Blowing In from Chicago is a studio album by the American jazz saxophonists Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore. It was released through Blue Note Records in July 1957. The recording was made on March 3, 1957 and the quintet assembled for the session features rhythm section Horace Silver, Curly Russell and Art Blakey.

The Penguin Jazz Guide suggests that the album may be “the neglected masterpiece of Blue Note hard bop”, noting that Gilmore plays in a style distinct from the freer approach he used with Sun Ra, and that Jordan solos powerfully but with “real thought and logic”. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCwAXOMe9hg&list=RDXCwAXOMe9hg&start_radio=1

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New Faces – New Sounds is the debut ten-inch LP by American jazz pianist Kenny Drew, recorded on April 16, 1953 and released on Blue Note later that year. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nW5kLc7Lk&list=RDe9nW5kLc7Lk&start_radio=1

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#jazzpianotrio #ArtBlakey #CurlyRussell #bluenote

Horace Silver, Horace Silver Trio, 1956 on Blue Note

BLP 1520, originally released in 1956. Horace Silver on piano with Art Blakey on drums and three different bass players on different cuts: Gene Ramey, Curly Russell, and Percy Heath. Compiles recordings from two earlier 10″ releases: 1953’s New Faces – New Sounds and 1954’s Vol. 2. Sabu Martinez joins on “Message from Kenya.”

Excellent hard bop album – maybe lesser known than the Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (BLP 1518) also released in 1956. Recorded at WOR studios in New York.

My copy is part of the Vinyl Me Please Anthology The Story of Blue Note Records, second edition. You can tell it’s the second edition because the labels correctly identify it as mono, where the first edition had stereo labels.

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Charlie Parker, The Mercury & Clef 10-inch LP Collection

This 2021 box collects / reproduces the 10″ LPs put out in the early 1950s:

• Charlie Parker With Strings (1950)
• Charlie Parker With Strings #2 (1954)
• Bird and Diz (1952)
• Charlie Parker Plays South of the Border (1952)
• Charlie Parker (1954)

I don’t normally collect 10″ records, but got a good deal on this box, which is very well made, reproducing original covers and labels, and with an included book. Neither of the two “Charlie Parker With Strings” LPs actually has the #2 on it which can get confusing – the one with the two birds on it is the second. Most of these reproduce their Mercury labels except for the one just titled Charlie Parker which was only on Clef.

Artwork on all these covers by David Stone Martin. Players with Charlie Parker include Bernie Leighton, Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Mitch Miller, Max Roach, Al Haig, Percy Heath, Thelonius Monk, Curly Russell, and Dizzy Gillespie (among others). Norman Granz wrote most (all?) the sleeve notes and supervised the recordings.

Still available in the Verve Store (and elsewhere I’m sure) it is well worth picking up.

#10_ #1950s #2 #2021 #AlHaig #BernieLeighton #boxSet #BuddyRich #CharlieParker #Clef #CurlyRussell #DavidStoneMartin #DizzyGillespie #jazz #MaxRoach #Mercury #MitchMiller #NormanGranz #PercyHeath #RayBrown #Reissue #TheloniousMonk #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds