The Jazz Crusaders Live Newport & Pacific Jazz Festivals 1966

The Jazz Crusaders Live Newport & Pacific Jazz Festivals – The Festival Album 1966

Recording information:
Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA (1966)
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI (1966)
Shelly's Manne-Hole, Los Angeles, CA (1968)

The Jazz Crusaders:
Wilton Felder saxophone, tenor saxophone Wayne Henderson trombone Joe Sample piano, keyboards Stix Hooper drums
on double bass
Herbie Lewis (Pacific Jazz Festival), Jimmy Bond (Newport Jazz Festival), Buster Williams (Shelly Manne's Hole)

01. Introduction
at the Pacific Jazz Festival

02. Trance Dance
03. Summer’s Madness
at the Newport Jazz Festival

04. Young Rabbits
05. Freedom Sound
at Shelly Manne's Hole

06. Wilton’s Boogaloo
07. Half And Half

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The Festival Album was the only live set by the Jazz Crusaders not recorded at the Lighthouse. As such, it is a compilation of performances recorded at the Pacific Jazz and Newport Festivals in 1966. The band had two different bass players during these gigs: Jimmy Bond was at the Newport Festival, while Herbie Lewis joined for the Pacific Jazz Festival. The band was well established everywhere but in New York, bewilderingly, and had recorded a dozen records, all of which were popular. And it's easy to see why. The version of Ken Cox's "Trance Dance" that opens the set showcases all of the band's strengths: solid hard bop chops and arrangements with a deep accent on the blues as it was emerging into soul-jazz. Soloists Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Wilton Felder are all in fine form here. The deep groove on "Summer's Madness" by the trio is actually the signature piece of the Jazz Crusaders' sound at the time. Sample's "Freedom Sound," from the Pacific Jazz gig, illustrates the deep lyricism at the heart of the band's front line. The CD version contains two bonus tracks recorded later that year at Shelly Manne's Hole, with Buster Williams on bass. The sound gels here to make something truly unique, as evidenced by the funkier than funky "Wilton's Boogaloo," with killer solos by the saxophonist and Henderson, and a smoking beat by Stix Hooper. It's loose, in the pocket and freewheeling -- and over 11 minutes in length! The set closes with the driving "Half and Half" by Charles Davis, which is a vamp on "My Favorite Things," with a knotty arrangement, a sprightly tempo, and features some incredible snare and cymbal work by Hooper. ~ Thom Jurek

Miles Davis At Newport Jazz Festival '58

Recorded live at Newport Jazz Festival, RI, July 3, 1958

Miles Davis (trumpet)
John Coltrane (tenor sax)
Cannonball Adderley (alto sax)
Bill Evans (piano)
Paul Chambers (bass)
Jimmy Cobb (drums)

1. Introduction By Willis Connover
2. Ah-Leu-Cha
3. Straight, No Chaser
4. Fran-Dance
5. Two Bass Hit
6. Bye Bye Blackbird
7. The Theme

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While most of this music on Miles Davis at Newport 1958 has appeared on either the Miles and Monk At Newport compilation or the Newport Jazz Festival Live album, this is the first time that the material has been presented in its entirety. The personnel in the sextet had changed slightly by this time. Red Garland and Philly Joe Jones were replaced by revolutionary pianist Bill Evans and newcomer Jimmy Cobb on drums. Especially notable in this performance was the way Coltrane's abilities had progressed. But even though the group was bursting with musical inspiration and fresh ideas, Miles was still the undisputed heart and soul of the band. Several of the tracks performed here came from 'Round About Midnight and Milestones; but in the live setting, the music soars and the interaction between the artists is remarkable. Unlike Jazz at The Plaza, recorded just two months later, this album was intended for commercial release and the sound quality is much better as well.

Newport 1957. Teddy Wilson / Gerry Mulligan / Bill Evans

Recorded at Newport Jazz Festival 1957

A1 - Stompin' At the Savoy
A2 - Airmail Special
A3 - Basin Street Blues
A4 - I Got Rhythm
A5 - Sweet Georgia Brown (+ Mulligan)

B1 - Sweet Georgia Brown
B2 - My Funny Valentine
B3 - Utter Chaos
B4 - Dancing in the Dark
B5 - I Love You (Bill Evans)
B6 - It's Wonderful (Bill Evans)

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A1 - A2 .:. B1 - B2

Although in 1957 some listeners considered swing and cool jazz to be at the extreme poles of the jazz world, this LP, recorded at that year's Newport Jazz Festival, shows just how similar the two idioms were. The Teddy Wilson Trio (with bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Specs Powell) plays lightly swinging versions of four swing era standards and welcomes baritonist Gerry Mulligan to sit in on a spirited rendition of "Sweet Georgia Brown," and then Jeru's quartet (with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, bassist Joe Benjamin, and drummer Dave Bailey) plays cooly exciting versions of "My Funny Valentine" and "Utter Chaos"; one could easily imagine Wilson helping out on those two songs. Strangely enough, this LP reissue of the original set also contains three standards by the Don Elliott Quartet with pianist Bill Evans, but never lists the full personnel (mellophonist Elliott, bassist Ernie Furtado, and drummer Al Beldini) or acknowledges the music in the liner notes. Worth acquiring anyway. Review by Scott Yanow

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Dizzy Gillespie At Newport '57

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Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 6, 1957


Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals)
Ernie Henry, Jimmy Powell (alto saxophones)
Benny Golson, Billy Mitchell (tenor saxophones)
Pee Wee Moore (baritone saxophone)
Lee Morgan, Talib Dawud, Emmett Perry, Carl Warwick (trumpets)
Melba Liston, Al Grey, Ray Connors (trombones)
Wynton Kelly, Mary Lou Williams (piano)
Paul West (bass)
Charlie Persip (drums)

1. Dizzy's Blues
2. School Days
3. Doodlin'
4. Manteca
5. I Remember Clifford
6. Cool Breeze
7. Zodiac Suite: Virgo / Libra / Aries
8. Carioca
9. A Night in Tunisia

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Nina Simone - Nina At Newport (1960)

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Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island on June 30, 1960.

Nina Simone (vocals, piano) : Al Shackman (guitar) : Chris White (bass) :Bobby Hamilton (drums)

1. Trouble In Mind 5:31
2. Porgy 5:07
3. Li'l Liza Jane 4:34
4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 5:25
5. Flo Me La 7:13
6. Nina's Blues 6:10
7. In The Evening By The Moonlight 6:09

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