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6050
Inez and Charlie Foxx
Inez and Charlie Foxx
Charlie Foxx and his sister Inez Foxx were an African-American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang back-up and played guitar.Their most successful record was with their novelty composition, "Mockingbird"...


 
 
 


6051
Miles Davis
Blue Moods
Blue Moods
Blue Moods is 1955 album by Miles Davis. It brings Miles Davis together with Charles Mingus, accompanied by Elvin Jones on drums. The arrangement of "Alone Together" was by Charles Mingus, while the other tracks were arranged by Teddy Charles....


Debut DEB 120
1955


6052
Charles Mingus
Chazz! [sic]
Debut DEB 123
1955


6053
Charlie Parker
Jazz at Massey Hall
Jazz at Massey Hall
Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album featuring a performance by "The Quintet" given on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The quintet was composed of several leading 'modern' players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach...


Debut DEB 124
1953


6054
Thad Jones
The Fabulous Thad Jones
Debut DEB 127
1954,55


6055
Four Trombones (J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Willie Dennis, Benny Green)
Vol. 1
Debut DEB 130
1953


6056
Bud Powell
Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...


Bud Powell-Charlie Mingus-Max Roach
Fantasy 6006
1953


6057
Max Roach Quartet
Speak, Brother, Speak
Fantasy 6007
1962


6058
Four Trombones (J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Willie Dennis, Benny Green)
Vol. 2
Debut DEB 126
1953


6059
Charles Mingus
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach
The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach is an album by Charles Mingus, recorded during a live concert and released in 1955. Further recordings from the concert were released under the title Mingus at the Bohemia.-Reception:...


Debut DEB 139
1955


6060
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop.-Biography:...


My Little Cello
Debut DEB 132
1953,59


6061
Charlie Parker
Bird on 52nd St.
Fantasy 6011
1948


6062
Charlie Parker
Bird at St. Nick's
Fantasy 6012
1950


6063
Charles Mingus
Right Now
Fantasy 6017
1964


6064
Jimmy Witherspoon
At the Renaissance with Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster Quintet
HiFi J 426
1959


6065
Fats Navarro / Roy Eldridge
Saturday Night Swing Session
Counterpoint CPT 549
1947


6066
Odetta
Folk Songs By The Greatest
 
 


6067
Earl Hines
Plays Fats Waller
Fantasy 3217
1955-56


6068
Dave Brubeck
The Genius of Dave Brubeck
Fantasy 3229
1951-55


6069
Stan Getz
With Cal Tjader
Fantasy 3266
1958


6070
Gerry Mulligan / Paul Desmond
Mulligan Desmond
Fantasy 3220
1952-54


6071
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
At Sugar Hill
Fantasy 3340
 


6072
Milt Jackson & Sonny Stitt
In the Beginning
Galaxy 204
c.1947-48


6073
Dave Brubeck
Jazz at Storyville [sic]
Fantasy 3245
1953


6074
John Lee Hooker
The King Of Folk Blues
Galaxy 201
 


6075
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Blues And Shouts
Fantasy 3317
 


6076
Memphis Slim
Great Memphis Slim (Lord Have Mercy On Me)
 
1968


6077
John Lee Hooker
The Great John Lee Hooker
Crown CLP 5353
 


6078
John Lee Hooker
The Blues
Crown CLP 5157
 


6079
B.B. King
Greatest Hits
 
 


6080
Lightnin' Hopkins
Really The Blues
 
 


6081
Cal Tjader
Jazz at Monterey
Fantasy 3295
1959,61


6082
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded and released in 1960. To produce an atmosphere, Mingus makes spoken introductions "live" in the studio: hence the album's title....


Candid CJM 8005
1960


6083
Dave Brubeck
Recorded live at Newport Jazz Festival [sic]
Fantasy 3249
1953


6084
Earl Hines
Solo
Fantasy 3238
1956


6085
The Caravans
The Caravans
The Caravans is a Jubilee Gospel group that was started by Albertina Walker . The group reached its peak popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, launching the careers of a number of artists, including: Delores Washington, Albertina Walker, Bessie Griffin, Cassietta George, Dorothy Norwood, Inez...


The Soul of Gospel Music
 
 


6086
Alex Bradford
Alex Bradford
Professor Alex Bradford was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director who was a great influence on artists such as Little Richard, Bob Marley and Ray Charles and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel.Born in Bessemer, Alabama, he first appeared...


