Blue Note Sessions

Edmond Hall, James P. Johnson, Sidney De Paris, Vic Dickenson - The Complete Blue Note Sessions (1985) {4CD Mosaic rec 1941-52}
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© 1941-52, 1985 Mosaic Records / Blue Note | MD4-109
Jazz / Early Jazz / New Orleans Jazz / Swing / Dixieland / Stride

To say that this limited-edition six-LP Mosaic box is overflowing with classics is an understatement. Included are a variety of small-group sessions (with overlapping personnel) from the early days of Blue Note. The Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet has five songs that are the only existing examples of Charlie Christian playing acoustic guitar; clarinetist Hall, Meade Lux Lewis (on celeste), and bassist Israel Crosby complete the unique group. The king of stride piano, James P. Johnson, is heard on eight solos; other combos are led by Johnson, Hall (who heads four groups in all), trumpeter Sidney DeParis, and trombonist Vic Dickenson (heard in a 1952 quartet with organist Bill Doggett).

Don Wilkerson - The Complete Blue Note Sessions (1962-63) [2CD] {2001 BN Connoisseur CD Series}
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© 2001 Blue Note / Capitol | 7243 5 24555 2 2 | 24-bit remaster
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone Jazz / Guitar Jazz

HE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SESSIONS contains the previously released albums PREACH BROTHER (84107), ELDER DON (84121), and SHOUTIN' (84145). Includes liner notes by Dudley Williams, Joe Goldberg and Robert Levin. This is part of the Blue Note Limited Edition Connoisseur series. Don Wilkerson may not attract much attention – either now or when he was recording in the early '60s – but he was an interesting character. Like many tenor saxophonists of his era, the Texan followed in the hard-swinging soul-jazz that grew out of hard bop, but he didn't settle into an easy groove – he drove his music hard, injecting it with a healthy dose of the blues and an undercurrent of nascent black power. An intriguing mix, to be sure, and on three albums for Blue Note between 1962 and 1963 – Elder Don, Preach, Brother!, Shoutin' – he was at his peak, and they're all included here on this double-disc The Complete Blue Note Sessions.