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CANCIONES "The String" (Sonny Stitt) – 10:01 "Cleveland Blues" (Stitt) – 12:02 "B.W. Blues (Boogie Woogie Blues)" (Stitt) – 11:35 "Blues for Bags" (Stitt) – 10:39 MUSICOS Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone Roy Eldridge - trumpet Oscar Peterson – piano Ray Brown – double bass Herb Ellis - guitar Stan Levey - drums PUNTUACION 9 puntos

CANCIONES 1.Passport 3:01 2.Bloomdido 3:27 3.Leap Frog 2:31 4.Relaxing With Lee 2:48 5.Au Privave 2:40 6.She Rote 3:07 7.K. C. Blues 3:24 8.Star Eyes 3:34 9.Blues for Alice 2:46 10.Swedish Schnapps 3:12 11.The Song Is You 2:58 12.Laird Baird 2:44 13.Kim 3:01 14.Chi-Chi 3:04 15.Now's the Time 3:01 16.Confirmation 2:59 COMENTARIO Otra gran compilación de Verve que se centra exclusivamente en las grabaciones de los pequeños combos que Charlie Parker grabó entre 1949 y 1953. "Bloomdido" y "Leap Frog" fue grabado junto a Dizzy Gillespie y Thelonious Monk; "KC Blues", junto al joven Miles Davis; mientras que "The Song Is You", con la sección de ritmo familiar de Teddy Kotick y Max Roach. Además incluye los clásicos e impfrescindibles "Au Privave", "Now the Time", "Confirmation" y "Blues for Alice." PUNTUACION 9,5 puntos

CANCIONES 1. A Little Taste 4:34 2. Things Are Getting Better 7:14 3. This Here 11:31 4. Know What I Mean? 4:51 5. Something Different 2:59 6. Winetone 6:57 7. Dizzy’s Business 6:59 8. Work Song 9:09 9. Jive Samba 5:25 10. Inside Straight 3:19 COMENTARIO "The Very Best of Cannonball Adderley" abarca una amplia franja de la carrera del saxofonista, desde el año 1958 a las sesiones de 1973 y 1975 en París. En todas partes Adderley demuestra su compromiso continuo para jugar en beneficio y satisfacción de la audiencia y no por la del artista o la banda. Éste álbum sirve como una introducción a casi 20 años de carrera del saxofonista quien falleció a los 46 años en 1975, de un ataque al corazón. Cannonball Adderley era un saxofonista fluido pero con explosión y un estilo derivado de Charlie Parker, pero con agregado de elementos del jump blues y el gospel. Esta compilación son canciones publicados originalmente por los sellos Riverside y Fantasy y proporciona u...

CANCIONES 1.I Get A Kick Out Of You 2.For All We Know 3.Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West 4. Greensleeves 5.You Go To My Head 6.East Of The Sun 7.Time After Time MUSICOS Alto Saxophone – Paul Desmond Double Bass – Percy Heath Drums – Connie Kay Electric Guitar – Jim Hall PUNTUACION 9 puntos

CANCIONES “Work Song” (Nat Adderley) – 5:07 “Dat Dere” (Bobby Timmons) – 5:29 “Easy Living” (Robin, Rainger) – 4:19 “Del Sasser" (Sam Jones) – 4:38 “Jeannine” (Duke Pearson) – 7:15 “Soon” (George, Ira Gershwin) – 5:32 “Them Dirty Blues” (Julian Adderley) – 7:10 “Dat Dere” [take 3] (Bobby Timmons) – 5:23 - previously unissued “Work Song” – 5:47 [take 3] MUSICOS Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto sax Nat Adderley – cornet Bobby Timmons – piano Barry Harris – piano Sam Jones – bass Louis Hayes – drums FICHA TECNICA Design: Harris Lewine, Ken Baren, Paul Bacon Engineer [Reeves Sound Studios, New York] – Jack Higgins Engineer [Ter - Mar Recording Studio, Chicago] – Ron Malo Photography By [Back-liner] – Lawrence N. Shustak Photography By [Cover] – Melvin Sokolsky, Paul Bacon Producer, Liner Notes – Orrin Keepnews PUNTUACION 8,5 puntos

