#LunchtimeLP Guitarist guitarist Ralph Towner who just passed away in January was born on this date in 1940. His album Solo Concert was released in 1980 on ECM. It has him on both 12 string in classical guitars. He was a monster player and the sound quality of this recording is excellent. #jazzsky

Latin percussionist and Jazz drummer Willie Bobo was born on this date in 1934 he plays drums and timbales on one of my favorite albums Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock with Paul Chambers and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez. It's intriguing minimalist modal Jazz with Latin rhythm. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Dexter Gordon born 2/27/1923. Doin’ Alright with Freddie Hubbard, Horace Parlan, George Tucker and Al Harewood 1961. Our Man in Paris with Bud Powell, Pierre Michelin and Kenny Clark 1963. Clubhouse with Freddie Hubbard, Berry Harris, Bob, Crenshaw, and Billy Higgins 1965. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Dexter Gordon's 103rd birthday is tomorrow. I'm starting the celebration early with one of my favorite records. Go with Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note Records. I'm sure it's on many folks' top 10 lists. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Eric Dolphy‘s Out To Lunch from 64 w/ Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Tony Williams in his final album as a leader. So pairing this with Dolphy‘s 1st album as a leader Outward Bound with Freddie Hubbard but with Jackie Byard, George Tucker, and Roy Haynes. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP The Sonny Clark Trio with George Duvivier on bass and Max Roach on drums was recorded in 1960 for Time Records. My version is a 1975 Japanese reissue. It is highly listenable. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Soul Jazz by Something Else featuring Vincent Herring with Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery, Paul Bollenback, David Kinoski, Essiet Essiet, and Otis Brown III was recorded in 2024 for Smoke Sessions records. It is a very satisfying session. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Herbie Hancock’s Takin’ Off with Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren, and Billy Higgins was his debut album as a leader. It was recorded in 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note. It introduced “Watermelon Man”. This is an excellent hard bop album, each track is a gem. #jazzsky

Previously unreleased recording of the late great pianist, Bobby Peterson, with bassist Gary Raynor and drummer Jay Epstein recorded live at the Dakota in 1996 review #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Latin Mann - Afro to Bossa to Blues by Herbie Mann was recorded for the Columbia label and released in 1965. Arrangements by Oliver Nelson. there’s a diagram of Latin jazz family tree by Herbie Mann on the back and where the tunes on this record came from. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess was released in 1965 on Atlanta Records. The MJQ with their chamber jazz style gave us this brilliant interpretation of a Gershwin classic #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Tenor Legacy by Benny Golson was released in 2024 on Arkadia records. This material was previously released on CD in 1996 in Japan. Golson was is joined by tenor players James Carter, Brantford Marsalis and Harold Ashby backed by Geoff Keezer, Dwayne Bruno and Joe Farnsworth. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Ron Carter, Art Farmer – Live At Sweet Basil with Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins released on Arkadia records in 2024 was originally released on laserdisk in Japan in 1991. This album has all originals and one standard, "My funny Valentine". Great performances all around. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Jazz Samba by tenor man Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd was recorded 64 years ago today and released by Verve Records. The opening track "Desafinado" written by Antonio Carlos Jobim earned Getz a Grammy award for best instrumental performance #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Angel Eyes by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded in 1962 and 1965 and released in 1966 on Columbia records. It features the compositions of Matt Dennis. Brubeck and Paul Desmond each solo expertly on this material. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Workout by Hank Mobley with Grant Green, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones was recorded on March 16th, 1961 by Rudy Van Gelder for Blue Note records. It's a smoking hard bop album featuring some of the era's best practitioners including a solid rhythm section. #jazzsky

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#LunchtimeLP Mal Waldron's Blues for Lady Day was recorded in Holland in 1972, released in 1973 on Black Lion Records in Europe and then released in the US in 1975 on Artista Records. The solo piano work pays tribute to Billie Holiday for whom Waldron played piano until her death in 1959. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP King Curtis was born on this date in 1934, listening to his 1972 album Soul Time on Up Front with a roadhouse blues sound. Next another from 1972. Gene Russell's Talked To My Lady on Black Jazz which has more of a 70's soul Jazz vibe with Gene on both acoustic and Rhodes piano. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Bobby hutcherson's Happenings was recorded 60 years ago today with Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw, and Joe Chambers. The final track "Omen" is a percussive extravaganza, at one point Hutchinson and Chambers reverse rolls with the Chambers playing marimba and Hutchinson on drums. #jazzsky

My review of Woody Shaw’s Love Dance and Joe Chambers’ Double Exposure is up on Jazz Police #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Chet’s Choice was recorded and released in the Netherlands on the Criss Cross label in 1985. Chet is in a trio with the phenomenal Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse on bass. This 2023 double LP made my listl. #jazzsky www.jazzpolice.com/archives/16042

#LunchtimeLP Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago was recorded on this date in 1959, This quintet which included Adderley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb. This group plus Miles Davis and Bill Evans would record the modal masterpiece Kind Of Blue one month later. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP 2 greats were born on this date: Sonny Stitt in 1924 & Stan Getz in 1927. Sonny Stitt's Constellation with Barry Harris, Sam Jones & Ray Brooks was recorded in 1972 for Cobblestone. Stan Getz's Sweet Rain with Chick Corea, Ron Carter & Grady Tate was recorded in 1967 for Verve. #jazzsly

