Requisites

Lenox And Seventh: The Definitive Black and Blue Sessions is a 1985 album led by Alvin Queen and Dr. Lonnie Smith. The sessions were recorded in a studio in Paris, France on May 28 1985. The recording engineer was Dominique Samarcq, with liner notes provided by Alain Antonietto.

Track Listing

• L.S. Blues ~ 6:20
• Slightly Monkish ~ 5:49
• Who Can I Turn To ~ 8:00
• Billie’s Bounce ~ 5:58
• There Is No Greater Love ~ 9:09
• Minor Chant ~ 4:55
• Oleo ~ 4:27Chopstick ~ 6:51

• Dr. Lonnie Smith ~ Organ
• Alvin Queen ~ Drums
• Melvin Sparks ~ Guitar

More Posts: choice,classic,collectible,collector,drums,history,instrumental,jazz,music

Requisites

Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in the Spring and Fall of 1959 in New York City for the Riverside label. The album was produced by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, the latter also writing the liner notes The album was mastered by Jack Matthews and the cover photograph was taken by Lawrence N. Shustak. The design of the cover was created by Harris Lewine, Ken Braren and Paul Bacon. 

Abbey Lincoln had mastered Billie Holiday’s skill at inhabiting the lyrics of a song and projecting its emotional content outward, and these songs, all of which deal with sorrow, are stark and harrowing accounts of loss and injustice.

• Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaría) – 3:20
• Lonely House (Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill) – 3:40
• Let Up (Abbey Lincoln) – 5:32
• Thursday’s Child (Elisse Boyd, Murray Grand) – 3:31
• Brother, Where Are You? (Oscar Brown) – 3:10
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Ted Fio Rito, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 5:24
• Come Sunday (Duke Ellington) – 5:13
• Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:46
• Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:11
• Long as You’re Living” (Oscar Brown, Julian Priester, Tommy Turrentine) – 2:33

• Abbey Lincoln – vocals
• Kenny Dorham (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), Tommy Turrentine (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10) – trumpet
• Julian Priester – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
• Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
• Les Spann – guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), flute (track 5)
• Wynton Kelly (tracks 2, 4, 5), Cedar Walton (tracks 3 & 6), Phil Wright (tracks 7-9) – piano
• Bobby Boswell (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10), Sam Jones (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7-9) – bass
• Philly Joe Jones (tracks: 2, 4, 5 & 7-9), Max Roach (tracks: 1, 3, 6 & 10) – drums

More Posts: choice,classic,collectible,collector,history,instrumental,jazz,music,vocal

Requisites

The Way I Really Play is a 1968 album by pianist Oscar Peterson. Recorded at the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany on November 12, 1967. The 44:50 minute sessions was produced by Brunner-Schwer.

1. Waltzing Is Hip (Ray Brown, Johnny Wayne) – 6:11
2. Satin Doll (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 10:05
3. Love Is Here to Stay (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:54
4. Sandy’s Blues (Oscar Peterson) – 9:34
5. Alice In Wonderland (Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard) – 4:46
6. Noreen’s Nocturne (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20

• Oscar Peterson – piano
• Sam Jones – double bass
• Bobby Durham – drums

• Recording director and engineer – Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
• Liner notes – Gene Lees
• Liner notes translated – Dr. B. Falk
• Cover photography – Sepp Werkmeister
• Reverse side photography – Sepp Werkmeister
• Graphic work – Hans B. Piltzer

• Action (Vol. 1)
• Girl Talk (Vol. 2)
• The Way I Really Play (Vol. 3)
• My Favorite Instrument (Vol. 4) solo piano
• Mellow Mood (Vol. 5)
• Travelin’ On (Vol. 6)

The Way I Really Play was also released as The Great Oscar Peterson on Prestige!

More Posts: choice,classic,collectible,collector,history,instrumental,jazz,music,piano

Requisites

Concert by the Sea is a live album recorded by pianist Erroll Garner on September 19, 1955 in the gothic-revivalist styled assembly hall of Sunset School (now Sunset Arts Center) in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

The original U.S. album cover photograph, showing a model in mid-stride with outstretched arms, was shot by music and fashion photographer Art Kane.

There was no plan to record the concert officially. The release came about because Garner’s personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted backstage that a tape recorder was running. The recording was being made by a recording engineer for the Armed Forces Radio Network, a jazz fan and scholar named Will Thornbury, strictly for the enjoyment of himself and his fellow servicemen. Glaser took the tape, put it into album form, then played it for Columbia’s jazz division head, George Avakian, who decided to release it on October 13, 1955.

It sold over a million dollars’ worth of retail copies by 1958, qualifying for gold record status by the definition of that time but has never been acknowledged as such by the RIAA.

Track Listing Side 1

1. I’ll Remember April
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. Mambo Carmel
4. Autumn Leaves
5. It’s Alright With Me

1. Red Top
2. April In Paris
3. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
4. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
5. Where Or When
6. Erroll’s Theme

• Erroll Garner ~ Piano
• Eddie Calhoun ~ Bass
• Denzil Best ~ Drums

More Posts: choice,classic,collectible,collector,history,instrumental,jazz,music,piano

Requisites

Devil May Care is the debut album released in 1961 by American jazz vocalist Teri Thornton featuring tracks recorded on December 23, 1960 and January 10, 1961 in New York City for the Riverside label.

>Norman Simmons was the arranger for the sessions that elapsed for 39 minutes and 19 seconds and was produced by Orrin Keepnews.

• Lullaby Of The Leaves
• Devil May Care
• Detour Ahead
• The Song Is You
• My Old Flame
• What’s Your Story, Morning Glory
• Dancing In The Dark
• Left Alone
• Blue Champagne
• I Feel A Song Coming On
• What’s New
• Blue Skies

• Teri Thornton – vocals
• Clark Terry – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Earle Warren – alto saxophone
• Seldon Powell – tenor saxophone
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Freddie Green (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 12) – guitar
• Sam Herman (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 11) – guitar
• Sam Jones – bass
• Jimmy Cobb – drums

More Posts: choice,classic,collectible,collector,history,instrumental,jazz,music,vocal