Featuring the almightily beloved, filial jazz standard.
Stevie nicked the horn riff for Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing. (Steely Dan and Madlib followed suit.)
The great pianist in between bands in 1963-4, with Joe Henderson and Carmell Jones. Monumental hard bop; a key Blue Note.
‘Classic Vinyl Series.’

From August 1965, pitched between the sessions for Song For My Father and Cape Verdean Blues. Both classic numbers are here, in scorching renditions. Twenty-year-old Woody Shaw announces himself in fine style on the helter-skelter opener Kicker. Joe Henderson plays a blinder in Silver’s shows around this time, gloriously cutting loose on the hits. You need this LP plus the Ezzthetics CD Live New York Revisited, which dovetails nicely. Hot stuff.

Perfect condition.

Home Cookin’, Crazy! Baby, Midnight Special, Back At The Chicken Shack, Softly As A Summer Breeze.

‘Classic Vinyl’ series.

Unmissable Jimmy Smith. With Stan The Man and Kenny Burrell, the perfect foils, in 1963. ‘Ultimate HQ CD’ from Japan, using the recent Craft transfers and mastering.

With Cannonball Adderley, Duke Jordan and co.
Kicking off with Tribute To Brownie; and extending his tradition of hard bop trumpet-playing.

At the turn of the sixties, pushing at the soul-jazz envelope (and tripping out on Eleanor Rigby) — with Lee Morgan, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Melvin Sparks, and Leo Morris.

Classic Vinyl Series.

Still sealed.

With Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones.

With Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones and Ron Carter in 1967. Arguably his greatest record as leader; a classic.

TW’s first Blue Note session was The Jody Grind. His debut as leader, at 23, Natural Essence is a winning mid-sixties set of his own compositions. Post-Trane dancers, jams; some lovely tunes. Woody Shaw, too.