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Pete La Roca
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Pete La Roca (born Peter Sims) was an American jazz drummer. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career when he was a timbales player in Latin bands. Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. During this period, he twice recorded as leader, firstly on Basra (Blue Note, 1965) and also on Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas, 1967), also issued as Bliss under pianist Chick Corea's name on Muse
Our Thing To In ’N Out Revisited
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Our Thing: Teeter Totte; Pedro’s Time; Our Thing; Back Road; Escapade. In ’n Out: In ‘n Out; Punjab; Serenity; Short Story; Brown’s Town.
Floater & Syndrome The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited
By Paul Bley
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: When Will The Blues Leave;
Floater;
Stereophrenic;
The Circle With The Hole In The Middle;
Around Again;
Syndrome;
Cousins;
King Korn;
Vashkar;
Ballad No. 1;
Ballad No. 2;
Ballad No. 4;
Turns.
Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: St. Thomas;
There Will Never Be Another You;
Stay As Sweet As You Are;
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star;
How High The Moon;
Oleo;
Paul's Pal;
Sonny Rollins Interview;
It Don't Mean a Thing;
Paul's Pal #2;
Love Letters;
I Remember You;
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star #2;
It Could Happen to You;
Oleo #2;
Will You Still Be Mine;
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star #3;
I Want to Be Happy;
A Weaver of Dreams;
It Don't Mean a Thing #2;
Cocktails for Two;
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star #4;
I Want to Be Happy #2;
Woody 'N' You;
But Not For Me;
Lady Bird.
Record Store Day 2024 Jazz Releases
by Kyle Simpler
Every year, Record Store Day (RSD) promises limited edition vinyl releases for all tastes in music. From the latest popular artists to the most obscure archival releases, RSD drops try to cover a lot of musical territory. Practically all genres of music are represented and, of course, jazz is no exception. Fortunately, the April 2024 drop ...
The Jazz Detective Strikes Again
by Mark Corroto
Producer Zev Feldman, like Joe DiMaggio, has done it again. In May of 1941, DiMaggio began a major league baseball hitting streak. People followed his exploits game after game and hit after hit. DiMaggio's amazing record of 56 consecutive games still stands to this day. Same can be said of Feldman. His detective work, finding rare ...
The Keith Jarrett Trio: Ten Essential Recordings
by Karl Ackermann
The Keith Jarrett Trio, or The Standards Trio, as it later became known, with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, is one of the most celebrated and influential jazz trios of all time. The group was formed in 1983 but Jarrett and DeJohnette had been collaborating since the late 1960s when they ...
Bill Evans: Ten Essential Sideman Albums
by Chris May
Bill Evans attracts a special sort of fan. Clinically obsessive is a reasonable description. While far from undiscerning, we find something, usually plenty, to enjoy in every record Evans played on. And we want them all in our collection. Evans' hardcore fans include practically every musician who played with him. Eddie Gomez, his ...
John Abercrombie: The First Quartet
by John Kelman
With the release of Arcade (1979), Abercrombie Quartet (1980) and M (1981), John Abercrombie's entire ECM discography as a leader is finally available on CD. Looking back at these albums and their position in his oeuvre, they are revealed as seminal documents of Abercrombie's arrival as a distinctive writer, improvising guitarist and bandleader, delivering on the ...
Sonny Rollins: Ten Colossal Albums
by Chris May
The history of modern jazz is a short one, but even so there are few musicians whose careers began in the bop era and who are still with us in 2022. Drummer Roy Haynes is one. Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is another. Both players recorded with trumpeter Fats Navarro and pianist Bud Powell in 1949.
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