Jimmy Cobb
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Jimmy Wilbur Cobb is an American
jazz drummer
.
Probably his most famous work is on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
(1959), considered by many to be the quintessential jazz record. , Cobb is the last surviving player from the session. He also played on other famous Davis albums, including Sketches of Spain
, Someday My Prince Will Come, Live at Carnegie Hall, Live at the Blackhawk, and briefly on Porgy and Bess
and Sorcerer.
He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington
, Pearl Bailey
, Clark Terry
, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie
, John Coltrane
, Sarah Vaughan
, Billie Holiday
, Wynton Kelly
, Stan Getz
, Wes Montgomery
, Gil Evans
, Miles Davis
, Paul Chambers
, Kenny Burrell
, J. J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt
, Nat Adderley
, Hank Jones
, Ron Carter
, George Coleman
, Fathead Newman
, Geri Allen
, Earl Bostic
, Leo Parker
, Charlie Rouse
, Ernie Royal
, Philly Joe Jones
, Bobby Timmons
, Walter Booker
, Jerome Richardson
, Keter Betts
, Jimmy Cleveland
, Sam Jones
, Red Garland
, Joe Henderson
, Eddie Gomez
, Bill Evans
, Stefan Karlsson
, Jeremy Steig
, Richard Wyands
, Peter Bernstein
, Richie Cole
, Nancy Wilson
, Ricky Ford
, David Amram
, and many more.
, Cobb leads the Jimmy Cobb "So What" Band, a tribute to 50 years of Kind of Blue and the music of Miles Davis.
award.
With Nat Adderley
With Toshiko Akiyoshi
(Vee-Jay, 1964)
With Lorez Alexandria
With John Coltrane
With Miles Davis
With Kenny Dorham
With Curtis Fuller
With Paul Gonsalves
With Joe Henderson
With John Hendricks
With Wynton Kelly
With Pat Martino
With Wes Montgomery
With Art Pepper
With Sonny Red
With Shirley Scott
With Wayne Shorter
With Bobby Timmons
With Sarah Vaughan
United States
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jazz drummer
Jazz drumming
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era latin jazz...
.
Probably his most famous work is on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959...
(1959), considered by many to be the quintessential jazz record. , Cobb is the last surviving player from the session. He also played on other famous Davis albums, including Sketches of Spain
Sketches of Spain
Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City....
, Someday My Prince Will Come, Live at Carnegie Hall, Live at the Blackhawk, and briefly on Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)
Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1958 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29, August 4, and August 18,...
and Sorcerer.
He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
, Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968...
, Clark Terry
Clark Terry
Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...
, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
, John Coltrane
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
, Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
, Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
, Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly was a Jamaican-born jazz pianist, who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1959-1962.-Biography:...
, Stan Getz
Stan Getz
Stanley Getz was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott...
, Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...
, Gil Evans
Gil Evans
Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
, Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
, Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, intonation, and virtuosic...
, Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...
, J. J. Johnson, Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime...
, Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Adderley was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....
, Hank Jones
Hank Jones
Henry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award...
, Ron Carter
Ron Carter
Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...
, George Coleman
George Coleman
George Edward Coleman is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.-Biography:...
, Fathead Newman
David Newman (jazz musician)
David "Fathead" Newman was an American jazz saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Corsicana, Texas, Newman's professional career as a musician began in 1954 as a member of the Ray Charles Band....
, Geri Allen
Geri Allen
Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
, Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep", "Special Delivery Stomp", and "Where or When", which showed off his...
, Leo Parker
Leo Parker
Leo Parker was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.Parker studied alto saxophone in high school, and played this instrument on a recording with Coleman Hawkins in 1944. He switched to baritone saxophone later that year when he joined Billy Eckstine's bebop band, playing there until 1946...
, Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
, Ernie Royal
Ernie Royal
Ernest Andrew Royal was a jazz trumpeter.His older brother was clarinetist and alto saxophonist Marshal Royal, with whom he appears on the classic Ray Charles big band recording The Genius of Ray Charles .He began in Los Angeles as a member of Les Hite's Orchestra in 1937...
, Philly Joe Jones
Philly Joe Jones
Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States jazz drummer, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet.Philly Joe Jones was often confused with another influential jazz drummer, Jo Jones...
, Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons
Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...
