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Freddie Hubbard - For Spee’s Sake (1962)
Another crowd-pleasing burner from one of the greatest.
Happy birthday “Hub.”
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Live in Sanremo Italy — March 3, 1963
Rare Italian television footage of a prime-time Messengers lineup:
Wayne Shorter - sax; Freddie Hubbard - trumpet; Curtis Fuller - trombone; Cedar Walton - piano; Reggie Workman - bass; Art Blakey - drums
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Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land (1964)
I had to compress this mp3 file significantly to fit the 10MB limit, so apologies for the less than stellar audio quality. This 15-minute tour de force, however, is worth the occasional tinniness of the drumkit.
Enjoy this ensemble for the ages, which presses every available modal button to create what is arguably one of the definitive statements in 60s jazz.
More from this date here.
Reggie Workman during Wayne Shorter’s Juju session, Englewood Cliffs NJ, August 3 1964 (photo by Francis Wolff)
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Duke Jordan - Starbright (1960)
After making a name for himself in the ’40s as Charlie Parker’s bebop pianist of choice, Duke Jordan’s only LP for Blue Note finds him in a creative peak, highlighted by this sumptuous ballad, where the underplayed trumpeter Dizzy Reece mines a particularly rich and beautiful vein.
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Bobby Hutcherson - Effi (1968)
Another hard-to-find Bobby Hutcherson LP recorded in 1968 that languished on the Blue Note shelves until 1980. The playing here is hot and heavy, with some great flute work from James Spaulding, beautiful piano from Stanley Cowell—who wrote this cut—and sterling drum work from Joe Chambers, who contributed four compositions to the LP.
