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Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was one of the most influential jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 bassist
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
s of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm section
Rhythm section

A rhythm section is the musicians in a popular music musical band or musical ensemble who establish the rhythmic pulse of a song or musical piece, and who lay down the chordal structure....
s 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
Intonation

Intonation may refer to:*Intonation , the variation of tone used when speaking*Intonation , a musician's realization of pitch accuracy, or the pitch accuracy of a musical instrument...
, and virtuosic improvisation
Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
s.

in Pittsburgh on April 22, 1935, Chambers was raised in Detroit where he studied music
Music

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was one of the most influential jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 bassist
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
s of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm section
Rhythm section

A rhythm section is the musicians in a popular music musical band or musical ensemble who establish the rhythmic pulse of a song or musical piece, and who lay down the chordal structure....
s 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
Intonation

Intonation may refer to:*Intonation , the variation of tone used when speaking*Intonation , a musician's realization of pitch accuracy, or the pitch accuracy of a musical instrument...
, and virtuosic improvisation
Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings....
s.

Biography

Born in Pittsburgh on April 22, 1935, Chambers was raised in Detroit where he studied music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
. He entered music when he and several schoolmates took up music and the baritone horn
Baritone horn

The baritone horn, or simply baritone, is a member of the brass family of instruments. Like others of the family, the tuba, euphonium, alto horn, flugelhorn and bugle the instrument has a conical bore....
 became his assignment.

Later he took up the tuba
Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped Mouthpiece ....
. "I got along pretty well, but it's quite a job to carry it around in those long parades, and I didn't like the instrument that much." Chambers became a string bassist around 1949 in Detroit, where he had been living for a while since the death of his mother.

His formal bass training got going in earnest in 1952, when he began taking lessons with a bassist in the Detroit Symphony. Paul did some classical work himself, with a group called the Detroit String Band that was, in effect, a rehearsal symphony orchestra. Studying at Cass Tech. off and on from 1952 to 1955, he played in Cass' own symphony, and in various other student groups, one of which had him blowing baritone sax. By the time he left for New York at the invitation of Paul Quinichette, he had absorbed a working knowledge of many instruments.

Playing his first gig at one of the little bars in the Hastings Street area, he was soon doing club jobs with Thad Jones, Barry Harris and others who have since effected the Detroit-New York junction.

From 1954 on through 1955, he gained significance touring with such musicians as Bennie Green
Bennie Green

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, Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette

Paul Quinichette was a jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as President....
, George Wallington
George Wallington

George Wallington was a highly regarded American bebop pianist and composer.From 1943 to 1953 he played with Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Marsala, Charlie Parker, Serge Chaloff, Allan Eager, Kai Winding, Terry Gibbs, Brew Moore, Al Cohn, Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Red Rodney, and Lionel Hampton, and recorded as a leader for Savoy Records and Blue...
, J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding
Kai Winding

Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Denmark trombone and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J....
. In 1955 he joined the Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 quintet, staying on with the group until 1963 and appearing on the 1959 classic Miles Davis album Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by United States jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records, in both monaural and stereo....
. One of Paul's most noted performances was on that album's first cut, "So What," which opens with a brief duet with pianist
Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an musical ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers....
 Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
.

Possessing one of the most immediately recognizable bass playing sounds and styles, Paul Chambers played bass in the Miles Davis quintets and sextets from the mid-'50s through the early '60s. From 1963 until 1966 Chambers played often with the Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly

Wynton Kelly was a jazz pianist who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis in the '50s....
 trio, also freelancing as a sidemen for other important names in jazz all throughout his career.

Over his lifetime Paul Chambers developed addictions to both alcohol
Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
 and heroin
Heroin

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. On January 4, 1969 he died of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis

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 at the premature age of 33.

Influence

The role of the jazz bass player was largely a metronomic assignment until, in 1939, Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton was an influential United States jazz double bassist. Blanton originated melodically conceived pizzicato and bowed bass solos.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937...
 in the Duke Ellington band, transformed the entire scene.

