The Good Stuff

Jimmy Smith

COOL BLUES

Blue Note    1958 / 1990

Notes: "Jimmy Smith's story is an unusual one because he single-handedly introduced an instrument into the modern Jazz mainstream and created a sound and a style to go with it.  What is most unusual is that he did not even approach the instrument until he was 28 years old, and he did not play a gig under his own leadership or record an album of his own until he was 29."

Cool Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qY7D5d3ss4

Groovin' at Small's : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjGXW3yyC8

A Night In Tunisia : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-HKq9eNLzE

Small's Minor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYbHWzEf5SM

Cheers

Stanley Turrentine

SUGAR

CTI     1970-1971 / 2002

Notes: "While never an innovator, Turrentine (1934-200) was surely one of Blue Note's key players in the field of "soul Jazz", the strongly Blues-based, Gospel-influenced branch of hard bop, which itself was a simplified take on the vertiginously complex bebop form..... CTI, like Blue Note, had a "look" as well....CTI's covers featured color compositions of gallery quality by some of America's leading photographers."

Sugar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLaIrVB1av4

Sunshine Alley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SqQbt51xf8

Impressions : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YquE-4sWPU

Cheers

Various Artists

THE SOUND OF JAZZ

Columbia / Sony       1957 / 2000

Notes: "The best thing that ever happened to television happened on CBS between five and six in the afternoon on Sunday, December 8.  At least that was where and when it happened first; the program may have been run at a different hour and date in your part of the country, and -- if there is any justice -- it will be repeated, the more often the better.  It was an installment in *The Seven Lively Arts* series called *The Sound of Jazz,* and as far as I'm concerned, you can throw away all previous standards of comparison.  This is where television began to amount to something."

Fine and Mellow : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc4cj5-23_I

I Left my Baby : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84535R-lrB8

Wild Man Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjIoIWMFcM

Dickie's Dream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxT2ZQmwYY

Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2D0xM_NDo

Cheers

Marcus Roberts

IF I COULD BE WITH YOU

Novus / BMG    1993

Notes: "The most important point that I can see is that the Jazz musician of the future will have to be able to play all different kinds of Jazz-in all its treatments-just like the classical musician who, in one concert range from Bach to Copeland." -- James P. Johnson, 1947.

Carolina Shout : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYpfsD71Mo

Preach, Reverend, Preach : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eBzd31BrFE

Just a Closer Walk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwmwM9WMew

What is this thing called love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx4dLJsHZVo

Moonlight in Vermont : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJS0D8a0hSg

Country Blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9BNPtD5kM

Mood Indigo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5i7yyjv_j8

and 13 more!!

Cheers

Great player!  He is about to be featured in a concert at Carnegie with the American Symphony that recreates some of Ellington’s large scale works.  On drums, Wynton’s ‘s little brother Jason.