Freddie Hubbard records ‘Blue Spirits’ with Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley & McCoy Tyner (1965)
Freddie Hubbard's 'Blue Spirits' is his tenth album recorded on February 19 & 26, 1965, with Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley and McCoy Tynerr.
Freddie Hubbard records ‘Red Clay’ with Joe Henderson and Herbie Hancock for CTI (1970)
Freddie Hubbard's 'Red Clay' is an album .recorded on January 27, 28 & 29, 1970 with Joe Henderson & Herbie Hancock and released the same year by CTI.
Freddie Hubbard records the album ‘Keystone Bop Vol. 2: Friday & Saturday’ with Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson (1981)
Freddie Hubbard's 'Keystone Bop Vol. 2: Friday & Saturday' is a live album recorded on November 27 & 28, 1981 with Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson and released in 1996 By Prestige.
Freddie Hubbard records ‘Straight Life’ with Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, George Benson , Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette et al (1970)
Freddie Hubbard's 'Straight Life' is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded on November 16, 1970 with Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, George Benson , Ron Carter, Jack Dejohnette and more and released in January 1971 By Cti.
We remember Freddie Hubbard ‘Hubiquity’
Joe Henderson records ‘Our Thing’ with Kenny Dorham, Andrew Hill et al (1963)
Joe Henderson's 'Our Thing' is an album recorded on September 9, 1963, with Kenny Dorham, Andrew Hill, Pete La Roca and Eddie Khan and released in May 1964 by Blue Note.
Freddie Hubbard records ‘Ready for Freddie’ with Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner et al (1961)
Freddie Hubbard's 'Ready for Freddie' is his fourth album recorded on August 21, 1961 with Bernard McKinney, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Art Davis and Elvin Jones and released the same year by Blue Note.
Herbie Hancock releases ‘Sextant,’ the last album of the Mwandishi period (1973)
Herbie Hancock's 'Sextant' is his eleventh album (and the last with his Mwandishi Band) released on March 30, 1973 by Columbia.
Herbie Hancock records ‘Crossings,’ the second album of his Mwandishi period in February (1972)
Herbie Hancock's 'Crossings' is his tenth (and second in his Mwandishi period) album recorded in February 1972 and released in May 1972 By Warner Bros.
Herbie Hancock records his ninth album : ‘Mwandishi’ for Warner Bros. (1970)
Herbie Hancock's 'Mwandishi' is his ninth album rRecorded in December 1970,
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Herbie Hancock releases ‘Gershwin’s World’ his forty-second album recorded with Joni Mitchell, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder and Wayne Shorter (1998)
Herbie Hancock's 'Gershwin's World' is his forty-second album recorded with Joni Mitchell, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter, etc and released on October 20, 1998 by Verve.
Herbie Hancock records ‘V.S.O.P.’ at Newport Jazz Festival (1976)
Herbie Hancock's 'V.S.O.P.' is a live album recorded at Newport Jazz Festival, New York on June 29, 1976 and released in April 1977 by Columbia..
Jay-Z releases his debut album : ‘ Reasonable Doubt’ featuring Mary J. Blige and The Notorious B.I.G. (1996)
Jay-Z' 'Reasonable Doubt' is his debut studio album featuring Mary J. Blige and The Notorious B.I.G. among others and released on June 25, 1996 by Roc-A-Fella / Priority
Motown publish ‘Together’ by Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells, their only album (1964)
'Together' by Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells is their only studio album released on April 15, 1964 by Motown.
Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock
Verve publish Chris Potter’s album : ‘Gratitude’ (2001)
Chris Potter's 'Gratitude' is an album recorded with Brian Blade, Scott Colley & Kevin Hayes and released on April 3, 2001 by Verve.
We Remember McCoy Tyner. ‘Really McCoy?’
We remember Tony Williams
Paul McCartney releases his fifteenth solo album : ‘Kisses on the Bottom’ featuring ‘My Valentine’ (2012)
Paul McCartney's 'Kisses on the Bottom' is his fifteenth studio album including only two compositions by McCartney, the rest being covers, produced by Tommy LiPuma and released on February 6, 2012 by Hear Music
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Benny Goodman records ‘The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert’ (1938)
Benny Goodman's 'The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert' is one of the first recording (done on January 16, 1938) of music issued on the new long-playing format and one of the first to sell over a million copies. ,
Frank Sinatra records ‘Sinatra at the Sands,’ his first live album with Count Basie and his orchestra, conducted by Quincy Jones (1966)
Frank Sinatra's 'Sinatra at the Sands' is his first live album recorded in January 1966 with Count Basie and his orchestra, conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones and released in July 1966 by Reprise.
Dinah Washington records ‘Dinah Sings Bessie Smith,’ an album for Emarcy (1957)
Dinah Washington's 'Dinah Sings Bessie Smith' is an album recorded on December 30, 1957 and January 20, 1958.
Happy Birthday Lenny White. ‘Next of Skin’
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Quincy Jones releases ‘Q’s Jook Joint,’ an album featuring Stevie Wonder, Bono and Ray Charles among other famous guests (1995)
Quincy Jones' 'Q's Jook Joint' is an album (his first in six years) released on November 7, 1995 by Qwest.
RCA publish ‘Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics,’ her thirty eigth album (2014)
'Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics' is her thirty eigth studio album featuring ten covers of songs made famous by female artists and released on October 17, 2014 by Rca.
Columbia publish Earth, Wind & Fire’s tenth album : ‘Faces’ (1980)
Earth, Wind & Fire's 'Faces' is their tenth studio album released as a double-LP on October 14, 1980 by Arc/Columbia Records.
When Benny Goodman played New-York
Arista publish Aretha Franklin’s album : ‘Aretha’ (1980)
Aretha Franklin's 'Aretha' is an album (her second album with this title) released in October 1980 by Arista Records.
The tracklisting of the new Joe Bonamassa (King Bee?) reads like a christic journey from shakedown and wounds to reconstruction and redemption. Heavy stuff and riffs!
Joe Bonamassa's 'Redemption' is his thirteenth solo studio album produced by Kevin Shirley and released on September 21, 2018 by J&R Adventures
>>> Bonamassa throws in a flashy solo, but his playing, as well as his vocals, have a lot of soul. He’s not phoning in this performance. >>>>>
> Want it or not, a breakup album is his next rite of passage to join the greats >>>