Paul Chambers is a prominent entry in the list of bass players since Blanton who have contributed to extending the role of the instrument in jazz. Others include Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
, Scott LaFaro
Scott LaFaro

Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz double bass, perhaps best known for his work with the Bill Evans....
, Ron Carter
Ron Carter

Ron Carter is an United States jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. 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....
, Gary Peacock
Gary Peacock

Gary Peacock is an United States jazz double-bassist.After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessell, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York....
, Slam Stewart
Slam Stewart

Leroy Eliot 'Slam' Stewart was an African American jazz double bass player whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher....
, Ray Brown, Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell

Keith Moore Mitchell , better known as Red Mitchell, was an United States jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
, and Percy Heath
Percy Heath

Percy Heath, , was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet.He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975....
.

Paul was about 15 when he started to listen to "Bird"
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
 and Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
, his first jazz influences. Oscar Pettiford and Ray Brown, the first bassists he admired, were followed in his book by Percy Heath, Milt Hinton and Wendell Marshall for their rhythm section work, Charles Mingus and George Duvivier for their technical powers and for their efforts in broadening the scope of jazz bass. Blanton, of course, was his all-time favorite, the perennial poll winner in his ballot.

His accompaniment and solos with Davis and other leaders remain distinctive and influential. He and Slam Stewart
Slam Stewart

Leroy Eliot 'Slam' Stewart was an African American jazz double bass player whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher....
 were among the first jazz bassists to perform arco
ARCO

ARCO is an oil company which is, since 2000, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based BP and is officially known as BP West Coast Products LLC....
 or bowed features.

Paul Chambers played on a great many albums during the period he was active including such landmark albums as John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
's Giant Steps and Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
' Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by United States jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records, in both monaural and stereo....
. Many musicians wrote songs dedicated to Paul. John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
's song "Mr. P.C." is named after Chambers. Tommy Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an United States of America jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald....
 wrote "Big Paul", which was performed on the John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 and Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an United States jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians....
 Prestige 1958 LP
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
. Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
 wrote a drum solo called "Five For Paul", on his 1977 "impossible to find" drum solo LP recorded in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
 wrote a song called "Paul's Pal" for him as well, and finally, long time fellow bandmate with Miles Davis, pianist Red Garland
Red Garland

William "Red" Garland was an United States hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom....
 wrote the tune "The P.C. Blues", which is probably the most notable of the songs dedicated to him.

Discography


As a leader

  • Chambers' Music (Aladdin/Jazz West
    Aladdin Records (US)

    Aladdin Records was a post-World War II United States record label, headquartered in Hollywood, California. The label was founded in 1946 in music by the brothers Eddie, Leo, and Ira Mesner as Philo Records, then changed to its better known name....
    , 1956)
  • Whims Of Chambers
    Whims Of Chambers

    Whims Of Chambers is a jazz album by bassist Paul Chambers....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1956)
  • Paul Chambers Quintet (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Bass on Top (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Go (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1959)
  • 1st Bassman (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1960)
  • High Step
    High Step

    High Step is a jazz album by bassist Paul Chambers and tenor saxophone John Coltrane....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1956) (w/John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
    )
  • The East/West Controversy (Xanadu
    Xanadu Records

    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music such as Dexter Gordon, Al Cohn, Sonny Criss, Shorty Rogers, Charles McPherson , Jimmy Raney, Art Pepper, Ted Dunbar, Bob Mover, Dolo Coker, Barry Har...
    , 1957) (w/Hampton Hawes
    Hampton Hawes

    Hampton Hawes was an African American jazz pianist....
    )
  • We Three (Prestige/New Jazz
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958) (w/Roy Haynes
    Roy Haynes

    Roy Owen Haynes is an United States jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing music and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz....
     & Phineas Newborn
    Phineas Newborn

    Phineas Newborn, Jr. was an United States of America jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell. Newborn came from a musical family with his father being a blues musician and his brother Calvin Newborn being a jazz guitarist....
    )
  • Ease It (Charly/Affinity
    Charly Records