CANCIONES 1-Take Ten 2-El Prince 3-Alone Together 4-Embarcadero 5-Theme from "Black Orpheus" 6-Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 7-Samba de Orfeu 8-The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) 9-Out of Nowhere 10-Embarcedero (Alternate Take) 11-El Prince (Alternate Take) MUSICOS Paul Desmond Alto Sax Jim Hall Guitar Gene Cherico, Eugene Wright, George Duvivier Bass Connie Kay Drums PUNTUACION 8,5 PUNTOS

CANCIONES 1. Goin' To D.C. (Spencer) 2. Black Vibrations (Spencer) 3. Where Is Love? (Bart) 4. Them Funky Changes (Spencer) 5. Aires (Stitt) 6. Calling Card (Stitt) MUSICOS Sonny Stitt – saxos alto y tenor Virgil Jones - trompeta Leon Spencer Jr. - organo Don Patterson – organo (5,6) Melvin Sparks - guitarrra Idris Muhammad - batería FICHA TECNICA Sello: Prestige (PR 10032) Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 9, 1971 PUNTUACION

CANCIONES "Samba (Struttin') With Some Barbeque" (Armstrong) - 4:26 "Olvidar" (Sebesky) - 5:33 "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:12 "Emily" (Mandel, Mercer) - 4:45 "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Morey, Churchill) - 3:07 "Autumn Leaves" (Kosma, Mercer) - 3:00 "Where Is Love?" (Bart) - 5:30 "Lady in Cement" (Montenegro) - 3:08 "North by Northeast" (Paul Desmond) - 4:30 "Summertime" (Gershwin, Heyward) - 3:54 MUSICOS Paul Desmond - alto saxophone Wayne Andre, Paul Faulise, Urbie Green, J. J. Johnson, Bill Watrous, Kai Winding - trombone Burt Collins, John Eckert, Joe Shepley, Marvin Stamm - trumpet, flugelhorn Ray Alonge, Jimmy Buffington, Tony Miranda - French horn George Marge - flute, oboe Bob Tricarico - flute, bassoon Herbie Hancock - piano Jay Berliner (#7, 8, 10), Joe Beck (#1), Eumir Deodato (#8), Bucky Pizzarelli (#3) - guitar Fran...

CANCIONES 01. Taj 02. She Feels Good 03. Cowboy Dreams 04. Homeland 05. Chinook 06. Sanctuary 07. City Speak 08. Peace Offering MUSICOS Ernie Watts (saxo soprano, alto, tenor) Lee Ritenour , Carlos Rios (guitarra) John Robinson (saxo alto) Alex Acuña (saxo tenor, batería, percusión) Don Grusin (piano, teclados, sintetizador, programación batería) Larry Andrew Williams (organo, programación) John "J.R." Robinson , John "4 Daddman" Robinson, Carlos Vega (batería) Paulinho Da Costa (percusión) Darryl Phinnessee, Aladrain Elmore, Lillain Tynes Perry, Kate Markowitz, Larry Williams , Oren Waters, Phil Perry, Roy Galloway, Siedah Garrett, Kevin Dorsey (voces). PUNTUACION 8 puntos

CANCIONES 1. 52nd Street Theme (Monk) 2. Wahoo (McConologue) 3. Dizzy Atmosphere (Gillespie) 4. The Street Beat (Thompson) 5. Out of Nowhere (Green-Heyman) 6. Little Willie Leaps (Davis) 7. 52nd Street Theme (Monk) 8. Night in Tunisia* (Gillespie-Paparelli) 9. Move (Best) 10. Ornithology (Parker-Harris) 11. 52nd Street Theme (Monk) 12. Embraceable You (Gershwin) 13. Cool Blues (Parker) 14. 52nd Street Theme (Monk) MUSICOS Temas 1 al 11: Charlie Parker: saxo alto (exepto en tema 8) Fats Navarro: trompeta Bud Powell: piano Curley Russell: contrabajo Art Blakey: batería Temas 12 al 14 (bonus tracks) Charlie Parker: saxo alto Fats Navarro: trompeta Walter Bishop: piano Tommy Potter: contrabajo Roy Haynes: batería Chubby Newsome: voz en tema 12 COMENTARIO Estas legendarias grabaciones de una transmisión radial del 30 de junio de 1950 reflejan uno de los  mejores conciertos que Parker haya registrado. Si bien la calidad del sonido es defici...

