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SCCD 31195 Take Good Care Of My Heart / Michal Urbaniak with Horace Parlan Trio This recording with the title song “Take Good Care Of My Heart” by Jermine Jackson was nominated for Down Beat’s “Jazz Album Of The Year” 1985. It was also nominated for a Grammy Polish Violinist/bandleader Michal Urbaniak (b. January 22, …
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SCCD 31194 Glad I Found You / Horace Parlan Quintet This is Horace Parlan’s second quintet date (the first one “Frank-ly Speaking” SCCD 31076 recorded in New York) and this time recording took place in Copenhagen with fellow expatriate Thad Jones on flugelhorn and visiting tenorman Eddie Harris on the front line. This session incidentally …
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SCCD 31168 This Is Always / Chet Baker Trio This is the second release from the night at Montmartre Jazzhus (earlier release is “Daybreak” SCCD 31142) by the best Chet Baker Trio of this period. “… he sounds masterful, and is ably accompanied by Raney’s soft-bop guitar and NHØP’s towering bass …” (The Penguin Guide …
SCCD 31149 Looking At Bird / Archie Shepp & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen “… a serious meditation in the Parker universe: Shepp accompanied only by the extraordinary bass of intuitive Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen… The two musicians here in this Parker revisited, however, do not get lost in the immense shadow of the idol …” (Télérama) 1. …
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SCCD 31142 Daybreak / Chet Baker Trio The success of the earlier release by this trio (SCCD 31122 “The Touch Of Your Lips”) brought the group together again this time for “live” recording at club Montmartre packed with Baker fans. Radio Free Jazz wrote, “ His present playing is extraordinary, the best of his career, …
SCCD 31140 Gypsy Dreams / Boulou & Elios Ferré “… In this duo acoustic guitar session, the brothers Ferré grab and hold attention …they maintain a lively, imaginative interplay… greatly extend the library for acoustic guitar. This is a worthy follow-up of their earlier album SCCD 31120 Pour Django .” (Ottawa Citizen, May 1, 1981) …
SCCD 31139 Trouble In Mind / Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan Three years after the sensational spiritual recording by this duo “Goin’ Home” (SCCD 31079) producer Nils Winther had Archie and Horace in the studio again. The theme this time was traditional blues. Once again the Shepp-Parlan duo made one of the best selling SteepleChase …
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SCCD 31134 Duets / Jimmy Raney & Doug Raney Of this unique recording of a father-and-son team, Chicago Tribune of June 8, 1980 summed up quite eloquently, “ Duets is an unassuming title for one of the loveliest recordings of this or any other year – a SteepleChase album on which guitarist Jimmy Raney joins …
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SCCD 31125 Dancing On The Tables / Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Quartet NHØP is undoubtedly the most widely recorded and most highly regarded jazz bassist today. This is his second leader album recorded in New York while he was touring with Oscar Peterson. NHØP selected the very best of sidemen from the New York scene to …
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SCCD 31122 The Touch Of Your Lips / Chet Baker Trio When this recording came out as LP on the market in 1979 after a lengthy pause, Jazz Time’s reviewer started his article by saying “ Whoof! The killer is back ….” And indeed this cool killer was back on the scene to stay, though …
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