The Swingin'est is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green and saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1958 and released on the Vee-Jay label. - Wikipedia

The Swingin'est indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkP5Mw8NsWs&list=PLccpwGk_xup9yOL8KcF3pCbY71D7NMlnr&index=1

#BennieGreen #GeneAmmons #NatAdderley #FrankWess #TommyFlanagan #HardBop #Music #Jazz #VeeJay

Gettin' Together! is an album recorded in 1960 by Paul Gonsalves. AllMusic's Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 1/2 stars. He wrote "The music is straight-ahead and shows that Gonsalves was quite capable of playing with younger "modernists"." The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes it as “a remarkable album, beautifully played and recorded.”

It was voted number 1 in the 50 All-Time Overlooked Jazz Albums from Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXe0GfbNRQ&list=RDARXe0GfbNRQ&start_radio=1

#PaulGonsalves #Jazz #Ellington #Jazzland #Music #NatAdderley #WyntonKelly

A Good Git-Together is a 1959 studio album by Jon Hendricks. It was Hendricks' first solo album, and featured Cannonball Adderley and Wes Montgomery. - Wikipedia

A Good Git-Together Review by Scott Yanow

On various tracks, Jon Hendricks' first album as a leader, released in 1959, features such major sidemen as altoist Pony Poindexter, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and both Nat and Cannonball Adderley. Hendricks -- who was riding high in Lambert, Hendricks & Ross at the time -- is in superb form on such numbers as "I'm Gonna Shout (Everything Started in the House of the Lord)," a couple of songs that Hendricks had written for Louis Jordan, Randy Weston's "Pretty Strange," "Social Call," and the jubilant "A Good Git-Together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKUjS1leaqk&list=PLBJenJIJrq0xML6GSgIbsrp5rT6FjGyS8&index=5

#JonHendricks #VocalJazz #Jazz #Music #Randyweston #PacificJazz #NatAdderley #CannonballAdderley – #PonyPoindexter #WesMontgomery

Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants is an album by saxophonist Budd Johnson which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.

Scott Yanow of AllMusic states, "The great Budd Johnson, who takes tenor solos throughout the date and also contributes a bit of clarinet in addition to providing the arrangements, is matched with four distinctive and very different trumpeters ... the group performs four swing standards and four of Johnson's swinging originals. The colorful brassmen, Budd's versatile solos, and the inventive arrangements make this a particularly memorable set. Highly recommended". In JazzTimes, Duck Baker observed "The soloing is inspired, the program is well chosen and Johnson’s arrangements are great. This is modern-mainstream jazz at its best". - Wikipedia

My dad bought this when it came out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9zMwTzf_k&list=RD9-9zMwTzf_k&start_radio=1

#BuddJohnson #NatAdderley #HarryEdison #RayNance #ClarkTerry #jazz #music #RiversideRecords

The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Village Vanguard and released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell :
"This was the recording debut of the Adderley Sextet, with Cannonball waxing eloquently and swingingly on alto, brother Nat charging ahead on cornet, and the versatile Yusef Lateef (who had joined the band only three weeks earlier) adding a bit of an edge on tenor, flute, and unusually for a jazz wind player, oboe on the odd, dirge-like 'Syn-Anthesia'. There is plenty of talk from Cannonball as well... This group would be Zawinul's springboard to prominence in the jazz world.."

#CannonballAdderley #NatAdderley, #YusefLateef #JoeZawinul #SamJones #LouisHayes #Riverside #VillageVanguard #jazz #hardbop #jazzoboe #jazzflute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxc6o7YE5BU&list=PL3cUp8ha4N4a2UAxrKZxCiXb_GEpdKUk0&index=5

Lionel Hampton And His New French Sound, Volume 2 by Lionel Hampton And His New French Sound, released on Felstead in 1956, but also released as Volume 1 on Barclay.

American vibesman and other Americans jam with French jazz cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFw4Olx7KE&list=RDQqFw4Olx7KE&start_radio=1

#RenéUrtréger #SachaDistel
#BennyBailey #NatAdderley
#JazzVibraphone #LionelHampton #jazz #jazzinparis

Lionel Hampton And His French New Sound Vol. 2 by Lionel Hampton, released on Barclay in 1955.

Confusingly this was reissued in 1956 as Volume 1 and then again in 2001 as such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-vy3HknoWA&list=RDQ-vy3HknoWA&start_radio=1

#DavidAmram #SachaDistel (tracks: 3)
#RenéUrtreger #BennyBailey #NatAdderley #JazzVibraphone #LionelHampton #jazz #jazzinparis

Jazz Workshop Revisited is a live album by the jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label. Alongside Adderley, it features performances by Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. It was recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco on September 22 & 23, 1962.

In his review in the May 9, 1963, issue of DownBeat magazine, the jazz critic Pete Welding wrote: "Spurred on by an appreciative audience present during the recording, the Adderley group has produced a collection that is both stimulating and accessible. There is plenty of good, strong blowing, and to this is added the interest of artful, well-constructed arrangements that enhance the tunes and strengthen the solos."
- Wikipedia

#CannonballAdderley #Riverside #NatAdderley #YusefLateef #JoeZawinul #SamJones #LouisHayes #JazzWorkshop #SanFranciscojazz #jazzflute #jazzoboe #jazz #hardbop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mDEhBGpjIo&list=RD4mDEhBGpjIo&start_radio=1

Soul Meeting Review by Eugene Chadbourne

...As originally released, Soul Meeting featured a half-dozen tracks from one early fall date, the sublime Rudy Van Gelder manning the recording controls. King Soul! had been tracked the previous spring, both albums falling into a certain category in the discography of this important rhythm and blues instrumentalist as in the stuff he did that wasn't exactly rhythm and blues. Prestige was more of a jazz label, so albums such as this are generally thought of as King Curtis' attempts to play jazz.

Patterns of accepted critical thought regarding this situation eventually shifted when genres such as acid jazz and hip-hop lifted ideas as well as entire passages from the soul-jazz many of the players that traipsed through Van Gelder's studios were into...

https://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-meeting-mw0001059852

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8izT9IYGs&list=RDKK8izT9IYGs&start_radio=1

#kingcurtis #souljazz #natadderley #wyntonkelly #paulchambers #prestigerecords