Thelonious Monk records his second album : ‘Thelonious Alone in San Francisco’ (1959)
Thelonious Monk‘s ‘Thelonious Alone in San Francisco’ is his second solo album, recorded on October 21 and 22, 1959 and released the same year by Riverside.
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Thelonious Monk‘s ‘Thelonious Alone in San Francisco’ is his second solo album, recorded on October 21 and 22, 1959 and released the same year by Riverside.
This day (October 21, 1955), in Cincinnati, Ohio, is born Fred Hersch, a contemporary American jazz pianist. (more…)
Count Basie‘s ‘The Atomic Mr. Basie’ is an album a.k.a. ‘E=MC2’ and originally called ‘Basie’ recorded with his orchestra. on October 21 & 22, 1957 and released in 1958 by Roulette.
Esperanza Spalding's '12 Little Spells' is her seventh album released on October 19, 2018 by Concord. Visual artist Ethan Samuel Young has directed the video version of the album.
This day (October 20, 2005), in Washington, D.C., died Shirley Horn, an American jazz singer and pianist. (more…)
Cannonball Adderley‘s ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at ‘The Club’ is an album recorded on October 20, 1966 and released the same year by Capitol..
Herbie Hancock‘s ‘Gershwin’s World’ is his forty-second album recorded with Joni Mitchell, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter, etc and released on October 20, 1998 by Verve.
This day (October 19, 1995), in Malaga, Spain, died Donald Eugene Cherry a.k.a. Don Cherry, an American jazz cornetist . (more…)