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Dexter Gordon Quartet - "Bouncin With Dex" (1975)

#NowPlaying #DexterGordon #BillyHiggins #NielsHenningOrstedPedersen #VinylRecords #vinyl @vinylrecords

Album cover features a b&w photograph of DG playing the sax.

Lee Morgan - Cornbread

Given this was recorded in '65, it starts off sounding more "late 60s" to me, for some reason.

Morgan, here, is joined by Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Herbie Hancock (piano), Jackie McLean (alto sax), Larry Ridley (bass), and Billy Higgins (drums). The set is four Morgan tunes and one standard (Ill Wind). Ceora is, indeed, a standout.

#nowplaying #vinyl #LeeMorgan #jazz #bop #HankMobley #HerbieHancock #JackieMcLean #LarryRidley #BillyHiggins

Lee Morgan - Cornbread LP cover.

On a red background, a black and white photo of Lee holding his trumpet, surrounded by the word "Cornbread". Artist names above.

The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 8002 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo is the debut album of the folk guitarist Sandy Bull, released in 1963 through Vanguard Records.
Recording

Bull recorded the album accompanied by Billy Higgins, a session jazz drummer who had previously appeared on early Ornette Coleman records.

The highlight of Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo is usually considered to be its opener "Blend", a lengthy improvisational piece. According to Bull, the ideas behind the piece originated from his admiration of Folkways Records, which documented ethnic music from across the world. He also claimed to being particularly inspired from hearing Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan in New York City.[3] "Blend" has been viewed as a "virtual travelogue of styles done in a then revolutionary modal tuning" - Wikipedia

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3HuHV00DMI&list=PLmP3m-_XsexepmBuq-zSTwkx7SBi9KJCq&index=1

#sandybull #billyhiggins #worldmusic #vanguardrecords #DebutAlbum #ragarock

Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo by Sandy Bull LP cover.

Royal Flush is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded on September 21, 1961 and released on Blue Note the following year. Byrd's quintet features saxophonist Pepper Adams and rhythm section Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins.

The album is Herbie Hancock's first Blue Note session to be released.

The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine states, "For the most part, the quintet plays a set of vital hard bop... But what's really interesting is when they begin pushing the boundaries." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuODj-awzDo

#donaldbyrd #hardbop #bluenote #herbiehancock #billyhiggins

Hank Mobley - Third Season

Yet another one of those “recorded in 1967 but released years later” Blue Note albums, this strong set by Mobley, Lee Morgan (trumpet), Cedar Walton (piano), Billy Higgins (drums), Walter Booker (bass), Sonny Greenwich (guitar), and James Spaulding (alto) is well worth seeking out.

I’m not sure the last track works, but the rest is a very enjoyable, swinging hard bop set.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #HankMobley #BlueNote #LeeMorgan #CedarWalton #BillyHiggins

Hank Mobley - Third Season LP cover.

A red-tinted shot of Mobley, smoking a cigarette, holding his sax, facing left.

The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 8002 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

#nowspinning #hankmobley #leemorgan #haroldmabern #larryridley #billyhiggins #dippin #bluenoterecords #toshibaemi #compactdisc #pioneerdv545 #sansui607xr #nsbp200

Real vs Fake bokeh is always interesting…

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #hardbop #DonaldByrd #HerbieHancock #ButchWarren #BillyHiggins #PepperAdams

Donald Byrd - Royal Flush

I guess it's 1961-day here.

An enjoyable hard bop session, and Herbie Hancock's Blue Note debut, accompanying Byrd (trumpet), Butch Warren (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), and Pepper Adams (sax).

Nice, un-limited remaster has that distinct RvG sound (including putting Hancock's piano in a cardboard box).

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #hardbop #DonaldByrd #HerbieHancock #ButchWarren #BillyHiggins #PepperAdams

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre

Billy Higgins & Kamau Daaood:
🎵 Liberator of the Spirit

#BillyHiggins #KamauDaaood

The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe - "A Spirit Speaks" (1974)

This album features siblings Bill Lee (bass), Consuela Lee Moorhead (piano), Grace Lee Mims (vocal), and Cliff Lee (fluegelhorn). The group was named after slave ancestors of the Lee family. This is an extraordinary record and one of the gems of the #StrataEast catalog.

#NowPlaying #BillLee #BillyHiggins #jazz #Juneteenth #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfysgdM2KWxOYwQtThk8EJEaXLdge4ww5&si=4CTbEPH9sbgUCGlb

Album cover features a slightly yellow tinted black and white photograph of the Lees standed next to trees in a wooded area with a house in the background.

