"This releases includes the complete sessions by the John Coltrane Quartet with Red Garland on piano. Originally issued on many different albums, this Is the first time this important body of music is presented on one edition! Recorded while Trane was working for Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, these splendid quartet sides show the saxophonist's development prior to his famous 1960 quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones!" (bron: Essential Jazz)
`The recording of Cannonball Takes Charge was sandwiched in between two events that would help earn Cannonball Adderley a permanent place in jazz lore. Just the day before the albums first session, he participated in the completion of Miles Daviss seminal Kind of Blue. Five months after Cannonball Takes Charge was finished, he had Riverside producer Orrin Keepnews record his newly formed quintet at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco which helped launch his career as one of the leading proponents of soul jazz. But what about the album made in between these two momentous occasions? Cannonball Takes Charge s concept was a common one: the altoist is the lone horn in a quartet performing a program made up primarily of standards. The results are anything but routine though, and show that 1959 was a very good year for Cannonball Adderley." (All About Jazz)
De Amerikaanse hardboppianist kwam in 1963 in Kopenhagen wonen, alwaar hij tot zijn dood, 30 jaar later, zou blijven. Hij was daar een zeer succesvol jazzartiest en werkte vaak samen met de legendarische jazzbassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Op deze 1974-opnamen wordt het duo bijgestaan door drummer Albert Heath, die met zijn broers Jimmy en Percy de behoorlijk legendarische Heath Brothers vormde.
"One of the all-time great tenor saxophonists, Johnny Griffin will go down in the annals of jazz as a performer easily able to negotiate the tricky harmonic changes and swift tempos of modern music. He'll also be remembered as a player who could masterfully interpret tender ballads, rivaling Ben Webster in that regard. He energized his solo recording career for the Riverside label in the late fifties, and obtained his nickname, The Little Giant, with that eponymously titled LP in 1959." (Allmusic) Op dit album speelt de tenorsaxofonist met o.a. trompettist Blue Mitchell en pianist Wynton Kelly.
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