Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 21

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Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 21

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 21:

Art Blakey Quintet – A Night at Birdland Vol. 1-3 (1954)

A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3 are three separate but related 10″ LPs by the Art Blakey Quintet recorded live at the Birdland jazz club on February 21, 1954, and released on Blue Note later that year, in July, October and November respectively. The quintet features horn section Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson and rhythm section Horace Silver, Curly Russell and Blakey.

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The Art Blakey Quintet:

Clifford Brown – trumpet
Lou Donaldson – alto saxophone
Horace Silver – piano
Curley Russell –bass
Art Blakey – drums

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Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans – Know What I Mean? (1961)

Track listing

"Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans, Gene Lees) – 5:15
"Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 6:15
"Who Cares?" (Take 5) (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:57
"Venice" (John Lewis) – 2:55
"Toy" (Clifford Jordan) – 5:09
"Elsa" (Earl Zindars) – 5:52
"Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:08
"Know What I Mean?" (Re-take 7) (Evans) – 4:54
"Who Cares?" (Take 4) – 5:55
"Know What I Mean?" (Take 12) – 7:01

Tracks 2–3, 7, 9–10 recorded on January 27, 1961; tracks 5 & 6 on February 21; tracks 1, 4 & 8 recorded on March 13, 1961, all at Bell Sound Studios, New York City.
Personnel

Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
Bill Evans - piano and arranger
Percy Heath - acoustic bass
Connie Kay - drums

Stan Getz – Stan the Man (1961)

Bill Evans at Town Hall, Vol.1 (1966)

Bill Evans at Town Hall is a live album from 1966 by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his trio. It is his only commercial trio recording featuring drummer Arnold Wise, and it was the last recorded appearance of bassist Chuck Israels as a regular member of the trio.

The recording was released as “Volume 1,” but no subsequent volume appeared. A planned release of big-band material, featuring Evans, from the second half of the concert ended up being nixed, as according to Evans’s manager, Helen Keane, the pianist “did not play his best” during that part of the program.

The original LP consisted of four trio performances of jazz standards followed by a lengthy solo elegy for Evans’s recently deceased father. Verve Records released the album on CD in 1986 with three additional trio performances, including the first recording of Evans’s composition “One for Helen,” dedicated to his manager.

Track listing
Side one

"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 5:30
"Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:00
"Who Can I Turn To?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 6:17

Side two

"Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 4:45
"Solo - In Memory of His Father Harry L. (Prologue/Improvisation on Two Themes/Story Line/Turn Out the Stars/Epilogue)" (Evans) – 13:40

Personnel:

Bill Evans – piano
Chuck Israels – bass (except track 5)
Arnold Wise – drums (except track 5)

Circle – Paris-Concert (1971)

Paris-Concert is a live double album by the short-lived jazz band Circle, recorded at the Maison de l’O.R.T.F. in Paris on February 21, 1971, and released on ECM Records the following year. The quartet consists of reed player Anthony Braxton and rhythm section Chick Corea, David Holland and Barry Altschul.

David Holland: Double Bass, Cello. – Barry Altschul: Percussion. – Chick Corea: Piano. – Anthony Braxton: Reeds, Percussion.

– 01 Nefertitti 00:00 – 19:15 02 Song For The Newborn 19:15 – 26:04 03 Duet 26:04 – 36:35 04 Lookout Farm / 73° Kalvin (Variation 3) 36:35 – 52:45

Charlie Haden Quartet West – The Art of the Song (1999)

The Art of the Song is an album by jazz bassist Charlie Haden and his Quartet West, released in 1999. It reached number ten on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Quartet West was formed in 1986. Their repertoire consisted mainly of music from the 1930s and 1940s, often music associated with films of that period.

Guest vocalists Bill Henderson and Shirley Horn each perform four songs.

The orchestral accompaniment written for Shirley Horn of Leonard Bernstein’s “Lonely Town”, won Alan Broadbent a Grammy Award.

Track listing

"Lonely Town" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 5:30
"Why Did I Choose You" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 7:23
"Moment Musical, Op. 16, No. 3 in B minor" (Sergei Rachmaninoff) – 5:36
"In Love in Vain" (Jerome Kern, Leo Rubin) – 5:05
"Ruth's Waltz" (Charlie Haden, Arthur Hamilton) – 4:14
"Scenes from a Silver Screen" (Alan Broadbent) – 6:24
"I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph A. McCarthy) – 6:15
"You My Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Mack Gordon) – 4:24
"Prelude en La Mineur" (Maurice Ravel) – 5:14
"The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:56
"Easy on the Heart" (Haden, Hamilton) – 4:54
"Theme for Charlie" (Jeri Southern) – 4:07
"Wayfaring Stranger" (Traditional) – 4:23

Personnel

Charlie Haden Quartet West

Charlie Haden – bass, lead vocal on "Wayfaring Stranger"
Alan Broadbent – piano, arranger, conductor, orchestration
Larance Marable – drums
Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone

Guest musicians

Murray Adler – violin, conductor, concertmaster, orchestra contractor
Bill Henderson – vocals on "Why Did I Choose You", "Ruth's Waltz", "You My Love", "Easy on the Heart"
Shirley Horn – vocals on "Lonely Town", "In Love in Vain", "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life", "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"

Orchestra

Ezra Kliger – violin
Gina Kronstadt – violin
Don Palmer – violin
Robert Peterson – violin
Kathleen Robinson – violin
Robert Sanov – violin
Harry Shirinian – violin
Paul Shure – violin
Rachel Sokolow – violin
Marcy Vaj – violin
Francine Walsh – violin
Tibor Zelig – violin
Charlie Bisharat – violin
Robert Brosseau – violin
Bobby Bruce – violin
Israel Baker – violin
Russ Cantor – violin
Suzanna Giordono – viola
Steve Gordon – viola
Paolo Gozzetti – viola
Mimi Granat – viola
Carol Mukagawa – viola
Earl Madison – cello
Ray Kelley – cello
Suzie Katayama – cello
Jerry Kessler – cello
Larry Corbett – cello
Adrian Rosen – bass
Dennis Michael Trembly – bass