Milt Jackson - At the Kosei Nenkin

1976 live album on Pablo, recorded in Japan, playing a swinging set with Ray Brown (bass), Teddy Edwards (sax), Cedar Walton (keys), and Billy Higgins (drums).

Japanese pressing retains most of the Pablo style, but without the huge Pablo Live top.

Interesting to note that Japanese gatefolds always come with the first LP in the 2nd (back) location.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #miltjackson #japan #raybrown #teddyedwards #cedarwalton #billyhiggins #pablorecords

Milt Jackson - At the Kosei Nenkin LP cover.

Bags, removing his glasses, mallets in his right hand, mic in front of him, pointed at his vibes. An OBI strip runs down the left, covering most of the title.

The black LP plays on a vintage Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

Jackie McLean - "New and Old Gospel" (1967)

#NowPlaying #JackieMcLean #OrnetteColeman #BillyHiggins #BlueNote #jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/dgxqi-ivFVY?si=uNMgo8qXPxAxZRPC

Album cover features photos of Jackie McLean, holding a saxophone

Archie Shepp - "Attica Blues" (1972)

Fabulous reissue from #ImpulseRecords The sound of this lp is so much richer and deep than any digital version I've heard. A+

So many great musicians on this, including Shankar of #ECMRecords fame on violin, which would have made this possibly his earliest appearance on a recording.

#ArchieShepp #MarionBrown #JimmyGarrison #CliffordThornton #LeroyJenkins #CornellDupree #BillyHiggins #Shankar #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nrOV81NHJuH-5XxDvHURAqStPKQ19654s&si=y5x1Q4m_t1mD-O5C

Album cover features a photograph of Archie Shepp seated at a piano, with a cigarette in his mouth and window behind him. A saxophone lies on top of the piano. A shelf with messy stacks of books is seen to the side, along with a couple of green beer bottles, and a poster of two black Olympic athletes raising their fists in protest on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games.

Lee Morgan - "¡Caramba!" (1968)

#NowPlaying #LeeMorgan #BennieMaupin #CedarWalton #ReggieWorkman #BillyHiggins #BlueNote #jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUJ7V33M1wR0f39cBpmzLmjhChQCAnJq-

Album cover features a photo of a smiling Latina woman. It was a thing in the 1950s and 1960s to just put a picture of an attractive woman on an album cover.

Lee Morgan - "Search for the New Land"
#NowPlaying #LeeMorgan #WayneShorter #GrantGreen #HerbieHancock #BillyHiggins #jazz #BlueNote #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uSMmnYvnbIEI5PKx-70o4UptI3bwPt7

Album cover features a b&w photograph of the artist, his head down, his eyes raised and looking at the camera with a serious look.

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Pat Metheny with Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins - 'Rejoicing' (1984) (1996 remaster)

Fine & subtle jazz album by #PatMetheny, w/ #CharlieHaden (b) & #BillyHiggins (d). Half of the material is composed by #OrnetteColeman. Sporadically, #Metheny plays his #guitarsynth and it's awesome.

Clifford Jordan Quartet - "Glass Bead Games" (1974) #NowPlaying #CliffordJordan #jazz #StrataEast #BillyHiggins #StanleyCowell #CedarWalton #SamJones #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/Xp58woJOgbI

Back album cover shows a black and white photograph a pyramid and the sphinx in Egypt, with the words "In all beginnings, a mystical, magic force. What course, what destiny,,, determined in time."

Listening to Don Cherry

A well-meaning friend and music connoisseur knew of course about my weakness for Don Cherry and the CD of "Art Deco" is also in the collection for decades. Now also as vinyl. And I may state once again: what a pleasure to have this beautiful work in the collection. If only because of the beautiful cover in 30x30cm.

#jazz #vinyl #doncherry #artdeco #jazzrules #lp #billyhiggins #CharlieHaden #JamesClay

Ornette Coleman - "The Shape of Jazz to Come" (1959) #NowPlaying #OrnetteColeman #DonCherry #CharlieHaden #BillyHiggins #jazz #freejazz #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/kcslwKxCTR0

I just got Third Set, the third and final installment of the #CedarWalton Quartet's live recordings in Copenhagen for #SteeplechaseRecords (1983). These guys were at the top of their game, and the recording has so much live presence. The sound is immediate, the performance is full of energy, and the #jazz is top-notch. Walton does precision surgery on the ivories with his performances, all without machines. #CedarWaltonQuartet #BobBerg #SamJones #BillyHiggins #vinyl
https://youtu.be/s6sb6h5a7-I

#BillyHiggins

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