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The Cats: In the Fifties, Tommy Flanagan was one of the most highly valued pianists in jazz. His appearance on record was primarily as a sideman, well appreciated by his fellow musicians but not recognized for their display of his superior abilities by a wider audience.
This album contains a Flanagan trio track “How Long Has This Been Going On?” surrounded with the choice, empathetic soloists as Coltrane, Burrell and Sulieman. It is still a delight to hear their interaction to this day with Tommy and the all-Detroit rhythm section of Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. Flanagan penned all of the originals on this album.
Personnel: Tommy Flanagan – piano, John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, Idrees Sulieman – trumpet, Kenny Burrell – guitar, Doug Watkins – bass, Louis Hayes – drums
Record date: Hackensack, New Jersey – April 18, 1957
Supervised by: Bob Weinstock
Songs: Minor Mishap; How Long Has This Been Going On; Eclypso; Solacium; Tommy’s Tune
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Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, also known as Sarah Vaughan, is a 1954 jazz album featuring the Grammy Award winning singer and influential trumpeter Clifford Brown.
The album, released on the EmArcy label was the only collaboration between the pair, and though originally eponymous, was re-issued under a new title to emphasize the appearance of the popular trumpeter.
Well received, though not without some criticism, the album was Vaughan’s own favorite among her works through 1980 and in 1999 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Jeff “Tain” Watts was born on January 20, 1960 and initially studied classical percussion at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University, where he was primarily a timpanist. This he followed by enrollment at the Berklee School of Music, where he pursued jazz studies alongside Branford Marsalis, Kevin Eubanks, Greg Osby, Aimee Mann, Steve Vai and Marvin “Smitty” Smith.
Jeff joined the Wynton Marsalis Quartet in 1981 and proceeded to win three Grammy Awards with the ensemble. Leaving Wynton Marsalis in 1988 work followed with George Benson, Harry Connick, Jr. and McCoy Tyner; prior to joining the Branford Marsalis Quartet in 1989.A move to Los Angeles, California for three years had him working in the film and television industry as both a musician on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and as an actor, Rhythm Jones in Spike Lee’s “Mo Better Blues”.
Returning to New York in ’95, Jeff joined Kenny Garrett’s band and also continued to record and tour with Branford Marsalis as well as Danilo Perez, Michael Brecker, Betty Carter, Kenny Kirkland, Courtney Pine, Geri Allen, Alice Coltrane, Michael Brecker, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ravi Coltrane, George Cables and McCoy Tyner.
Jeff “Tain” Watts got his nickname from Kenny Kirkland while on tour in Florida and past a Chieftain gas station. He has won a Best Instrumental Solo Grammy for “Dark Key Music” in 2010 and also holds the unique distinction of being the only musician to appear on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis. As a composer, Watts is a creative and innovative force in modern jazz, contributing most of the compositions on his own albums.
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Sketches of Spain was a seminal work from the third Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration and it has become a classic among his fans. It has been ranked 350 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Personnel: Miles Davis – trumpet, Paul Chambers – bass, Jimmy Cobb – drums, Elvin Jones – percussion
Orchestra: Danny Bank – bass clarinet; Bill Barber – tuba; John Barrows – French horn; Albert Block – flute; James Buffington – French horn; Eddie Caine – flute, flugelhorn; Harold Feldman – clarinet, flute, oboe; Earl Chapin – French horn; Johnny Coles – trumpet; Harold Feldman – clarinet, flute, oboe; Bernie Glow – trumpet; Dick Hixon – trombone; Taft Jordan – trumpet; Jack Knitzer – bassoon; Jose Mangual – percussion; Jimmy McAllister – tuba; Tony Miranda – French horn; Louis Mucci – trumpet; Romeo Penque – oboe; Janet Putnam – harp; Frank Rehak – trombone; Ernie Royal – trumpet; Joe Singer – French horn
Arranger/Conductor: Gil Evans
Record Date: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City – between November 20, 1959 and March 1960
Release Date: July 18, 1960
Producers: Teo Macero & Irving Townsend
Songs: Concierto De Aranjuez, Will O’ The Wisp, The Pan Piper, Saeta, Solea
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Jazz In Film
Raintree County: This 1957 Edward Dmytryk directed film starred Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint.
The story: A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems.
The John Green music score includes a vocal “The Song of Raintree County” with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. On the soundtrack Nat King Cole sang the song, and George Fields performed the soundtrack harmonica solos.
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