4 Jelly Roll Morton: grace of amuch smaller group. Volumes 1-5 (JSP 1926- Sevendecades later,this music 1930) deleted still sounds fresh minted. Jelly Roll wasapool-shark, 11 Billie Holiday&Lester hustler and pimp, but also the Young: AMusical
finest pianist to come out of Romance (Columbia 1937- Telegraph NewOrleans and the first great 57) £5.86, RRP £8.99 composer/arranger in jazz, Holiday’s voice and Young’s above all in these recordings. saxophone made awonderfully 5 JohnnyDodds: compatible musical couple, both 100 DefinitiveDodds (Retrieval wry,tender,vulnerable and 1926-7) £10.76, RRP £11.99 beautiful. This compilation 18:33:52; Skirling and insistent in the contains some of their most upper register,plumyand fluid delightful encounters, plus one
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About the artist:how Jim Flora made jazz come alive
ames (Jim) Flora, who drew the wonderful Jillustrations on these pages, created caricatures of
jazz legends forColumbia and RCAVictor Records in the Telegraph Forties and Fifties. He lavished album sleevesand print ephemerawith outrageous portraits of jazz giants Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Bing Crosby, BennyGoodman and dozens of their swing and bop-erabrethren. Florareduced these immortals to farcical creatures, with fried-egg eyes, bedspread-pattern skin tints and bonus
limbs. ‘I had no idea of likeness at all,’heonce said. ‘I alwaysthought that the 18:24:02; musicians did their thing and it wasmyturn to do my thing.’ Flora(1914-1998) left alegacyofpaintings, sketches, woodcuts and illustrations
reflecting this passion forjazz. He recalled aFifties episode: ‘I spent four hours 2009 sketching aDukeEllington recording session. Dukeand Billy Strayhorn were
working on atune and couldn’t getitright. Theywould write, then call in the band 03, –who were reading or smoking cigarettes –and the band would play, but it wasn’t right. After four hours, theyhad not recorded one sound. In the end theyrecorded Nov this newpiece and it wasfabulous. And Ihad abunch of sketches.’ Together with BarbaraEconomon, Ihave compiled three anthologies of Flora’s album covers, bizarrewoodcuts and curiously sinister fine art. His work can be
viewedand purchased atJimFlora.com and at jimflora.blogspot.com. Date: IRWIN CHUSID mm);
Bechet, aclarinettist and anew sensibility into big-band 23 Thelonious Monk: 27 Ella Fitzgerald: asummation of the musical soprano saxophonist, had, to swing –inshort, he invented Genius of Modern PureElla (1950-54) tradition of his nativetown, agreater extent than anyother musical cool. His early Music Vols I&2 deleted Kansas City. performer,that mixtureof recordings, mostly on here, (Blue Note, Ella’s voice wasata 32 The Jazz Messengers: 311.00 arrogance, elation and power remain extraordinarily fresh. 1947-52) Vol1 peak of creamy At the Café Bohemia Vols x known as the ‘rooster crow’. 20 Charlie Christian: The £8.80, RRP perfection when I&2(1955) Vol1£9.78, RRP 18 Jelly Roll Morton: The Genius of the Electric £8.99, Vol2 she made these £9.99, Vol2£9.78, RRP £9.99 Library of Congress Guitar (SonyLegacy1939- £8.80, RRP £8.99 sides with only Drummer Art Blakey led the Recordings (Rounder 41) deleted On these early the dulcet piano Messengers, asort of elite 1938) deleted Christian had atantalisingly sessions Monk gives the accompaniment of Ellis academyofmodern jazz, Jelly Roll’s reminiscences, brief career during which he impression of reinventing music, Larkins: asuperb recital through manyincarnations – spoken, sung and playedinto effectively introduced anew slightly