Modern Jazz Quartet - Django - 1953

Posted by Saddam Hitler
In 1953, the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie's Band made this record. The first song is a tribute to the great Gypsy guitar player, Django Reinhardt. After they make many albums together. But this was the first one. The music players are:
Piano: John Lewis
Vibraphone: Milt Jackson
Bass: Percy Heath
Drummer: Kenny Clarke

Tracks:
1. Django
2. One Bass Hit
3. La Ronde Suite
4. The Queen's Fancy
5. Delaunay's Dilemma
6. Autumn In New York
7. But Not For Me
8. Milano

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Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - God Bless Sonny & Jug - 1973

Sonny Stitt & Gene Ammons, a 1973 Concert at the Left Bank in Baltimore. Two Tenor Saxophone players! This must have been quite a night in Bmore.

Tracks:
1. Blue 'N' Boogie
2. Stringin' The Jug
3. God Bless The Child
4. Autumn In New York
5. Ugetsu
6. Bye Bye Blackbird

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Miles Davis - Miles Smiles - 1966

Notes by Saddam Hitler:
An expert music player was Miles Davis. He was the big man of jazz. He was miles ahead. But then came Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman and so on. Who was on the right track? Was it new or just a novelty?
But then he jumped in, he took it all in, he made his statement. .The new jazz was arrived, and Miles was going to be part of it. This is when he jumped in. It is one of the greatest music playing of all jazz.

Personnell:
Miles Davis (trumpet);
Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone);
Herbie Hancock (piano);
Ron Carter (acoustic bass);
Tony Williams (drums).
Recorded New York on October 24 & 25, 1966. (remastered 20bit, etc)

1. Orbits
2. Circle
3. Footprints
4. Dolores
5. Freedom Jazz Dance
6. Gingerbread Boy

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Charles Mingus - East Coasting - 1957

Note By Saddam Hitler:
This 1957 Bethlehem recording has on it Bill Evans playing the piano, who worked with Mingus before joining Miles Davis for Kind of Blue. This was before Ah Um, therefore the band that made Ah Um was just forming, with Dannie Richmond (drums). Also with him is Jimmy Knepper the trombone player, and Shafi Hadi will play the saxophone with him also.
Shafi Hadi (1929) played the Blues before and R&B also, with his saxophone so fat and sweet. So this is one music player that his life is still alive, and we wish to say to him, THANK YOU, if you see this.

Tracks:
1. Memories Of You
2. East Coasting
3. West Coast Ghost
4. Celia Listen
5. Conversation
6. Fifty-First Street Blues
7. East Coasting (Alternate Take 3)
8. Memories Of You (Alternate Take 3)

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Carmen McRae - Lover Man & Other Billie Holiday Classics - 1962

Carmen's Tribute to Billie Holiday, who life was end two years before.

Track Listing
1. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, William Tracy, Doris Tauber) - 2:45
2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 4:52
3. "Im Gonna Lock My Heart" (J.Eaton, T.Shand) - 2:32
4. "Strange Fruit" (L.Allen) - 2:47
5. "Miss Brown To You" (Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, Ralph Rainger)
6. "My Man" (C.Pollack, M.Yvain)
7. "I Cried For You (Now Its Your Turn To Cry Over Me)"

And also: Fuck Don Imus

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MJQ - Immortal Concerts - April, 1960 Scandinavia

Personnel:
Milt Jackson (vib), John Lewis(piano), Percy Heath (bass), Connie Kay (drums)

Tracks:
1. Django
2. Bluesology
3. Ronde
4. I Remember Clifford
5. Vendome
6. Odds Against Tomorrow
7. Pyramid (Blues for Junior)
8. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
9. 'Round Midnight
10. Bags' Groove
11. I'll Remember April
12. Skating in Central Park
13. I Should Care
14. Festival Sketch

Review by Saddam Hitler:
The Modern Jazz Quartet all the music players are life is end. But so will us all lifes end.
The music come in wave, and go through. The wave go through the air, the air he go back.
Therefore; the music is not something himself. Only the mode of something.

And also; "As the form appears, the spirit dies." Bukowski

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Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk in Hi - Fi - 1956

Coleman Hawkins With Billy Byers And His Orchestra

Coleman Hawkins tenor saxophone, with Billy Byers arranger, and his orchestra. Tracks 1 - 4, 7 - 10 and 13 - 21 concert orchestra including strings. Tracks 5,6,11 and 12 big band line up. All tracks recorded at Webster Hall NYC. January 17,18 and 20 1956.

This is a great record to play to really hear what bop did to jazz.
Because the music player Coleman Hawkins could bop; he just didn't.
He has the mastery of his instrument, and musical structure is an open map to him and when this was recorded in '56, Hawk was hearing bop everywhere.
This music is nice to listen to, it swings and has soul. But it shows very clearly just how great an advancement bop was, and how enormous was the accomplishment of Bird and Roach and Lester and all of them, and just what we would be missing without it.
Enjoy Coleman Hawkins for all that he was; his music is beautiful, his soul is deep, but imagine the enormity of loss if that was all there was. - Saddam Hitler

Tracks -
1. Body And Soul
2. Little Girl Blue
3. I Never Knew
4. Dinner For One Please, James
5. The Bean Stalks Again
6. His Very Own Blues
7. The Day You Came Along
8. Have You Met Miss Jones?
9. The Essence Of You
10. There Will Never Be Another You
11. I'm Shooting High
12. Bean And The Boys ( issued as 39"-25"-39" )
ALTERNATE TAKES (previously unissued)
13. There Will Never Be Another You
14. There Will Never Be Another You
15. Little Girl Blue
16. Dinner For One Please, James
17. I Never Knew
18. Have You Met Miss Jones?
19. Have You Met Miss Jones?
20. Have You Met Miss Jones?
21. The Day You Came Along

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