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The Driving Louis Bellson (also released as The Hawk Talks) is an album by drummer Louis Bellson featuring performances recorded in New York City on February 2, 1955, and released that same year on the Norgran label. Norman Granz produced the 33:23 minute session.

Tracks

  1. Basie – 6:18
  2. Charlie O – 4:47
  3. All Right (Benny Goodman) – 5:14
  4. The Hawk Talks – 3:52
  5. Festivale – 4:08
  6. Greetings – 5:10
  7. Mambo a la Louis Bellson (Ralph Martin, Mike Alexander) – 3:59
Personnel
  • Louis Bellson – drums
  • Charlie Shavers – trumpet (tracks 1-3 & 6)
  • Nate Brown – flute (tracks 4, 5 & 7)
  • Sid Brown – bass clarinet (tracks 4, 5 & 7)
  • Seldon Powell – tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3 & 6)
  • Lou Stein – piano
  • Wendell Marshall – bass
  • Sabu Martinez – congas, bongos (tracks 4, 5 & 7)
  • Alexander Delannay, Cyril Jackson, Joe Comadore – congas (tracks 4, 5 & 7)
  • Mike Alexander, Rod Clavery, Alfonso Marshall – congas, steel drums (tracks 4, 5 & 7)

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Live at Bradley’s is a live album that was recorded by pianist Kenny Barron on April 3-4 1996 at 70 University Place in New York City. It wasn’t released until 2001 on the French EmArcy label, then on Sunnyside Records in 2002. The two-night live sessions rendered five selections from this veteran masters for a total of one hour, five minutes and fifty-one seconds. The recording was produced by Joanne Klein and engineered by Jim Alexander.

Track Listing
  1. Everybody Loves My Baby (Spencer Williams, Jack Palmer) – 15:27
  2. Solar (Miles Davis) – 11:26
  3. Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 9:44
  4. Alter Ego” (James Williams) – 13:23
  5. Canadian Sunset (Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel) – 15:51
The Band
  • Kenny Barron – piano
  • Ray Drummond – bass
  • Ben Riley – drums

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Love Songs is an album recorded by Earl Coleman in 1968 and released by Atlantic Records. This is the only album led by the baritone vocalist from 1957 to 1976. The warmth of his voice is integral to making this underrated album worthy of any collection.

Tracks A1 People 3:27 A2 There’s No You 4:51 A3 A Day In The Life Of A Fool 2:46 A4 I’ve Got You Under My Skin 2:53 A5 I Wish I Knew 5:36 B1 I Won’t Tell A Soul 5:04 B2 The Work Song 2:37 B3 Manhattan Serenade 2:54 B4 Charade 2:53 B5 When Did You Leave Heaven 2:41 Personnel
  • Bass – Reggie Workman
  • Drums – Bobby Thomas (2)
  • Guitar – Gene Bertoncini
  • Piano – Billy Taylor
  • Trumpet – Eddie Williams

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    John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman is a 1963 studio album featuring John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. It was recorded on March 7, 1963, at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and was released at the end of July of that year on the Impulse! Record label.

    Hartman is the only vocalist with whom the saxophonist would record as a leader. Initially when producer Bob Thiele approached Hartman with Coltrane’s request that the two should record together, Hartman was hesitant as he did not consider himself a jazz singer and did not think he and Coltrane would complement one another musically.

    However, Thiele encouraged Hartman to go see Coltrane perform at Birdland in New York City to see if something could be worked out. Hartman did so, and after the club closed he, Coltrane and Coltrane’s pianist, McCoy Tyner, went over some songs together. On March 7, 1963, Coltrane and Hartman had decided on 10 songs for the record album, but en route to the studio they heard Nat King Cole on the radio performing “Lush Life”, and Hartman immediately decided that song had to be included in their album.

    It has become a classic ballad jazz album, and the renditions of “Lush Life”, “My One and Only Love”, and “They Say It’s Wonderful” are considered definitive.  The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.

    Track Listing ~ 31:11 Side One They Say It’s Wonderful | Irving Berlin ~ 5:20 Dedicated To You | Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Hy Zare ~ 5:32 My One And Only Love | Guy Wood, Robert Mellin ~ 4:55 Side Two Lush Life | Billy Strayhorn ~ 5:29 You Are Too Beautiful | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart ~ 5:36 Autumn Serenade | Peter DeRose, Sammy Gallop ~ 4:19 Personnel Johnny Hartman – vocals John Coltrane – tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner – piano Jimmy Garrison – double bass Elvin Jones – drums

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    Klook’s Clique is an album led by bebop pioneer drummer Kenny Clarke, who brought a quintet together and recorded on February 6, 1956, at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. The session was produced by Ozzie Cadena, who was also instrumental in helping to popularize jazz in Los Angeles, California.

    The Players
    • Kenny Clarke – drums
    • Donald Byrd – trumpet
    • John LaPorta – alto saxophone
    • Ronnie Ball – piano
    • Wendell Marshall – bass
    Track List ~ 34.17
    1. Volcano (Kenny Clarke) – 6:01
    2. La Porta-Thority (John LaPorta) – 5:54
    3. I Hear a Rhapsody (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre) – 4:48
    4. Will Wail (LaPorta) – 7:04
    5. Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 5:58
    6. Play Fiddle Play (Arthur Altman, Emery Deutsch, Jack Lawrence) – 4:32

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