#LunchtimeLP Today is tenor saxophoist Joshua Redmam's 57th birthday. I'm listening to RoundAgain, his 2020 release on Nonesuch records with Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Bass and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik was born 99 years ago today. I enjoy his walking base in this stunning 1956 Bebop recording Jutta Hipp with Zoot Simms on Blue Note. Moving forward to 2023 another woman-led session, Muriel Grossmann's bold Devotion on Third Man Records. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Jimmy McGriff's I've Got A Woman, his smokin' debut album was recorded in 1962 for Sue records. And now for something completely different, Song Sentimental by Peter Brotzmann, William Parker and Hamid Drake was recorded on this date in 2015 at the Otto Cafe in London. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP 65 years ago today Grant Green recorded his debut album for Blue Note, Grant's First Stand with Baby Face Willette on B3 and Ben Dixon on drums. Two days later they returned to the studio to record Willette's debut recording Face To Face adding Fred Jackson on tenor. Soul jazz #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Know What I Mean? by Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Percy Heath and Connie Kay was recorded on this date in 61. 6 years later Bobby Hutcherson spent his 25th birthday making Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Sonny Stitt's Deuces Wild with Wilmer Mobsy (said to be Don Patterson with an alias) and Billy James was recorded in 1967 for Atlantic Records. Robin Kenyatta sits in twice and Rufus Harley plays bagpipe on one. Mostly blues burners but one beautiful ballad "My Foolish Heart". #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Two great composers were born on this date: Antonio Carlos Jobim 99 years ago and Benny Golson 97 years ago. Meet the Jazztet with Art Farmer, Golson, Curtis Fuller was recorded in 1960. Get/Gilberto with Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto and Jobim was recorded in 63 #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Lonely Woman by the Modern Jazz Quartet was recorded on this date in 1962 for Atlantic Records. John Lewis opens with a beautiful arrangement of Ornette Colman's composition. Also on this date in 1975. Keith Jarrett recorded his stunning solo piano work The Koln Concert on ECM #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Today is vibraphonist Gary Burton's 83rd birthday so listening to Gary Burton Quartet In Concert recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1961 with Larry Coryell,. Steve Swallow, and Bob Moses. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Bossa Nova U.S.A. by the Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello was recorded in 1962 and released the following year on Columbia Records. The following year Desmond recorded the very satisfying jazz- samba album Bossa Antigua with Jim Hall. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis was recorded on this date in 1949 for Capitol Records. Most of the tracks were originally issued on 78s and then released on an LP in 1957. The Complete Birth of the Cool added the remaining track, "Darn That Dream" and was released in 1972. #jazzsky

It's never a bad time to listen to Dexter Gordon. This blue note compilation from 1975 pulls together tracks from several early '60s recording sessions. Although I have many of these on other records, it's nice to have them all together on this two LP set. #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Happy Moods by the Ahmad Jamal trio was recorded 65 years ago today in Chicago for Argo records. Nice warm music for a cold winter day, it is true to its title. #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp ,The Third Cup by The Eddie Fisher quintet recorded in 1969 for Cadet records. Great soul jazz guitar groove backed by Bob Selby on organ who had a sound influenced by Larry Young #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Al Foster was born on this date in 1943. He appears along with Barry Harris and Sam Jones on a favorite, Dexter Gordon's Biting the Apple from 1975. On this date in 1959 Jackie McLean recorded Jackie's Bag with Donald Byrd. Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Cedar Walton was born on this date in 1934. On Clifford Jordan's Firm Roots from 1975 with Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins - aka the Magic Triangle. Cedar Walton Plays Cedar Walton is an excellent hard bop compilation from 60's sessions showcasing Walton's compositions. #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Why Am I Treated So Bad! by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet was recorded in 1967. This was a follow-up to Mercy Mercy Mercy which was a huge hit. The producer wanted the same vibe so he used the same formula bringing in friends into the studio to simulate a live club. #jazzsky

#LunchtimeLP Soulville by Ben Webster with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Stan Levey was recorded in 1957 for Verve records. A relaxed collection of Blues and ballads beautifully played in the style he forged in the swing era. It's a pleasure to listen to. #jazzsky #jazzvinyl

#LunchtimeLP Canadian Jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was born on this date in 1930. This gives me a good excuse to listen to two of my favorite LPs he appears on. Five Pieces 1975 by Anthony Braxton and Indo-Jazz Fusions by the Joe Harriott and John Mayer Double Quintet from 1967 #jazzsky #jazzvinyl

#LunchtimeLP Johnny Hodges' Blues A-Plemty with Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmy Woode, and Sam Woodyard was recorded in 1958 for Verve records.#jazzsky

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#lunchtimelp Max Roach was born 102 years ago. His Percussion Bitter Sweet with Abbey Lincoln, Booker Little, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Jordan, Mal Waldron, and Art Taylor was recorded in 1961 . Next up is Money Jungle where Roach was joined by Duke Ellington on piano and Charles Mingus in 1962 #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Miles in France – Miles Davis Quintet 1963/64: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 is an 8 LP set containing mostly previously unreleased recordings. All have Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. The first six LP's have George Coleman on tenor. The others have Wayne Shorter #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp midnight blue by Kenny Burrell with Stanley Turrentine, Major Holley, Bill English, and Ray Barretto was recorded 63 years ago today by Rudy Van Gelder and released on Blue Note records. One of my favorite records, it's near perfect and has a super hip laid-back sound. #jazzsky

#lunchtimelp Alone Together by Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, and Charlie Haden was recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in 1996 and released by Blue Note as a CD. It was remastered and released in 2019 on a double LP featuring explorations of melody & harmony on long takes of six standards. #jazzsky #vinyl