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Canciones "Winterset" (Frank Foster) - 7:14 "Gotcha Goin' n' Comin'" (Donald Byrd) - 9:53 "Long Green" (Donald Byrd) - 4:32 "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 7:49 "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 7:38 Músicos Donald Byrd - trompeta Frank Foster - saxo tenor Hank Jones - piano Paul Chambers - contrabajo Kenny Clarke - batería Puntuación 8 puntos

Canciones "Doug's Blues" (Doug Watkins) - 12:06 "El Sino" (Harneefan Mageed) - 10:02 "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 5:44 "Hank's Tune" (Hank Mobey) - 7:41 "Hank's Other Tune" (Mobley) - 7:28 Músicos Donald Byrd - trompeta Joe Gordon - trompeta (tracks 1, 2, 4) Hank Mobley - saxo tenor (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5) Horace Silver - piano Doug Watkins - contrabajo Art Blakey - batería Puntuación : 7,5 puntos

CANCIONES 01. You Can Depend On Me 02. Candy 03. Sweet Lorraine 04. It's Only A Paper Moon 05. (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 06. Don't Let It Go To Your Head 07. You're Looking At Me 08. Just You, Just Me 09. I Was A Little Too Lonely (And You Were A Little Too Late) 10. Caravan 11. The Lonely One 12. Blame It On My Youth 13. What Is There To Say? 14. Sometimes I'm Happy 15. I Know That You Know 16. When I Grow Too Old To Dream 17. Two Loves Have I 18. Don't Blame Me (*) Bonus Track 19. It Could Happen To You (*) Bonus Track 20. I Surrender Dear (*) Bonus Track 21. Little Girl (*) Bonus Track MUSICOS Piano, Vocals – Nat King Cole Bass – Charlie Harris Drums – Lee Young Guitar – John Collins Saxophone – Willie Smith (2) Trombone – Juan Tizol Trumpet – Harry Edison Violin – Stuff Smith FICHA TECNICA All sessions recorded in Los Angeles. Tracks #1-5: August 15, 1956. Tracks #6-9: September 14, 1956. Tracks #10-13: September ...

PUNTUACION 9 puntos

CANCIONES "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:45 "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 4:35 "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Hart, Rodgers) - 7:18 "Angel Face" (Nat Adderley) - 6:38 "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 7:15 "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 3:51 MUSICOS Milt Jackson – vibes Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone Hank Jones - piano Wendell Marshall - bass Kenny Clarke – drums FICHA TECNICA Recorded in New York City on January 23, 1956 PUNTUACION 8 puntos

CANCIONES "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) – 5:29 "The Come Back" (Charles Frazier) – 5:28 "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Mayme Watts, Sidney Wyche) – 3:05 "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)" (Leroy Carr, Don Raye) – 3:38 "Roll 'Em Pete" (Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner) – 3:12 "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene DePaul) – 3:04 "My Baby Upsets Me" (Joe Williams) – 2:58 "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 3:33 "Ev'ry Day" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 3:48 "As Long as I Love You" (Bernie Moten, Henri Woode) – 3:06 "Stop! Don't!" (George Ronald Brown) – 2:36 "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 2:53 MUSICOS Joe Williams - vocals Count Basie - piano Henry Coker - trombone Benny Powell - trombone Bill Hughes - trombone Wendell Culley -trumpet Reunald Jones -trumpet Tha...

PUNTUACION : 8,5 puntos

CANCIONES 1. Dexterity 2. Stablemates 3. Easy to Love 4. Visitation 5. John Paul Jones (AKA  Tranes Blues) 6. Eastbound MUSICOS Paul Chambers, Contrabajo Kenny Drew, Piano Philly Joe Jones, Batería John Coltrane, saxo tenor (en las canciones 1, 2, 5, 6) FICHA TECNICA Grabado en Western Recorders, Hollywood, California, el 2 de marzo de 1956.  COMENTARIO Cuando se llevó a cabo esta sesión sin programar, Paul Chambers todavía era un joven músico cuyo trabajo con Miles Davis Quintet había despertado mucha expectativa.  Fue grabado en dos horas para el sello Jazz: West, una pequeña empresa de Los Ángeles. Lo que se hizo fue citar al grupo de Miles Davis sin el líder y con Kenny Drew en piano en ligar de Red Garland.  Chambers muestra al máximo su extraordinario y expresivo sonido y técnica;  sus solos prácticamente reclaman ser atendidos como pequeñas obras maestras.  Este álbum es magnífico de principio a fin porque incluye un gr...

CANCIONES "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (George Gershwin) - 4:27 "A Fugue for Music Inn" - 4:42 "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West" - 7:04 "Serenade" (David Raksin) - 2:55 "Fun" (Jimmy Giuffre) - 5:30 "Sun Dance" - 4:14 "The Man That Got Away" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) - 3:32 "A Morning in Paris" - 2:51 "Variation No. 1 on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" - 5:00 Todas las composiciones de John Lewis excepto las indicadas. MUSICOS Milt Jackson - vibraphone John Lewis - piano Percy Heath - bass Connie Kay - drums Jimmy Giuffre - clarinet (tracks 2, 4 & 5) FICHA TECNICA Recorded at The Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts on August 28, 1956

CANCIONES 1.At The Jazz Band Ball 2.Squeeze me 3.Sentimental Journey 4.High Society 5.Limehouse Blues 6.Medley Gin Mill Blues; Love Me Or Leave Me; Mean To Me;  I Can't Give You Anything But Love 7.Ain´t Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll 8.When The Saints Go Marching In MUSICOS Wild Bill Davison, Trompeta Cutty Cutshall, Trombón Bob Wilber, Clarinete Gene Schroeder, Piano Eddie Condon, Guitarra Leonard Gaskin, Contrabajo George Wettling, Batería PUNTUACION 9 puntos

PUNTUACION 9 puntos

CANCIONES 1."Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Irving Gordon) - 5:37 2."When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 4:58 3."Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sam H. Stept, Sidney Clare, Bee Palmer) - 4:23 4."Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 5."I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:55 6."What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:20 7."I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) – 4:05 8."Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:33 MUSICOS Billie Holiday, voz Benny Carter, saxo alto Harry Edison, trompeta Jimmy Rowles, piano (celesta en I Hadn't Anyone Till You and What's New?) Barney Kessel, guitarra John Simmons, contrabajo Larry Bunker, batería PUNTUACION 8 puntos

CANCIONES "Meet Doctor Foo" (Hawkins) –2:32 "Fine Dinner" (Hawkins) –2:33 "She's Funny That Way" (Whiting–Daniels) –3:14 "Body and Soul" (Heyman–Green–Sour) –3:00 "When Day Is Done" (Katscher–deSylva) –3:15 "The Sheik of Araby" (Wheeler–Smith–Snyder) –2:56 "My Blue Heaven" (Whiting–Donaldson) –2:46 "Bouncing with Bean" (Hawkins) –3:03 "Say It Isn't So" (Berlin) –2:57 "Spotlite" (Hawkins) –3:06 "April in Paris" (Harburg–Duke) –3:06 "How Strange" (Prozorovsky–Brent–Kahn–Stothart) –3:02 "Half Step Down, Please" (Dameron–Hawkins) –3:02 "Angel Face" (Jones) –3:12 "There Will Never Be Another You" (Warren–Gordon) –2:57 "The Bean Stalks Again" (Hawkins) –3:24 "Body and Soul" –4:51 "I Love Paris" (Porter) –3:30 "Under Paris Skies" (Gannon–Drejac–Giraud) –2:45 COMENTA...

CANCIONES "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 3:55 "Five" (Bill Evans) – 4:03 "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 1:39 "Conception" (George Shearing) – 4:47 "Easy Living" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 3:53 "Displacement" (Evans) – 2:36 "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 5:10 "Waltz for Debby" (Evans, Gene Lees) – 1:20 "Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:47 "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:01 "No Cover, No Minimum" – 7:31 MUSICOS Bill Evans - Piano Teddy Kotick - Contrabajo Paul Motian - Batería FICHA TECNICA Orrin Keepnews - Productor Bill Grauer - Productor Jack Higgins - Ingeniero Tamaki Beck - Masterización COMENTARIO EL Productor Orrin Keepnews de Riverside Records decidió grabar a Bill Evans como solista después de escuchar una cinta de prueba de Evans que tenía en ese momento 27 año...

CANCIONES "Volga Boatmen" (Traditional) - 3:49 "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:18 "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) - 5:26 "I Just Can't See for Looking" (Nadine Robinson, Dok Stanford) - 2:04 "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" (Frank Loesser) - 2:34 "Beat Out One" - 5:24 "Maryam" - 3:36 "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:35 "Jim Love Sue" - 2:54 Todas las canciones son de Ahmad Jamal excepto las indicadas. MUSICOS Ahmad Jamal - piano Israel Crosby - contrabajo Walter Perkins - batería PUNTUACION 9 puntos

CANCIONES 01. When It's Sleepy Time Down South 02. Royal Garden Blues 03. Someday You'll Be Sorry 04. Tin Roof Blues 05. The Faithful Hussar 06. Muskrat Ramble 07. Now You Has Jazz 08. All Of Me 09. Twelfth Street Rag 10. West End Blues 11. Mack The Knife 12. Tiger Rag 13. Indiana 14. Basin Street Blues 15. High Society 16. Ole Miss Blues 17. Jeepers Creepers 18. C'est Si Bon 19. Tea For Two 20. On The Sunny Side Of The Street 21. Honeysuckle Rose 22. Baby, It's Cold Outside 23. It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) 24. When It's Sleepy Time Down South COMENTARIO Una gran recopilación de la giras por Europa de 1956 y 1957 de Louis Armstrong and the All Stars. No hay nada inédito pero si un excelente sonido que capta toda la energía de Satchmo en vivo. PUNTUACION 10 puntos

CANCIONES 01. Hollering at the Watkins 02. Young Bean 03. Late date 04. Don´t get around much anymore 05. Pennies from heaven 06. Jive at six 07. Saph 08. Fajista 09. Ev´s mad 10. Cool train PUNTUACION 10 puntos

CANCIONES 1. Little Rock Getaway (Sullivan) 7:04 2. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Burke-Van Heusen) 7:20 3. People Will Say We're in Love (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 3:39 4. If I Love Again (Oakland-Murray) 4:40 5. What's New (Haggart-Burke) 5:02 6. Stella by Starlight (Young-Washington) 3:43 MUSICOS Donald Byrd (trompeta)  Ray Santisi (piano) Doug Watkins (contrabajo) Jimmy Zitano (batería) FICHA TECNICA Grabado en detroit el 7 de mayo de 1956 PUNTUACION 7 puntos

CANCIONES 1. Tenor Madness -  12:17 2.When Your Lover Has Gone -  6:13 3.Paul's Pal -  5:13 4.My Reverie -  6:09 5.The Most Beautiful Girl in the World -  5:36 MUSICOS Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone) Red Garland (piano) Paul Chambers (bass) Philly Joe Jones (drums) John Coltrane (tenor saxophone) en tema #1