The King of Gospel Music
 
 


6087
Lee Morgan
The Genius Of Lee Morgan
 
1960


6088
Jimmy Reed
Wailin' the Blues
 
1956-59


6089
Odetta
At the Gate of Horn
At the Gate of Horn
At the Gate of Horn is the second solo album by American folk singer Odetta, first released in 1957. It was named for the Gate of Horn club in Chicago.Odetta is joined by bassist Bill Lee...


Tradition TLP 1025
 


6090
Mongo Santamaria
Mongo's Greatest Hits
Fantasy 3373
 


6091
Dave Brubeck
At the Blackhawk
 
1953,55


6092
The Montgomery Brothers
Wes' Best
Fantasy 3376
1960-61


6093
Merl Saunders
Soul Groovin'
 
1965


6094
John Lee Hooker
Live at Sugar Hill
Galaxy 205
 


6095
Dave Brubeck
Brubeck-Tjader
Fantasy 3205
1950


6096
Charlie Parker
The Immortal
Le Jazz Cool JC 102
1948,49,50


6097
Pee Wee Russell
Pee Wee Russell
Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....


The Definitive Pee Wee Russell
Counterpoint CPT 562
1958


6098
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Certain Blacks
Certain Blacks
Certain Blacks is an album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Paris on February 10, 1970 and released on the America label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell , Malachi Favors Maghostut, Chicago Beau, Julio Finn and William A...


 
1970


6099
Archie Shepp & Chicago Beau
Black Gipsy
Black Gipsy
Black Gipsy is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Europe in 1969 for the America label. The album was also issued by the Prestige label under the title Black Gypsy. The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard states "This music gets intense, but melody is always at its core: this is...


 
1969


6100
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler
Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...


Free Jazz
Fantasy 6016
1963


6101
John Lee Hooker
I Wanna Dance All Night
 
1969


6102
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp and drummer Philly Joe Jones recorded in Europe in 1969 for the America label. The album was also issued by the Fantasy label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "This intriguing LP does not live up to its potential.....


 
1969


6103
Archie Shepp
Coral Rock
Coral Rock
Coral Rock is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Europe in 1970 for the America label at the same sessions which produced Pitchin Can. The album was also issued by the Prestige label in 1973. The Allmusic review by Brandon Burke states "Coral Rock features an absolutely monster...


 
1970


6104
Frank Wright Quartet
Uhuru Na Umoja
 
1970


6105
Charles Mingus
Town Hall Concert
Jazz Workshop JWS 009
1965


6106
Archie Shepp
Pitchin Can
Pitchin Can
Pitchin Can is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Europe in 1969 and 1970 for the America label. The album features one track by Shepp with Clifford Thornton, Noah Howard, Julio Finn, Leroy Jenkins, Dave Burrell, Earl Freeman, Sunny Murray and Chicago Beau and one extended track...


 
1969,70


6107
Earl Hines
In Paris
 
1970


6108
Noah Howard & Frank Wright
Space Dimension
 
1970


6109
Charles Mingus
Pithycanthropus Erectus
 
1970


6110
Charles Mingus
Blue Bird
 
1970


6111
Jacques Coursil
Black Suite
BYG-Actuel
1969


6112
Arthur Jones
Arthur Jones (musician)
Arthur Jones was an American Free Jazz alto saxophonist known for his highly energetic but warm tones.Jones first played for several years in a Rock and Roll band...


Scorpio
 
1969


6113
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton
Clifford Thornton was an American free jazz trumpeter and trombonist. Born in Philadelphia in 1939, he studied with trumpeter Donald Byrd in the mid-1950s and worked with various players such as tuba player Ray Draper. After a stint in the army, Thornton moved to New York City...


The Panther And The Lash
 
1970


6114
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd is a Grammy Award-nominated American jazz trombonist and composer....


Featuring John Tchicai
 
1965


6115
Dave Burrell
After Love
After Love
After Love is a compilation live album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was released on March 15, 2005 by Universal International. A week earlier, the solo album Margy Pargy by Burrell was released. The two songs were recorded during the "legendary Parisian sessions of 1969-1970"...


 
1970


6116
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Phase One
 
1971


6117
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass
Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass
Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass is a 1970 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Paris and first released on the America label...


 
1970


6118
Alan Shorter
Alan Shorter
Alan Shorter was a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter.-Biography:...


Tes Esat
 
 


6119
Fontella Bass
I Need To Be Loved
 
c.1970


6120
Paul Bley
The Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet
 
1958


6121
Paul Bley
Improvisie
 
1971


6122
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s...


