Quentin Jackson

Born: January 13, 1909

Copenhagen 1958

By Duke Ellington

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Take the A Train (Theme); Newport Up; My Funny Valentine; Perdido; Sophisticated Lady; Sonnet to Hank Cinq; What Else Can You Do With a Drum; Rockin' in Rhythm; Prelude to a Kiss; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; El Gato; Hi Fi Fo Fum; Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue; I Can't Get Started; Body and Soul; A Little Blues; Sophisticated Lady; Mood Indigo.

Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958

by Jack Kenny
May 23, 2024

Duke Ellington hated flying so, in 1958, Ellington and Co sailed into Southampton UK to prepare for a tour of Europe. Before going on to Copenhagen, Ellington completed a tour of the UK, taking in Leeds where he met Queen Elizabeth, an event which eventually resulted in the “Queen's Suite." Earlier in the year, his strange ...

With Strings Attached, 1957-1965

By Dorothy Ashby

Label: New Land Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Jazz Harpist

Thou Swell; Stella by Starlight; Dancing on the Ceiling; Aeolian Groove; Quietude; Spicy; Lamentation.

Hip Harp

Pawky; Moonlight in Vermont; Back Talk; Dancing in the Dark; Charmaine; Jollity; There's a Small Hotel.

In a Minor Groove

Rascallity; You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To; It's a Minor Thing; Yesterdays; Bohemia After Dark; Taboo; Autumn in Rome; Alone Together.

Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp of Dorothy Ashby

Soft Winds; Wild as the Wind; The Man I Love; My Ship; Love Is Here to Stay; I've Never Been in Love Before; With Strings Attached; Laura; The Guns of Navarone; Misty; The Gypsy in My Soul.

Dorothy Ashby

Lonely Melody; Secret Love; Gloomy Sunday; Satin Doll; John R.; Li'l Darlin'; Booze; Django; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Stranger in Paradise.

The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby

Flighty; Essence of Sapphire; Why Did You Leave Me; I Will Follow You; What Am I Here For; House of the Rising Sun; Invitation; Nabu Corfa; Feeling Good; Dodi Li.

Don Redman: Setting the Template

by Jim Gerard
May 29, 2012

As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...

3 Shades Of Blue

By Johnny Hodges

Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 1970
Track listing: Empty Ballroom Blues; Duke's Place; Echoes of Harlem; Disillusion Blues; Yearning; Welcome to New York; Black, Brown and Beautiful; Rockin' in Rhythm; Creole Love Call; It's Glory.

Latin Mann (Afro To Bossa To Blues)

By Herbie Mann

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1965
Track listing: Lets Boom Chitty Boom Herbie Mann 323; Whatd I Say Ray Charles 459; Seor Blues Horace Silver 352; Bijou Ralph Burns 325; Jungle Fantasy Esy Morales 354; Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock 409; Interlude Pete Rugolo 414; The Jive Samba Nat Adderley 503; Ave Maria Morena Fausto Curbelo 436; Manteca Dizzy Gillespie Chano Pozo Gil Fuller 435.