Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded April 27

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Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded April 27

Clark Terry - Serenade to a Bus Seat (1957)

Serenade to a Bus Seat is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

Track listing

All compositions by Clark Terry except where noted

"Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 4:04
"Boardwalk" - 7:01
"Boomerang" - 6:01
"Digits" - 4:08
"Serenade to a Bus Seat" - 4:37
"Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 5:15
"Cruising" - 8:27
"That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 1:59

Personnel

Clark Terry - trumpet
Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums

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John Coltrane - Crescent (1964)

Crescent is a studio album by the jazz musician and composer John Coltrane. It was released in July 1964 through the label Impulse!. Alongside Coltrane on tenor saxophone, the album features McCoy Tyner (piano), Jimmy Garrison (double bass) and Elvin Jones (drums) playing original Coltrane compositions.

Coltrane does not solo at all on side two of the original LP; the ballad "Lonnie's Lament" instead features a long bass solo by Garrison. The album's closing track is an improvisational feature for Jones (with sparse melodic accompaniment from Coltrane's tenor sax and Garrison's bass at the song's beginning and end): Coltrane continued to explore drum/saxophone duets in live performances with this group and on subsequent recordings such as the posthumously released Interstellar Space (with Rashied Ali).

Track listing

All songs composed by John Coltrane and published by Jowcol Music (BMI)

Side one

"Crescent" – 8:41
"Wise One" – 9:00
"Bessie's Blues" – 3:22

Side two

"Lonnie's Lament" – 11:45
"The Drum Thing" – 7:22

Personnel

John Coltrane Quartet

John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
McCoy Tyner – piano
Jimmy Garrison – double bass
Elvin Jones – drums

Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)

Liberation Music Orchestra is a band and jazz album by Charlie Haden released in 1970, Haden's first as a band leader.

Track listing

LP side A:

"The Introduction" (Bley) / "Song of the United Front" (Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler) – 3:07
"El Quinto Regimiento" ("The Fifth Regiment") (Traditional; arranged by Bley)
"Los Cuatro Generales" ("The Four Generals") (Traditional; arranged by Bley)
"Viva la Quince Brigada" ("Long Live the Fifteenth Brigade") (Traditional melody; words by Bart Van Derschelling) – 20:58
"The Ending to the First Side" (Bley) – 2:07

LP side B:

"Song for Ché" (Haden) – 9:29
"War Orphans" (Ornette Coleman) – 6:42
"The Interlude (Drinking Music)" (Bley) – 1:24
"Circus '68 '69" (Haden) – 6:10
"We Shall Overcome" (Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, Pete Seeger) 1:19

Personnel

Perry Robinson — clarinet
Gato Barbieri — tenor saxophone, clarinet
Dewey Redman — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Don Cherry — cornet, flute, Indian wood & bamboo flutes (3,5)
Michael Mantler — trumpet
Roswell Rudd — trombone
Bob Northern — French horn, hand wood blocks, crow call, bells, military whistle
Howard Johnson — tuba
Sam Brown — guitar, Tanganyikan guitar, thumb piano
Carla Bley — piano, tambourine
Charlie Haden — bass
Paul Motian — drums, percussion
Andrew Cyrille — drums, percussion (8)

Regeneration (Stanley Cowell) (1975)

Regeneration is an album by Stanley Cowell recorded in 1975 and first released on the Strata-East label.

Track listing

"Trying to Find a Way" (Stanley Cowell, Viki-Maimoun McLaughlin) – 3:49
"The Gembhre" (Billy Higgins) – 4:30
"Shimmy Shewobble" (Marion Brown) – 4:00
"Parlour Blues" (Stanley Cowell, Aleke Kanonu) – 5:00
"Thank You My People" (Cowell, Kanonu) – 8:30
Travelin' Man" (Cowell, Curtis Fowlkes) – 4:00
"Lullabye" (Cowell, McLaughlin, Jerry Venable) – 5:45

Personnel

Stanley Cowell – piano, synthesizer, kora, mbira
Marion Brown – wooden flute (tracks 3 & 6)
Jimmy Heath – soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute (tracks 5–7)
John Stubblefield – zurna (track 5)
Jerry Venable – acoustic guitar (track 1)
Psyche Wanzandae – harmonica, flute (tracks 4–5)
Bill Lee – bass (tracks 2, 6–7)
Aleke Kanonu – bass drum, vocals (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
Billy Higgins – drums, gembhre, percussion (tracks 1–3, 5 & 7)
Ed Blackwell – water drum, parade drum, percussion (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
Nadi Qamar – mama-lekimbe, percussion, Madigascan harp (tracks 2, 6–7)
Charles Fowlkes – vocals, electric bass (tracks 1, 5, 7–6)
Glenda Barnes (track 1) – vocals
Kareema (tracks 6–7) – vocals

Reggie Workman - Cerebral Caverns (1995)

Cerebral Caverns is an album by bassist/composer Reggie Workman. It was recorded on April 27 and 28, 1995, in New York City, and was released by Postcards Records that same year. On the album, Workman is heard in a variety of instrumental combinations, in groups featuring multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, trombonist Julian Priester, pianist Geri Allen, harpist Elizabeth Panzer, drummers Al Foster and Gerry Hemingway, and tabla player Tapan Modak. Rivers and Priester previously appeared on Workman's album Summit Conference.

Track listing

All compositions by Reggie Workman.

"Cerebral Caverns I" – 7:14
"What's In Your Hand" – 5:02
"Fast Forward" – 6:40
"Ballad Explorations I" – 8:44
"Half Of My Soul (Tristan's Love Theme)" – 7:01
"Eastern Persuasion" – 5:30
"Evolution" – 8:24
"Seasonal Elements (Spring-Summer-Fall-Winter)" – 7:30

Personnel

Reggie Workman – bass
Sam Rivers – tenor saxophone (tracks 3, 4), soprano saxophone (track 7), flute (tracks 1, 5)
Julian Priester – trombone (tracks 3, 4, 5)
Geri Allen – piano (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Elizabeth Panzer – harp (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8)
Al Foster – drums (tracks 3, 5)
Gerry Hemingway – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7), electronic drum pads (track 1)
Tapan Modak – tabla (tracks 4, 5)