Lennie Tristano Live At The Café Bohemia 1947

Lennie Tristano All Stars Live At The Cafe Bohemia
Label: Rare Live Recordings (only for collectors)
MP3@320 Kb/s : 122.45 Mb - Time: 75:15

Recorded live at the Cafe Bohemia, New York City, on August 22, 1947.
Lineup on tracks #1-5:
Lennie Tristano piano, Bill Harris trombone, Flip Phillips tenor sax, Billy Bauer guitar, Chubby Jackson bass, Denzil Best drums.
[Pianist Argonne Thornton replaces Tristano on track 5 only]

Recorded at the "Look Up & Live" TV Broadcast, from the Half Note, New York City, June 6, 1964.
Lineup on tracks #6-8:
Lennie Tristano piano, Lee Konitz alto sax, Warne Marsh tenor sax, Sonny Dallas bass, Nick Stabulas drums.


01. What Is This Thing Called Love (13:52)
02. Just You, Jus Me (10:45)
03. A Knight In The Village (9:42)
04. Medley: Body And Soul / Sweet Lorraine (4:05)
05. Flip Meets Bill (10:38)

06. Subconscious-Lee (6:19) (*) Bonus Track
07. 317 East 32nd (9:55) (*) Bonus Track
08. Background Music (9:59) (*) Bonus Track

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A rarely heard jam session presented here for the first time ever on CD.
This exciting compilation (which might more accurately have been called "Live at the Pied Piper and the Half Note") should come as a pleasant surprise to early modern jazz lovers, especially those who admire the work of pianist and philosopher Lennie Tristano. Tracks 1-5, credited to trombonist Bill Harris & His All Stars, were recorded in live performance on August 22, 1947 inside the Pied Piper at 15 Barrow Street in New York City's West Village. These tracks were released on LP in the '70s as Jazz Showcase 5001, A Knight in the Village. The Pied Piper mainly featured old-school jazz players like Wilbur De Paris and James P. Johnson, and wouldn't become the Café Bohemia until 1949 when it was purchased by one James Garofolo, who didn't adopt a rigorously progressive jazz policy until six years later. Bill Harris was a modernist associated with the bop-addled Woody Herman and Charlie Ventura bands. Tristano and tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips received feature billing, with the rest of the All-Stars, consisting of guitarist Billy Bauer, bassist Chubby Jackson, and drummer Denzil Best. On "Flip Meets Bill," Tristano was replaced by Argonne Thornton, who was on the verge of changing his name to Sadik Hakim. He is remembered for his work with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, and Lester Young, a master improviser who was one of Tristano's personal heroes.

The rest of the material presented here was recorded inside the Half Note at 289 Hudson Street on June 6, 1964 for use in a Look Up & Live television broadcast narrated by Dr. William Hamilton. Originally released on Tristano's Jazz Records label, tracks 6-8 feature saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh with bassist Sonny Dallas and drummer Nick Stabulas. If part of this lineup rings a few bells, note that in 1961, Konitz, Dallas, and Stabulas (as well as Elvin Jones) made a bunch of studio recordings for Verve which were released in 2007 on Universal's deluxe three-CD "Elite Edition" of Motion. That package, which fairly bristles with alternate takes, is recommended as a vibrant counterpart to this double reissue of uncommon location recordings which feature the predictably unpredictable Lennie Tristano.

2008 release, a rarely heard jam session available for the first time on CD. Features Modern Jazz piano genius Lennie Tristano playing with an all-star group including trombonist Bill Harris and tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips. As a bonus, the complete soundtrack from a rare TV broadcast featuring Tristano with Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz has been added. Eight tracks. RLR.

Zoot Sims 1959 Jazz Alive! A Night At The Halfnote

Recorded live at the Half Note in New York city on February 6 and 7, 1959

Zoot Sims tenor saxophone Phil Woods alto saxophone Al Cohn tenor saxophone
Mose Allison piano Paul Motian drums

01. Lover, Come Back to Me (Romberg-Hammerstein II)
02. It Had to Be You (Jones-Kahn)
03. Wee Dot (J. J. Johnson)
04. After You've Gone (Creamer-Layton)

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Wes Montgomery and The Complete Smokin' at the Half Note in 1965

Recorded on June 22, 24, 26, 27, 1965 at the now defunct Half Note in NYC

Wes Montgomery on guitar Wynton Kelly on piano Paul Chambers on bass Jimmy Cobb on drums

1. No Blues (M.Davis) 12:52
2. If You Could See Me Now (Dameron-Sigman) 8:20
3. Willow Weep For Me (A.Ronnell) 7:35
4. Impressions (J.Coltrane) 5:06
5. Portrait Of Jennie (Burdge-Robinson) 2:44
6. Surrey With The Fringe On Top (Rodgers-Hammerstein) 5:21
7. Oh, You Crazy Moon (Van Heusen-Burke) 5:21
8. Four On Six (W.Montgomery) 9:30
9. Misty (Garner-Burke) 6:44
Time: 63:39

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It has been well established by jazz pundits that Smokin' at the Half Note is one of the seminal recordings of live jazz guitar. Recorded on June 24, 1965 at the now defunct Half Note in NYC, it paired the legendary guitarist with Miles Davis' 50s rhythm section, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Their playing is the stuff of legend. What is definitely not stuff of legend though is Verve's marketing policy. Of the original LP album only two of the original five tracks were recorded at the Half Note ("No Blues" and "If You Could See Me Now"). At the behest of producer Creed Taylor, the other three were re-recorded on September 22, 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey. To further complicate matters, the remaining Half note numbers were included in the LP Willow Weep for Me, a posthumous 1969 album laced with Claus Ogerman's string and brass arrangements (shock, horror!) added in the studio. For comic relief, Willow won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group. No doubt Wes was smiling in the sky. Our mission here is to demystify dubious artistic/marketing decisions made by clueless record producers and this 1998 version issued for the Japanese market puts things in order as it contains all nine numbers recorded during that historical night at the Half Note. I even went the extra step of adding Rodgers' and Hammersteins' version of The Surrey with the Fringe on Top contained in Wes' the The Verve Jazz Sides double CD as all previous issues of this track were heavily edited (a mid-solo fade-out in our case). This version restores as much of the original performance as possible, as heavy editing of the tape has rendered full recreation of the original an impossibility.

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Art Farmer Quartet Live At The Half Note 1963

Recorded live at the Half-Note, New York, NY on December 5, 6 & 7, 1963

Personnel
Art Farmer trumpet Jim Hall guitar Steve Swallow bass Walter Perkins drums

Tracks
1 . Stompin' at the Savoy (Goodman, Razaf, Sampson, Webb) 12:27
2 . Swing Spring (Davis) 5:51
3 . What's New ? (Burke, Haggart) 4:24
4 . I Want to Be Happy (Caesar, Youmans) 9:41
5 . I'm Getting Sentimental over You (Bassman, Washington) 5:03

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