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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]

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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Near-Myth (1961) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 259 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Fantasy Records (0025218623629)

This is the third and final guest appearance by clarinetist Bill Smith in the place of Paul Desmond with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Like the earlier record dates, this 1961 session focuses exclusively on Smith's compositions, resulting in a very different sound for the band than its normal mix of the leader's songs and standards. Smith was a member of Brubeck's adventurous octet of the late '40s and, like the pianist, also studied with French composer Darius Milhaud. So the clarinetist is willing to take chances, utilizing a mute on his instrument in "Pan's Pipes," and having drummer Joe Morello use his timpani sticks on the piano strings in the swinging "The Unihorn." Smith proves himself very much in Desmond's league with his witty solos and equally amusing, pun-filled liner notes…

Don Byas, Bud Powell - A Tribute To Cannonball [Recorded 1961] (1979) [Japanese Edition 1999]

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Don Byas, Bud Powell - A Tribute To Cannonball [Recorded 1961] (1979) [Japanese Edition 1999]

Don Byas, Bud Powell - A Tribute To Cannonball [Recorded 1961] (1979) [Japanese Edition 1999]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 351 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 125 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Sony Music (SRCS 9202)

The title of this album is misleading for, although Cannonball Adderley produced the session, no "tribute" takes place. Adderley could always recognize talent and he was wise to get the veteran tenor Don Byas (who had not recorded since 1955) back on record. Teamed in Paris with trumpeter Idrees Sulieman, pianist Bud Powell, bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Kenny Clarke, Byas proved to be in prime form on a variety of jazz standards including "Just One of Those Things," "Cherokee" and "Jeannine."

Eddie Higgins - Eddie Higgins (1961) [Japanese Edition 2002]

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Eddie Higgins - Eddie Higgins (1961) [Japanese Edition 2002]

Eddie Higgins - Eddie Higgins (1961) [Japanese Edition 2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 419 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 155 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Substance/Victor (BSCP-30055)

A solid bop-based pianist, Eddie Higgins has never become a major name, but he has been well-respected by his fellow musicians for decades. After growing up in New England, he moved to Chicago, where he played in all types of situations before settling in to a long stint as the leader of the house trio at the London House (1957-1969). Higgins moved back to Massachusetts in 1970 and went on to freelance, often accompanying his wife, vocalist Meredith D'Ambrosio, and appearing at jazz parties and festivals. Eddie Higgins has led sessions of his own for Replica (1958), Vee-Jay (1960), Atlantic, and Sunnyside; back in 1960, he recorded as a sideman for Vee-Jay with Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter.

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella In Hollywood (1961) [Reissue 2009]

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Ella Fitzgerald - Ella In Hollywood (1961) [Reissue 2009]

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella In Hollywood (1961) [Reissue 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 329 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 111 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517967007)

An appearance in Hollywood for a first-rate jazz vocalist was not necessarily an opportunity to broadcast the singer's visage and pander to everyone from Tacoma to Tallahassee. It could also include a date at the Crescendo. The Sunset Strip's best chance to find premier jazz, Gene Norman's nightclub hosted dozens of jazz legends (and a comic or two), and produced more than its share of excellent LPs recorded on location. Better even than Mel Tormé's 1954 classic, the Ella Fitzgerald LP that resulted from her May 1961 appearances generated one of the best (and certainly most underrated) live records in her discography. All of her hallmarks - technical wizardry, breakneck scatting, irrepressible humor and warmth - are on full display, with a small but expressive quartet backing her performance (including pianist Lou Levy, guitarist Herb Ellis, drummer Gus Johnson, and bassist Wilfred Middlebrooks)…

John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes [Recorded 1961] (1998)

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John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes [Recorded 1961] (1998)

John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard: The Master Takes [Recorded 1961] (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 493 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 154 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Impulse! (IMP 12512)

John Coltrane's week at the Village Vanguard in 1961 resulted in a total of 22 recorded versions of nine songs, all of which have been released in the four-CD box The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings. This 1998 single CD has the five performances that the great saxophonist had agreed to have released during his lifetime: three numbers from the original Live at the Village Vanguard LP ("Spiritual," "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," and "Chasin' the Trane") and two songs that appeared on Impressions (the title cut and "India"). Although branded as "anti-jazz" by John S. Wilson (an attack that was seconded by Leonard Feather), the music is actually quite coherent and would even be thought of as moderately conservative today, particularly "Spiritual" and the boppish rendition of "Softly"…

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)

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Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds (Remastered) (1961/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 230 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 93 MB
39:53 | Soul-Jazz, Modal | Label: Craft Recordings

Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds” fuses hard bop with middle eastern music as he is joined by Barry Harris on piano alongside Ernie Farrow (double bass, rabaab) and Lex Humphries (drums). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on 192/24 hi res digital.

Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game [Recorded 1961] (2002) (New Rip)

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Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game [Recorded 1961] (2002) (New Rip)

Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game [Recorded 1961] (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 295 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 93 MB | Covers - 31 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 40536 2 7)

Like two of his other three albums, Tina Brooks' final session as a leader (in March 1961) was sequenced and prepared for release, but remained on the shelves until well after the tenor's tragically early death. That's why the title of The Waiting Game is not only apt, but sadly poignant. Despite Blue Note's reservations at the time, Brooks' output for the label was uniformly strong, demonstrating his skills as a smooth, graceful soloist and a composer of considerable dexterity within the hard bop idiom. Swinging and bluesy, yet sophisticated and refined, The Waiting Game upholds the high standard Brooks set with his previous sessions. Brooks is especially fine on his minor-key compositions, such as "Talkin' About" and "Dhyana," which allow his streak of melancholy romanticism to emerge (as does the lone cover here, the Tony Bennett hit "Stranger in Paradise")…

John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker (1961) & Folk Blues (1962) [Reissue 2014] (Repost)

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John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker (1961) & Folk Blues (1962) [Reissue 2014] (Repost)

John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker (1961) & Folk Blues (1962) [Reissue 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 398 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 183 MB | Covers - 54 MB
Genre: Blues, Electric Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hoodoo Records (263499)

Two classic Hooker LPs, all digitally re-mastered, 22 solid slabs of dark, leathery, brooding nostalgia. This is the electric blues at its very roots. This stripped-bare, one man and a growling electric guitar (on most tracks) music is the stuff those guys who fled the south for the auto production lines in the north used to listen to. Hooker’s ‘talking blues’ style is well represented on Folk Lore. Great numbers like I’m Going Upstairs (and we all know what John was going up for), I Like to See You Walk and My First Wife Left Me start to haunt you like some swamp ghost. The Folk Blues tracks are no less powerful. Half A Stranger, Shake, Holler And Run, Down Child and Gonna Boogie all roll into one another to form a big, dusty landscape punctuated by mid-20th century American industry.

Ella Fitzgerald - Three Classic Albums Plus (1960-1962) [2CD Reissue 2014]

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Ella Fitzgerald - Three Classic Albums Plus (1960-1962) [2CD Reissue 2014]

Ella Fitzgerald - Three Classic Albums Plus (1960-1962) [2CD Reissue 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 971 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 371 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Avid Jazz (EMSC1118)

Avid Jazz presents three classic Ella Fitzgerald albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered double CD.
A live set kicks off our Ella Fitzgerald tribute, “Mack The Knife” was recorded in 1960 in Berlin as part of the Jazz at the Philharmonic International tour. It features Paul Smith on piano, Jim Hall on guitar, Wilfred Middlebrooks on bass and Gus Johnson on drums. A rather portentious title greets our next selection “Let No Man Write My Epitaph” featuring Paul Smith again on piano recorded in L.A. in 1960.This album features the music from a film of the same name Ella had appeared in plus numbers that Ella just felt were right to complete the record. A year on from “Mack the Knife” featuring Ella in Berlin, we have “Ella in Hollywood”…

John Lee Hooker - Burnin' (1962) & Plays And Sings The Blues (1961) [Reissue 2014] (Repost)

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John Lee Hooker - Burnin' (1962) & Plays And Sings The Blues (1961) [Reissue 2014] (Repost)

John Lee Hooker - Burnin' (1962) & Plays And Sings The Blues (1961) [Reissue 2014]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 417 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 179 MB | Covers - 58 MB
Genre: Blues, Electric Blues, Delta Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Hoodoo Records (263481)

John Lee Hooker developed a “talking blues” style that became his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta tradition, his metrically free approach and unique sound would make him a staple of the Detroit blues tradition. Often called the “King of the Boogie,” Hooker's driving, rhythmic approach to guitar playing has become an integral part of the blues. His thunderous electric guitar sounded raw, while his basic technique was riveting.
This quintessential release includes two of Hooker's finest albums: Burnin' (1962) - with a full-band accompaniment and featuring the chart success “Boom Boom,” one of Hooker's most identifiable and enduring songs, plus Plays and Sings The Blues (1961) which was filled with 1951-1952 solo­recordings and gems from Hooker's early days. Both masterpieces have been remastered and packaged together in this very special collector's edition, which also includes 3 bonus tracks…

Grant Green - Grant's First Stand (1961) [Japanese Edition 1993]

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Grant Green - Grant's First Stand (1961) [Japanese Edition 1993]

Grant Green - Grant's First Stand (1961) [Japanese Edition 1993]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 225 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 94 MB | Covers - 50 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Toshiba-EMI (TOCJ-4064)

Grant Green's debut album, Grant's First Stand, still ranks as one of his greatest pure soul-jazz outings, a set of killer grooves laid down by a hard-swinging organ trio. For having such a small lineup - just organist Baby Face Willette and drummer Ben Dixon - the group cooks up quite a bit of power, really sinking its teeth into the storming up-tempo numbers, and swinging loose and easy on the ballads. The influence of the blues on both Green and Willette is strong and, while that's far and away the dominant flavor of the session, Green also displays his unique bop phrasing (learned by studying horn players' lines, rather than other guitarists) to fine effect on his high-octane opener, "Miss Ann's Tempo," and Willette's "Baby's Minor Lope"…

Freddie Redd - Redd's Blues [Recorded 1961] (1988) [Reissue 2002]

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Freddie Redd - Redd's Blues [Recorded 1961] (1988) [Reissue 2002]

Freddie Redd - Redd's Blues [Recorded 1961] (1988) [Reissue 2002]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 265 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 40537 2 6)

Redd's Blues didn't make it to LP until 1988 and CD until 2002 and that's a tip-off. It's a generic Blue Note disc, journeyman in the sense of not offering any great revelation, no undiscovered "shoulda-been-a-standard" composition, nothing to supplant The Connection as the first Freddie Redd disc to look for or add any greater luster to his welterweight reputation. The sextet lineup reads better than it plays - it's perfectly adequate, but no one sounds inspired except for trumpeter Benny Bailey, who was back in the U.S. for a handful of recording dates. Jackie McLean's tart tone is immediately recognizable on the up-tempo opener "Now," with a solid groove from Paul Chambers and drummer Sir John Godfrey, the latter fond of Art Blakey bombs that aren't obtrusive…

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (1961) [RVG Edition 2003]

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Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (1961) [RVG Edition 2003]

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (1961) [RVG Edition 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 441 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 42303 2 5)

Jackie's Bag is split between two different recording sessions: the first, from January 1959, was the first session Jackie McLean ever led for Blue Note, and the second was a sextet date from September 1960 that featured tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks as a co-leader in all but name. According to the liner notes, McLean's first date produced only three songs of releasable quality, which are included here. Six tunes were cut at the Brooks session, which were all issued in Japan as Street Singer, and half appeared on the original Jackie's Bag LP. Given the transitional time period of the first and Brooks' musical taste on the second, the music on Jackie's Bag finds McLean in a staunchly hard bop mode, with occasional hints of adventurousness…

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling... (1961) [Reissue 1987] (Repost)

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Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling... (1961) [Reissue 1987] (Repost)

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling… (1961) [Reissue 1987]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 289 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 101 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (CDP 7 46544 2)

Dexter Gordon's second recording for Blue Note is a solidly swinging affair, yet constantly full of surprises. It's not unexpected that Gordon's tenor at this time (1961) was one of the most enjoyable in mainstream jazz, but his transition from the cool California scene to the hotter music environs of New York City had energized his sound and attitude. A first-time pairing with bassist Paul Chambers has something to do with this, but it also inspires pianist Kenny Drew to a great extent, while drummer Philly Joe Jones is his reliable, energetic self, and always works well with Gordon. Where Gordon's fluent melodic sense is perfectly demonstrated during the simple-as-pie groove waltz "Soul Sister," the steady, steamy bopper "I Want More," and the familiar Charlie Chaplin evergreen "Smile," his sense of expanding the specific line upon soloing is truly remarkable…

The Latin Jazz Quintet - The Latin Jazz Quintet (1961) [Japanese Edition 2011]

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The Latin Jazz Quintet - The Latin Jazz Quintet (1961) [Japanese Edition 2011]

The Latin Jazz Quintet - The Latin Jazz Quintet (1961) [Japanese Edition 2011]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 120 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Jazz, Latin Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: EMI Music Japan (TOCJ-50174)

The Latin Jazz Quintet had an odd history. The short-lived group, which had quite a bit of turnover during its life, is today best-known for two sessions (one for New Jazz and a more obscure set for United Artists) in which it was joined by Eric Dolphy. Those two dates (particularly the New Jazz outing) found Dolphy largely ignoring the Latin Jazz Quintet and vice-versa; at no time does the adventurous soloist and the more conventional ensemble react to or even acknowledge each other! Conga player Juan Amalbert was the original leader of the LJQ with the lineup on their first recording (the Dolphy New Jazz date) also including vibraphonist Charlie Simmons, pianist Gene Casey, bassist Bill Ellington, and Manny Ramos on drums and timbales…