02 . 4.Sandu (Clifford Brown) – 03:23 . 5.Body […]

Benny Goodman came to Japan three times to perform in concert. In 1957 (or is it 1956?) sponsored by the U.S. State Department / ANTA and with a big band, in 1964 with a small group and in 1980 for the “Aurex Jazz Festival” happening in three cities.

‘Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass’ is an album recorded on July 10 & 11 1958, in quartet with a big band and released the same year by Metrojazz. Track Listing : 1.Grand Street (Sonny Rollins) – 06:04 . 2.Far Out East (Ernie Wilkins) – 04:31 . 3.Who Cares? (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin) – 03:56 […]

‘MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett’ is an album where he sings the Great American Songbook released on June 28, 1994 by Columbia. Track Listing : 1.Old Devil Moon (E.Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) – 02:28 . 2.Speak Low (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 03:10 . 3.It Had To Be You (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 03:13 . […]

Esperanza Spalding’s ‘Esperanza’ is her second studio album released on May 20, 2008 by Heads Up Track Listing : 1.Ponta De Areia (Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant) – 05:39 . 2.I Know You Know (Esperanza Spalding) – 03:46 . 3.Fall In (Esperanza Spalding) – 03:57 . 4.I Adore You (Esperanza Spalding) – 07:27 . 5.Cuerpo Y […]

Sarah Vaughan’s ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’ is a studio album recorded on April 25, 1978 with a quartet led by Oscar Peterson and released the same year by Pablo. Track Listing : 1.I’Ve Got The World On A String (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 05:38 . 2.Midnight Sun (Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, […]

Caetano Veloso’s ‘A Foreign Sound’ is his twenty ninth (his second in English) studio album, released on April 6, 2004 by Nonesuch. Track Listing : 1.The Carioca (Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn, Vincent Youmans) – 03:33 . 2.So In Love (Cole Porter) – 05:31 . 3.Always (Irving Berlin) – 03:43 . 4.Come As You Are (Kurt […]

Freddie Hubbard’s ‘The Body & the Soul’ is his eighth album recorded on March 11 & May 2, 1963, with among others Eric Dolphy and Wayne Shorter and released the same year by Impulse!. Track Listing : 1.Body And Soul (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 04:39 . 2.Carnival (Manha De Carnaval) […]

Sarah Vaughan’s ‘Swingin’ Easy’ is an album recorded (partly) on February 14, 1957 and released the same year by Emarcy. Track Listing : 1.Shulie A Bop (George Treadwell, Sarah Vaughan) – 02:42 . 2.Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 03:19 . 3.I Cried For You (Gus Arnheim, […]

‘Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic’ is a live album recorded (partly) on February 12, 1945 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and released in 1954 by Clef Records. Track Listing : 1.Body And Soul (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 03:24 . 2.Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol) – 03:01 . […]

Benny Goodman’s ‘The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert’ is one of the first recording (done on January 16, 1938) of music issued on the new long-playing format and one of the first to sell over a million copies. , Track Listing : 1.Don’T Be That Way (Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish) – 04:23 […]

Billie Holiday’s ‘Body and Soul’ is a studio album recorded on January 3, 4,7 & 9, 1957 and released the same year by Verve Records. Track Listing : 1.Body And Soul (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 06:18 . 2.They Can’T Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 04:08 […]

Joe Lovano’s ‘From the Soul’ is an album recorded on December 28, 1991 with Michel Petrucciani, Dave Holland and Ed Blackwell and released in 1992 by Blue Note. Track Listing : 1.Evolution (Joe Lovano) – 08:59 . 2.Portrait Of Jenny (Gordon Burdge, J. Russel Robinson) – 07:56 . 3.Lines And Spaces (Joe Lovano) – 06:20 […]

Charlie Haden’s ‘Quartet West’ is an album recorded on December 22 and 23, 1986 and released in 1987 by Verve. Track Listing : 1.Hermitage (Pat Metheny) – 07:59 . 2.Body And Soul (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 06:19 . 3.The Good Life (Ornette Coleman) – 04:39 . 4.In The Moment (Charlie […]

From Amy Winehouse (incidentally her birthday is today), you know mostly “Rehab” “Valerie” or “Back To Black” But there is more. More like the other people’s songs she has covered; other people being The Beatles, Michael Jackson, The Shirelles and so on. Never heard of them? So “Amy Winehouse. Cover Girl” is the playlist that […]