Golden Age Jazz

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Check out this mix I put together on @8tracks: "Late Night Jazz"

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Ahmad Jamal Trio - Moonlight In Vermont

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Ahmad Jamal - Beautiful Love

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Chez Le Photographe Du Motel Miles Davis

Sunday jazz.

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One of many fine EmArcy titles Dinah Washington recorded in the '50s, Dinah! includes a very enjoyable mix of medium-tempo and after-hours vocal numbers. On a handful of cuts, Washington gets into the kind of smoldering and declamatory blues mode she excelled at, especially on "All of Me" and "There'll Be Some Changes Made." Showing her versatility, Washington also shines on relatively tame pop numbers, like the album's waltz-tempo version of "Look to the Rainbow" and an easy strolling "Accent on Youth." Even here, her vocal power comes through, albeit with the blues phrasing mostly kept under wraps. On "A Cottage for Sale," Washington seems to harness all her vocal talents, creating a dazzling mix of jazz phrases, dramatic tonal shifts, and bluesy exclamations, all enveloped in a weary and melancholic tone befitting a breakup song. Besides this gem, other standout selections include "More Than You Know" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." Hal Mooney provides solid, if not terribly provocative big-band and strings arrangements, with fine solos and obbligato passages coming from former Benny Goodman tenorman George Auld and West Coast jazz luminaries like trombonist Frankie Rosolino and alto saxophonist Herb Geller. Washington's rhythm section at the time, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Keeter Betts, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, provide stellar rhythmic accompaniment throughout. A top Dinah Washington date, and a fine place to start for newcomers to the singer's catalog.

-Allmusic (4.5/5 stars)

This is my copy of this lovely album that I photographed to try to play around with it. Didn't go quite as planned but I'll share it nonetheless.

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Billie Holiday & Lester Young - Fine and Mellow

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Jammin' the Blues (1944)

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Erroll Garner - My Silent Love

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Dexter Gordon - What's New

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Billy Taylor explains cool jazz and plays a nice example

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Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt - Out in the Cold Again

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Hank Mobley - Soul Station

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A pretty successful weekend with picking up some new vinyl. Spent way too much money, but two of those Blue Notes are original pressings in fantastic condition, so I really cant complain. The Sonny Criss album I have is the original stereo pressing but is in the mono sleeve with a stereo sticker on it. 

Soul Station is an album I’ve been after for a loooooong time now. I’d much rather have an earlier pressing (even a King era Jap. reissue would be okay, but Liberty repressings and earlier are my ideal), but this was too good a deal to pass up. $20 for the reissue plus a cd recording of the album. Now I’ve got something to listen to on the way to work!

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Jimmy Smith - Trust in Me

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‘This Is Always’ by Sonny Stitt [Sonny Stitt, 1958]

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Jimmy Smith - What Kind of Fool Am I?  From the album: I'm Movin' On