Side One: Track A – Solo Dancer: Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney! Track B – Duet Solo Dancers: Hearts’ Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces Track C – Group Dancers: (Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom’s Slave Cries

Side Two: Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers: Stop! Look! And Sing Songs of Revolutions! Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance: Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front Mode F – Group and Solo Dance: Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, ‘til It’s Freedom Day

Left: in the studio, 1963.

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Released:1963Released:1963 THETHE BLACKBLACK SAINTSAINT ANDAND Catalog Number: A-35 Recorded: January 20, 1963 Genre: Avant-garde jazz THETHE SINNERSINNER LADYLADY Producer: Bob Thiele

The Black Saint and the The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is a studio album Sinner Lady is often character- by American jazz musician ized by jazz and music critics Charles Mingus, released on as one of Mingus’s two Impulse! Records in 1963. major masterworks (the other being Mingus Ah Um) The album consists of and has frequently ranked a single continuous compo- highly on lists of the best sition—partially written as Jazz albums of all time. a ballet—divided into four tracks and six movements. Mingus’s perfectionism led to Among the album’s extensive use of studio overdubbing, a accolades: Richard Cook and Brian It was recorded on January 20, rarity in Jazz at the time. The album Morton, writers of The Penguin Guide 1963 by an eleven-piece band. Mingus features a unique set of liner notes to Jazz awarded the album a “Crown” called the album’s orchestral style written by Mingus and Dr. Edmund token, their highest, in addition to their “ethnic folk-dance music”. Pollock, his psychotherapist. highest rating, four stars.

The Miles Davis Sextet

Kind of Blue (CL 1355) is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2nd and April 22nd, 1959. The sessions featured Davis’s ensemble sextet, with pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, drummer Jimmy Kind of Blue Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley. Released on: Monday, 17 August 1959 After the entry of Evans into Catalog Number: CL 1355 his sextet, Davis followed up on Style: Modal Jazz Side One: the modal experimentations of Milestones (1958) by basing Kind of Recorded on: 02 March 1959 So What Blue entirely on modality, in con- and 22 April 1959 Freddie Freeloader trast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz. Sessions produced by: Teo Macero Blue In Green and Irving Townsend Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has Side Two: been described by many music writ- All Blues ers not only as Davis’s best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz Flamenco Sketches record of all time.

On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of Amer- The second recording session for the album. (l-r) Coltrane, Adderly, Davis and Evans. ica (RIAA). It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time Photograph by Don Hunstein. and Davis’s masterpiece. Album cover photograph by Jay Maisel. Layout by S. Neil Fujita. The album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock, and classical music, has led Body copy courtesy of Wikipedia and music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums ever made. In Rolling Stone magazine. Edited by Ben Brown Jr. 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be Poster concept, design and layout by Ben Brown Jr. added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 2016 www.aceofspadespdx.com on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. sings the cole porter songbook

Side 1 All Through The Night Anything Goes Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook is Miss Otis Regrets Side 3 a 1956 studio double album by American jazz singer Too Darn Hot I Love Paris You Do Something To Me Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra In The Still Of The Night I Get A Kick Out Of You Ridin’ High conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, Do I Love You? Easy To Love focusing on the songs of Cole Porter. Always True To You In My It’s All Right With Me Fashion Why Can’t You Behave? This was Fitzgerald’s first album for the newly What Is This Thing Called Love? created . (It was also the first album You’re The Top to be released by Verve as well.) Fitzgerald’s time Side 2 on the Verve label would see her produce her most Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of Just One Of Those Things her vocal powers. Ev’ry Time We Say Good-Bye Side 4 All Of You Love For Sale Begin The Beguine It’s DeLovely This album inaugurated Fitzgerald’s Songbook Get Out Of Town Night And Day series, each of the eight albums in the series focus- I Am In Love Ace In The Hole ing on a different composer of the canon known as From This Moment On So In Love the Great American Songbook. The album was I’ve Got You Under My Skin I Concentrate On You recorded February 7–9 & March 27, 1956 in Don’t Fence Me In Hollywood, Los Angeles. ella fitzgerald This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have “qualita- tive or historical significance.” In 2003, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to Released: 1956 be added to the National Recording Registry. Recorded: February 7–9, 1956 and March 27, 1956 Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing and Big Band Label: Verve Catalog Number: MG V-4001-2 Producer: Norman Granz

