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Vibraphonist Johnny Lytle went into a New York City studio in 1968 and recorded The Sound Of Velvet Soul that was released on the Solid State record label. The ten (10) song recording session has a total length of 34:23 and was produced by Sonny Lester and arranged and conducted by Manny Albam.

Track Listing: A1 The Thing To Do A2 We’re Bluesin’ A3 L.A. Soul A4 Street Scene A5 Live For Life B1 Under The Rising Sun B2 On A Clear Day B3 Somewhere B4 Up Up And Away B5 Suddenly You The Players: VibraphonE: Johnny Lytle Baritone SaxophonE: Sol Schlinger Bass: Richard Davis (2) Drums: Mel Lewis Percussion: Johnny Pacheco Saxophone: Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson, Joe Farrell and Seldon Powell

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Kelly Great is an album recorded on August 12, 1959 by pianist Wynton Kelly, and released that same year on the Vee-Jay record label. The photograph was taken by Chuck Stewart. Sid McCoy produced the 35:24 long session and Cozy Noda was responsible for the digital remastering.

Kelly, Morgan and Shorter all contributed compositions for this for song session that included the following lineup of tunes – Wrinkles (Wynton Kelly), Mama G (Wayne Shorter), June Night (Abel Baer, Cliff Friend), What Know (Lee Morgan) and Sidney (Shorter).

With Kelly on piano leading the quintet he enlisted the talents of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on the drums.

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Bags & Flutes is a  album by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded in New York City and released on the Atlantic label. The producer for the dates, May 21, 1957 (tracks 1 & 7), June 10, 1957 (tracks 3, 4 & 6) and June 17, 1957 (tracks 2 & 5) was Nesuhi Ertegun. The cover photograph was taken by Elbert Budin and the cover design was by Marvin Israel.

Track Listing: All compositions by Milt Jackson except as indicated.

  1. Bags’ New Groove 5:55
  2. Sandy 3:56
  3. Midget Rod 5:41
  4. I’m Afraid the Masquerade Is Over (Herb Magidson/Allie Wrubel) 3:41
  5. Ghana (Ernie Wilkins) 5:30
  6. Sweet and Lovely (Gus Arnheim/Harry Tobias/Jules LeMare) 4:44
  7. Connie’s Blues 9:45
  • The total time of the recorded album is 39:12.

The personnel on the dates were Milt Jackson – vibes, Bobby Jaspar – flute (tracks 1 & 7), Frank Wess – flute (tracks 2-6), Tommy Flanagan – piano (tracks 1 & 7), Hank Jones – piano (tracks 2-6), Kenny Burrell – guitar, Percy Heath – bass and Art Taylor – drums.

>The presence of a songbird on the end of one of the flutes creates a light-hearted visual reference for the vibist and the flautists.

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March 18, 1955 saw Lionel Hampton in a Paris, France studio recording the album Crazy Rhythm for the EmArcy record label. The swing/bop/hard bop session produced four songs with a total elapse time of forty minutes and fifty-four seconds.

Tracklist: A1 Crazy Rhythm   7:49 A2 Night And Day   11:31 B1 Red Ribbon 9:43 B2 A La French 11:51

Personnel:

Baritone Saxophone – William Boucaya; Bass – Guy Pederson; Clarinet & Tenor Saxophone – Maurice Meunier; Drums – MacKac; French Horn – Dave Amram; Guitar – Sacha Distel; Piano – Rene Urtreger; Trumpet – Benny Bailey, Bernard Hullin, Nat Adderley; Vibraphone – Lionel Hampton

Notes:

Crazy Rhythm was composed by Irving Caesar/Roger Wolfe Kahn/Joseph Meyer, Night & Day is a Cole Porter composition, Red Ribbon and A La French were composed by Lionel Hampton.

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In 1961 trombonist Bennie Green along with Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, Junior Mance on piano, bassists Paul Chambers (tracks 2, 3, 6 & 7) and Larry Gales (tracks 1, 4 & 5) alternating duties and drummer Ben Riley went into the studio and recorded 39 minutes and 31 seconds of jazz on March 9th  and 22nd that would be released as Glidin’ Along on the Jazzland label.

The sessions were produced by Orrin Keepnews with Chambers in the mix on the 9th and Gales on 22nd. The quintet came out of the studio with seven songs composed by two members of the group, Green and Griffin

  1. African Dream – (Bennie Green)
  2. Sweet Sucker – (Johnny Griffin)
  3. Glidin’ Along – (Babs Gonzales)
  4. Green’s Scene – (Gonzales, Green)
  5. Milkshake – (Griffin)
  6. Stardust” (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
  7. Expubidence (Gonzales)

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