Dave Burrell Recital

Archie Shepp Quartet feat. Annette Lowman - Lover Man (1988) {2015 Japan Timeless Jazz Master Collection Complete Series}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 387 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 142 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (png) -> 260 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1988, 2015 Timeless Records / Solid Records Japan / Ultra-Vibe | CDSOL-6356
Jazz / Bop / Modern Post Bebop / Saxophone / Vocal Jazz / Jazz Blues

Reissue with the latest remastering. Features original cover artwork. Comes with a descripton in Japanese. A real gem from the great Archie Shepp – an overlooked treasure from his years as a straight jazz musician – a time we come to appreciate more and more as the years go by! The Shepp heard here is one who's still got all the raw tone and bite of the old days, but also finds a way to swing things on a set of familiar standards – so that he's cutting these great raspy lines out of tunes you might already know – but which are taking on a whole new life in the process.

Dave McKenna - Live At Maybeck (1990) {Concord Jazz CCD-4410}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 257 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 157 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 32 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1990 Concord Jazz | CCD-4410
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Standards / Stride / Piano

Live at Maybeck Recital Hall is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Dave McKenna, recorded in 1989. When Joanne Brackeen first arrived at the tiny Maybeck Recital Hall for a concert in June 1989, she was so delighted with the piano and the acoustics that she insisted that Concord owner Carl Jefferson arrange to have her performance there recorded. The message hit home and over the next few years, several dozen solo piano concerts were duly recorded by the label until the hall was sold and it was no longer available for tapings. One of the first concerts to follow Brackeen's featured Dave McKenna. He seems in a particularly lyrical mood throughout this afternoon concert, though his trademark buoyant bassline is often present.

Dave Pike - Times Out of Mind (1975) {Muse MCD 5446 rel 1991}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 246 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 99 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 11 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1975, 1991 Muse Records | MCD 5446
Jazz / Hard Bop / Vibes

Vibraphonist Dave Pike's debut for Muse (which has been reissued on CD) has generally strong individual playing although the material (five group originals plus a brief version of the bop standard "Wee") and use of electronics sound a bit dated. Pike teams up with keyboardist Tom Ranier (who also plays some alto and tenor), guitarist Ron Eschete, either Luther Hughes or Harvey Newmark on bass, drummer Ted Hawke and (on three of the six numbers) guitarist Kenny Burrell. Nothing all that memorable occurs during this lesser effort.

Kenny Burrell - Generation, Live at the Village Vanguard (1987) {Blue Note CDP 7467562 rec 1986
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 326 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 164 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 13 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1987 Blue Note / Capitol / Manhattan Records | CDP 7 46756 2
Jazz / Cool / Post Bop / Guitar

Kenny Burrell is a jazz guitar icon and probably the better known of the three members of the group but don't let that bother you because all three are on fire through out this live recording from start to finish. I once had this rare recording on cassette but was glad to find it here on cd. Thanks Amazon. Bobby Broom along with Rodney Jones are some of the best of the newer breed of jazz guitarist and are both masters of the jazz guitar.

Dave Pike - Carnavals (1962) {Prestige PRCD-24248-2 rel 2000)
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 530 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 182 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 21 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1962, 2000 Prestige / Fantasy | PRCD-24248-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Vibes

When vibist Dave Pike recorded the 1962 LPs paired on this disc, U.S. jazz was being revitalized by the new wave of Brazil’s bossa nova, while on the pop side, dance fever raged on. Kicked off in 1960-61 by Chubby Checker’s global mega-smash, “The Twist,” there followed a series of dance hits including Checker’s “Limbo Rock,” which is covered herein. At the time of these two lively, tuneful albums, Pike (b. 1938) was employed by the popular jazz flutist Herbie Mann, whose repertoire successfully drew on both Latin music (like bossa nova) and some dance hits.

David Murray - Spirituals (1990) {DIW Japan DIW-841 rec 1988}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 254 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 115 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 10 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1990 DIW Japan | DIW-841
Jazz / Modern Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone

David Murray mostly sticks to spirituals on this Japanese import, a quartet outing with pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Ralph Peterson, but that does not mean that all of the improvising is mellow and melodic. There are some peaceful moments on tunes such as "Amazing Grace" and a spirited "Down by the Riverside," but Murray's playing is so violent on "Abel's Blissed Out Blues" as to be almost satirical. A mixed success from the masterful tenor.