different from the way it of American popular song. none moreimpressivethan this amicrophone areaunique instrument –the electric wasbefore; each piece is tart, 28 Sarah Vaughan: early quintet version, stretching Format:(230.00 autobiographyinsound – guitar –into jazz and a compressed and abit startling. Complete Recordings out at aNew York club. colourful, outrageous, boastful, distinctivestyle, punchyand 24 Miles Davis: Birth of with CliffordBrown (Lone 33 CliffordBrown/Max beautiful and apiece of declamatory.Every note he the Cool (1948-50) £10.76, Hill 1954) deleted Roach: At Basin Street Americana to rank with playedwas memorable. RRP £12.99 With an opera-singer’s range (Emarcy 1956) £9.78, RRP Huckleberry Finn. 21 Charlie Parker: The Bebop wasfast and hot. Forthis and asophisticated harmonic £10.99 19 Lester Young: The Complete Savoy and Dial nine-piece ensemble Davis and sense, Vaughan wasthe Brown’s sound on trumpet Lester Young Story Studio Recordings (1944- his collaborators –including Gil vocalist in post-war jazz. She wasglowing and golden, his (Proper Box1939-49) 48) deleted Evans and Gerry Mulligan – could sound mannered, but delivery majestic. This £16.62, RRP £16.99 Parker transformed jazz, came up with anew sound: not here. captures the quintet he co-led The tenor saxophonist brought fundamentally and forgood, mellow, light and floating. 29 Al Haig: One Day with drummer MaxRoach on both harmonically and 25 Bud Powell: The Session (Fresh Sound fabulous form, shortly before rhythmically.His music flew Amazing Bud Powell Vols 1954) £10.76 RRP £10.99 Brown’s early death. fast as thought and with a I&2(1949-51) Vol1£8.80, Haig wasthe most stylishly 34 Thelonious Monk: buttonholing urgency. The RRP £8.99, Vol2£8.80, RRP fastidious of bebop pianists, his Brilliant Corners (Riverside essence of his achievement £8.99 touch athing of beauty.Heand 1956) £9.78, RRP £13.99 is here. Moreaudibly driven by demons his trio glide through these Brilliant indeed, but also 22 Louis than anypianist in jazz, Powell’s standards as if floating on air. disconcerting, the title piece Armstrong: music wasfast, intense and 30 Errol Garner: Concert begins with aseries of juddering Complete New sometimes, in the wordsofone by the Sea (Columbia gear-changes in tempo like York Town Hall title, Un Poco Loco. 1955) £8.80, RRP £8.99 nothing else in music. These are
and Boston 26 Gerry Mulligan: The Self-taught and unable to read Monk’s most accomplished 1013CC-RVUSJ-1-081109-A013C-XX.pdf; SymphonyHall Best of the Gerry music, Garner came up with small band performances. Concerts (1947) Mulligan Quartet with astyle that wasall his own, 35 SonnyRollins: £22.50, RRP £22.99 Chet Baker (Pacific Jazz seeming sometimes to strum Saxophone Colossus Satchmo fronts a 1952-57) deleted the piano like agigantic guitar: (Prestige1956) £8.80, RRP band –with Jack The avuncular-sounding jovial and hugely entertaining. £10.99 Teagarden on baritone saxophonist teamed 31 Big Joe Turner: Boss of Blue Seven,along, reflective Document: trombone, Sid Catlett drums up with the lyrical trumpeter, the Blues (1955) deleted track, has long been acclaimed –that deserves the name Chet Baker,and apiano-less Agiant of aman, with an as amasterpiece, in which not All-Stars. Everyone’s on rhythm section of just bass and enormous cavernous voice, anote of Rollins’s tenor solo magnificent form; Armstrong drums. The result: anovellaid- Turner is on majestic form for could be altered. The rest of the himself is sublime. back informality in jazz. this session, which becomes session is almost as good.
