Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 28

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Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 28

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 28:

This is Ray Brown (1958)

This Is Ray Brown is a 1958 studio album by American jazz double bass player Ray Brown.

Track listing:

"Bric-A-Brac" (Ray Brown) – 5:33
"Upstairs Blues" (Brown) – 6:40
"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 4:38
"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:16
"Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 8:06
"Cool Walk" (Brown) – 6:31
"Jim" (Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels, Nelson Shawn) – 9:00

Personnel:

Ray Brown – double bass
Jerome Richardson – flute
Oscar Peterson – organ, piano
Herb Ellis – guitar
Osie Johnson – drums

It’s Time is a 1962 album by jazz drummer Max Roach, released on Impulse! Records which also features trumpeter Richard Williams, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, trombonist Julian Priester, pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Davis, and a vocal choir conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Singer Abbey Lincoln appears on “Lonesome Lover”

Track listing:

All composed by Max Roach

"It's Time" – 6:44
"Another Valley" – 8:46
"Sunday Afternoon" – 6:16
"Living Room" – 7:31
"The Profit" – 7:32
"Lonesome Lover" – 7:02

Recorded on February 15 (tracks 1, 4), February 26 (tracks 2, 5), February 27 (tracks 3, 6), 1962.
Personnel:

Max Roach – drums
Richard Williams – trumpet
Julian Priester – trombone
Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone
Mal Waldron – piano
Art Davis – bass
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – conductor
Abbey Lincoln – vocals (#6)

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Keith Jarrett – Treasure Island (1974)

Treasure Island is an album recorded in February 1974 by Keith Jarrett and originally released by Impulse! in 1974. It features Jarrett’s later-to-be-called “American Quartet” (Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian) plus guitarist Sam Brown, and percussionists Guilherme Franco and Danny Johnson.

Two months after recording Treasure Island, in April 1974, Jarrett would enter a studio in Norway to record Belonging with a group of Scandinavian players, later called Jarrett’s “European group”.

Track listing:
All compositions by Keith Jarrett except as indicated

“The Rich (And the Poor)” – 9:24
“Blue Streak” – 2:35
“Fullsuvollivus (Fools of All of Us)” – 6:29
“Treasure Island” – 4:14
“Introduction/Yaqui Indian Folk Song” (Jarrett/traditional) – 2:16
“Le Mistral” – 9:25
“Angles (Without Edges)” – 5:24
“Sister Fortune” – 4:27

Personnel:

Keith Jarrett – piano, soprano saxophone (7) and OSI drum
Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone, tambourine (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7)
Sam Brown – guitar (tracks 4, 8)
Charlie Haden – bass
Paul Motian – drums, percussion
Guilherme Franco – percussion
Daniel LaRue Johnson – percussion

Billy Bang Quartet – Spirits Gathering (1996)

Spirits Gathering is an album by the Billy Bang Quartet, led by violinist Bang, and featuring guitarist Brett Allen, double bassist Akira Ando, and drummer Denis Charles. It was recorded on February 28, 1996, at the Spirit Room in Rossie, New York, and was released later that year by the CIMP label.

Track listing

"Tankō Bushi" (Traditional) – 6:41
"Spirits Gathering" (Billy Bang) – 8:15
"Pent Up House" (Sonny Rollins) – 9:13
"Das Ist Fur Dich" (Akira Ando) – 8:54
"Know Your Enemy" (Bilal A. Rahman, Billy Bang) – 11:07
"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 7:08
"My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:27
"Blues in E" (Traditional) – 6:19

Personnel

Billy Bang – violin
Brett Allen – guitar
Akira Ando – double bass
Denis Charles – drums

Art Ensemble of Chicago – The Meeting (2003)

The Meeting is a reunion studio album released by the jazz group the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEOC). It was recorded during the spring of 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin and released on August 19, 2003, on the international label Pi Recordings.

Track listing

"Hail We Now Sing Joy" (Jarman) — 4:56
"It's the Sign of the Times" (Favors) — 18:44
"Tech Ritter and the Megabytes" (Mitchell) — 4:22
"Wind and Drum" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) — 11:09
"The Meeting" (Mitchell) — 6:49
"Amin Bidness" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) — 8:33
"The Train to Io" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) — 4:53

Personnel

Joseph Jarman — flute, percussion, gong, saxophone (alto, soprano, tenor), bells
Malachi Favors Maghostus — bass, percussion
Roscoe Mitchell — flute, piccolo, saxophone (alto, bass, soprano. tenor)
Don Moye — bongos, conga, drums