, Walter Booker
Walter Booker
Walter Booker was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques.-Biography:Booker moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in the mid 1940s...
, Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson
Jerome Richardson was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet and piccolo...
, Keter Betts
Keter Betts
Keter Betts was an American jazz double bassist. Born William Thomas Betts in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito.-Career:...
, Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland was an American jazz trombone born in Wartrace, Tennessee.Cleveland worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford and James Brown...
, Sam Jones
Samuel Jones (musician)
Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL and moved to New York city in 1955. There, Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...
, Red Garland
Red Garland
William "Red" Garland was an American hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom.-Beginnings:...
, Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
, Eddie Gomez
Eddie Gomez
Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...
, Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...
, Stefan Karlsson
Stefan Karlsson
Stefan Karlsson, born November 5, 1955, is a retired male badminton player from Sweden. He later changed name to Stefan Mellgård.Though he played Thomas Cup singles for Sweden and won the Swedish national singles title twice, his greatest successes came in doubles...
, Jeremy Steig
Jeremy Steig
-Biography:Steig is the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig,At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side...
, Richard Wyands
Richard Wyands
Richard Wyands is a hard bop pianist best known as a side-man. He began playing in his teens in San Francisco, but later moved to New York City. He worked with Kenny Burrell in the 1960s and also played in Gigi Gryce's quintet...
, Peter Bernstein
Peter Bernstein
Peter Bernstein may refer to:*Peter Bernstein , American film and television composer*Peter Bernstein , American jazz guitarist*Peter L. Bernstein , American author, economist and educator...
, Richie Cole
Richie Cole (musician)
Richie Cole is a jazz alto saxophonist composer and arranger born in Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. and is a graduate of Ewing High School, Ewing New Jersey....
, Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson (singer)
Nancy Wilson is an American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist...
, Ricky Ford
Ricky Ford
Ricky Ford is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Ford was born in Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1974 he recorded with Gunther Schuller and then played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington from 1974 to 1976...
, David Amram
David Amram
David Amram is an American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. As a classical composer and performer, his integration of jazz , ethnic and folk music has led him to work with the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Willie Nelson, Langston...
, and many more.
, Cobb leads the Jimmy Cobb "So What" Band, a tribute to 50 years of Kind of Blue and the music of Miles Davis.
Awards
In June 2008, Jimmy Cobb was the recipient of the Don Redman Heritage award. On October 17, 2008, Cobb was one of six artists to receive the 2009 National Endowment for the Arts NEA Jazz MastersNEA Jazz Masters
The National Endowment for the Arts , every year honors up to seven jazz musicians with Jazz Master Awards. The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians...
award.
As leader
- Marsalis Music Honors Series: Jimmy CobbMarsalis Music Honors Series: Jimmy CobbMarsalis Music Honors Series: Jimmy Cobb is an album by jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. Marsalis Music and Rounder Records jointly released the album in 2006 as part of the Marsalis Music Honors series...
(MarsalisMarsalis MusicMarsalis Music is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based record label founded in 2002 by saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the past 30 years. The label was formed to allow Marsalis and other musicians to document their music free of the commercial constraints...
/RounderRounder RecordsRounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is a record label founded in 1970 by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students...
, 2006)
As sideman
With Cannonball Adderley- Sophisticated SwingSophisticated SwingSophisticated Swing is the fifth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his fourth released on the EmArcy label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb.-Reception:...
(EmArcy, 1956) - Cannonball EnrouteCannonball EnrouteCannonball Enroute is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his first released on the Mercury label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb.- Reception :...
(EmArcy, 1957) - Cannonball's SharpshootersCannonball's SharpshootersCannonball's Sharpshooters is the seventh album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his second released on the Mercury label, featuring performances with Nat Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones, and Jimmy Cobb...
(EmArcy, 1958) - Jump for JoyJump for Joy (Cannonball Adderley album)Jump for Joy is the final album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the EmArcy label and features Adderley with an orchestra arranged by Bill Russo...
(EmArcy, 1958) - Cannonball Adderley Quintet in ChicagoCannonball Adderley Quintet in ChicagoCannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, his final release on the Mercury label, featuring performances by Adderley with John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb...