Right: Fitzgerald boarding a plane after finishing a European tour, 1956. Photographer unknown. Album cover photography by Herman Leonard. Album design by David Stone Martin. Body copy courtesy of Wikipedia. Edited by Ben Brown Jr. Poster concept, design and layout by Ben Brown Jr. 2016 www.aceofspadespdx.com Album cover design by Reid Miles. Album cover photography and live shot by Francis Wolff. Body copy courtesy of AllMusic, Wikipedia and , edited by Ben Brown Jr. Chart information courtesy of Billboard. ,, ,, Poster layout and design by Ben Brown Jr. James Oscar Jimmy Smith was an American jazz musician who 2016 www.aceofspadespdx.com achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on the national Billboard 200 Album and Pop charts. Smith helped popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ, creating an indelible link between sixties Soul and Jazz improvisation. He played walking bass lines and Side One chordal accompaniment with his left hand, while solos were played with his right hand. A booming, funky presence punctuated every song, particularly the Back at the Chicken Shack up-tempo cuts. When I Grow Too Old to Dream , Back at the Chicken Shack is one of organist Jimmy Smith s classic Side Two Blue Note sessions, and the first to draw attention to tenor saxophonist Stan- ley Turrentine. Recorded in 1960 and released in 1963 on the Blue Note label, Minor Chant featuring on guitar, Donald Bailey on drums, and Turrentine, Messy Bessie the group reaches the peak of funky soul jazz that all other challengers of the genre would have to live up to. CD reissue bonus track On the Sunny Side of the Street Included on this uptempo session is a reworking of ,,When I Grow Too Old to Dream,, a feature for Turrentine, Turrentine,s ,,Minor Chant,,, two Smith compositions, ,,Messy Bessie,, as well as the set,s notable title cut. Smith,s Midnight Special album released in 1962 was recorded at these same sessions, and is also equally exceptional.

The album was a massive seller by Jazz standards, reaching number 14 on the Billboard 200 Album chart in 1963, and even more impressive, an BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK edited single was also released of the title track, which reached number 63 on the national Billboard Pop chart, a rarity for an instrumental Jazz recording.

Back at the Chicken Shack was cited in the book 1001 Albums You Recorded: Monday, 25 April 1960. Released: 1963. Producer: Alfred Lion. Must Hear Before You Die. Catalog Number: Blue Note 84117. Style: Soul Jazz, Hard Bop.

Jimmy Smith - organ Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone Kenny Burrell - guitar Donald Bailey - drums Sheet music for the track “Giant Steps”. Published by Hal Leonard Publishing Co., Milwaukee, WI. Here you can see the chords in thirds.

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Giant Steps is the fifth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane as leader, released in January 1960 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1311. His first album for his new label Atlantic, it is the breakthrough album for Coltrane, and many of its tracks have become practice templates for jazz saxophonists. In 2004, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

The recording exemplifies Coltrane’s melodic phrasing that came to be known as sheets of sound, and features his explo- rations into third-related chord movements that came to be known as Coltrane changes.

Jazz musicians continue to use the Giant Steps chord progression, which consists of a peculiar set of chords that often move in thirds, as a practice piece and as a gateway into modern jazz improvisation. John Coltrane John Coltrane Several pieces on this album went on to become jazz standards, most notably the title track and the beautifully haunting “Naima”.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested “Core Collection” calling it “Trane’s first genuinely iconic record.” In 2003, the album was ranked number 103 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Released: January 1960 Catalog Number: SD1311 GIANTGIANT STEPSSTEPS Recorded: May 4–5, 1959 and December 2, 1959 Side One: Side Two: Genre: Jazz Giant Steps Syeeda’s Song Producer: Nesuhi Ertegün Cousin Mary Flute Countdown Naima Spiral Mr. P.C C

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