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Horace Silver‘s’Blowin’ the Blues Away’ is an album recorded on August 29-30 & September 13, 1959 with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor and Louis Hayes and released the same year by Blue Note.
Stan Getz‘ ‘Big Band Bossa Nova’ is an album recorded on August 27 and 28, 1962 with the Gary McFarland Orchestra and released the same year by Verve.
Dexter Gordon‘s ‘Go!’ is his tenth studio album recorded on August 27, 1962 and released the same year by Blue Note.
This day (August 26, 1960), in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is born Branford Marsalis, an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. (more…)
Jimmy Smith‘s ‘The Sermon!’ is an album recorded on August 25, 1957 and February 25, 1958 and released in 1959 by Blue Note.
Otis Spann‘s ‘Walking the Blues’ is an album recorded on August 23, 1960 and released by Candid.
McCoy Tynerr’s ‘Expansions’ is his tenth album recorded on August 23, 1968 with Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits and released in June 1970 by Blue Note.
Freddie Hubbard‘s ‘Ready for Freddie’ is his fourth album recorded on August 21, 1961 with Bernard McKinney, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Art Davis and Elvin Jones and released the same year by Blue Note.
‘Oscar Peterson Trio + One’ is an album (featuring Clark Terry) recorded on August 17, 1964 and released In October 1964 by Mercury.
Brad Mehldau‘s ‘Largo’ is an album produced By Jon Brion and released on August 13, 2002 by Warner Bros.
‘Mulligan Meets Monk’ by Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk is an album recorded on August 12–13, 1957 In 1957 and released the same year by Riverside.
‘Jazz Impressions of Japan’ by The Dave Brubeck Quartet is an album recorded following the quartet’s trip to Japan and released on August 10, 1964 by Columbia.
Joe Henderson‘s ‘The Kicker’ is an album recorded on August 10 & September 27, 1967 with Mike Lawrence, Grachan Moncur III, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter and Louis Hayes and released the same year by Milestone.
Archie Shepp‘s ‘Four for Trane’ is a studio album recorded on August 10, 1964 and co-produced by John Coltrane and released the same year by Impulse!.
‘Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux’ is the last album (a collaboration with Quincy Jones for the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival) recorded by Miles Davis and released on August 10, 1993 by Warner Bros.
‘The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1′ is an album recorded on August 9, 1949 in quintet and May 1, 1951 in trio and released the same year In 1951 by Blue Note.
This day (August 9, 1942), in Chicago, Illinois, is born Jack DeJohnette, an American jazz drummer. (more…)