(Mercury, 1959) - Cannonball Takes ChargeCannonball Takes ChargeCannonball Takes Charge is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb with Percy and Albert Heath replacing Chambers and Cobb on two selections...
(Riverside, 1959)
With Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Adderley was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....
- That's Right!That's Right!-Track listing:# "The Old Country" - 3:56# "Chordnation" - 6:11# "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" - 4:15# "Tadd" - 4:17# "You Leave Me Breathless" - 4:16...
(Riverside, 1960)
With Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi
is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
(Vee-Jay, 1964)
- Toshiko Mariano and her Big BandToshiko Mariano and her Big BandToshiko Mariano and her Big Band is a jazz album recorded in Tokyo by Toshiko Akiyoshi in July 1964 and released in the US on the Vee-Jay Records label. It was also released on the Nippon Columbia label in Japan under the title, Toshiko and Modern Jazz...
With Lorez Alexandria
Lorez Alexandria
Lorez Alexandria was an American jazz and gospel singer....
- Alexandria the GreatAlexandria the GreatAlexandria the Great is the third studio album by the American jazz singer Lorez Alexandria.- Track listing :# "Show Me" – 4:05# "I've Never Been in Love Before" – 2:20...
(Impulse!, 1964)
With John Coltrane
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
- Standard Coltrane (Prestige, 1958)
- StardustStardust (John Coltrane album)Stardust is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1963 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7268. It is assembled from unissued results of two separate recording sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958...
(Prestige, 1958) - Kenny Burrell and John ColtraneKenny Burrell and John ColtraneKenny Burrell and John Coltrane is a 1963 album credited to jazz musicians Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane. Burrell was the actual leader for the session, but as Coltrane's fame grew during the 1960s long after he had stopped recording for the label, Prestige assembled varied recordings, often...
(Prestige, 1958) - BahiaBahia (album)Bahia is an album credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1965 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7353. It is assembled from unissued results of two separate recording sessions at the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1958...
(Prestige, 1958) - Giant StepsGiant Steps-Personnel:* John Coltrane — tenor saxophone* Tommy Flanagan — piano* Wynton Kelly — piano on "Naima"* Paul Chambers — bass* Art Taylor — drums* Jimmy Cobb — drums on "Naima"* Cedar Walton — piano on "Giant Steps' and Naima" alternate versions...
on "NaimaNaima"Naima" is a ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959, and named after his then-wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs. It first appeared on the album Giant Steps, and is notable for its use of a variety of rich chords over a bass pedal...
" only (Atlantic, 1959) - Coltrane Jazz (Atlantic, 1959)
With Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
- Porgy and BessPorgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1958 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29, August 4, and August 18,...
(Columbia, 1958) - 1958 Miles (Columbia, 1958)
- Jazz at the PlazaJazz at the PlazaJazz at the Plaza is a live album by Miles Davis and his famed sextet that would go on to record Kind of Blue six months later. The concert was recorded in 1958 but not released in full until 1973, even though the three last songs appeared on 1958 Miles...
(Columbia, 1958) - Kind of BlueKind of BlueKind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959...
(Columbia, 1959) - Sketches of SpainSketches of SpainSketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City....
(Columbia, 1960) - Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)
- In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, CompleteIn Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, CompleteIn Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete, also called The Complete Blackhawk, is a 2003 four-disc collection of the 1961 live performances of the Miles Davis Quintet at the Black Hawk nightclub in San Francisco...
(Columbia, 1961) - Miles & Monk at NewportMiles & Monk at NewportMiles & Monk at Newport was a combined album of a Miles Davis appearance at Newport with an appearance of Thelonious Monk, from the LP era. Despite the title, the two artists do not perform together on the LP, and they are represented on each side by separate live appearances at the Newport Jazz...
(Columbia, 1963)
With Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham
McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...
- Blue SpringBlue Spring (album)Blue Spring is an album by jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Dorham and Adderley with Dave Amram, Cecil Payne, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones or Jimmy Cobb...
(Riverside, 1959)
With Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller
Curtis DuBois Fuller is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.-Biography:...
- Soul TromboneSoul TromboneSoul Trombone is an album by American jazz trombonist Curtis Fuller featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:...
(Impulse!, 1961)
With Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"...