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36 Serge Chaloff: Blue improbable cowboytunes such afew compatible musicians and Serge (1956) deleted as WagonWheels with deadpan ahandful of blues. Chaloff, whose family came humour and inventivebrilliance. 54 John Coltrane: Giant from Russia, brings aSlavic 43 Ella Fitzgerald and Steps (1959) £9.78, RRP soulfulness to the baritone Louis Armstrong: Ella and £9.99
saxophone. This, recorded Louis (Verve, 1957) £9.78, This is the recording on which Telegraph shortly beforehis early death, RRP £9.99 Coltrane emergedasa is his richest, most poignant Armstrong plays some trumpet, performer of mesmerising and maturerecording. but essentially this is aduet authority and –onseveralof 37 Lester Young: Jazz between twogreat singers – these pieces –dizzying speed Giants ’56 (Verve, 1956) Ella supremely poised and of execution. He wasto
£9.78, RRP £10.99 mellifluous, Louis with a transform jazz completely. 18:24:24; This summit voice like adredger. 55 Charles Mingus: Blues conference of 44 Billie Holiday: and Roots (Atlantic 1959)
mainstream jazz Songs for £9.78, RRP £10.99 2009 soloists contains Distingué The bassist and composer
the wistful, Lovers (Verve, brings the newest kind of jazz – 03, melancholy late 1957) £11.74, bebop verging on free jazz – Lester Young, and RRP £11.99 together with some of the Nov Teddy Wilson, Roy With time her voice oldest, including gospel and Eldridgeand Vic Dickenson faded, but Holiday’s ability Jelly Roll Morton –asplendidly all playing at their mellow, to infuse wry and tender turbulent blend.
relaxedmaturity. emotional powerinto alyric just 56 Hank Mobley: Soul Date: 38 Art Tatum: The Solo grew and grew.This session Station (1960) £8.80, RRP Masterpieces (Pablo 1953- finds her at her interpretive perform with impeccable seemed to changeits musical £8.99 56) deleted peak. elegance. character,byturns becoming Thereare tenor saxophone mm); Tatum wasthe most 45 Coleman Hawkins 48 Bill Evans: Everybody squawky,rasping, whispery and plus rhythm sessions without extraordinary keyboardvirtuoso Encounters Ben Webster Digs Bill Evans (Riverside guttural. On balance, this is his number,but not manyas in jazz. Thereare sevenCDs of (Verve1957) £9.78, RRP 1958) £8.80, RRP £9.99 finest moment. flawlessly conceived and these solo performances, all £10.99 Evans introduced something of 51 Dave Brubeck: Time executed as this impeccable 311.00
equally marvellous: the effect Heretwo great tenor the feeling and delicacyof Out (Columbia 1959) £6.84, late bop session: relaxedbut x is rich, evenflorid, but saxophonists –Hawkins with classical piano music into the RRP £6.99 not anote out of place. completely satisfying. astronger,darker sound; jazz tradition. This – Take Five is too well-known for 57 Bob Brookmeyer: The 39 Art Tatum &Ben Webster smoother and airier – alternatively lyrical and driving, its owngood, but this collection Blues Hot and Cold (1960) Webster: The Album contrast like black coffee and Debussyplus bebop –ishis first of elegant experiments with £10.76, RRP £10.99 (originally Verve, 1956) cappuccino. It’s not acontest great recording. unusual time signatures The trombone wasaneglected deleted but arich combination. 