1:37pm Voyager by Mel Lewis from The Lost Art
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Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by Joe Williams with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label.

Review by Scott Yanow

Accompanied by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, the singer is heard at the peak of his powers. The big band primarily functions as an ensemble (Snooky Young gets off some good blasts on "Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning"), but the inventive Thad Jones arrangements ensure that his illustrious sidemen have plenty to play. Many of the selections (half of which have been in the singer's repertoire ever since) are given definitive treatment on this set (particularly a humorous "Evil Man Blues," "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You," and "Smack Dab in the Middle"), and Williams scats at his best on "It Don't Mean a Thing."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeNn4JqOZ8A&list=OLAK5uy_mQWlXcOTk-X3S6U3aOctsTXxNI9BPV81M

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The Groove Merchant 🇷🇺
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLvqXFddu0

The Groove Merchant 🇮🇲
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4eAdwv_Io

Presenting Thad Jones/Mel Lewis & The Jazz Orchestra is a 1966 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Solid State Records label.... - Wikipedia

Presenting Thad Jones/Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra Review by Scott Yanow

The debut recording of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra launched a mighty (if part-time) all-star big band. With arrangements by Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, and Tom McIntosh and such soloists as baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Hank Jones, valve trombonist Brookmeyer, Jerome Richardson on various reeds, altoist Jerry Dodgion, and Joe Farrell and Eddie Daniels on tenors (in addition to flügelhornist Jones), it is not surprising that the orchestra was soon rated near the top. Among the seven selections are four Thad Jones originals (including "Mean What You Say"), "Willow Weep for Me," and Brookmeyer's lengthy "ABC Blues."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcaR_GmM9uk&list=PLWg-ElXZ_aNxcCcRmmDUqDXyAR13-9Rus&index=1

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The Groove Merchant 🇪🇨
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-TsZ0XnRM

Jimmy Witherspoon - "Blues For Easy Livers" (1967)

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kbhzIWXoSSEPSYQzKkGKXqTwLSuOwQj9U

#NowPlaying #JimmyWitherspoon #PepperAdams #RichardDavis #MelLewis #BillWatrous #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

The Groove Merchant 🥜
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S--rHh-nzeY

Jim McNeely gestorben – hr-Bigband trauert um ihren Ehrendirigenten

https://jazzpages.de/jim-mcneely-ist-verstorben-2509271/

Music To Fill A Void - Eight By Eight by the Don Fagerquist Octet, released on Mode Records in 1957.

Donald Alton Fagerquist (February 6, 1927 – January 23, 1974) was a small group, big band, and studio jazz trumpet player from the West Coast of the United States.

Despite high demand for his services as a lyrical soloist, he recorded only twice as a leader: a half-date for Capitol in 1955 (reissued as part of the Dave Pell Octet CD I Had the Craziest Dream) and a complete project for Mode in 1957 (Music to Fill a Void) - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht4SkWtN4h4&list=RDht4SkWtN4h4&start_radio=1

#BobEnevoldsen #BuddyClark #DonFagerquist #EdLeddy #HerbGeller #MartyPaich #MelLewis #RonnyLang #VincentDeRosa #jazz

Basle, 1969 (also released as Live on Tour Switzerland) is a big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Basle (Basel), Switzerland for a Swiss radio broadcast. It was not released until 1996 – as Volume 4 of TCB Music's "Swiss Radio Days" series.

Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 4: Basle, 1969 Review by Scott Yanow

This live concert, broadcast over Swiss radio...features the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra at its prime. The remarkable all-star group includes two first trumpeters (Snooky Young and Al Porcino) and such soloists as trumpeters Richard Williams, Danny Moore and Thad Jones, trombonist Jimmy Knepper, Jerome Richardson on soprano, Jerry Dodgion on flute and alto, baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Roland Hanna, bassist Richard Davis and tenor great Joe Henderson whose short stint with the band was long enough to include this European tour.."

#thadjones #mellewis #bigbandjazz #joehenderson #jimmyknepper #rolandhanna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXeklrqQxFI&list=OLAK5uy_mStHqLl7lbJ1q8e0yTwDJdQ3je2Zsyr-g

Consummation is an album by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. It was released in 1970 on Blue Note Records...It was recorded at A&R Studios in New York City. The album was nominated for a 1970 Grammy Award in the "Best Jazz Performance - Large Group..." category.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave Consummation a four-star review in The Penguin Guide to Jazz, and included it in the book's Core Collection.[5] Cook and Morton described the recording as "one of the best big-band records of its day and some kind of proof that the bands weren't completely dead."

#thadjones #mellewis #jazz #bigband #1970inmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyRp125XgTk&list=PLyHn3f7-9IUIzV4lHvJ04eMt8N_tHeTfa&index=1

The Groove Merchant 🇧🇷
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Df9T32XT8

1969 - Morgan State Jazz Festival - Baltimore, Maryland
- #MilesDavis, #TheloniousMonk, #ThadJones & #MelLewis Orchestra, #NinaSimone, #DaveBrubeck, #GerryMulligan, #RahsaanRolandKirk, #GeorgeBenson, ...

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Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster

1959 set, but might has well have been recorded yesterday, bringing together two great sax players, Mulligan on baritone and Webster on tenor.

They're joined by Jimmy Rowles (piano), Mel Lewis (drums), and Leroy Vinnegar (bass).

Swinging, "cool" jazz; good stuff, and another example of these “x meets y" series, playing styles against each other, which often works.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #GerryMulligan #BenWebster #MelLewis #JimmyRowles #LeroyVinnegar

Cadence Vol 16 #1 - January 1990 - Mel Lewis

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Phew! The sax solos here are utter fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-V0zE1hN70

#JoeHaider #MelLewis #BigBand #BAM #Jazz