CANCIONES 1. Loose Walk 2. Parking Lot Blues 3. SKJ 4. Scrapple from the Apple 5. Lover Man 6. Star Eyes MUSICOS Sonny Stitt - saxo alto y saxo tenor Milt Jackson - vibráfono Gerald Price - piano Don Moses - contrabajo Bobby Durham - batería FICHA TECNICA Grabado en vivo el 11 de November de 1979 en CIAK, Milán, Italia. PUNTUACION 6 puntos

CANCIONES 1. Just One Of Those Things 2. Easy To Love 3. It's Alright With Me 4. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye 5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 6. Love For Sale 7. In The Still Of The Night 8. Night and Day* 9. I Love You 10. I Love Paris 11. I Concentrate On You MUSICOS Lee Konitz - saxo alto Red Mitchell - contrabajo, piano en "Night and Day" FICHA TECNICA Grabado el 30 de julio de 1974 en Copenhagen, Dinamarca.

CANCIONES 1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2. Jeep's Blues 3. The Gal From Joe's 4. Satin Doll 5. Azure 6. I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good 7. Saturday Afternoon Blues 8. I'm Just A Lucky So And So 9. I Didn't Know About You 10. Day Dream MUSICOS Johnny Hodges: Saxo Alto (todas las canciones) Roy Eldrige: Trompeta (4,9) Vic Dickenson: Trombón (4,9) Ben Webster: Saxo Tenor (4,9) Billy Strayhorn: Piano (4,7,9) Jimmy Woode: Contrabajo (4,7,9) Sam Woodyard: Batería (4,7,9) FICHAS TECNICA Fechas de grabación: Canciones 4,7,9: 5 de April, 1958     Canciones 1-3,5: 11 de Diciembre, 1961 Canciones 8,10: 12 de Diciembre, 1961 Johnny Hodges And All The Duke's Men Roy Eldridge (tp -3) Vic Dickenson (tb -3) Johnny Hodges (as) Ben Webster (ts -3) Billy Strayhorn (p) Jimmy Woode (b) Sam Woodyard (d) NYC, April 5, 1958 Didn't Now About You  Satin Doll  Saturday Afternoon Blues  Cat Anderson, Harold...

CANCIONES 01."Bebop" (Gillespie) - 12:48 02."Dark Eyes" (Traditional) - 12:10 03."Wee (Allen's Alley)" (Denzil Best, Gillespie) - 8:28 04."Lover Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 9:33 05."Dark Eyes" (Traditional) - 9:50 [Bonus track solo en CD] MUSICOS Dizzy Gillespie - trompeta Sonny Stitt - saxo alto Stan Getz - saxo tenor John Lewis - piano Herb Ellis - guitarra Ray Brown - contrabajo Stan Levey - batería

1. Whims Of Chambers 2. Bijou The Poodle 3. Why Are We Afraid? 4. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 5. Rhythm-a-ning 6. Diane 7. Gettin' Together 8. Gettin' Together (alternate Take) 9. The Way You Look Tonight 1960, with an all-star rhythm section: Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambe rs & Jmmie Cobb plus Conte Candoli Contemporary Records / Fanta sy Original Jazz Classics 1989 OJCCD 169-2  7. original take 8. alternate take

CANCIONES "Bloomdido" – 3:25 "My Melancholy Baby" – 3:24 "Relaxin' with Lee" – 2:47 "Leap Frog" – 2:29 "An Oscar for Treadwell" – 3:23 "Mohawk" – 3:35 "My Melancholy Baby (Complete Take)" – 3:17 "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:56 "Leap Frog (Take 11 Complete Take)" – 2:34 "Leap Frog (Take 8 Complete Take)" – 2:02 "Leap Frog (Take 9 Complete Take)" – 2:06 "An Oscar for Treadwell (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:21 "Mohawk (Take 3 Complete Take)" – 3:48 "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:17 "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 2 Breakdown Take)" – 1:08 "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 3 False Start)" – 0:04 "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 5 Breakdown Take)" – 0:24 "Leap Frog (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:26 "Leap Frog (Take 7 Breakdown Take)" – 0:14 "Le...