49 JimmyRushing: Little remains delightful, above all for instrument in post-war jazz, but Tatum could have been an 46 Art Farmer: APortrait Jimmyand the Big the airy beauty of Paul not when Brookmeyerwas overwhelming accompanist. of Art (1958) deleted Brass (1958) Desmond’s alto around. On this –rasping, Format:(230.00 But the relaxedapproach and Farmer was, with Chet Baker deleted saxophone. sighing, gentle, sardonic –he’s hugetone of Webster’s tenor and Miles Davis, one of the cool Rushing’s baritone 52 Miles Davis: the perfect tough guy of jazz. saxophone, awarm fogof and mellowschool of had amelancholy Kind of Blue 58 Ornette Coleman: The sound, wasthe ideal foil for trumpeters. This unpretentious undertowand a (1959) £5.86, Shape of Jazz to Come his ornate piano. quartet set of ballads and blues bluesyburr,but RRP £7.99 (Atlantic 1959-1960) £6.84, 40 Art Pepper: Art is tender,intimate and flawless. overall the effect is Aperfect album, in RRP £7.99 Pepper Meets the 47 Cannonball Adderley: exuberant as he which an unbeatable Coleman had asound as Rhythm Section Somethin’ Else (Blue Note breezesalong with a group –including John piercing as acry and was (Contemporary 1957) £9.78, 1958) £8.80, RRP £8.99 superb big band roaring behind Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley indifferent to the rules of RRP £9.99 Though issued under Adderley’s him. and Bill Evans –sustain a conventional harmony. This was The alto saxophonist had never name, this contains some of 50 PeeWee Russell: wonderful mood –hip, enigmatic the shape of free jazz to come. playedwith the rest of the band Miles Davis’s greatest playing, Swing with PeeWee –and launch anovelmusical 59 GilEvans: Out of the
ORA and wasstrung-out to boot. But especially on aravishing version (Prestige1958) deleted idiom: modal jazz. Cool (1960) £9.78, RRP FL the cool, inventiveresult of Autumn Leaves.Cannonball Blown by PeeWee, atrue 53 DukeEllington and £10.99 MES
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Evans not only devised anew 1963) £9.78, RRP £9.99 Market (Columbia 1976) mode forjazz piano, he also Raging, sighing, languorous, £8.80, RRP £8.99 revolutionised his trio by setting furious –this tumultuous six- By taking the impressionist his bassist Scott LeFaro free part composition expresses all strand in Sixties jazz, and from timekeeping. This catches the contradictory emotions adding electric sounds and rock
them, live, at apeak. swirling inside Mingus’s head beats, Weather Report hit on Telegraph 62 BennyCarter: Further (and comes with acommentary aformula that returned jazz to Definitions (Impulse! 1961) by his psychiatrist). mass popularity –and with £9.78, RRP £10.99 69 Horace Silver: Song considerable charm. An elegantly poised soloist on ForMyFather (Blue Note 83 JimmyRowles/Ray alto-saxophone, Carter was 1964) £7.82, RRP £8.99 Brown: As Good as it
also the most stylish of The title track has aliltingly Gets (1977) deleted 18:24:49; arrangers forreeds. Herehe attractivetheme with aLatin JimmyRowles, who leads asaxophone ensemble feel, an insistent beat –and accompanied Billie Holidayand
through some of the most abrilliant storming tenor solo taught Marilyn Monroe howto 2009 glorious performances of from Joe Henderson that sing, had an impish wit at the
his long career. really makes it classic. piano keyboard–beautifully 03, 63 Stan Getz: 70 Wayne founded in his honour and this 77 Modern Jazz Quartet: underpinned herebyRay Focus (Verve Shorter: Speak extraordinary recordexplains Last Concert (1974) Brown’s bass. Nov 1961) £9.78, No Evil (1964) why. Passionate, intense and £13.70, RRP £16.99 84 KennyDavern: The RRP £10.99 £8.80, RRP £8.99 prayer-like,this is modern jazz The elegant MJQ had been Hot Three (1979) £13.70, Jazz with strings Amaster as spiritual revelation. playing dulcet chamber jazz RRP £16.99
