OLIVER NELSON — Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle (1966) LP, Vinyl | MONOAURAL | FLAC (tracks), lossless

This is an album of short, often corny tunes and brief, likable solos. Nelson features one of his first uses of guitar here via Barry Galbraith and, more prominently, Billy Butler. Nelson's originals, "Jazz Bug" and "Do You See What I See?" are worth a listen. Douglas Payne   Tracklist & Credits :

WYNONIE HARRIS – 1945-1947 | The Classics Chronological Series – 1013 (1998) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

The second Classics CD to feature blues singer Wynonie Harris' recordings as a leader finds him in the period right before he signed with the King label. The five four-song sessions on this disc (all quite jazz oriented) were cut for Hamp-Tone, Bullet, and Aladdin. First, Harris (who sounds quite enthusiastic in every setting) sings three numbers (including a two-part "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop") with a combo taken from the Lionel Hampton big band. The Bullet date was quite rare. Recorded in Nashville, it finds Harris backed by local players including Sun Ra in his first recording. Ra's piano is well featured throughout including on "Dig This Boogie." Harris is also heard with a Leonard Feather-organized band that includes trumpeter Joe Newman, altoist Tab Smith, and tenor-saxophonist Allen Eager ("Mr. Blues Jumped the Rabbit" is the best-known selection), with an obscure backup band in New York (including for "Ghost of a Chance," an odd departure with a vocal group) and sharing the spotlight with Big Joe Turner on three numbers (including a slightly disorganized two-part "Battle of the Blues"). Throughout, Wynonie Harris sounds like he was ready for stardom. Recommended. Scott Yanow
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RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK - Blacknuss (1971-2002) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

From its opening bars, with Bill Salter's bass and Rahsaan's flute passionately playing Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine," you know this isn't an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them?). As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree's guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is bringing to the jazz fore here. As the tune fades just two and a half minutes later, the scream of Kirk's tenor comes wailing through the intro of Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On," with a funk backdrop and no wink in the corner -- he's serious. With Richard Tee's drums kicking it, the strings developing into a wall of tension in the backing mix, and Charles McGhee's trumpet hurling the long line back at Kirk, all bets are off -- especially when they medley the mother into "Mercy Mercy Me." By the time they reach the end of the Isleys' "I Love You, Yes I Do," with the whistles, gongs, shouting, soul crooning, deep groove hustling, and greasy funk dripping from every sweet-assed note, the record could be over because the world has already turned over and surrendered -- and the album is only ten minutes old! Blacknuss, like The Inflated Tear, Volunteered Slavery, Rip, Rig and Panic, and I Talk to the Spirits, is Kirk at his most visionary. He took the pop out of pop and made it Great Black Music. He took the jazz world down a peg to make it feel its roots in the people's music, and consequently made great jazz from pop tunes in the same way his forbears did with Broadway show tunes. While the entire album shines like a big black sun, the other standouts include a deeply moving read of "My Girl" and a version of "The Old Rugged Cross" that takes it back forever from those white fundamentalists who took all the blood and sweat from its grain and replaced them with cheap tin and collection plates. On Kirk's version, grace doesn't come cheap, though you can certainly be a poor person to receive it. Ladies and gents, Blacknuss is as deep as a soul record can be and as hot as a jazz record has any right to call itself. A work of sheer blacknuss!
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Tracklist :
1     Ain't No Sunshine 2'26
Renaldo Benson / Al Cleveland / Marvin Gaye / Bill Withers
2     What's Goin' On/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 3'47
Renaldo Benson / Al Cleveland / Marvin Gaye
3     I Love You, Yes I Do 2'49
Chris Allen / Johnny Cameron / Rahsaan Roland Kirk
4     Take Me Girl, I'm Ready 3'18
Johnny Bristol / Pam Sawyer / LaVerne Ware
5     My Girl 3'06
Smokey Robinson / William Robinson / Ronald White
6     Which Way Is It Going 2'26
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
7     One Nation 3'41
Princess Patience Burton
8     Never Can Say Goodbye 4'02
Clifton Davis
9     Old Rugged Cross 7'15
Traditional
10     Make It with You 4'50
David Gates
11     Blacknuss 5'12
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Credits :
Bass – Henry Pearson (pistas: 1, 8, 11), Bill Salter (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Congas – Richard Landrum (pistas: 1, 8, 11)
Congas, Percussion [Cabassa] – Arthur Jenkins (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Drums – Bernard Purdie (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10), Khalil Mhdri (pistas: 1, 8, 11)
Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Saxophone [Manzello, Stritch], Gong, Whistle [Police Whistle], Arranged By – Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Guitar – Billy Butler (pistas: 1, 8, 11), Cornell Dupree (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10), Keith Loving (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Organ – Mickey Tucker (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Percussion – Joe Habad Texidor
Piano – Richard Tee (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10), Sonelius Smith (pistas: 1, 8, 11)
Trombone – Dick Griffin (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Trumpet – Charles McGhee (pistas: 2 to 7, 9, 10)
Vocals – Rahsaan Roland Kirk (pistas: 1, 5, 8, 11)

ARCHIE SHEPP - Things Have Got to Change (1971-1992) RM | FLAC (tracks), lossless

1    Money Blues    18:25
1.1    a) Part 1    5:54
1.2    b) Part 2    5:47
1.3    c) Part 3    6:41
2    Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior    2:30
3    Things Have Got To Change    16:59
3.1    a) Part 1    9:07
3.2    b) Part 2    7:51
Credits
Alto Saxophone, Piccolo Flute – James Spaulding (pistas: 1,3)
Backing Vocals – Anita Branham (pistas: 1,3), Anita Shepp (pistas: 1,3), Barbara Parsons (pistas: 1,3), Claudette Brown (pistas: 1,3), Ernestina Parsons (pistas: 1,3), Jody Shayne (pistas: 1,3), Joe Lee Wilson (pistas: 3), Johnny Shepp (pistas: 1,3), Sharon Shepp (pistas: 1,3)
Baritone Saxophone – Howard Johnson (pistas: 1,3)
Bass – Roland Wilson (pistas: 1,3)
Cello – Calo Scott (pistas: 3)
Drums – Beaver Harris (pistas: 1,3)
Electric Piano – Cal Massey (pistas: 2), Dave Burrell (pistas: 1,3)
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Billy Butler (pistas: 1), David Spinozza (pistas: 1)
Percussion – Calo Scott (pistas: 1), Hetty 'Bunchy' Fox (pistas: 1,3), Juma Sutan (pistas: 1,3), Ollie Anderson (pistas: 1,3)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Archie Shepp
Trombone – Charles Greenlee (pistas: 1,3), Grechan Moncur III (pistas: 1,3)
Trumpet – Roy Burrowes (pistas: 1,3), Ted Daniel (pistas: 1,3)
Violin – Leroy Jenkins (pistas: 3)
Vocals – Joe Lee Wilson (pistas: 1)