- Gettin' TogetherGettin' Together (Paul Gonsalves)-Track listing:#"Yesterdays" - 3.32#"J. And B. Blues"#"I Surrender, Dear"#"Hard Groove"#"Low Gravy"#"I Cover the Waterfront"#"Gettin' Together"#"Walkin"'-Performers:*Paul Gonsalves - Tenor Saxophone*Nat Adderley - Cornet...
(Jazzland, 1960)
With Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
- FourFour (Joe Henderson album)Four is the first album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson released on the Verve label. It was recorded on April 21, 1968 and features a live performance by Henderson with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb...
(Verve, 1968) - Straight, No ChaserStraight, No Chaser (Joe Henderson album)Straight, No Chaser is the second album by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson released on the Verve label. It was recorded on April 21, 1968 and feature a live performance by Henderson with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb...
(Verve, 1968)
With John Hendricks
John Hendricks
John Hendricks is the founder and chairman of Discovery Communications, a broadcasting and film production company which owns the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet cable tv networks, among other ventures.-Early life:...
- Freddie FreeloaderFreddie Freeloader (album)Freddie Freeloader is a 1990 studio album by Jon Hendricks. -Track listing:#"Jumpin' at the Woodside" – 3:31#"In Summer" – 5:48#"Freddie Freeloader" – 9:09...
(Denon, 1990)
With Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly was a Jamaican-born jazz pianist, who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1959-1962.-Biography:...
- Kelly BlueKelly BlueKelly Blue is an album by American jazz pianist Wynton Kelly, released in 1959.-History:Coming off of his success as a sideman with Miles Davis’ sextet, Riverside Records gave Kelly an opportunity to expand on his solo career...
(Riverside, 1959) - Wynton Kelly!Wynton Kelly!-Track listing:# "Come Rain or Come Shine" - 5:53# "Make the Man Love Me" - 3:39# "Autumn Leaves" - 6:11...
(Vee-Jay, 1961) - Someday My Prince Will ComeSomeday My Prince Will Come (Wynton Kelly album)-Track listing:# "Someday My Prince Will Come" - 3:02# "Gone with the Wind" - 4:15# "Autumn Leaves" [Take 2] - 4:28...
(Vee-Jay, 1961) - Comin' in the Back DoorComin' in the Back Door-Track listing:# "If That's the Way You Want It" - 2:36# "Comin' in the Back Door" - 2:20# "Don't Wait Too Long" - 2:10# "Nocturne" - 2:40# "The Bitter End" - 2:00...
(Verve, 1963) - It's All Right!It's All Right!-Track listing:# "It's All Right" - 2:51# "South Seas" - 5:30# "Not a Tear" - 5:59# "Portrait of Jennie" -Track listing:# "It's All Right" (Curtis Mayfield) - 2:51# "South Seas" (Rudy Stevenson) - 5:30# "Not a Tear" (Stevenson) - 5:59# "Portrait of Jennie" -Track listing:# "It's All Right"...
(Verve, 1964) - UndilutedUndiluted-Track listing:# "Bobo" - 4:02# "Swingin Till the Girls Come Home" - 6:33# "My Ship" - 3:51# "Out Front" - 4:00# "Never" - 4:04# "Blues on Purpose" - 4:52...
(Verve, 1965) - Blues on PurposeBlues on Purpose-Track listing:# "Blues on Purpose" - 7:34# "If You Could See Me Now" - 6:19# "Somebody's Blues" - 9:52# "Another Blues" - 8:16# "Old Folks" - 5:54# "Milestones" - 5:27...
(Xanadu, 1965) - Full ViewFull View-Track listing:# "I Want a Little Girl" - 4:42# "I Thought" - 4:51# "What a Diff'rence a Day Made" - 4:47# "Autumn Leaves" - 3:51...
(Riverside, 1967) - Last Trio SessionLast Trio Session-Track listing:# "When Love Slips Away" - 4:12# "Castilian Waltz" [Take 12] - 4:23# "Say a Little Prayer for Me" - 3:24# "Kelly's Blues" - 7:56...
(Delmark, 1968)
With Pat Martino
Pat Martino
Pat Martino is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, fusion, mainstream jazz, soul jazz and hard bop idioms.-Biography:...
