Live at Jorges Jazz Club (Wes Montgomery, 1961)

Live date of the brothers Montgomery plus Billy Hart at Jorges club, St. Louis, Mo, August 1961 (VGM).

MP3@320 VBR

1. All of You

2. Heartstrings

3. Summertime

4. Back to Bach to Bock

Live in Bollate (George Cables, 2005)

Covermount CD, Musica Jazz magazine (Italy), March 2006. Live session with George Cables, piano; Essiet Essiet, bass; Victor Lewis, drums. “Special guest”: Piero Odorici, tenor sax. Bollate (Italy), March 22, 2005.

MP3@320 VBR

1. Looking for the Light

2. Helen’s Song

3. Señorita de Aranjuez

4. Mr Baggy Pants

5. Yo Todavia La Quiero

6. ’Round Midnight

7. I Mean You

Plays Monk (Franco D’Andrea, 2002)

Franco D’Andrea, stalwart of Italian jazz since the early Sixties, recreates twelve of Monk’s songs in this live recording from 2002 (Philology).

MP3@320 VBR

1. Pannonica

2. Blue Monk

3. Rhythm-a-Ning

4. Round Midnight/Epistrophy-Well You Needn't-I Mean You

5. Monk’s Mood

6. Misterioso

7. Monk’s Dream

8. Light Blue

9. Let’s Call This

Deconstruction Zone (Ethan Iverson, 1998)

Ethan Iverson’s (pianist of the power trioThe Bad Plus) third record under his own name, for the Spanish imprint Fresh Sound. Stunningly personal and mature statement about seven of the most worn-out standards, by mean of the most inflated of formats, the piano trio. With Reid Anderson and Jorge Rossi.

MP3@320 VBR

1. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You

2. The Song Is You

3. This Nearly Was Mine

4. All of Me

5. I’ll Remember April

6. SMoke Gets in Your Eyes

7. Have You Met Miss Jones?

Up in Dodo’s Room - The Complete Dial Sessions (Dodo Marmarosa, 1946-1947)

The California sessions of legendary pianist Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa, solo, in a trio with cello and drums (with alternate takes), with Charlie Parker and with Howard McGhee. Jazz Classics CD-JCZL-6008

MP3@320 VBR

1. Deep Purple

2. Tea for Two

3. Bird Lore

4. Dialated Pupils

5. Up in Dodo’s Room

6. Tone Paintings I

7. Tone Paintings II

8. Bopmatism

9. Dodo's Dance

10. Trade Winds

11. Dary Departs

12. Cosmo Street

13. Bopmatism (alt.)

14. Dodo's Dance (alt.)

15. Trade Winds (alt.)

16. Dary Departs (alt.)

17. Dary Departs (alt.)

18. Cosmo Street (alt.)

Griff ’n’ Bags (Johnny Griffin & a., 1967-1969)

Like for the Rearward set below, these four sessions (1967-1969) were recorded in Cologne by members of the Clarke-Boland Big Band. The title of the collection is deceptive, since Johnny Griffin (“Griff”) only appears on tracks 12 to 16, while Milt Jackson (“Bags”), who can also be heard singing, only in 7 to 11; never once the two play together. The Griffin tracks use two drummers, Kenny Clarke and British Kenny Clare. Tracks 1 to 3 belong to a piano trio of Boland, Woode and Clarke. (Rearward RW103)

MP3@320 VBR

1. Gamal Sady'n Em 

2. Lonely Girl

3. Gyson's Bag

4. The Turks's Bolero

5. The Girl and the Turk

6. Muvaffak's Pad

7. Just Friends

8. I’m a Fool to Want You

9. Blues for K.

10. Like Someone in Love

11. Just You, Just Me

12. Foot Patting

13. Please Send Me Someone To Love

14. Deep Eight

15 The JAMF Are Coming

16 Lady Heavy Bottom's Waltz

And All Those Cats (Sahib Shihab, 1964-70)

The sessions collected on this italian reprint  under the nominal leadership of baritonist and flutist Sahib Shihab, come from spin-offs of the Clarke-Boland Big Band. Fun, upbeat music, faultlessy executed by expatriates Shihab, Kenny Clarke, Benny Bailey, Jimmy Woode, plus pianist Boland and some top-notch European soloists such as trombonist Åke Persson.

MP3@320 VBR

1. Set Up

2. Peter's Waltz

3. Yah, Yah Blues  

3. End Of A Love Affair

4. Om Mani Padme Hum 

5. Bohemia After Dark (

6. Campi's Idea

7. Jay-Jay 

8. Waltz For Seth

9. Herr Fixit

10. Stoned Ghosts

11. Companionship (I+II) 

12. Ct+Cb

13. Dijdar 

14. Talk Some Yak-Ee-Dak 

McPherson’s Mood (Charles McPherson, 1969)

  A delightful set from 1969 by the Apollinean altosax man. In their own subtle way, these six tracks push the envelope of Sixties modal bop, even in tackling Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour. Barry Harris almost steals the show (Prestige/OJCCD).

MP3@320 VBR

1. Explorations
2. McPherson’s Mood
3. Opalescence
4. My Cherie Amour
5. Mish-Mash-Bash
6. I Get a Kick Out of You


Charles McPherson, alto; Barry Harris, piano; Buster Williams, bass; Roy Brooks, drums.