Dona Lee
 
1972


6123
Robin Kenyatta
Robin Kenyatta
Robin Kenyatta was an American jazz alto saxophonist.-Career:Born Robert Prince Haynes in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States, Kenyatta grew up in New York. He played with Bill Dixon there in the 1960s, playing with his project "The October Revolution in Jazz"...


Free State Band
 
1972


6124
Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy released on the French America label in 1972...


 
1972-73


6125
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....


The Gap
 
1972


6126
Willie Mabon
Willie Mabon
Willie Mabon was an American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist.-Career:Born Willie James Mabon, and brought up in Hollywood, Memphis, Tennessee, he had become known as a singer and pianist by the time he moved to Chicago in 1942. He formed a group, the Blues Rockers, and in 1949 began recording...


The Comeback
 
1973


6127
Eddy Louiss
Eddy Louiss
Eddy Louiss is a French jazz musician.His primary instrument is the Hammond organ. As a vocalist, he was a member of Les Double Six of Paris from 1961 through 1963.He has worked with Kenny Clarke, René Thomas, and Jean-Luc Ponty...


Orgue Vol. 1
 
1972


6128
Mal Waldron
The Whirling Dervish
The Whirling Dervish
The Whirling Dervish is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring performances recorded in Paris in 1972 and released by the French America label.-Reception:...


 
1972-73


6129
Oscar Peterson / Stéphane Grappelli
Vol. 1
 
1973


6130
Memphis Slim
So Long
 
 


6131
Oscar Peterson / Stéphane Grappelli
Vol. 2
 
1973


6132
Eddy Louiss
Orgue Vol 2
 
1972


6133
Dizzy Gillespie
The Giant
 
1973


6134
Emergency
Glenn Spearman
Glenn Spearman was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was specifically associated with free jazz and experimental music....


Homage to Peace
 
1973


6135
Dizzy Gillespie
The Source
 
1973


6136
Willie Mabon
Chicago 1963
 
 


6137
Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Lafayette Afro Rock Band was a French funk rock band formed in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York in 1970. Though almost unknown in their native United States, they are now universally celebrated as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s and admired for their use of break beats.Upon their...


Malik
 
 


6138
If
Another Time Around
 
 


6139
Stéphane Grappelli / Jean-Luc Ponty
Stéphane Grappelli / Jean-Luc Ponty
Improvising Artists IAI 37.38.52
1973


6140
Charles Mingus
Town Hall Concert 1964 Vol. 1
Jazz Workshop JWS 005
1964


6143
Lionel Hampton
 
 
1973


6144
Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...


Quartet
 
1971


6145
Carmen McRae
 
 
1973


6146
Carmen McRae
 
 
1973


6147
Jeremy Steig
Jeremy Steig
-Biography:Steig is the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig,At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side...


 
 
1970


6148
Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder
Jimmy Ponder is an American jazz guitarist.Ponder started playing guitar at age 14, and was heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. He began playing with Charles Earland at 17, and in the following years played with Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Donald Byrd, Stanley Turrentine,...


Seven Minds
 
c.1978


6149
Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...


 
 
1973,75


6152
Harry Edison
Harry "Sweets" Edison
 
 


6153
Marc Fosset
La Récré
 
 


6155
Lucky Thompson
Lucky Thompson
 
1972


6156
Richard "Groove" Holmes
New York 1973
 
 


6158
Carmen McRae
 
Time 52104
1962,63


6159
Various Artists
Yesterday (Getz-Mulligan-Gray)
Mainstream 56025
c.1948


001-002
Charles Mingus
Mingus at Monterey [2LP]
Jazz Workshop JWS 001/2
1964


003/4/5
Charles Mingus
The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus [3LP]
Prestige PRST 34001
1964


006/007
Duke Ellington
Sacred Concert
Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts
In the last decade of his life, Duke Ellington wrote three Sacred Concerts:* 1965 - A Concert of Sacred Music* 1968 - Second Sacred Concert* 1973 - Third Sacred Concert...


Fantasy F 8407
1968


008/9/10
Charlie Parker
Anthology [3LP]
 
1945-47


011-012
Anthony Braxton
Saxophone Improvisations, Series F [2LP]
 
1972


013-014
Lightnin' Hopkins
The Great Electric Show and Dance
 
 


015-016
Claude Bolling
Claude Bolling
Claude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...


Jazz Gala '79
 
1979


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