Gigi

Fresh off the heels of their critically acclaimed collaboration album, Dolphin, UK jazz metro Greg Foat and Venetian electronic luminary Gigi Masin join forces once again for The Fish Factory Sessions, an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2024.

One of Art Farmer's pivotal mid 50s sides - recorded in the company of altoist Gigi Gryce, a great player and a budding young arranger who helped Farmer really formulate the best side of his sound! The tracks are lyrically modern - but still have a nice dose of soul in them - a wonderful blend that really sets the stage for the move that Art was making away from earlier trumpeters in jazz - into that hip territory that was neither too cool, nor too overblown - and which would almost be known as "Farmer-like" in years to come! The album features Gryce and Farmer in 2 different groups - one with Horace Silver on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums - the other with Freddie Redd on piano, Addison Farmer on bass, and Art Taylor on drums.

Vol. 2 in the Lone Hill Jazz reissue label's Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab Project opens with three tracks that resulted from a planned college concert tour by the Jazz Lab and vocalist Jackie Paris, a native of Nutley, NJ, who also worked with Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, and Charles Mingus. While planning their tour, the team of Byrd, Gryce, and Paris conceived a didactic overview involving what Nat Hentoff described in the original liner notes as "some of the root channels of jazz with the blues as a primary linking element" but sketched "in broad chronological and stylistic skips."

Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce - Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 2 (1957) {2006 Lone Hill Jazz Remaster}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 431 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 181 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 44 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1957, 2006 Lone Hill Jazz | LHJ10254
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet / Saxophone

Vol. 2 in the Lone Hill Jazz reissue label's Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab Project opens with three tracks that resulted from a planned college concert tour by the Jazz Lab and vocalist Jackie Paris, a native of Nutley, NJ, who also worked with Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, and Charles Mingus. While planning their tour, the team of Byrd, Gryce, and Paris conceived a didactic overview involving what Nat Hentoff described in the original liner notes as "some of the root channels of jazz with the blues as a primary linking element" but sketched "in broad chronological and stylistic skips."

Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce - Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions. Vol. 1 (1957) {2006 Lone Hill Jazz Remaster}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 332 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 165 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 44 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1957, 2006 Lone Hill Jazz | LHJ10253
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet / Saxophone

Believe it or not, the 2006 three-volume Lone Hill Jazz reissue of the complete Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab studio recordings marks the first comprehensive appearance of this body of work on CD. Considering how many reissues, re-reissues and re-re-reissues some material has undergone, the fact that it took so long for this magnificent music to be made available to the public in its entirety is somewhat grueling. These recordings were made during the spring and early autumn of 1957.