Showing posts with label Yusef Lateef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yusef Lateef. Show all posts

2/11/2016

Riverside Records Jazz Label Discography


These 4 Box Sets together cover about 60 albums. Piratebay torrents:
Bill Evans / FLAC 4.2GB / MP3 1.1GB - 10 albums
Wes Montgomery MP3 1.1GB - 10 albums
Thelonious Monk MP3 1.3GB - 20 albums
Cannonball Adderley MP3 1.3GB - 16 albums


Riverside Records released about 290 albums during their existence.  The following torrent is itself 70 albums released by other artists on the label.  Most of the Riverside catalog is out of print.  Much of it has never been issued on CD even once.  This is some of the greatest music ever recorded, and it's vastly underheard.  Musicians like Art Blakey, Abbey Lincoln, Tadd Dameron, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Jimmy Heath.  Some of the other rare recordings included:

Harlem Banjo! - Elmer Snowden Quartet
The Dynamic Sound Patterns of the Rod Levitt Orchestra
Devil May Care -Teri Thornton
Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants
Living Legends Chicago - Albert Wynn
Living Legends Chicago - Little Brother Montgomery
Living Legends New Orleans - Percy Humphrey
Living Legends New Orleans Bourbon Street - Louis Cottrell

Encoding:  All MP3: From CD (when available), LAME (when available), highest bitrates possible

12/28/2015

Doug Watkins - Soulnik (1960) / At Large (1956)



Influential bassist Doug Watkins released only 2 albums as leader before his death at the age of 27.



1956: Watkins at Large (with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Duke Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Art Taylor) 
1960: Soulnik (New Jazz Records, with Yusef Lateef, Hugh Lawson, Herman Wright, Lex Humphries)

2/08/2012

Curtis Fuller - Images of Curtis Fuller (1960)




Curtis Fuller (trombone); Yusef Lateef (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan, Wilbur Harden (trumpet); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison, Milt Hinton (bass); Bobby Donaldson, Clifford Jarvis (drums).


11/07/2011

Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant (1972)



Personnel: Yusef Lateef (tenor saxophone, flutes, oboe); Kuumba "Tootie" Heath (flute, drums); Kermit Moore (cello); Neal Boyer (vibraphone, chimes), Ray Bryant, Kenny Barron (piano, electric piano); Eric Gale (guitar); Sam Jones, Chuck Rainey, Bob Cunningham (acoustic bass); Bill Salter (electric bass); Jimmy Johnson (drums); Ladzi Cammara (African percussion); The Sweet Inspirations (background vocals).


4/03/2011

Charles Mingus - Mingus Revisited (Limelight Records)


Charles Mingus (bass); Gunther Schuller (conductor); Lorraine Cusson (vocals); Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet); John LaPorta (alto saxophone, clarinet); Yusef Lateef, Joe Farrell (tenor saxophone, flute); Booker Ervin, Bill Barron (tenor saxophone); Danny Bank (baritone saxophone); Marcus Belgrave, Ted Curson, Clark Terry, Hobart Dotson, Richard Williams (trumpet); Slide Hampton, Jimmy Knepper, Eddie Bert, Charles Greenlee (trombone); Don Butterfield (tuba); Robert DiDomenica (flute); Harry Schulman (oboe); Charles McCracken (cello); Paul Bley, Roland Hanna (piano); Dannie Richmond (drums); Max Roach, Sticks Evans, George Scott (percussion)