JAZZMAN | DOWNBEAT | SOURCES OF INFORMATION | MY COLLECTION | RECENT ACQUISITIONS
December 21, 1998. It is astonishing how few of these records are still in our minds. Has anyone listened to Akiyoshi/Tabackin's "Tanuki`s Night Out" lately?
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| 1982 | Old and New Dreams Playing: Old and New Dreams Playing
(ECM) Ornette Coleman: Of Human Feelings (Island) Wynton Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis (Columbia) World Saxophone Quartet: WSQ (Black Saint) Akiyoshi/Tabackin: Tanuki's Night Out (JAM) Antony Braxton: Performance 9/1/79 (hatHut) Roscoe Mitchell: Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes (Nessa) Reissues: Steve Lacy: Evidence (Prestige) Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus (Atlantic) Ben Webster: Giants of Jazz (Time-Life) Duke Ellington: 1941 (Smithsonian) John McLaughlin: My Goal's Beyond (Elektra Musician) Pee Wee Russell: Giants of Jazz (Time-Life) |
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| 1983 | Muhal Richard Abrams: Blues Forever (Black Saint) Thelonious Monk: Live at the It Club (Columbia) Herbie Hancock: Quartet (Columbia) World Saxophone Quartet: Revue (Black Saint) David Murray: Home (Black Saint) Henry Threadgill: When Was That? (About Time) Reissues: Pee Wee Russell: Pied Piper of Jazz (Columbia/Commodore) Roy Eldridge: The Early Years (Columbia) Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Ellington Songbook Vol. 2 (Verve) Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (Fantasy/Riverside) Count Basie: Reunion at Newport (Verve) Miles Davis: Live at the Plugged Nickel (Columbia) Theolonious Monk: Memorial (Milestone) Thelonious Monk/Gerry Mulligan: 'Round Midnight (Milestone) |
Miles Davis: Star People (Columbia) Herbie Hancock: Quartet (Columbia) Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia) Pat Metheny: Travels (ECM) Steps Ahead: Steps Ahead (Elektra Musician) Weather Report: Procession (Columbia) Thelonious Monk: Live at the It Club (Columbia) Rare Silk: New Weave (Polygram) Rob Wasserman: Solo (Rounder) |
| 1984 | Charlie Haden: The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM) Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia) Miles Davis: Star People (Columbia) Henry Threadgill: Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time) David Murray: Murray's Steps (Black Saint) Reissues: Thelonious Monk: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic) Miles Davis: Heard 'Round the World (Columbia) Dinah Washington: A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side) (EmArcy/Polygram) Various Artists: Big Band Jazz (Smithsonian) |
Miles Davis: Decoy (Columbia) Charlie Haden: The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM) Steps Ahead: Modern Times (Elektra Musician) Pat Metheny: Rejoicing (ECM) David Murray: Murray's Steps (Black Saint) |
| 1985 | Various Artists: That's the Way I Feel Now (A Tribute to
Thelonious Monk) (A&M) Abdullah Ibrahim: Ekaya (Ekaya) Jack DeJohnette: Album Album (ECM) Dirty Dozen Brass Band: My Feet Can't Fail Me Now (Concord Jazz/George Wein) Max Roach/Cecil Taylor: Historic Concert (Soul Note) Reissues: Cliffort Brown: The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings (Mosaic) Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings (Fantasy) Charles Mingus: Music Written For Monterey 1965 (East Coasting) Charlie Parker: On Verve 1946-54 (Verve/Polygram) Art Pepper: The Complete Pacific Jazz Small Group Recordings (Mosaic) Port of Harlem Jazzmen: The Complete Recordings (Mosaic) |
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| 1986 | James Newton: The African Flower (Blue Note) Miles Davis/John Coltrane: In Sweden 1960 (Dragon) Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (From the Underground) (Columbia) Misha Mengelberg/Steve Lacy: Change of Season (Soul Note) Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy: I only Have Eyes for You (ECM) Dave Holland Quintet: Seeds of Time (ECM) Bennie Wallace: Twilight Time (Blue Note) Manhattan Transfer: Vocalese (Atlantic) Don Pullen: The Sixth Sense (Black Saint) Sonny Rollins: The Solo Album (Milestone) Cecil Taylor: Segments II (Black Saint) Reissues: Charles Mingus: The Complete Candid Recordings (Mosaic) Ben Webster: The Complete Ben Webster on EmArcy (EmArcy/Polygram) Tina Brooks: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic) Billy Holiday: On Verve 1946-59 (Verve/Polygram) Sidney Bechet: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic) Thelonious Monk: The Complete Black Lion and Vogue Recordings (Mosaic) Various Artists: Atlantic R&B 1947-74 (Atlantic) |
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X (Geffen) Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (From the Underground) (Columbia) Woody Herman: 50th Anniversary Concert (Concord Jazz) Manhattan Transfer: Vocalese (Atlantic) Chick Corea: Electric Band (GRP) |
| 1987 | Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X (Geffen) Wynton Marsalis: J Mood (Columbia) Miles Davis: Tutu (Warner Bros.) Joe Henderson: State of the Tenor, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) Branford Marsalis: Royal Garden Blues (Columbia) Various Artists: 'Round Midnight (Columbia) World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Ellington (Nonesuch) |
Michael Brecker: Michael Brecker (Impulse!) Dexter Gordon: The Other Side of Round Midnight (Blue Note) Miles Davis: Tutu (Warner Bros.) Pat Metheny: Still Life (Talking) ( Geffen) Wynton Marsalis: J Mood (Columbia) Branford Marsalis: Royal Garden Blues (Columbia) |
| 1988 | Ornette Coleman: In All Languages (Caravan of Dreams) Henry Threadgill: Slip into Another World (RCA Novus) Ed Wilkerson: Eight Bold Souls (Sessoms) Dave Holland: The Razor's Edge (ECM) Wynton Marsalis: Marsalis Standard Time (Columbia) Cecily Taylor: For Olim (Soul Note) Henry Threadgill: You Know the Number (RCA Novus) Steve Turre: Viewpoint (Stash) Reissues: Herbie Nichols: The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic) Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (Mosaic) Duke Ellington: And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA) Art Blakey: Moanin' (Blue Note) Art Blakey: The Theory of Art (RCA/Blue Bird) Miles Davis: Chronicle (Prestige) Paul Desmond: The Complete Recordings with Jim Hall (Mosaic) Dudu Pukwana: In the Townships (Virgin) |
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| 1989 | Pat Metheny: Letter from Home (Geffen) Miles Davis: Amandla (Warner Bros.) Wynton Marsalis: Majesty of the Blues (Columbia) Eddie Daniels: Blackwood (GRP) Chick Corea: Akoustic Band (GRP) |