Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded March 16

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded March 16

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded March 16:

Miles Davis – Collector’s Items (1956)

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Collectors’ Items is a 1956 studio album by Miles Davis. There are two sessions collected on the album with largely different musicians. The first 1953 session is “Compulsion”, “The Serpent’s Tooth” (two takes) and “‘Round About Midnight”. The second 1956 session is “In Your Own Sweet Way”, “Vierd Blues” and “No Line”.

The personnel for the first session were Davis, Sonny Rollins and Charlie Parker (credited under the pseudonym “Charlie Chan” due to contractual obligations) on tenor sax, Walter Bishop on piano, Percy Heath on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. For the second session, the tenor sax was Rollins alone, the piano was Tommy Flanagan, the bass Paul Chambers and Art Taylor on drums.

According to Ira Gitler‘s liner notes, the 1953 session was only the second time Parker had recorded on tenor saxophone. The CD edition’s liner notes indicate the session was the only time Parker and Rollins recorded together.

Davis describes the session with Parker in his autobiography as having been very chaotic. It was Davis’ first session of 1953 and his heroin habit had become very bad. Parker had quit his own heroin habit following the arrest of his trumpet player Red Rodney, instead drinking enormous quantities of alcohol. According to Davis, Parker consumed a quart of vodka at the rehearsal, then spoke condescendingly to Davis as if it were his session and Davis an employee or a child. After arguing, Parker fell asleep, angering Davis and in turn angering Gitler who was producing.

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The 1953 session remained unreleased for several years, during which Parker died (in March 1955) and Davis left Prestige Records for Columbia Records (in 1956). Part of Davis’ contractual obligation to Prestige was to record a second session to pair with the 1953 session that would give Prestige enough material for a full album.

For the second session, only Rollins returned, and Davis’s band included two relative newcomers to the New York jazz scene. Pianist Tommy Flanagan had just moved to New York City a few weeks prior to the Davis recording session, which was his third recording date in the city. Bassist Paul Chambers had moved to the city in 1955 and first recorded in New York in June at a session for Prestige led by trombonist Bennie Green. Chambers first recorded with Davis in October 1955 for Columbia as part of Davis’ regular performing group of the time, which included John Coltrane, Red Garland, and Philly Joe Jones. The Collector’s Items session was his third with Davis, and followed the November 1955 session for Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet.

Track listing

Prestige – PRLP7044
Side oneNo. Title Writer(s) Length

1. “The Serpent’s Tooth” (Take 1) Miles Davis 7:08
2. “The Serpent’s Tooth” (Take 2) Miles Davis 6:24
3. “‘Round About Midnight” Thelonious Monk 7:12
4. “Compulsion” Miles Davis 5:53
   Side twoNo. Title Writer(s) Length
5. “No Line” Miles Davis 5:48
6. “Vierd Blues” Miles Davis 7:00
7. “In Your Own Sweet Way” Dave Brubeck 4:40
   Total length: 44:05
   Personnel

January 30, 1953, session

Miles Davis – trumpet
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Charlie Parker (as "Charlie Chan") – tenor saxophone
Walter Bishop Jr. – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

March 16, 1956, session

Miles Davis – trumpet
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Art Taylor – drums

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Wynton Kelly – It’s All Right! (1964)

It’s All Right! is an album by jazz pianist Wynton Kelly released through Verve featuring performances by Kelly with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb with Kenny Burrell and Candido Camero recorded in 1964. The recording was produced by Creed Taylor.

Track listing

"It's All Right" (Curtis Mayfield) - 2:51
"South Seas" (Rudy Stevenson) - 5:30
"Not a Tear" (Stevenson) - 5:59
"Portrait of Jennie" (Gordon Burdge, J. Russel Robinson) - 4:37
"Kelly Roll" (Kenny Burrell) - 3:52
"The Fall of Love" [From The Fall of the Roman Empire] (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 2:06
"Moving Up" (Wynton Kelly) - 3:53
"On the Trail" [From the Grand Canyon Suite] (Ferde Grofé) - 4:31
"Escapade" (Andy Badalele, Morton Wax) - 2:57
"One for Joan" (Charles Lloyd) - 3:11 Bonus track on CD

    Recorded at the Webster Hall in New York City on March 10 (tracks 2, 3 & 6), March 11 (track 1) and March 19 (tracks 4, 5 & 7–10)

Personnel

Wynton Kelly - piano
Kenny Burrell - guitar (tracks 1–3 & 5–10)
Paul Chambers - bass
Jimmy Cobb - drums
Candido Camero - conga (tracks 1–5 & 7–10)
The Tommy Rey Caribe Steel Band: Tommy Reynolds, Ralph Cowley, Hiram Delgado, Malcolm Evans, Norman Symonds - steel percussion and Donald Usher - maracas (track 6)

Antonio Carlos Jobim – Stone Flower (1970)

Stone Flower is the sixth studio album by Antônio Carlos Jobim. The album was recorded in March, April, and May 1970 by Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studios and produced by Creed Taylor, with arrangements and conducting by Eumir Deodato. The album was released on July 7 on CTI Records.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, except where noted.

"Tereza My Love" – 4:24
"Children's Games" – 3:30
"Choro" – 2:10
"Brazil" (Ary Barroso) – 7:25
"Stone Flower" – 3:21
"Amparo" – 3:41
"Andorinha" – 3:32
"God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" – 2:23
"Sabiá" (lyrics by Chico Buarque) – 3:58
"Brazil" [alternate take] – 5:25

Track 10 only available on CD reissue.
Personnel

Antônio Carlos Jobim – piano, electric piano, guitar, vocals (tracks 4 & 9)
Harry Lookofsky – violin
Joe Farrell – soprano saxophone
Urbie Green – trombone
Hubert Laws – flute
Ron Carter – double bass
João Palma – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion
Everaldo Ferreira – percussion
Eumir Deodato – guitar, arranger

Shirley Horn – The Main Ingredient (1995)

The Main Ingredient is a 1995 album by Shirley Horn.

Track listing

"Blues for Sarge" (Ronald R. Dawson) – 4:16
"The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 5:22
"Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:46
"The Meaning of the Blues" (Bobby Troup, Leah Worth) – 7:55
"Here's Looking at You" (Carroll Coates) – 3:27
"You Go to My Head" (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 9:08
"Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) – 4:42
"Come in from the Rain" (Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager) – 4:50
"Peel Me a Grape" (Dave Frishberg) – 2:55
"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 7:10

Personnel:

Shirley Horn – piano, vocals
Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
Buck Hill
Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn
Charles Ables – guitar, electric bass
Steve Novosel – double bass
Billy Hart – drums
Elvin Jones – drums
Steve Williams – drums

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