Paul Chambers - We Six
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Art Pepper - Gettin' Together

Not quite sure what the recording order of this and the other just-before-60s-prison LPs was. This is with very close to the "Meets the Rhythm Section" group, and in similar style as well.

Added to Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums), we’ve got Conte Candoli on trumpet.

Paul Chambers - What's
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Paul Chambers - We Six
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Chet Baker, Chet Baker in New York, 1958 on Riverside

In something of the same vein as the West Coast / East Coast rap rivalry of 90s hip hop, the jazz scene in the 50s had a bit of a California vs New York thing happening. As the sleeve notes by Orrin Keepnews puts it:

. . . during much of the 1950s considerable conversation and many magazine pages have been devoted to discussion of the relative merits of, differences between, and what-have-you of the so called “East Coast” and “West Coast” schools of modern jazz. . . . on this LP, CHET BAKER, the most notable of “cool” West Coast trumpet stars, joins forces with some highly talented representatives of the “hard” Eastern style.

Those players included Johnny Griffin (Tenor Sax), Al Haig (Piano), Paul Chambers (Bass), and Philly Joe Jones (Drums). Recorded in New York in September of 1958. (I had a Jazzland reissue retitled as Polka Dots and Moonbeams but this pressing is much improved).

My copy is a Craft Recordings reissue from 2021 which replicates the Riverside labels but adds Craft/Concord rim text and catalog number. Via Beatnick Records in Montreal QC

#1950s #1958 #2021 #AlHaig #BeatnickRecords #ChetBaker #craftRecordings #JohnnyGriffin #MontrealQC #OrrinKeepnews #PaulChambers #PhillyJoeJones #Reissue #Riverside #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Miles Davis (Sextet) - Birth of the Blue

Previously released, but not as a standalone album, these four tracks, from a 1958 recording session, are some of the earliest works by Miles' first great sextet.

It's not Kind of Blue, not modal, and not as beautifully recorded—it's still great, and has been given a beautiful transfer & package by the Analogue Production folks.

Chet Baker, Chet, 1959 on Riverside

The labels carry a subtitle of “Ballads by Chet Baker,” and the rear cover suggests “The lyrical trumpet of Chet Baker” but most people just call it Chet. Riverside RLP 12-299 (mono) and RLP 1135 (stereo).

He’s joined here by Pepper Adams, Paul Chambers, Herbie Mann, Bill Evans, and Philly Joe Jones / Connie Kay splitting drums duty, plus Kenny Burrell on two tracks. The liner notes (by Orrin Keepnews) say “Pianist Bill Evans . . . is just beginning to attract real public attention, but has for some time been the object of extreme praise from fellow musicians.”

My copy is a 2021 reissue by Craft Recordings (CR 00359) pressed at RTI with lacquers cut by Kevin Grey – via Beatnick Records in Montreal QC – which sounds fantastic.

#1950s #1959 #BeatnickRecords #BillEvans #ChetBaker #ConnieKay #craftRecordings #HerbieMann #jazz #KennyBurrell #MontrealQC #PaulChambers #PepperAdams #PhillyJoeJones #Riverside #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’, 1958 on Blue Note

Fantastic late 50s “hard bop” jazz record, with Clark joined by Art Farmer (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Paul Chambers (bass), and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, liner notes by Nat Hentoff. This should be in everyone’s vinyl collection whether you think of yourself as a Jazz fan or not.

The session as a whole seems to me . . . to embody Sonny’s definition […]

#1950s #1958 #75thAnniversary #ArtFarmer #BlueNote #Bop #ChrisBellman #HardBop #JackieMcLean #NatHentoff #PaulChambers #PhillyJoeJones #Reissue #RudyVanGelder #SonnyClark #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot

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