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Pablo Records
Pablo Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Norman Granz in 1973, more than a decade after he had sold his earlier catalog (including Verve Records) to MGM Records. Pablo initially featured recordings by acts that Granz managed: Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Pass. Later, the label issued recordings by Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Milt Jackson, and Paulinho da Costa. The label also re-released 1950s recordings by Art Tatum, which Granz reacquired, and released unissued European live recordings of John Coltrane and his groups. In January 1987, it was announced that the label had been acquired by Fantasy Records for an undisclosed amount. Eric Miller, who had worked with Norman Granz since the early 1970s, continued with Pablo as head of A&R, until the early-2000s. Fantasy continued to release previously unissued recordings using the Pablo name. Discography Pablo 2310-700 Series The Pablo 2310-700 Series were released between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord Music Group
Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group. The company specialized in recordings ( Fearless Records, Concord Records, Fantasy Records, Rounder Records, Loma Vista Recordings, Craft Recordings) and music publishing. History In 2004, Concord Records acquired Fantasy, Inc., owner of the Prestige, Fantasy, Milestone, Riverside, Specialty, and the post-Atlantic Stax catalog. Concord then combined with Fantasy to form the independent Concord Music Group (CMG). Also in 2004, CMG partnered with Starbucks to release the Ray Charles album '' Genius Loves Company'', which won eight GRAMMY Awards, including Album of the Year. In 2005, CMG bought Telarc. On December 18, 2006, CMG announced the re-launch of the soul label Stax; rights to the name were formerly held by Fantasy. New singers included Isaac Hayes and Angie Stone. On March 12, 2007, Conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trio (1973 Album)
''The Trio'' is a jazz live album by pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Released in 1974, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Group in 1975. Reception In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow complimented the playing of Pass and Pedersen but wrote, "the reason to acquire this set is for the remarkable Oscar Peterson. The pianist brilliantly investigates several jazz styles...Peterson really flourished during his years with Norman Granz's Pablo label, and this was one of his finest recordings of the period." Track listing # "Blues Etude" (Oscar Peterson) – 5:31 # "Chicago Blues" (Peterson) – 13:52 # "Easy Listening Blues" (Nadine Robinson) – 7:53 # "Come Sunday" ( Duke Ellington) – 3:46 # " Secret Love" ( Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) – 7:15 Personnel * Oscar Peterson – piano * Joe Pass – guitar * Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portraits Of Duke Ellington
''Portraits of Duke Ellington'' is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1975. It peaked at number 37 on the Jazz Albums chart. It is a tribute to jazz musician Duke Ellington and was recorded shortly after his death. article by , accessed April 29, 2009. Reception Writing for , music critic wrote of the album "The interplay between the three musicians is quite impressive, and Pass' mastery ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two For The Road (Herb Ellis And Joe Pass Album)
''Two for the Road'' is an album by jazz guitarists Herb Ellis and Joe Pass that was released in 1974. It was the third and last album that they recorded together. Reception In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote "Pass was just beginning to gain recognition for his remarkable unaccompanied solos, but Ellis had not recorded in such a sparse setting before. They complement each other quite well..." Track listing # " Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:50 # " Carnival (Manha de Carnaval)" (Luiz Bonfá/ Antonio Maria) – 3:29 # "Am I Blue?" ( Harry Akst, Grant Clarke) – 3:08 # "Seven Come Eleven" ( Charlie Christian/Benny Goodman) – 4:33 # "Guitar Blues" (Ellis/Pass) – 2:49 # " Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin/ Ira Gershwin) – 3:58 # "Cherokee" ( Ray Noble) – 2:49 # "Cherokee ersion 2 – 4:06 # "Seulb" (Ellis/Pass) – 3:24 # " Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You" ( Andy Razaf/ Don Redman) – 2:26 # " Try a Little Tenderness" ( Jimmy Campbell/Reginald Connelly/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The First Time (Count Basie Album)
''For the First Time'' is a 1974 studio album by Count Basie, with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Louie Bellson. Basie, Brown and Bellson followed ''For the First Time'' with '' For the Second Time'' (1975). Track listing #"Baby Lawrence" ( Count Basie) – 3:10 #"Pres" (Basie) – 3:28 #"I'll Always Be in Love With You" ( Bud Green, Fred Ruby, Sam H. Stept) – 5:54 #"Blues in the Church" (Basie) – 5:00 #" Oh, Lady Be Good oncept 1 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:32 #"Oh, Lady Be Good oncept 2 (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:57 #"Blues in the Alley" (Basie) – 6:44 #" As Long as I Live" ( Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:33 #"Song of the Islands" (Charles E. King) – 4:51 #"Royal Gardens Blues" ( Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams) – 4:28 #"(Un) Easy Does It" ( Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 4:08 #"O.P." (Basie) – 4:48 Personnel * Count Basie - piano * Ray Brown - double bass * Louie Bellson - drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella In London
