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OJC 163LP
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"This 1958 debut recording by the Ornette Coleman Quintet, which featured Coleman on his trademark white plastic alto, Don Cherry on trumpet, Billy Higgins on drums, Walter Norris on piano, and Don Payne on bass, shook up the jazz world -- particularly those musicians and critics who had entered the hard bop era with such verve and were busy using the blues as a way of creating vast solo spaces inside tight and short melody lines. Something Else!!!! is anathema to that entire idea, and must have sounded like it came from outer space at the time. First, Coleman's interest was in pitch, not 'being in tune.' His use of pitch could take him all over -- and outside of -- a composition, as it does on "Invisible," which begins in D flat. The intervals are standard, but the melodic component of the tune -- despite its hard bop tempo -- is, for the most part, free. But what is most compelling is evident in abundance here and on the next two tunes, 'The Blessing' and 'Jayne': a revitalization of the blues as it expressed itself in jazz. Coleman refurbished the blues framework, threaded it through his jazz without getting rid of its folk-like, simplistic milieu. In other words, the groove Coleman was getting here was a people's groove that only confounded intellectuals at the time. Coleman restored blues to their 'classic' beginnings in African music and unhooked their harmonies. Whether the key was D flat, A, G, whatever, Coleman revisited the 17- and 25-bar blues. There are normal signatures, however, such as 'Chippie' in F and in eight-bar form, and "The Disguise" is in D, but in a strange 13-bar form where the first and the last change places, altering the talking-like voice inherent in the melodic line. But the most important thing about Something Else!!! was that, in its angular, almost totally oppositional way, it swung and still does; like a finger-poppin' daddy on a Saturday night, this record swings from the rafters of the human heart with the most unusually gifted, emotional, and lyrical line since Bill Evans first hit the scene." --Thom Jurek, All Music
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PRESTIGE 7500LP
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Exact repro; originally released in 1957. "The last of the Jackie McLean Prestige sessions [with] material from two different sets... the music is on a higher level than one might expect of 'leftovers'" --AllMusic. Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on February 15, July 12, and August 30, 1957. Jackie McLean: alto saxophone; Webster Young: trumpet (tracks 2 and 4); Ray Draper: tuba (tracks 2 and 4); Gil Coggins: piano (track 3); Jon Mayer: piano (tracks 2, 4, and 5); Mal Waldron: piano (track 1); Paul Chambers: bass (track 3); Art Phipps: bass (track 1); Bill Salter: bass (tracks 2, 4, and 5); Louis Hayes: drums (track 3); Art Taylor: drums (track 1); Larry Ritchie: drums (tracks 2, 4, and 5).
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OJC 056LP
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The second album by saxophonist Jackie McLean for Prestige Records, featuring Donald Byrd (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Mal Waldron (piano), Doug Watkins (bass) and Arthur Taylor (drums). Exact repro, originally released in 1956.
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PRESTIGE 7626LP
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Alto saxophonist Rusty Bryant with Sonny Phillips (organ), Grant Green (guitar), Bob Bushnell (fender bass) and Herbie Lovelle (drums). Exact repro, originally released in 1969.
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PR 7471LP
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Funky, Latin-jazz covers of "Goldfinger," "Yesterday," "Walk On By," "And I Love Her"... plus an original called "Vietnam Mambo" because Pucho believed "The people over there seem to be trying to take care of business."
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PR 10056LP
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Featuring Rusty Bryant (alto & tenor sax), Butch Cornell (organ), Jimmy Lewis (fender bass), Grady Tate (drums). Originally released in 1973.
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PRESTIGE 7083LP
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Tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons' 1957 "all-star" session recording, featuring Kenny Burreall (guitar), Art Farmer (trumpet), Mal Waldron (piano), Arthur Taylor (drums), Jackie McLean (alto sax) and Doug Watkins (bass). "All of the horns plus Burrell and Waldron get ample solo space and Ammons seems to really inspire his sidemen on these soulful bop jams." -- All Music Guide
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PRES 10035LP
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Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones' sixth album for Prestige, originally released in 1971. Pop covers ("Ain't No Sunshine," "I Feel The Earth Move"), raw blues and soul-jazz/funk jams. Featuring Bernard Purdie on drums.
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PRESTIGE 7556LP
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Organist Billy Hawks 1968 jazz-influenced '60s soul album featuring Buddy Terry (tenor sax), Maynard Parker (guitar) and Henry Terrell (drums). Exact repro reissue.
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PRESTIGE 10059
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Semi-baked 1972 funk album from this Indiana band featuring a cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Give Me Your Love." Exact repro.
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PRESTIGE 7035LP
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Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1957. "The music that he makes with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Taylor is essentially hard bop with fairly simple (or in some cases nonexistent) melody statements preceding two romps through the 'I Got Rhythm' chord changes, a pair of blues, a thinly disguised 'Embraceable You' and a straightforward version of 'A Foggy Day.'" -- All Music Guide
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PRESTIGE 7237LP
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Exact repro of this 1962 release, an early session by organist Larry Young, who restructured the DNA of the jazz organ on his classic Unity album, as well as recordings with Miles Davis (on Bitches Brew), Tony Williams on Lifetime. Young's organ shook the foundation of the Nixon Whitehouse on the legendary Love Cry Want LP (reissued by Weird Forest). Featuring Thornel Schwartz (guitar), Bill Leslie (tenor sax) and Jimmy Smith (drums).
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OJC 021LP
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Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1958. Featuring John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Arthur Taylor (drums). One of Coltrane's favorite sessions. Songs include the melancholic "Theme For Ernie" (bearing a striking resemblance to Bernard Hermann's Taxi Driver theme -- and featured on the soundtrack to Allen Coulter's docudrama Hollywoodland), Dizzy Gillespie's "Good Bait" and Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby."
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