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Selection 1: It’s Time! Selection 2: Revillot It was a very ’60s thing, titles made up of words spelled backwards. This track is quite obvious, Revillot, Tolliver, With others its more subtle, like Llareggub, from Stan Tracey’s Under Milk … Continue reading
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Alternative pressing comparisons round II: London vs. Tokyo Compare The Pressing subject: New Jazz 8210 Roy Haynes Trio “We Three” Artists Phineas Newborn (piano) Paul Chambers (bass) Roy Haynes (drums) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, November 14, 1958 … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Damn If I Know (The Stroller) – (Walter Davis Jr) , , , The blues gets an unmistakable Shepp makeover, mixing bursts of free solo improvisation with the aggression of a screaming banshee, within a traditional harmonic twelve bar foundation. It’s The … Continue reading
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 Selection: Reaching Fourth Artists: McCoy Tyner (p) Henry Grimes (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, November 14, 1962 Music Described as not as intense as his work with the Coltrane Quartet, Tyner’s second album as … Continue reading
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Selection: Minor Escamp (Jordan) . . . Now the somewhat surface-challenged Dillon (Roy Haynes Trio) . . . Artists Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone, Jay Cameron, baritone saxophone; Henri Renaud, piano; Jimmy Gourley, guitar; Joe Benjamin, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; … Continue reading
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Selection 1 : GW (dedicated to Dolphy’s mentor Gerald Wilson) . . . The track closest in lineage to Out to Lunch Selection 2: On Green Dolphin Street . . . Hubbard’s muted introduction gives a false sense of reassurance.  One reviewer … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Reflection (Bryant) Selection 2: Sneakin’ Around (Bryant) Artists Phineas Newborn (p) Paul Chambers (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, November 14, 1958 Year: 1958, The Cold War rages on. 1958 March 11, U.S. B-47 bomber … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Feathers (Hale Smith) Selection 2: Serene (Dolphy) Something both malevolant and beautiful about the avant-garde’s treatment of tenderness, peace and tranquility, exposing flashes of barely concealed danger, somewhere Freddie Krueger is loose in Snow White’s boudoir. Artists Eric Dolphy (as, … Continue reading
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 Selection 1: Mangoes Selection 2: It could Happen to You (unaccompanied solo) Artists Sonny Rollins (ts) Sonny Clark (p) Percy Heath/Paul Chambers  (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, June 11, 12 &19, 1957 Rollins 1957 … Continue reading
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Previously blogged under title “Bad News Blues” Fantasy records Seventies reissue, now upgraded to the real thing, Roy Haynes Cracklin’ on Prestige New Jazz. Selection: Scoochie (Booker Ervin) Artists Booker Ervin (ts) Ronnie Mathews (p) Larry Ridley (b) Roy Haynes (d) … Continue reading
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Selection: Misterioso (Monk) stereo . . . Artists Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone, Thelonious Monk, piano; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; recorded live at the “Five Spot Cafe”, NYC, August 7, 1958; Cover Painting The Seer by Giorgio de Chirico … Continue reading
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Track Selection:  Medley: Hag – Cymbalism – Oleo (10:45) . . . Haynes kicks off as he intends to continue, relentless propulsion, fizzling with brio and drive, sticks dancing on the cymbals,  head-nodding double-time to keep up, as Strozier pulls up … Continue reading
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Track Selection: Snap Crackle (Haynes) . . . “.. that ‘Shulie a Bop’ with Sarah Vaughan , which was in 1954 – where she introduces the trio in the song (Youtube at 1:28secs) and just before she says my name I say, … Continue reading
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Track Selection: Dorian . . . “Dorian”, an electrifying modal jazz composition, credited to Haynes’ pianist Ronnie Mathews, sounds as fresh and modern today as it did 1963. Artists Booker Ervin (ts) Ronnie Mathews (p) Larry Ridley (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded … Continue reading
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Record pictures updated June 8, 2017, updated June 10, 2017. This record deserves better than what I was able to do five years ago. LJC Track Selection 1:Â Kahlil the Prophet (Mclean) correct track … …” Using a hard bop lyric … Continue reading
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Track Selection:  Coming on the Hudson Artists Johnny Griffin (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Ahmed Abdul-Malik (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded live at the “Five Spot Cafe”, NYC, August 7, 1958, Music The Track Listing: Light Blue Coming On The Hudson … Continue reading
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Track Selection: Speak Low Artists Richard Wyands (p) Eddie De Haas (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 5, 1960 Music Haynes has supported  an enormous variety of artists – Parker, Lester Young, Getz, Monk, … Continue reading
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Track selection 1: Images Track Selecton 2: Straight Ahead Artists Eric Dolphy (as, bcl, fl) Oliver Nelson (ts, as, cl) Richard Wyands (p) George Duvivier (b) Roy Haynes (d) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 1, 1961 Music: Fantastic combination, … Continue reading
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Track Selection: “Stolen Moments” (8:45)Â I> Artists Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Eric Dolphy, alto sax, flute; Oliver Nelson, alto, tenor sax, arranger; George Barrow, baritone sax; Bill Evans, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Roy Haynes, drums. Recorded Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, … Continue reading
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