albums almost never saxophonist, Shorter 74 DukeEllington: Far together fortwo decades The finest jazz clarinettist of Date: work, but this one is also one of the most East Suite (RCA 1966) beforethis highly charged the late 20th century,Davern really does. The arranger, distinctivecomposers in deleted performance, as smoothly performs with just piano and Eddie Sauter,borrowsthe title jazz. His zenith came in the mid These majestic musical meshed as aRolls-Royce. drums to makeNew Orleans mm); track from Bartok, RoyHaynes’s Sixties, most compellingly here vignettes of Asian lands are 78 KeithJarrett: The revivalist jazz so imaginative drums areurgent, Getz’s tenor in companywith Herbie apeak in the work of Ellington Köln Concert (ECM 1975) and accomplished it turns into soars. Hancock and Freddie Hubbard. and his composing partner,Billy £12.72, RRP £16.99 something fresh and new. 64 Oliver Nelson: The 71 Herbie Hancock: Strayhorn. No big band jazz is In this epic performance – 85 TommyFlanagan: 311.00
Blues and the Abstract Maiden Voyage (Blue Note richer or moreaudacious. alternatively funky,lyrical, Super Session (Enja 1980) x Truth (Impulse! 1961) 1964), £8.80, RRP £8.99 75 Chick Corea: churchyand rocking – £9.78, RRP £9.99 £11.74, RRP £11.99 Amarvellous blend of NowHeSings, Jarrett extends solo Flanagan wasalwaysa There’s awonderful band on composition, improvisation and NowHeSobs piano improvisation delightfully thoughtful this –Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans and overall mood. Hancock’s piano, (1968) £8.80, up to, and beyond, performer.What makes this trio the imperious Freddie Hubbard Tony Williams’s drumming and RRP £8.99 the length of special is the combination of his on trumpet. It is Nelson’s writing the ensemble seem to grow Corea brought a aBeethoven piano with the volcanic energy and arranging, however, that turbulent then calm, like the sea. newabstraction to piano sonata. of Elvin Jones at the drums. giveitsuch style and unity. 72 Eric Dolphy: Out to jazz piano. With its title 79 Jim Hall: 86 Joe Pass &JJJohnson: Format:(230.00 65 Joe Henderson: Page Lunch (Blue Note 1964), derived from the IChing, Concierto (1975) We’ll Be Together Again One (Blue Note 1963) £8.80, RRP £8.99 this adventurous piano trio £8.80, RRP £8.99 (Pablo 1983) deleted £9.78, RRP £9.99 With the extraterrestrial chiming session is of its time, but This version of Rodrigo’s An unaccompanied duet Adelightful Latin infusion runs of BobbyHutcherson’s vibes – contains the essence of his Concierto de Aranjuez –with between guitar and trombone through much of the music on and Dolphy’s ownfearless music. Hall on guitar,plus Chet Baker might seem an uninviting this session by Henderson and flights to the limits of 76 Miles Davis: In aSilent and Paul Desmond –ismore prospect. This, though, is KennyDorham, one of the most conventional harmonyonflute, Way (Columbia 1969) £8.80, persuasivethan Miles Davis’s adelightfully inventiveaffair, outstanding –and underrated – alto saxophone and bass RRP £8.99 (and the rest of the album is bringing out the best in both trumpet/tenor teams in jazz. clarinet –this seems like jazz Having already initiated two better still). musicians: creative, witty 66 Stan Getz: Getz/ from outer space. newdevelopments –cool and 80 Count Basie/Zoot and unexpected. Gilberto (Verve1963) 73 John Coltrane: ALove modal jazz –with this exercise Sims: Basie and Zoot 87 Warne Marsh: Star ORA
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GAI Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 82 Weather Report: Black masterpiece.
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£9.78, RRP £9.99 arts Larkins wasthe most dulcet and feather-light of pianists, Big draw Obeyshthe Braff aunique trumpeter/ hippo photographed at cornetist. Theymade many Regent’s Park zoo, 1855
beautiful duet recordings Telegraph overthe years, none moreso in China’sOpium Wars were than these, the last. rearranged for better aesthetic 89 Dick Wellstood: Live 96 LeeKonitz, Brad effect. Meanwhile,the first at the Sticky Wicket Mehldau &Charlie Haden: photographic social historians (Arbors 1986) £13.70, RRP Alone Together (Blue Note were capturing avanishing
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