JOHNNY HODGES - Triple Play (1967-1996) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Altoist Johnny Hodges is heard in three different settings on this reissue CD. Such top swing stars as trumpeters Ray Nance, Cat Anderson and Roy Eldridge, trombonists Buster Cooper, Lawrence Brown and Benny Powell, tenors Paul Gonsalves and Jimmy Hamilton, baritonist Harry Carney, pianists Hank Jones and Jimmy Jones (the latter two sometimes together), guitarists Tiny Grimes, Les Spann and Billy Butler, bassists Milt Hinton, Aaron Bell and Joe Benjamin and drummers Gus Johnson, Rufus Jones and Oliver Jackson are heard in nonets with the great altoist. Despite the many changes in personnel, the music is pretty consistent, with basic swinging originals, blues and ballads all heard in equal proportion. As usual, Johnny Hodges ends up as the main star. Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1     Take 'Em off, Take 'Em off, Pt. 1 3:39
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Hank Jones
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Guitar – Tiny Grimes    
Cornet – Ray Nance
Bass –  Milt Hinton
Drums – Gus Johnson
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Gonsalves
Trombone – Buster Cooper
2     Take 'Em off, Take 'Em off, Pt. 2 2:56
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Hank Jones
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Cornet – Ray Nance    
Bass –  Milt Hinton
Drums – Gus Johnson
Guitar – Tiny Grimes
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Gonsalves
Trombone – Buster Cooper
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges    
3     The Nearness of You 3:46
(Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington)
Piano – Hank Jones
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Cornet – Ray Nance
Bass –  Milt Hinton
Drums – Gus Johnson
Guitar – Tiny Grimes
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Gonsalves
Trombone – Buster Cooper
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges    
4     Monkey on a Limb 3:53
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Hank Jones
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Cornet – Ray Nance
Bass –  Milt Hinton
Drums – Gus Johnson
Guitar – Tiny Grimes
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Gonsalves
Trombone – Buster Cooper
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
5     A Tiny Bit of Blues 4:53
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Hank Jones
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Cornet – Ray Nance
Bass –  Milt Hinton
Drums – Gus Johnson
Guitar – Tiny Grimes
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Gonsalves
Trombone – Buster Cooper
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
6     For Jammers Only 3:02
(Claude Bolling)
Piano – Jimmy Jones    
Bass – Aaron Bell
Drums – Rufus Jones
Guitar – Les Spann
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson
Vibraphone – Bill Berry    
7     On the Way Up 2:52
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Jimmy Jones
Bass – Aaron Bell
Drums – Rufus Jones
Guitar – Les Spann
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson
Vibraphone – Bill Berry    
8     Big Boy Blues 3:20
(Johnny Hodges)
Baritone Saxophone – Harry Carney
Bass – Joe Benjamin
Drums – Oliver Jackson
Guitar – Billy Butler
Piano – Nat Pierce
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Trombone – Benny Powell
Trumpet – Roy Eldridge
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges    
9     The Very Thought of You 2:49
(Ray Noble)
Piano – Jimmy Jones
Guitar – Les Spann
Bass – Aaron Bell      
Drums – Rufus Jones    
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson
Vibraphone – Bill Berry
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
10     Fur Piece 6:22
(Johnny Hodges)
Baritone Saxophone – Harry Carney
Bass – Joe Benjamin
Drums – Oliver Jackson
Guitar – Billy Butler
Piano – Nat Pierce
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Trombone – Benny Powell
Trumpet – Roy Eldridge
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
11     Sir John 3:19
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Jimmy Jones
Drums – Rufus Jones
Bass – Aaron Bell
Guitar – Les Spann
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson
Vibraphone – Bill Berry    
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
12     Figurine 2:39
(Johnny Hodges)
Piano – Jimmy Jones
Bass – Aaron Bell
Drums – Rufus Jones
Guitar – Les Spann
Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson
Vibraphone – Bill Berry    
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
13     C Jam Blues 4:21
(Barney Bigard / Duke Ellington)
Baritone Saxophone – Harry Carney
Bass – Joe Benjamin
Drums – Oliver Jackson
Guitar – Billy Butler
Piano – Nat Pierce
Piano [2nd] – Jimmy Jones
Trombone – Benny Powell
Trumpet – Roy Eldridge
Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges

EDDIE 'LOCKJAW' DAVIS - "Jaws Strikes Again" (1976-1987) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1    Don't Worry About Me 5'38
Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler
2     The Man I Love 5'17
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
3     Light and Lovely 8'45
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / George Duvivier
4     Stompin' at the Savoy 4'30
Benny Goodman / Andy Razaf / Edgar Sampson / Chick Webb
5     When Sunny Gets Blue 4'09
Marvin Fisher / Jack Segal
6     Blue and Sentimental 3'26
Count Basie / Mack David / Jerry Livingston
7     Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 6'09
Lester Young
8     When Your Lover Has Gone 5'31
Einar A. Swan
9     Pennies from Heaven 7'00
Johnny Burke / Arthur Johnston
10     After You've Gone 6'03
Henry Creamer / Turner Layton
11     Candy 7'20
Mack David / Alex Kramer / Joan Whitney
Credits:
Drums – Oliver Jackson
Guitar – Billy Butler
Organ – Wild Bill Davis
Tenor Saxophone – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

WILD BILL DAVIS | EDDIE 'LOCKJAW' DAVIS - Live In Châteauneuf-du-Pape (1976-1985) RM | The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
1     Impulsions 8'38
Wild Bill Davis
2     Cubano Chant 6'44
Ray Bryant
3     Avalon 7'15
Al Jolson / Vincent Rose
4     Ghost of a Chance 4'44
Bing Crosby / Ned Washington / Victor Young
5     The Shadow of Your Smile 3'42
Johnny Mandel / Paul Francis Webster
6     Loose Walk 6'47
Johnny Richards / Sonny Stitt
7     Misty 4'42
Johnny Burke / Erroll Garner
8     Lester Leaps In 7'34
Lester Young
9     The Girl from Ipanema 3'35
Norman Gimbel / Antônio Carlos Jobim / Vinícius de Moraes
10     Things Ain't What They Used to Be 9'26
Ted Persons
11     Oh! Ah! Dee Dee 4'45
C. Columbo
Credits :
Drums – Oliver Jackson
Guitar – Billy Butler
Organ – Wild Bill Davis
Tenor Saxophone – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Notas.
#1 to 3, 5, 8 Originally released as Wild Bill Davis / Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Live!
#4, 6, 7, 9 to 11 Originally released as Wild Bill Davis / Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Live! Vol.2