Genre: Jazz
The year 1956 finally brought the breakthrough of the long-playing record format for jazz. On the one hand, record labels were able to re-market their catalog by reassembling and republishing older sessions originally pressed on the 10-inch format, on the other hand, the longer playing time per LP-side finally give the musicians more freedom in regards to the structure of their compositions and the length of their improvisations.
The 20 original albums from 1956 collected here are mainly new releases, however, recorded in 1955 and 1956. The wide ranging musical spectrum from Duke Ellington via Billie Holiday or Stan Getz to Thelonious Monk and Charlie Mingus (both Mingus and Monk reached a larger audience for the first time that year), makes it clear that jazz developed in a multi-stylistic way during that time and all these musicians, whether playing hot or cool, Swing or Hardbop, created great classics whose emotionality, intensity, creativity and charisma are still among the best jazz history has to offer today.
Tracklist:
CD 1
■ MILES DAVIS
- COLLECTORS´ ITEMS
1. The Serpent's Tooth I (Miles Davis) 7.01
2. The Serpent's Tooth II (M. Davis) 6.18
3. 'Round About Midnight 7.06
(Thelonious Monk)
4. Compulsion (M. Davis) 5.44
5. No Line (M. Davis) 5.42
6. Vierd Blues (M. Davis) 6.54
7. In Your Own Sweet Way 4.36
(Dave Brubeck)
Miles Davis (tp)
"Charlie Chan" (Charlie Parker) (ts: 1 to 4)
Sonny Rollins (ts) Walter Bishop Jr. (p: 1 to 4)
Tommy Flanagan (p: 5 to 7) Percy Heath (b: 1
to 4) Paul Chambers (b: 5 to 7) Philly Joe
Jones (drs: 1 to 4) Art Taylor (drs: 5 to 7)
Recorded in Hackensack, NJ on January 30, 1953
(1-4) and March 15, 1956 (5-7)
■ MILES DAVIS & MILT JACKSON
QUINTET / SEXTET
8. Dr. Jackle (Jackie McLean) 8.58
9. Bitty Ditty (Thad Jones) 6.43
10. Minor March (J. McLean) 8.18
11. Changes (Ray Bryant) 7.11
Miles Davis (tp) Milt Jackson (vibes)
Jackie McLean (as: 8, 10) Ray Bryant (p)
Percy Heath (b) Arthur Taylor (drs)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack,
New Jersey on August 5, 1955
Total Time 74.32
CD 2
■ THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
- AT THE CAFE BOHEMIA - VOL. 1
1. Soft Winds (Benny Goodman) 14.08
2. The Theme (Kenny Dorham) 6.13
3. Minor's Holiday (K. Dorham) 9.13
4. Alone Together (Dietz, Schwartz) 4.14
5. Prince Albert (K. Dorham) 8.47
Kenny Dorham (tp) Hank Mobley (ts)
Horace Silver (p) Doug Watkins (b)
Art Blakey (drs)
Recorded at Café Bohemia, New York, NY
on November 23, 1955
■ CANNONBALL ADDERLEY
- IN THE LAND OF HI-FI
6. Dog My Cats (Ernie Wilkins) 2.30
7. I'm Glad There Is You (Dorsey, Madeira) 2.36
8. Blues for Bohemia 4.02
(Julian Adderley, Nat Adderley)
9. Junior's Tune (Junior Mance) 3.30
10. Between the Devil and the 3.27
Deep Blue Sea (Arlen, Koehler)
11. Casa De Marcel (Marcel) 2.50
12. LIittle Girl Blue (Rodgers, Hart) 2.43
13. T's Tune (Thomas Turrentine) 3.19
14. Broadway at Basin Street 3.51
(Frisch, Wayne)
15. Just Norman Wright (Specs Wright) 2.38
16. I Don't Care (Ray Bryant) 2.46
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (as)
Nat Adderley (cornet) Thomas "Tommy"
Turrentine (tp) Jimmy Cleveland, Bobby
Byrne (tb) Jerome Richardson (ts, fl)
Danny Bank (brs) Junior Mance (p)
Keeter Betts (b) Specs Wright (drs)
Ernie Wilkins (cond)
Recorded in New York on June 8, 16 and 18, 1956
Total Time 76.48
CD 3
■ DUKE ELLINGTON - PRESENTS
1. Summertime 2.14
(DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin)
2. Laura (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) 4.14
3. I Can't Get Started 4.26
(George Gershwin, Vernon Duke)