    Charly Records is a United Kingdom record label which specialises in reissued material. Among the labels whose original releases are reissued by Charly are Vee-Jay Records, Sun Records, Immediate Records, BYG Actuel, Tomato Head Records, and Fania Records....
    , 1959) (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley)
  • Just Friends (Charly/Le Jazz
    Charly Records

    Charly Records is a United Kingdom record label which specialises in reissued material. Among the labels whose original releases are reissued by Charly are Vee-Jay Records, Sun Records, Immediate Records, BYG Actuel, Tomato Head Records, and Fania Records....
    , 1959) (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley)


As sideman

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
  • Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (EmArcy
    EmArcy Records

    EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group....
    , 1955)
  • Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago (Mercury
    Mercury Records

    Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
    , 1959)
  • Cannonball Takes Charge (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1959)
  • Cannonball and Coltrane (Phillips, 1965)


Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley

Nathaniel Adderley was an United States jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian Cannonball Adderley....
  • Introducing Nat Adderley (Mercury/Wing
    Wing Records

    Wing Records was a record label subsidiary of Mercury Records that enjoyed its greatest success during the 50s. In the late 80's, just before its final fade, the label enjoyed a brief success with then new R&B singers Vanessa L....
    , 1955); reissued as Them Adderleys (Limelight
    Limelight

    Limelight is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when an Oxyhydrogen is directed at a cylinder of lime , which can be raised to 2572?C before melting....
    , 1966)
  • Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)


Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi

is a Japanese American Jazz piano, 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....
  • The Toshiko Trio
    The Toshiko Trio

    The Toshiko Trio is a jazz record album recorded in 1956 in New York City and released on the Storyville record label. It is the second studio recording of pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi - not to be confused with her 1983 Toshiba East World album, Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio ....
     (Storyville, 1956)
  • Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band
    Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band

    Toshiko 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....
     (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1964)


Lorez Alexandria
Lorez Alexandria

Lorez Alexandria was a jazz and gospel singer. She began as a singer in churches in her teens, and spent 11 years as part of an a cappella choir directed by Lucshaa Allen....
  • Alexandria The Great (Impulse!
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    , 1964)


Chet Baker
Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s....
  • Chet (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1959)


Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks

Harold Floyd Brooks , was an United States hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer....
  • Back To The Tracks (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)


Kenny Burrell
Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an United States jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians....
  • Kenny Burrell (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1956)
  • John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)


Sonny Clark
Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an United States hard bop pianist. An underappreciated jazz artist during his time, Clark's work has become much more widely known after his death....
  • Sonny's Crib (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Cool Struttin'
    Cool Struttin'

    Cool Struttin' is a 1958 album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark. Described as an "enduring hard-bop classic" by the New York Times, the album features alto saxophone Jackie McLean, trumpeter Art Farmer and two members of the Miles Davis Quintet, drumkit Philly Joe Jones and double bass Paul Chambers....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1958)
  • Blues In The Night
    Blues in the Night

    "Blues in the Night" is a popular music song which has become a pop standard and can certainly be considered part of the Great American Songbook....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1958)
  • My Conception (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1959)


Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland

Jimmy Cleveland was an United States jazz trombone virtuoso 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....
  • Introducing Jimmy Cleveland And His All Stars (EmArcy
    EmArcy Records

    EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Mercury Records, and today a European jazz label owned by Universal Music Group....
    , 1955)


John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  • Blue Train
    Blue Train (album)

    Blue Train is a jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957 at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Coltrane
    Coltrane (album)

    For the 1962 album of the same name by John Coltrane, see Coltrane Coltrane is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It is also known as First Trane....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Bahia
    Bahia (album)

    Bahia is an album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released on the Prestige Records record label as Prestige 7353 in 1964 ....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Black Pearls
    Black Pearls (album)

    Black Pearls is a 1958 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Lush Life
    Lush Life (album)

    Lush Life is a 1958 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Settin' The Pace (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Traneing In
    Traneing In

