Hampton Hawes - Four!
This lively 1958 release finds Hawes (piano) joined by Barney Kessel (guitar), Shelley Manne (drums), and Red Mitchell (bass).
A combo of swing, blues, bop, standards, all well recorded, re-released by Craft with QRP doing the pressing. Not engineered by RvG (Lester Koenig produced, Roy DuNann engineered) so the piano sounds great. ;-)
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Hear Ye! is an album by the Red Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet recorded in 1961 and released on the Atlantic label.
Hear Ye! Review by Scott Yanow
In the early '60s, bassist Red Mitchell and tenor saxophonist Harold Land co-led a quintet in Los Angeles. The group did not catch on but they did record one Atlantic set that has been reissued on CD. In addition to the co-leaders, the quintet included trumpeter Carmell Jones, pianist Frank Strazzeri, and drummer Leon Pettis, and, although their original program of six songs was comprised entirely of group originals, the music falls easily into the hard bop area with plenty of fine solos and swinging ensembles. The CD reissue adds two previously unreleased tracks including a lone standard, "I'm Old Fashioned." This is a fine effort from a group that deserved greater recognition at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vtNusQBYM&list=PLlzaF29eaZtp8V6vZmANl9HjiJaFgRBSb&index=1
Gerry Mulligan, California Concerts, 1955 on Pacific Jazz
Collection of live recordings featuring the Gerry Mulligan Quartet on the A-Side and the Gerry Mulligan Sextet on the B-Side. The quartet here is with Jon Eardley, Red Mitchell, and Chico Hamilton; the sextet with Bob Brookmeyer, Zoot Sims, and Larry Bunker with Eardly and Mitchell.
The A-side was recorded at Stockton High School in November 1954, the B-Side at Hoover High School in San Diego.
My copy is an original mono pressing on Pacific Jazz from 1955, via Crossroads Records in Portland OR. The sleeve is pretty worn, but the vinyl sounds great.
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Barney Kessel - "Easy Like" (1956)
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5lXuFeLwZq_tBxuxFDtOvyVcIv5HojV_&si=dvMrJjz_RrN0BsWY
The Modest Jazz Trio - Good Friday Blues
A really nice, previously unavailable/obscure album featuring young Jim Hall (guitar) as the leader, Red Mitchell on piano (even though he usually plays bass), and Red Kelly on bass.
Yes, somehow two Reds. Who’d a thought.
This is a nice set of blues and standards, given a great presentation.
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@jazz At #work listening to the fantastic #JimHall #RedMitchell #duo #album recorded #live in 1978. This album is a ray of sunshine brightening up this very grey December day. If you don’t know it then I hope you enjoy it • #jazz #guitar #doublebass #chambermusic #improvised #composed #arranged • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFPdQXZ-qs