4. My Funny Valentine (Rodgers & Hart) 4.49
5. Everything but You 3.00
(Don George, Duke Ellington, Harry James)
6. Frustration (Duke Ellington) 3.50
7. Cotton Tail (D. Ellington) 2.54
8. Day Dream 3.40
(Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, John Latouche)
9. Deep Purple (Mitchell Parish, DeRose) 3.37
10. Indian Summer 3.02
(Al Dubin, Victor Herbert)
11. Blues (D. Ellington) 7.00
Duke Ellington (p) Cat Anderson, Clark Terry, Willie Cook (tp) Ray Nance (tp, voc)
Britt Woodman, John Saunders, Quentin
Jackson (tb) Russell Procope (as, fl)
Johnny Hodges (as) Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts)
Paul Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (brs, b-cl) Jimmy Woode (b) Sam Woodyard (drs)
Recorded in New York, on February 7 & 8, 1956
■ THE CHARLIE MINGUS
JAZZ WORKSHOP
- PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS
12. Pithecanthropus Erectus 10.38
(Charlie Mingus)
13. A Foggy Day (George & Ira Gershwin) 7.50
14. Profile of Jackie (C. Mingus) 3.12
15. Love Chant (C. Mingus) 14.57
Charlie Mingus (b) Jackie McLean (as)
J.R. Monterose (ts) Mal Waldron (p)
Willie Jones (drs)
Recorded in New York, NY on January 30, 1956
Total Time 79.23
CD 4
■ BILLIE HOLIDAY
- LADY SINGS THE BLUES
1. Lady Sings the Blues 3.47
(Billie Holiday, Herbie Nichols)
2. Trav'lin' Light (Mundy, Mercer) 3.10
3. I Must Have That Man (Fields, McHugh) 3.06
4. Some Other Spring (Herzog, Kitchings) 3.39
5. Strange Fruit (Lewis Allan) 3.04
6. No Good Man 3.23
(Fisher, Higginbotham, Gallop)
7. God Bless the Child 4.00
(Herzog, Jr., Holiday)
8. Good Morning Heartache 3.32
(Fisher, Drake, Higginbotham)
9. Love Me or Leave Me (Kahn, Donaldson) 2.35
10. Too Marvelous for Words 2.13
(Mercer, Whiting)
11. Willow Weep for Me (Ann Ronell) 3.08
12. I Thought About You 2.48
(Van Heusen, Mercer)
Billie Holiday (voc) Charlie Shavers (tp, NY)
Harry Edison (tp, LA) Tony Scott (cl, NY) Willie
Smith (as, LA) Paul Quinichette (ts, NY) Kenny
Burrell (git, NY) Barney Kessel (git, LA)
Wynton Kelly (p, NY) Bobby Tucker (p, LA)
Aaron Bell (b, NY) Red Callender (b, LA) Lenny
McBrowne (drs, NY) Chico Hamilton (drs, LA)
Recorded in New York City on June 6, 7, 1956 (1-8) and in Los Angeles September 3, 1954 (9 to 12)
■ SARAH VAUGHAN
- IN THE LAND OF HI-FI
13. Over the Rainbow (Harburg, Arlen) 3.30
14. Soon (I. Gershwin, G. Gershwin) 2.37
15. Cherokee (Ray Noble) 2.31
16. I'll Never Smile Again (Ruth Lowe) 2.35
17. Don't Be on the Outside 3.01
(Kelly, Watts, Wyche)
18. How High the Moon (Lewis, Hamilton) 2.37
19. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream 3.19
(G. Ellington, Hodges)
20. Sometimes I'm Happy 2.57
(Grey, Caesar, Youmans)
21. Maybe (Madden) 2.33
22. An Occasional Man (Martin, Blane) 2.32
23. Why Can't I (Rodgers, Hart) 2.55
24. Oh My (Joe Greene) 2.24
Sarah Vaughan (voc) Ernie Royal, Bernie
Glow (tp) Kai Winding, J. J. Johnson (tb)
Cannonball Adderley, Sam Marowitz (as)
Jerome Richardson (fl, ts) Turk Van Lake (git)
Jimmy Jones (p) Joe Benjamin (b) Roy Haynes
(drs) Ernie Wilkins arr, cond
Recorded on October 26 and 27, 1955
Total Time 71.59
CD 5
■ STAN GETZ
- IN STOCKHOLM
1. Indiana 4.55
(Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley)
2. Without a Song 4.42
(Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu)
3. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance 5.53
with You (Victor Young, Ned Washington,
Bing Crosby)
4. I Can't Believe That You're in Love 5.22
with Me (Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill)
5. Everything Happens to Me 7.12
(Tom Adair, Matt Dennis)
6. Over the Rainbow 5.26
(Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg)
7. Get Happy (Arlen, Ted Koehler) 5.15
8. Jeepers Creepers 5.03
(Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer)
Stan Getz (ts) Bengt Hallberg (p)
Gunnar Johnson (b) Anders Burman (drs)
Recorded in Stockholm around December, 1955
■ DAVE BRUBECK
- BRUBECK PLAYS BRUBECK
9. Swing Bells (Dave Brubeck) 3.40
10. Walkin' Line (D. Brubeck) 2.47
11 In Your Own Sweet Way (D. Brubeck) 5.01
12. Two-Part Contention (D. Brubeck) 5.39
13. Weep No More (D. Brubeck) 3.59
14. The Duke (D. Brubeck) 2.55
15. When I Was Young (D. Brubeck) 3.19
16. One Moment Worth Years (D. Brubeck) 4.56
17. The Waltz (D. Brubeck) 3.51
Dave Brubeck (p solo)
Recorded in Oackland, at Dave Brubeck´s house, released July 16, 1956
Total Time 79.58
CD 6
■ JOHNNY HODGES &
THE ELLINGTON ALL-STARS
1. Ah Oodie Oobie (Johnny Hodges) 3.33
2. Meet Mr. Rabbit (J. Hodges) 7.14
3. Duke's in Bed (Duke Ellington) 2.56
4. Just Squeeze Me (D. Ellington) 3.09
5. Ballad for the Very Sad and 3.23
Very Tired Lotus Eaters (Billy Strayhorn)
6. Confab with Rab (J. Hodges) 3.19
7. It Had to Be You (Kahn, Jones) 3.08
8. Black and Tan Fantasy (Miley, Ellington) 6.21
9. Take the "A" Train (B. Strayhorn) 8.05
(Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer)
Johnny Hodges (as) Clark Terry (tp)
Ray Nance (tp, vl) Quentin Jackson (tb)
Jimmy Hamilton (cl) Harry Carney (brs)
Billy Strayhorn (p) Jimmy Woode (b)
Sam Woodyard (drs)
Recorded on September 1, 1956
■ THELONIOUS MONK
- PLAYS THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON
10. It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't 4.42
Got That Swing (Ellington, Mills)
11. Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) 4.32
12. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 5.57
(Ellington, Webster)
13. Black and Tan Fantasy (Miley, Ellington) 3.29
14. Mood Indigo (Bigard, Ellington, Mills) 3.17
15. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart 5.44
(Ellington, Nemo, Mills, Redmond)
16. Solitude (Ellington, DeLange, Mills) 3.46
17. Caravan (Ellington, Mills, Tizol) 6.01
Thelonious Monk (p) Oscar Pettiford (b)
Kenny Clarke (drs)
Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey
on July 21, 1955
Total Time 78.39
CD 7
■ CHET BAKER
WITH BOBBY JASPAR
1. How About You (Lane, Freed) 4.31
2. Once in a While (Edwards, Green) 5.38
3. Cheketah (Phil Urso) 6.03
4. Alone Together (Schwartz) 3.53
5. Chet (Pierre Michelot) 3.10
6. Dinah (Akst, Lewis, Young) 3.03
7. Tasty Pudding (Al Cohn) 4.45
8. Anticipated Blues (Chet Baker) 2.32
9. Vline (Chevalier) 3.05
Chet Baker (tp) Bobby Jaspar (ts, fl)
Benny Vasseur (tb) Teddy Hameline (as)
Armand Migiani (ts) William Boucaya (brs)
Francy Boland (p) Benoit Quersin (b)
Pierre Lemarchand (drs)
Recorded at Studio Pathe-Magellan in Paris, between Tuesday October, 25th, 1955 and February, 10th, 1956
■ KENNY BURRELL
- INTRODUCING KENNY BURRELL
10. This Time the Dream's on Me 4.59
(Arlen, Mercer)
11. Fugue 'N Blues (Kenny Burrell) 6.48
12. Takeela (K. Burrell) 4.19
13. Weaver of Dreams (Young, Elliot) 4.43
14. Delilah (Victor Young) 6.04
15. Rhythmorama (Kenny Clarke) 6.28
16. Blues For Skeeter (Kenny Burrell) 8.06
Kenny Burrell (git) Tommy Flanagan (p)
Paul Chambers (b) Kenny Clarke (drs)
Candido (congas)
Recorded at Hackensack, NJ on May 29, 1956
(tracks 12, 13, 15) and on May 30, 1956
(tracks 11, 14, 16, 17)
Total Time 78.09
CD 8
■ GERRY MULLIGAN
- MULLIGAN PLAYS MULLIGAN
1. Funhouse (Gerry Mulligan) 3.16
2. Ide's Side (G. Mulligan) 3.22
3. Roundhouse (G. Mulligan) 3.36
4. Kaper (G. Mulligan) 3.13
5. Bweebida Bobbida (G. Mulligan) 3.02
