Roy Ayers - "Fever" (1979)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOnixwkMJ96V5Znw6Ski-n7KpFhxSXqDw

Unheard record retrieved from the shelf. Good in parts! (Funky rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" was unnecessary.)

#NowPlaying #RoyAyers #HaroldLand #VinylRecords #vinyl @vinylrecords

1954 - #DinahWashington Live Jazz Jam Session and Recording Session for EmArcy Records - Hollywood

- Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet : #CliffordBrown (tp), #HaroldLand (ts), #RichiePowell (p), #GeorgeMorrow (b), #MaxRoach (dr)
- Guests : #ClarkTerry (tp), #MaynardFerguson (tp), #HerbGeller (as), #JuniorMance (p), #KeterBetts (b)
#jazz

Joy Spring – Clifford Brown & Max Roach

This tune popped into my head when I was walking home this evening so after dinner I listened to my CD of the terrific 1954 album Clifford Brown & Max Roach, on which it first appeared. Trumpeter Clifford Brown wrote the tune Joy Spring when he was just 23 for his wife Larue and it became a jazz standard. This first version features a quintet jointly led by Brown and Max Roach on drums, together with hugely underrated tenor saxophonist Harold Land, Richie Powell on piano (younger brother of Bud Powell, whose influence you can hear in his playing) and George Morrow on bass. The whole album is great, but I think the standout tracks are this version of Joy Spring and their version of Duke Jordan’s tune Jordu. Brown’s solo on Joy Spring demonstrates his beautifully crisp articulation and his superb capacity for sustained melodic invention, moving into and out of double-time. He only plays two choruses, but packs so much into them. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnK6OHPQZbA

Despite it’s happy feel, this track will always be tinged with tragedy. Less than two years after this session both Clifford Brown and Richie Powell were killed in a car crash: Brown was 25 and Powell 24.

Clifford Brown and Max Roach, Study in Brown, 1955 on EmArcy

Brown and Roach are joined by Harold Land (tenor), Richie Powell (piano), and George Morrow (bass). Recorded Feb 23rd and 25th of 1955. Fantastic album.

My copy—via private sale—is the 2021 Acoustic Sounds Series reissue on 180g vinyl, supervised by Chad Kassem, cut by Ryan Smith, and pressed at Quality Record Pressing. As you’d expect, a flawless pressing.

Head On is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label.

The Allmusic review by Matt Collar awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Head On is a highly cerebral and atmospheric affair that is somewhat different than his other equally experimental '70s work... Fans of expansive, searching '70s jazz will definitely want to seek Head On out". - Wikipedia

#BobbyHutcherson #vibraphone #ToddCochran #OscarBrashear #HaroldLand #Jazz #BlueNote #Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2BsQs1KN8&list=OLAK5uy_kevtDoACN3GuaJXzFCKxG2auJCVU5QLVE

Bill Evans - Quintessence

Late period Evans, on Fantasy, from 1976. On this, he's joined by Harold Land (tenor), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums).

A relatively short album, with no Evans originals...but the group does a nice job with these tracks.

I'm going to excuse the bad pun in the title.

#nowplaying #vinyl #postbop #cooljazz #BillEvans #HaroldLand #KennyBurrell #RayBrown #PhillyJoeJones

Harold Land - Eastward Ho! Harold Land in New York

A recent special on Jazz Workshop LPs prompted me to grab a few, of which this is one.

This 1960 release features Land on tenor sax, Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Amos Trice (piano), Clarence Jones (bass), and Joe Peters (drums), playing a nice set of hard bop.

The Spain-based Jazz Workshop mastering/pressing seems great, flat, centered, quiet. Hooray for $19!

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #hardbop #HaroldLand

Bobby Hutcherson - "Total Eclipse" (1969)

Goofy looking cover for a stellar recording. Features #HaroldLand #ChickCorea #ReggieJohnson #JoeChambers

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQ6PfO4Z-aGBl6o_DZldzwF6SN_BSwSvE

#NowPlaying #BobbyHutcherson #BlueNote #BlueNoteRecords #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

#DemandezLeProgramme :
1973 - Saxophone Giants - Jazz Showcase - Chicago

Gene Ammons, James Moody, Harold Land (sax), Eddie Jefferson (voc), Rufus Reid (b), Billy James (dr), Stu Katz (p)

#jazz #GeneAmmons #JamesMoody #HaroldLand #EddieJefferson

Bobby Hutcherson - "Medina" (1980)

#NowPlaying #BobbyHutcherson #HaroldLand #StanleyCowell #ReggieJohnson #JoeChambers #BlueNote #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/NToAHn4_OEA