Playlist 121 ~ 130

【PlayList 121】

THE IN BETWEEN - BOOKER ERVIN

Booker Telleferro Ervin II (October 31, 1930 - August 31, 1970; aged 39) was an American tenor saxophone player. His tenor playing was characterised by a strong, tough sound and blues/gospel phrasing. He is best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus.
The In Between is an album by American jazz saxophonist Booker Ervin recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 122】

GOOD MOVE - FREDDIE ROACH

Frederick Roach (May 11, 1931 - October 3, 1980; aged 49) was an American soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in The Bronx, New York, United States. From 1962-64 he recorded 5 albums as a leader for the Blue Note Records label.
Good Move is the third album by Freddie Roach recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 123】

'BOUT SOUL - JACKIE McLEAN

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 - March 31, 2006; aged 74) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame in the year of their death.
'Bout Soul is an album by Jackie McLean recorded in 1967 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 124】

FUCHSIA SWING SONG - SAM RIVERS

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 - December 26, 2011; aged 88) was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent artist in jazz music.
Fuchsia Swing Song is the debut album by Sam Rivers recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 125】

MERRY-GO-ROUND - ELVIN JONES

Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 - May 18, 2004; aged 76) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit house band led by Billy Mitchell. He moved to New York City in 1955 and worked as a drummer for John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis.From 1960 to 1966, he was a member of the John Coltrane quartet (along with Jimmy Garrison on bass and McCoy Tyner on piano), a celebrated recording phase, appearing on such albums as My Favorite Things, A Love Supreme, Ascension, and Live at Birdland.
Merry-Go-Round is an album by Elvin Jones recorded in 1971 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 126】

LOVE BUG - REUBEN WILSON

Reuben Wilson (born April 9, 1935) is a jazz organist. He performs soul jazz and acid jazz.
Love Bug is the second album by American organist Reuben Wilson recorded in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label. 

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【PlayList 127】

MIDNIGHT CREEPER - LOU DONALDSON

Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is an American semi-retired jazz alto saxophonist. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.
Midnight Creeper is an album by Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and featuring Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, George Benson, and Leo Morris. 

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【PlayList 128】

COMMON TOUCH - STANLEY TURRENTINE

Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 - September 12, 2000; aged 66) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s. In the 1960s Turrentine was married to organist Shirley Scott, with whom he frequently recorded, and he was the younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine.
Common Touch is an album by Stanley Turrentine featuring Shirley Scott recorded for the Blue Note label in 1968 and performed by Turrentine with Shirley Scott, Jimmy Ponder, Bob Cranshaw and Leo Morris. 

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【PlayList 129】

MONEY JUNGLE - DUKE ELLINGTON

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974; aged 75) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Ellington was known for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, as well as for his eloquence and charisma. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
Money Jungle is a studio album by pianist Duke Ellington with double bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach. It was recorded on September 17, 1962, and released in February 1963 by United Artists Jazz. The original LP was released by United Artists Jazz in 1963 in mono and stereo versions. United Artists was bought by EMI in 1979, and subsidiary Blue Note Records reissued the album on CD in 1987. 

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【PlayList 130】

DAVIS CUP - WALTER DAVIS JR.

Walter Davis Jr. (September 2, 1932 - June 2, 1990; aged 57) was an American hard bop pianist. An often remarkable and inventive bebop and hard bop pianist, Walter Davis Jr. once left the music world to be a tailor, but returned. Davis was known as an interpreter of the music of Bud Powell, but also recorded an album capturing the compositional and piano style of Thelonious Monk.
Davis Cup is the debut album by Walter Davis Jr. featuring performances recorded in 1959 and released on the Blue Note label in 1960. It would be his only album for the label and one of the few recordings where he figured as the leader. 

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