6. Mullenium (G. Mulligan) 4.06
7. Mulligan's Too (G. Mulligan) 17.37
Gerry Mulligan (brs) Jerry Hurwitz (tp: 1 to 6) Nick Travis (tp: 1 to 6) Ollie Wilson (tb: 1-6) Allen Eager (ts) Max McElroy (brs: 1-6) George Wallington (p) Phil Leshin (b) Walter Bolden (drs) Gail Madden (maracas)
Recorded August 17, 1951
■ JOHN COLTRANE & HANK MOBLEY
- 2 TENORS
8. Weejah (Elmo Hope) 11.13
9. Polka Dots and Moonbeams 8.40
(Johnny Burke)
10. On It (Elmo Hope) 9.05
11. Avalon (Al Jolson) 9.39
Donald Byrd (tp) Hank Mobley,
John Coltrane (ts) Elmo Hope (p)
Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (drs)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack,
New Jersey on May 7, 1956
Total Time 76.53
CD 9
■ OSCAR PETERSON - TENDERLY
1. Debut (Oscar Peterson) 2.53
2. They Didn't Believe Me (Kern, Rourke) 2.55
3. Lover Come Back to Me 2.51
(Hammerstein II, Romberg)
4. Where or When (Hart, Rodgers) 3.27
5. Three O' Clock in the Morning 3.36
(Morse, Robledo)
6. All the Things You Are 3.38
(Kern, Hammerstein II)
7. Tenderly (Lawrence, Gross) 3.46
8. Oscar's Blues (O. Peterson) 3.14
9. Little White Lies (Donaldson) 3.10
10. In the Middle of a Kiss (Coslow) 3.13
11. Nameless (O. Peterson) 2.56
12. Two Sleepy People (Loesser, Carmichael) 3.21
Oscar Peterson (p) Ray Brown (b) Major
Holley (b) Recorded in March and May 1956
■ DIZZY GILLESPIE - THE CHAMP
13. The Champ (Dizzy Gillespie) 5.41
14. Birk's Works (D. Gillespie) 3.07
15. Caravan (Edward Duke Ellington) 2.53
16. Time on My Hands 2.23
(Adamson, Gordon, Youmans)
17. On the Sunny Side of the Street 3.07
(McHugh)
18. Tin Tin Deo (Pozo, Fuller) 2.41
19. Stardust (Carmichael, Parish) 3.04
20. They Can't Take That Away from Me 3.45
(G. & I. Gershwin)
21. The Bluest Blues (McFarland, Thompson) 2.54
22. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (D. Gillespie) 3.11
23. Ohh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee (Graham, Carroll) 3.23
Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc on 22) J.J. Johnson (tb)
Bill Graham (as: 15 to 17, 18 to 23) John Coltrane
(as: 14, 18; ts: 14, 18) Budd Johnson (ts: 13) Bill
Graham (brs: 15 to 17, 18 to 23) Milt Jackson
(vibes: 14, 18, 22;organ: 15 to 17, 19-21; p: 14, 18, 22)
Wynton Kelly (p: 20, 23) Kenny Burrell (git: 14, 18)
Bernie Griggs (b: 20, 23) Percy Heath (b: 13 to
19, 21, 22) Al Jones (drs: 15 to 17, 19 to 23) Art
Blakey (drs: 13) Kansas Fields (drs: 14 to 18)
Stuff Smith (vl: 15 to 17, 19, 21) Joe Carroll (voc:
13, 15 to 17, 19 to 23) Melvin Moore (tracks: 13,
22) Milt Jackson (voc: 15 to 17, 19 to 21)
Released in 1956
Total Time 75.10
CD 10
■ MODERN JAZZ QUARTET
- FONTESSA
1. Versailles (Porte De Versailles) 3.26
(John Lewis)
2. Angel Eyes (Brent, Dennis) 3.52
3. Fontessa (J. Lewis) 11.16
4. Over the Rainbow (Harburg, Arlen) 3.56
5. Bluesology (Milt Jackson) 5.07
6. Willow Weep for Me (Ann Ronell) 4.52
7. Woody‘n You (Dizzy Gillespie) 4.26
John Lewis (p) Milt Jackson (vibes)
Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (drs)
Recorded in NYC, January 22, 1956 (1 to 4, 6, 7)
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio,
Hackensack, NJ, February 14, 1956 (5)
■ HORACE SILVER
- 6 PIECES OF SILVER
8. Cool Eyes (Horace Silver) 5.56
9. Shirl (H. Silver) 4.17
10. Camouflage (H. Silver) 4.26
11. Enchantment (H. Silver) 6.22
12. Senor Blues (H. Silver) 7.02
13. Virgo (H. Silver) 5.49
14. For Heaven's Sake 5.10
(Meyer, Bretten, Edwards)
Horace Silver (p) Donald Byrd (tp)
Hank Mobley (ts) Doug Watkins (b)
Louis Hayes (drs)
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack,
New Jersey on November 10, 1956
Total Time 75.58