    Traneing In is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. The album was reissued in 2007 as part of the Rudy Van Gelder remasters series....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Soultrane (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Stardust
    Stardust (John Coltrane album)

    Stardust is a 1958 album by jazz musician John Coltrane, originally issued under Wilbur Harden's name....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • The Believer
    The Believer (John Coltrane album)

    The Believer is a 1958 in music album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released as Prestige 7292 in 1963....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • The Last Trane
    The Last Trane

    The Last Trane is a 1958 in music album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • (w/Milt Jackson
    Milt Jackson

    Milton Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of the most important figures in the hard bop style, although he performed in several subgenres of jazz....
    ) Bags and Trane (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
    , 1960)
  • Giant Steps
    Giant Steps

    Giant Steps is a 1959 album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released on Atlantic Records.Giant Steps was his second album to be recorded by the Atlantic Records label, and marked the first time that all of the pieces on a recording had been composed by him....
     (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
    , 1960)
  • (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) Cannonball and Coltrane (Phillips, 1965)


Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  • Miles
    Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet

    Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded on 15 November 1955 by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. As the name suggests, it was the first to feature his now-famous "first great quintet" ....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1955)
  • 'Round About Midnight
    'Round About Midnight

    'Round About Midnight is an LP album by jazz musician Miles Davis, named after the Thelonious Monk song "'Round Midnight " released in March 1957 and his debut on Columbia Records, CL 949....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1955)
  • Cookin
    Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

    Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on the 11th of May 1956 and the 26th of October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Relaxin
    Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

    Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Steamin
    Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

    Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Workin
    Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

    Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on the 11th of May 1956 and the 26th of October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Collectors' Items
    Collectors' Items

    Collectors' Item is a 1953/1956 studio album by Miles Davis There are two sessions collected on the album with, apart from Miles, is largely different musicians....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Miles Ahead
    Miles Ahead

    Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis released in 1957. This was the first album after Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1957)
  • Milestones
    Milestones (album)

    Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is renowned for including Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments, as noticed on the piece "Miles" , which would be followed to its logical conclusion on Kind of Blue....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1958)
  • 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....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1958)
  • Kind of Blue
    Kind of Blue

    Kind of Blue is a studio album by United States jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records, in both monaural and stereo....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1959)
  • Sketches of Spain
    Sketches of Spain

    Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960. The album pairs Davis with arranger and composer Gil Evans, with whom he had collaborated on several other projects, on a program of compositions largely derived from the Spanish folk tradition....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1960)
  • Someday My Prince Will Come
    Someday My Prince Will Come (album)

    Someday My Prince Will Come is a studio album by Miles Davis, recorded in March of 1961 in New York City. It garnered significant critical acclaim, with reviewers praising Davis' precision playing and expansive lyricism....
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1961)
  • Quiet Nights
    Quiet Nights

    Quiet Nights is an album recorded in 1962 and 1963 by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The first six tunes were recorded in 1962 with an orchestra conducted by Evans, and "Summer Night" was recorded in 1963 by Davis with a short-lived quintet , during the sessions for the album Seven Steps to Heaven , although Coleman lays out on this numb...
     (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1962)


Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham

McKinley Howard Dorham was an United States jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas....
  • Blue Spring (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1959)
  • Quiet Kenny (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1959)
  • Whistle Stop (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)


Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney Drew was an United States jazz pianist.Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington....
  • Kenny Drew Trio (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1956)


Bill Evans
Bill Evans

William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  • On Green Dolphin Street
    Green Dolphin Street (Bill Evans album)

    Green Dolphin Street is a record album by jazz musician Bill Evans that wasn?t released until the 1970s. The title is taken from the 1947 MGM movie Green Dolphin Street and the film's title song, by Bronislau Kaper and Ned Washington, which has become a jazz standard....
     (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1959)


Gil Evans
Gil Evans

Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis....
  • Gil Evans & Ten
    Gil Evans & Ten

    Gil Evans & Ten is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader and was released on the Prestige Records label in 1957....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions' (Pacific Jazz
    Pacific Jazz Records

    Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles based record label best known for releasing cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded by Richard Bock and drummer Roy Harte in 1952 in music....
    , 1958)
  • The Individualism of Gil Evans
    The Individualism of Gil Evans

    The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve Records label in 1964....
     (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1964)


Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
  • Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Curtis Fuller Jazztette with Benny Golson (Savoy
    Savoy Records

    Savoy Records is the name of a United States jazz music record label. Starting in the mid 1940s, Savoy played an important part in popularizing bebop....
    , 1959)


Red Garland
Red Garland

William "Red" Garland was an United States hard bop jazz pianist whose block chord style, in part originated by Milt Buckner, influenced many forthcoming pianists in the jazz idiom....
  • A Garland of Red (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Dig It! (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Groovy (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Red Garland Revisited! (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Red Garland's Piano (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • P.C. Blues (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Can't See For Lookin' (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • It's a Blue World (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • Manteca (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1958)
  • All Kinds of Weather (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1959)


Grant Green
Grant Green

Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer.Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and latin jazz-tinged settings throughout his career....
  • First Session (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)


Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is a jazz pianist and composer. He embraces elements of rock and roll and soul music while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz....
  • Inventions and Dimensions
    Inventions and Dimensions

    Inventions and Dimensions is the third album by Herbie Hancock, originally released in 1963 by Blue Note Records....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1963)


Barry Harris
Barry Harris

Barry Doyle Harris is an United States of America bebop jazz pianist and educator....
  • Bull's Eye (Fantasy
    Fantasy

    Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
    , 1968)


Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist, and an Academy Award-nominated actor. He is considered one of the first bebop tenor players....
  • Dexter Calling (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)


Benny Golson
Benny Golson

Benny Golson is an United States bebop/hard bop jazz Tenor saxophone, composer, and arranger....
  • Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary
    Contemporary Records

    Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
    , 1957)
  • The Modern Touch (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1958)
  • Groovin' With Golson (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1959)
  • Turning Point (Mercury
    Mercury Records

    Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US, and are both subsidiaries of Universal Music Group....
    , 1962)


Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III was an United States bebop and hard bop tenor saxophonist....
  • A Blowing Session
    A Blowing Session

    A Blowin' Session is an album by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, recorded and released in 1957 on Blue Note Records.The album is one of the earliest examples of John Coltrane as a sideman....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • The Congregation (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)


Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson was an United States jazz tenor saxophone. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career....
  • Four (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1968)
  • Straight, No Chaser (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1968)


Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
  • Here to Stay
    Here to Stay (Freddie Hubbard album)

    Here to Stay is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded on December 27, 1962 but not released on the Blue Note Records label until 1979....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1962)
Milt "Bags" Jackson
Milt Jackson

Milton Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of the most important figures in the hard bop style, although he performed in several subgenres of jazz....
  • Bags and Trane (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
    , (w/John Coltrane
    John Coltrane

    John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
    ) 1960)
  • Statements (Impulse!
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    , 1961)


John Jenkins
John Jenkins (jazz musician)

John Jenkins was an American jazz saxophonist.Jenkins initially studied clarinet in high school but switched to saxophone after six months on the instrument....
  • John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)


J. J. Johnson
  • The Eminent J.J. Johnson, Vol. 2 (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1955)
  • Trombone For 2 (w/Kai Winding
    Kai Winding

    Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Denmark trombone and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J....
    ) (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1955)
  • The Great Kai & J. J. (w/Kai Winding
    Kai Winding

    Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Denmark trombone and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J....
    )(Impulse!
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    , 1960)


Philly Joe Jones
Philly Joe Jones

Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States of America Jazz drumming, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet....
  • Philly Joe's Beat (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
    , 1960)
  • Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones Together! (Atlantic
    Atlantic Records

    Atlantic Records is an United States record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz. Long one of the most important American independent labels, Atlantic now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group, which consolidated Atlantic Records and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one...
    , 1964)


Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly

Wynton Kelly was a jazz pianist who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis in the '50s....
  • Piano (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1958)
  • Kelly Blue (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1959)
  • Kelly at Midnite (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1960)
  • Kelly Great (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1960)
  • Wynton Kelly! (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1961)
  • Comin' in the Back Door (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1963)


Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. Lincoln is unusual in that she writes and performs her own compositions, expanding the expectations of jazz audiences....
  • That's Him
    That's Him

    That's Him is a 1918 in film short subject comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. ...
     (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1957)


Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City....
  • McLean's Scene (Prestige/New Jazz
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1957)
  • Jackie's Bag (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1959)
  • New Soil (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1959)
  • Capuchin Swing (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)


Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell

Richard Allen Mitchell was an United States jazz, rhythm and blues, Soul music, rock music, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman on Blue Note Records....
  • Out of the Blue (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1958)


Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
  • Tenor Conclave
    Tenor Conclave

    Tenor Conclave is a 1956 jazz album, originally credited to the "Prestige All Stars". Subsequent issues have generally been under John Coltrane's or Hank Mobley's names....
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Peckin' Time
    Peckin' Time

    Peckin' Time is an album by saxophonist Hank Mobley and trumpeter Lee Morgan first released on the Blue Note Records label in 1959. It was recorded on February 9, 1958 and features performances by Mobley, Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Charlie Persip....
     (w/Lee Morgan)(Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1958)
  • Roll Call
    Roll Call (Hank Mobley album)

    Roll Call is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Considered one of his best alongside Soul Station , Roll Call features some of the most prominent musicians of the hard bop era, specifically Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey, and Freddie Hubbard....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)
  • Soul Station
    Soul Station

    Soul Station is an album by jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley. Along with Roll Call , the LP which followed this release, this is one of Mobley's best-known albums....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)
  • Workout (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)
  • Another Workout
    Another Workout

    Another Workout is an album by jazz tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley recorded on December 5, 1961 and first released on the Blue Note Records label in 1985....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)
  • The Turnaround! (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1965)


Thelonius Monk
  • Brilliant Corners
    Brilliant Corners

    Brilliant Corners is a 1957 in music album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was his third album for the Riverside Records label and the first, for this label, to include his own compositions....
     (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1956)


Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
  • Volume 2: Sextet (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1956)
  • Volume 3 (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • City Lights
    City Lights

    City Lights is a Cinema of the United States silent film romantic comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and starring Chaplin alongside Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • The Cooker
    The Cooker

    The Cooker is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note Records label in 1957. It was recorded on September 29, 1957 and features performances by Morgan, Pepper Adams, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Leeway
    Leeway

    Leeway is the motion of an object that floating in the water to leeward due to the component of the wind vector perpendicular to the object?s. The National Search and Rescue Supplement to the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual defines leeway as, "the movement of a search object through water caused by winds blow...
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)
  • Here's Lee Morgan
    Here's Lee Morgan

    Here's Lee Morgan is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan originally released on the Vee-Jay Records label. It was recorded on February 8, 1960 and features performances by Morgan with Clifford Jordan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey....
     (Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records

    Vee-Jay Records was a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans....
    , 1960)
  • Charisma
    Charisma

    The word charisma refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities usually including extreme charm and a 'magnetic' quality of personality and/or appearance along with innate and powerfully sophisticated personal communicability and persuasiveness....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1966)
  • The Rajah
    The Rajah

    The Rajah is a 1919 in film short subject comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1966)


Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an United States jazz guitarist. He is generally 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, and Pat Metheny....
  • Full House
    Full House

    Full House is an Television in the United States television sitcom that ran from September 22, 1987 in television to May 23, 1995 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
     (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1962)
  • Smokin' at the Half Note
    Smokin' at the Half Note

    Smokin' at the Half Note is a jazz album recorded by Wes Montgomery and the Wynton Kelly Trio in late June 1965 at the Half Note Club in New York City, and September 22, 1965 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey....
     (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1965)
  • Willow Weep for Me (Verve
    Verve Records

    Verve Records is an United States Jazz record label now owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels: Norgran Records and Clef Records and material which had been licensed to Mercury Records previously....
    , 1969)


Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson was an United States jazz Saxophone, clarinetist, arranger and composer....
  • The Blues and the Abstract Truth
    The Blues and the Abstract Truth

    The Blues and the Abstract Truth is a jazz album by Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album. It features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy , Bill Evans , Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes....
     (Impulse!
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    , 1961)


Phineas Newborn, Jr.
  • A World of Piano (Contemporary
    Contemporary Records

    Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
    , 1961)


Art Pepper
Art Pepper

Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
  • Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
    Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

    Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, who at the time were the rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet....
     (Contemporary
    Contemporary Records

    Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
    , 1957)
  • Gettin' Together
    Gettin' Together

    Gettin' Together is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Conte Candoli, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb.The sleeve notes describe the album as 'a sort of sequel to the earlier Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section....
     (Contemporary
    Contemporary Records

    Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in music in Los Angeles. Contemporary concentrated on the West Coast jazz, recording such artists as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, the Curtis Counce Group , Ben Webster, Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel and Leroy Vinnegar....
    , 1960)


Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
  • Bud! (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • The Scene Changes
    The Scene Changes

    The Scene Changes was Perry Como 12th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the tenth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and the second featuring Dynagroove technology....
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1958)


Ike Quebec
Ike Quebec

Ike Abrams Quebec was a jazz tenor saxophone. His surname is pronounced KYOO-bek.Critic Alex Henderson writes, "Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to down-home blues, sexy ballads, and up-tempo aggression."...
  • Blue And Sentimental (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)


Sonny Red
Sonny Red

Sonny Red was an alto saxophonist associated with Hard bop. He had some success in the 1960s, but fell into obscurity by the late 1970s....
  • Out of the Blue (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)


Freddie Redd
Freddie Redd

Freddie Redd is an American hard bop pianist and composer.His greatest success came in the late 1950s in the play and movie The Connection , in which he both played and acted in New York City, London, and Paris....
  • Shades of Redd (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)
  • Redd's Blues (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1961)


Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  • Tenor Madness
    Tenor Madness

    Tenor Madness is an album by Sonny Rollins. ...
     (Prestige
    Prestige Records

    Prestige Records was founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock . The record label name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the next year....
    , 1956)
  • Sonny Rollins: Volume 2 (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1957)
  • Sound of Sonny (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1957)


Louis Smith
Louis Smith

Louis Smith may refer to:* Louis Smith , English gymnast* Louis Smith , American bandleader and trumpeter* Louis Smith , English politician...
  • Smithville
    Smithville

    Smithville is the name of some places in the United States of America:*Smithville, Georgia*Smithville, Monroe County, Indiana*Smithville, Owen County, Indiana...
     (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1958)


Frank Strozier
Frank Strozier

Frank Strozier is an alto saxophone renowned for his playing in the hard bop idiom.Frank Strozier has long been a top-notch hard bop stylist whose intense sound recalls Jackie McLean....
  • Fantastic (Koch Jazz
    Koch Records

    E1 Music , the primary subsidiary of E1 Entertainment LP, is the largest independent record label in the United States. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name E1 Universal....
    , 1960)


Art Taylor
Art Taylor

Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an United States jazz drummer of the hard bop school....
  • A.T.'s Delight (Blue Note
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
    , 1960)


Clark Terry
Clark Terry

Clark Terry , is an American swing music and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee....
  • Serenade to a Bus Seat (Riverside
    Riverside Records

    Riverside Records, a United States record label specializing in jazz, was the raison d'etre for Bill Grauer Productions, a company founded by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews in 1953 in music in New York City....
    , 1957)


Kai Winding
Kai Winding

Kai Chresten Winding was a popular Denmark trombone and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J....
  • The Trombone Sound (Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1955)
  • Trombone For 2 (w/J. J. Johnson)(Columbia
    Columbia Records

    Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
    , 1955)
  • The Great Kai & J. J. (w/J. J. Johnson)(Impulse!
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    , 1960)