Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Jan. 24

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Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Jan. 24

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Jan. 24:

The Modern Jazz Quartet – Lonely Woman (1962)

Lonely Woman is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.

Track listing

All compositions by John Lewis except as indicated

"Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman) - 6:20
"Animal Dance" - 4:05
"New York 19" - 7:59
"Belkis" - 3:43
"Why Are You Blue?" (Gary McFarland) - 6:34
"Fugato" - 2:48
"Lamb, Leopard (If I Were Eve)" - 6:25
"Trieste" - 5:43

Personnel

The Modern Jazz Quartet

Milt Jackson - vibraphone
John Lewis - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Connie Kay - drums

The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1968)

The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra is a 1968 album by the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra recorded over a period of six months with Michael Mantler as composer, leader, and producer. Many of the key figures in avant-garde jazz from the time contributed on the album including Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri, Larry Coryell, Roswell Rudd, and Carla Bley. The album’s finale features a two-part concerto for Cecil Taylor and orchestra.

Mantler “updated” the album in 2014 as The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update on ECM Records. It features the Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band, an orchestra with parallel instrumentation conducted by Christoph Cech and new soloists: Michael Mantler (trumpet), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Wolfgang Puschnig (alto saxophone), Harry Sokal (tenor saxophone), David Helbock (piano), and the radio.string.quartet.vienna

Track listing:

All tracks by Michael Mantler

“Communications #8” – 14:03
“Communications #9” – 8:14
“Communications #10” – 13:42
“Preview” – 3:29
“Communications #11” (part 1) – 15:32
“Communications #11” (part 2) – 18:14

Personnel:

Michael Mantler – conductor, composer, producer
Don Cherry – cornet, trumpet
Randy Brecker – flugelhorn
Stephen Furtado – flugelhorn
Lloyd Michels – flugelhorn
Bob Northern – French horn
Julius Watkins – French horn
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Roswell Rudd – trombone
Jack Jeffers – bass trombone
Howard Johnson – tuba
Al Gibbons – soprano saxophone
Steve Lacy – soprano saxophone
Steve Marcus – soprano saxophone
Bob Donovan – alto saxophone
Gene Hull – alto saxophone
Jimmy Lyons – alto saxophone
Frank Wess – alto saxophone
George Barrow – tenor saxophone
Gato Barbieri – tenor saxophone
Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone
Lew Tabackin – tenor saxophone
Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
Carla Bley – piano
Cecil Taylor – piano, liner notes
Larry Coryell – guitar
Kent Carter – bass
Ron Carter – bass
Bob Cunningham – bass
Richard Davis – bass
Eddie Gómez – bass
Charlie Haden – bass
Reggie Johnson – bass
Alan Silva – bass
Steve Swallow – bass
Reggie Workman – bass
Andrew Cyrille – drums
Beaver Harris – drums

Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (1975)

The Köln Concert is a live solo double album by pianist Keith Jarrett recorded at the Opera House in Köln, West Germany, on 24 January 1975 and released on ECM Records later that year. It is the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album.

In 2025, the album was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

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Keith Jarrett
The Köln Concert
Opera House in Köln, Germany.
January 24th, 1975.

00:00:00 | – | 01 – Part I 00:26:15 | – | 02 – Part II a 00:41:11 | – | 03 – Part II b 01:00:30 | – | 04 – Part II c

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Keith Jarrett – piano
All tracks are written by Keith Jarrett.

Credits:
Manfred Eicher – producer
Martin Wieland [de] – engineer
Barbara and Burkhart Wojirsch – cover design
Wolfgang Frankenstein – photography.

Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.

His album, The Köln Concert, released in 1975, is the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine’s 73rd Annual Readers’ Poll.

The Köln Concert is a live solo double album by pianist Keith Jarrett recorded at the Opera House in Köln, Germany on 24 January 1975 and released on ECM later that year.

Subsequent to the release of The Köln Concert, Jarrett was asked by pianists, musicologists and others to publish the music. For years he resisted such requests since, as he said, the music played was improvised “on a certain night and should go as quickly as it comes”. In 1990, Jarrett finally agreed to publish an authorized transcription but with the recommendation that every pianist intending to play the piece should use the recording itself as the final word.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, in 2008, selected the album as part of its suggested “core collection” of essential recordings.

According to music critic Tom Hull, the album “cemented his reputation as the top pianist of his generation”.

In 2000, it was voted number 357 in Colin Larkin‘s All Time Top 1000 Albums.

The album was included in Robert Dimery’s book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

It became the best-selling piano recording and the best-selling solo album in jazz history with sales of around 4 million.

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Louis Moholo Octet – Spirits Rejoice! (1978)

Released in 1978, this is an octet led by Louis Moholo, a South African drummer whose work has appeared on labels such as Incus, FMP, and Ogun, the label that released this album. The music is full of festive expressions, including a powerful brass theme, while at other points it veers into chaotic free improvisation. The energetic charm of the musician Louis Moholo, which overflows from his own performance, seems to permeate the entire band. (Koichi Sakai).

Andrew Hill – A Beautiful Day (2002)

A Beautiful Day is a live album by American jazz pianist Andrew Hill, recorded in 2002 at Birdland in New York City and released on the Palmetto label.

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Hill.

"Divine Revelation" – 8:19
"Faded Beauty" – 11:28
"Bellezza" – 8:43
"5 Mo" – 6:42
"New Pinnochio" – 7:36
"J Di" – 5:50
"A Beautiful Day" – 11:44
"11/8" – 1:06

Recorded at Birdland, New York City on January 24–26, 2002

Personnel

Andrew Hill – piano
John Savage – flute (tracks 2 & 4), alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5–8)
Marty Ehrlich – clarinet (track 4), bass clarinet (track 2), alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5–8)
Aaron Stewart, Greg Tardy – tenor saxophone
J. D. Parran – baritone saxophone
Dave Ballou, Laurie Frink, Ron Horton (tracks 1–6), Bruce Staelens – trumpet
Mike Fahn, Joe Fielder, Charlie Gordon – trombone
Jose D'avila – tuba
Scott Colley – bass
Nasheet Waits – drums