''Ella in London'' is a 1974 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a quartet led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan. It is significant as Fitzgerald's only live album recorded in England, although a decade earlier she had recorded four songs for her 1964 album '' Hello, Dolly!'' in London. This live date was recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho. Track listing # " Sweet Georgia Brown" ( Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 3:15 # " They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:12 # " Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 2:57 # " The Man I Love" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 8:10 # " It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" ( Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 7:25 # "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) – 6:46 # "Lemon Drop" (George Wallington) – 3:48 # " The Very Thought of You" ( Ray Noble) – 4:13 # "Happy Blues" (Ella Fitzgerald) – 6:00 Personnel Recorded April 11, 1974 at Ronnie Scott's, Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bosses
''The Bosses'' is a 1973 album by American blues shouter "Big Joe" Turner accompanied by a small group led by Count Basie, recorded in 1973 and released on the Pablo label. Reception An Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated that it was one of Turner's better late-period albums, and that he was on top form on "Night Time Is the Right Time," "Wee Baby Blues" and " Roll 'Em Pete". Track listing # "The Honeydripper" ( Joe Liggins) - 6:42 # " Honey Hush" ( Nat King Cole, Big Joe Turner, Lou Willie Turner) - 2:37 # "Cherry Red" ( Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner) - 4:42 # "Night Time Is the Right Time" ( Leroy Carr, Lew Herman) - 3:54 # "Blues Around the Clock" (Willie Bryant) - 4:58 # " Since I Fell for You" ( Buddy Johnson) - 3:55 # "Flip, Flop and Fly" (Chuck Calhoun, Lou Willie Turner) - 3:28 # "Wee Baby Blues" (Johnson, Big Joe Turner) - 5:37 # "Good Morning Blues" ( Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing) - 3:50 # " Roll 'Em Pete" (Johnson, Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Joe Turner
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American singer from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly " Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced 'Boss of the Blues. Career Early days Turner was born May 18, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. His father was killed in a train accident when Turner was four years old. He sang in his church, and on street corners for money. He left school at age fourteen to work in Kansas City's nightclubs, first as a cook and later as a singing bartender. He became known as "The Singing Barman", and worked in such venues as the Kingfish Club and the Sunset, where he and his part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtuoso (Joe Pass Album)
''Virtuoso'' is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1973. Despite having only one original composition ("Blues for Alican"), it is widely considered to be his best album, as well as one of the best jazz guitar albums. The remastered version used 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology and included liner notes by Benny Green. Reception Contemporaneous reviews were positive. For example, ''The Guardian'' commented on Pass's "staggering dexterity, ..matched by his fluency of ideas and the originality of his voicing", and ''The Irish Times'' stated that, "Apart from a certain fallibility with regard to time, Pass is without significant fault, a fact borne out by the quite incredible performances here". Looking back from 2005, ''All About Jazz'' described the album as "the recording to announce that Joe Pass had arrived", and said that he had "accomplished, using standard guitar performance techniques, to play lead melody lines, chords, and bass rhythm simul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirius (Coleman Hawkins Album)
''Sirius'' is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded in 1966 but not released by the Pablo label until 1974. Retrieved May 27, 2019 Reception reviewer Scott Yanow stated "Hawkins's final studio session is rather sad ... Recorded in late 1966, this quartet set finds Hawk constantly short of breath and unable to play long phrases. He is able to get away with this deficiency on the faster pieces but the ballads are rather painful to hear. Even at this late stage Hawkins still had his majestic tone but this recording is only of historical interest". Tr ...
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Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums.National Endowment for the Arts biography of Louis Bellson , January 1994; accessed January 2009. Bellson performed in most of the major capitals around the world. Bellson and his wife, actress and singer (married from 1952 until Bailey's death in 1990), had the second highest num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Brown (musician)
Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American jazz double bassist, known for his extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. He was also a founding member of the group that would later develop into the Modern Jazz Quartet. Biography Early life Ray Brown was born October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and took piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one. With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the upright bass. Career A major early influence on Brown's bass playing was Jimmy Blanton, the bassist in the Duke Ellington band. As a young man Brown became increasingly well known in the Pittsburgh jazz scene, with his first experiences playing in bands with the Jimmy Hinsley Sextet and the Snookum Russell band. After graduating high school, having heard stories about the burgeoning jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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