Alyn Shipton

JRR 160225

Theme: Milestones

DISC 1

Artist​​Quincy Jones

Title​​Birth of a Band

Composer​Quincy Jones

Album​​Complete 1960 European Concerts

Label​​Domino

Number​891211 CD 1 Track 1

Duration ​EOM 5.17

Performers​Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Leonard Johnson, Floyd Standifer, t; Jimmy Clevelend, Quentin Jackson, Melba Liston, Ake Persson, tb; Phil Woods, Porter Kilbert,  Sahib Shihab, Budd Johnson, Jerome Richardson, reeds; Julius Watkins, frh; Les Spann, g; Patti Brown, p; Buddy Catlett, b; Joe Harris, d. Quincy Jones, dir. l’Alhambra, Paris, 14 Feb 1960.

DISC 2

Artist​​Toots Thielemans

Title​​Days Of Wine And Roses

Composer​Mancini, Mercer

Album​​Captured Alive

Label​​Candid / Choice

Number​CRS 1007 Track 1

Duration ​6.14

Performers​Toots Thielemans, hca; JoAnne Brackeen, p; Cecil McBee, b; Freddie Waits, d. 1974

DISC 3

Artist​​Sarah Vaughan

Title​​Black Coffee

Composer​Webster / Burke

Album​​The Essential

Label​​CBS

Number​467152-2 Track 3

Duration ​3.19

Performers​Sarah Vaughan, v; Gordon Griffith, Jimmy Maxwell, Melvin Solomon, t; Muni Morrow, John D’Agostino, tb; Henry Ross, Harold Feldman, Harry Terrill, Wolf Taninbaum, Bernard Kaufmann, reeds; Henry W Rowland, p; Bob Haggart, b; VeryleMills, hp; Norris Shawker, d. plus strings. Joe Lippman, arr, dir. 20 Jan 1949.

DISC 4

Artist​​Emily Masser

Title​​Hackensack

Composer​Thelonious Monk

Album​​Songs with my Father

Label​​Emily Masser

Number​[no number] track 4

Duration ​5.25

Performers: Emily Masser (v), Dean Masser (ts), Matyas Gayer (p), James Owston (b), Steve Brown (d) rec. 2024

DISC 5

Artist​​Sandy Brown

Title​​Those Blues

Composer​Sandy Brown

Album​​McJazz

Label​​Pye Nixa

Number​NJL 9 Track 5

Duration ​3.53

Performers​Al Fairweather, t; Sandy Brown, cl; Jeremy French, tb; Ian Armit, p; Diz Disley, bj; Tim Mahn, b; Graham Burbidge, d. 1957

DISC 6

Artist​​Kenny Baker’s Dozen

Title​​Charlie The Chulo

Composer​Duke Ellington

Album​​Live at the BBC 1957

Label​​Acrobat

Number​ADDCD 311CD 2 

Duration ​3.37

Performers​Kenny Baker, Tommy McQuater, t; George Chisholm, tb; Ken Wray, vtb; Derek Collins, cl; Harry Hayes, as; Keith Bird, cl, ts; Harry Klein, bars; Bill Le Sage, vib; Derek Smith, p; Lennie Bush, b; Phil Seamen, d. 16 Feb 1957.

DISC 7

Artist​​Amina Claudine Myers

Title​​It Makes My Love Come Down

Composer​Bessie Smith

Album​​Salutes Bessie Smith

Label​​Leo

Number​LR 103, track 4

Duration ​3.45

Performers​Amina Claudine Myers, p. June 1980

DISC 8

Artist​​Shirley Scott

Title​​All The Things You Are

Composer​Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II

Album​​Skylark

Label​​Candid

Number​CCD79705 Track 5

Duration ​8.46 

Performers​Shirley Scott, p; Arthur Harper, b; Mickey Roker, d. Birdland, NY; Nov 1991

DISC 9

Artist​​Mike Westbrook

Title​​Something

Composer​George Harrison

Album​​Off Abbey Road

Label​​Enja

Number​R279640 Track 2

Duration ​8.43

Performers​Phil Minton, v; Kate Westbrook, v, tenor horn, piccolo; Peter Whyman, Allan Wakeman, reeds; Mike Westbrook, p; Brian Godding, g; Andy Grappy, tu; Peter Fairclough, d.

DISC 10

Artist​​Mark-Anthony Turnage / John Scofield

Title​​Protocol

Composer​Scofield arranged by Turnage

Album​​Scorched

Label​​DG

Number​474 729-2 Track 14 

Duration ​3.26 

Performers​John Scofield, g; John Pattitucci, elb; Peter Erskine, d. HR Big Band, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; cond: Hugh Wolff. 7 September 2002 at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt