Kenny Burrell‘s ‘Midnight Blue’ is an album (and one of his best-known) recorded on January 8, 1963 with Stanley Turrentine & Ray Barretto among others and released in 1963 By Blue Note.
Billie Holiday‘s ‘Songs for Distingué Lovers’ is an album recorded from January 3 till January 9, 1957 with Harry Edison, Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel & more and released the same year by Verve Records.
Frank Sinatra‘s ‘Come Fly with Me’ is an album (and his first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May) released on January 6, 1958 by Capitol.
George Bensons ‘Breezin” is an album produced By Tommy Lipuma, recorded on January 6, 7 & 8, 1976 and released the same year by Warner Bros.
This day (January 6, 1993), in Englewood, New Jersey, died Dizzy Gillespie, an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. (more…)
Peggy Lee‘s ‘Miss Wonderful’ is an album (arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver) recorded on January 6, June 8, 1956 and released in 1959 by Decca Records.
This day (January 6, 1999), in New York City, died Michel Petrucciani, a French jazz pianist. (more…)
How well do you know the music of Dr. Lonnie Smith, James Carter Organ Trio, Chris Potter, Michel Petrucciani, David Sanborn, Grover Washington Jr., Art Blakey ＆ The Jazz Messengers, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Charles Mingus, Mccoy Tyner, Erroll Garner, The Timex All Star ? Take our 12-track quiz.
‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook’ is a studio album recorded on January 5-7, 1963, with an orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle and released the same year by Verve.
‘Out Louder’ by Medeski Martin & Wood & John Scofield is a collaboration album recorded in January 2006 and released on September 26, 2006 By Indirecto Records.
Milt Jackson‘s ‘Plenty, Plenty Soul’ is an album recorded on January 5 & 7, 1957 with Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Oscar Pettiford, Art Blakey, Connie Kay and more guests and released the same year by Atlantic.
Weather Report ‘s ‘8:30’ is a double album recorded live (except for 2 tracks) in January–February 1979, produced by Joe Zawinul & Jaco Pastorius and released the same year by Columbia.
This day ( January 5, 1979), in Cuernavaca, Mexico,, died Charles Mingus Jr. , an American jazz musician, composer and bandleader. (more…)
Frank Sinatra‘s ‘Sinatra at the Sands’ is his first live album recorded in January 1966 with Count Basie and his orchestra, conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones and released in July 1966 by Reprise.
