Ron Carter

Miles Davis records his last fully acoustic album ‘Nefertiti’ for Columbia (1967)

Miles Davis' 'Nefertiti' is a studio (and his last fully acoustic) recorded on June 7, 22-23 and July 19, 1967 and released in December 1967 by Columbia.Track Listing : 1.Nefertiti...

Continue Reading

This week In Jazz Legends 25/52

Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman, Chris Barber, Joe Williams, Eddie Harris, Dave Holland, Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin, John Surman, Miles Davis, The Great Quartet

Continue Reading

Roberta Flack releases her debut album : ‘First Take’ featuring ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ (1969)

Roberta Flack's 'First Take' feat. 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' is her debut album produced By Joel Dorn and released on June 20, 1969 by Atlantic.Track Listing...

Continue Reading

George Benson records his twelfth album ‘Bad Benson’ for CTI (1974)

George Benson's 'Bad Benson' is his twelfth studio album recorded on April 22 and June 20, 1974 and released on October 13, 1974 by CTI.Track Listing : 1.Take Five (Paul...

Continue Reading

Me:nu Du Jour June 19 (EN.FR.ES)

>> EN FRANCAIS | >> EN ESPAÑOLTODAY We Listen To Syreeta, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Fiona Apple, The Shins, Michael Brecker, Miles Davis We Celebrate Chico Buarque, Ann Wilson, Heart, Paula Abdul We Watch...

Continue Reading

Herbie Hancock records ‘Empyrean Isles’ featuring ‘One Finger Snap’ and ‘Cantaloupe Island’ (1964)

Herbie Hancock's 'Empyrean Isles' feat. 'One Finger Snap' and 'Cantaloupe Island. is his fourth album recorded on June 17, 1964 and released the same year by Blue Note.Track Listing :...

Continue Reading

Antônio Carlos Jobim records ‘Wave,’ his fourth album for A&M (1967)

Antônio Carlos Jobim's 'Wave' is his fourth (and his most successful album to date) album recorded on May 22-24 and June 15, 1967 and released in September 1967 By A&M.Track...

Continue Reading

Bobby Hutcherson records ‘Components’ with Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock et al (1965)

Bobby Hutcherson's 'Components' is an album mixing hard bop on one side and avant-garde on the other, recorded on June 10, 1965 and released the same year by Blue Note.Track...

Continue Reading

Stanley Turrentine records ‘Don’t Mess With Mister T.’ for CTI (1973)

Stanley Turrentine's 'Don't Mess With Mister T.' is an album arranged by Bob James and recorded on June 7–8, 1973 by CTI.Track Listing : 1.Don'T Mess With Mister T. (Marvin...

Continue Reading

FRE:SH STRAIGHT UP JAZZ 02 Episode 8/10

EIGHT hours of newly released straight up jazz albums. Shuffle it! : Brian Bromberg . Jim Rotondi . Kenny Barron Trio . Ken Peplowski . Herlin Riley . Dr. Lonnie...

Continue Reading

Stoned

From 'Let's Go Get Stoned' to 'Queen Of Diamonds', we have mixed 18 'Jazz & Blues' tunes around the theme of 'Stones'. It has Muddy Waters, Janis Joplin, Dinah Washington,...

Continue Reading

Jazzin’Around Naima

Starting and ending with John Coltrane's composition 'Naima', we have mixed 18 'linked together by a clue you have to guess' tunes around the theme of 'John Coltrane'. It has...

Continue Reading

On the Airs

From 'Ventos Do Norte' to 'Air Waves' , we have mixed 18 'Jazz & Latin' tunes around the theme of 'Four Elements (Air)'. "On the Airs" has Djavan , Phil...

Continue Reading

Hundred

From 'Blue Seven' to 'Six bridges to cross' , we have mixed 20 'Jazz' tunes around the theme of 'Sum Of Numbers Equals 100'. It has Dianne Reeves, Benny Carter,...

Continue Reading

Jazzin’Around Brilliant Corners

From 'Bemsha Swing' to 'Bemsha Swing' , we have mixed 18 'linked together by a clue' tunes around the theme of 'Thelonious Monk'. It has Lennie Tristano, Kenny Dorham, Art...

Continue Reading

The Three Tenors (and More)

From 'Blue Turning Grey Over You' to 'Body And Soul', we have mixed 19 'Pure Jazz' tunes around the theme of 'Tenor Sax'. It has Houston Person & Ron Carter,...

Continue Reading

Jazz In The Cities

From 'Calcutta' to 'Nostalgia De Mexico', we have mixed 20 'Pure Jazz' tunes around the theme of 'Worldwide Cities'. It has Nina Simone, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen,...

Continue Reading

Def Jam publish Rihanna’s third album : ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ featuring ‘Umbrella’ & ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ (2007)

Rihanna's 'Good Girl Gone Bad' feat. 'Umbrella' &'Don't Stop the Music' is her third studio album released on May 31, 2007 by Def Jam /SRP Records.Track Listing : 1.Umbrella (Christopher...

Continue Reading

Capitol Records release Tina Turner’s fifth solo album : ‘Private Dancer’ featuring ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ (1984)

Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' is her fifth (and best-selling) solo album released on May 29, 1984 By Capitol Records.Track Listing : 1.I Might Have Been Queen (Jeanette Obstoj, Rupert Hine,...

Continue Reading

We Remember Duke Ellington. ‘Le Duke’

This day (May 24, 1974), in New York City, died Edward Kennedy Ellington a.k.a Duke Ellington, an American composer, pianist and big-band leader.Tracklist : 1 . Take The A Train...

Continue Reading