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.
Blue Note Classic Vinyl series: ‘all-analogue’, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes.

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.

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.

From 1961 — with Fred Jackson and Grant Green.

‘Classic Vinyl’ series.

With Wayne Shorter, Sam Rivers, Herbie Hancock and Gary Peacock.
Classic Vinyl series.

The jazz organist’s masterpiece — with Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson and Elvin Jones in 1965.
Young’s playing is steeped in the new thing — especially JC — but pulsating, intense, and sparking with a restless, propulsive creativity which would lead him to collaborations with Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Bitches-Brew Miles and co, in just a few years time.
Three brilliant compositions by Shaw — including The Moontrane, and an arrangement of Kodaly — a Joe Henderson, a Monk, and Hammerstein and Romberg’s Softly As A Morning Sunrise.