- DesperadoDesperado (Pat Martino album)Desperado is a 1970 post-bop jazz album by Pat Martino.“A key album in the shift in Pat Martino's sound at the end of the 60s -- with one foot in the soul jazz camp in which he got his start, and the other in the freer, open-minded style he used a lot in the 70s!”-Criticism:Jazz critic Scott Yanow...
(Prestige, 1970)
With Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...
- Full House (Riverside, 1962)
- Boss GuitarBoss GuitarBoss Guitar is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1963 by Riverside Records.It has been reissued by Original Jazz Classics with additional alternate takes...
(Riverside, 1963) - Guitar on the GoGuitar on the GoGuitar on the Go is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1963. It included tracks recorded in October and November 1963 as well as two from early 1959 sessions...
(Riverside, 1963) - The Alternative Wes MontgomeryThe Alternative Wes MontgomeryThe Alternative Wes Montgomery is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1963. It is composed of alternate unissued takes for previously issued albums on the Riverside label....
(Riverside, 1963) - Smokin' at the Half NoteSmokin' at the Half NoteSmokin' at the Half Note is a jazz album recorded by Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio and released in 1965.-History:The album is considered important to the history of jazz because it paired Miles Davis's rhythm section, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, with Montgomery...
(Verve, 1965) - Smokin' GuitarSmokin' GuitarSmokin' Guitar is a live album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1965.On almost all tracks, there is the same line-up that appeared on Smokin' at the Half Note album, but at a later date...
(Verve, 1965) - Willow Weep for MeWillow Weep for Me (album)Willow Weep for Me is a jazz album recorded by guitarist Wes Montgomery and released in 1969. It reached number 12 on the Billboard Jazz album chart in 1969...
(Verve, 1969)
With Art Pepper
Art Pepper
Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an American alto saxophonist and clarinetist.About Pepper, Scott Yanow of All Music stated, "In the 1950s he was one of the few altoists that was able to develop his own sound despite the dominant influence of Charlie Parker" and: "When Art Pepper...
- Gettin' Together (Contemporary, 1960)
With Sonny Red
Sonny Red
Sonny Red was an American alto saxophonist associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles...
- Out of the BlueOut of the Blue (Sonny Red album)Out of the Blue is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red recorded in late 1959 and early 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
(Blue Note, 1960)
With Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott
Shirley Scott was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was most known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis...
- For Members OnlyFor Members OnlyFor Members Only is an album by American jazz organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1963 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.-Track listing:# "Southern Comfort" — 5:40...
(Impulse!, 1963) - On a Clear DayOn a Clear Day (Shirley Scott album)On a Clear Day is an album by American jazz organist Shirley Scott recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music grooves and Scott shows that she did not need a competing horn in order to come up with soulful and...
(Impulse!, 1966)
With Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
- Introducing Wayne ShorterIntroducing Wayne ShorterIntroducing Wayne Shorter is the debut album by Wayne Shorter in the hard bop medium, performing with other jazz greats like Lee Morgan and Paul Chambers...
(Vee-Jay, 1959)
With Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons
Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...
- This Here is Bobby TimmonsThis Here is Bobby TimmonsThis Here is Bobby Timmons is the debut album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "This Here" - 3:34# "Moanin'" - 5:08...
(Riveside, 1960) - Easy Does ItEasy Does It (Bobby Timmons album)Easy Does It is the third studio album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "the music is excellent"....
(Riverside, 1961) - From the BottomFrom the BottomFrom the Bottom is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Bobby Timmons, a highly influential funk pianist, is in generally excellent form".-Track listing:#...
(Riverside, 1964) - The Soul Man!The Soul Man!The Soul Man! is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1966 and released on the Prestige label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 3 stars stating "Plenty of funk, blues, and soul-jazz, plus great piano"....
(Prestige, 1966) - Got to Get It!Got to Get It!Got to Get It! is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1967 and released on the Milestone label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 3 stars stating "Purists may blanch, but Bobby Timmons' Milestone label debut Got to Get It! is an otherwise...
(Milestone, 1967)
With Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...
- Live in Japan (Mainstream, 1975)
- Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan LiveRonnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan LiveRonnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live, also known as Sassy at Ronnie's, is a 1977 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan.-Track listing:#Introduction by Ronnie Scott#"Here's That Rainy Day"#"Like Someone In Love"#"Feelings"...
(Pye, 1977)