Fsr cd

Johnnie Pate Trio - Complete Recordings 1955-1956 (2013) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 814}
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© 1955-56, 2013 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 814
Jazz / Bop / Cool / Soul Jazz / Bass

John W. Johnnie Pate (born December 5, 1923, Chicago Heights, Illinois) enjoyed a notable career as a bassist from the late 40s up until the early '60s in the Chicago area, gaining a solid reputation as a strong player in the Oscar Pettiford mold and enlightened composer. On these 1954-1956 sessions for the Talisman and Gig labels, he leads a trio featuring Ronnell Bright, who was a swift, resourceful young pianist whose style recalls the early Oscar Peterson. With drummer Charles Walton, this bright, polished and swinging trio began to be recognized while working first at the London House and then at the Blue Note, where they were the house band in 1954-1955 accompanying great singers such as Lurlean Hunter, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Audrey Morris and Carmen McRae.

Dave McKenna - Blues Up - Piano Solo (1955, 1963) {Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD-463 rel 2007}
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© 1955, 1963, 2007 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD-463
Jazz / Mainstream Jazz / Standards / Stride / Piano

Dave McKenna made a remarkably piano solo debut in 1955 with the fifteen tunes he recorded for ABC Paramount (1-15). The remaining tracks on this compilation also come from a solo album, one he cut almost eight years later for the label Realm. Playing without a rhythm section, a key challenge for a jazz pianist, McKenna accomplished a recital of lasting value and pleasure. He plays with strength, individuality, fine beat and technique, and constant taste in all tempos. He is a wonderfully co-ordinated two-handed pianist.

Wade Legge Trio - Wade Legge Trio (2016) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 894 rec 1953-55}
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© 1953-55, 2016 Vogue / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 894
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Piano

The Fresh Sound label is one of the major reissue record companies, also releasing new music on their Fresh Sound New Talent subsidiary. Fresh Sound, under the direction of the tireless Jordi Pujol, has repackaged and reissued a great deal of very valuable jazz from the 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to the major names, some of their most intriguing sets focus on obscure figures from jazz history whose music has been out-of-print for decades.

Bill Jennings - The Complete Bill Jennings On Prestige 1959-1960 with Brother Jack McDuff (2018) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 973}
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© 1959-60, 2018 Prestige / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 973 | 24bit remastering
Jazz / Hard Bop / Jazz Blues / Soul Jazz / Guitar / Organ

Bill Jennings was a very short man, but a giant on guitar—entirely self-taught, his attack and phrasing were astoundingly sax-like. As a jazz musician, he always insisted on soul as well as sound. That is not to say that he was not a perfectionist and a precisionist, for indeed he was. Although an ardent admirer of the great guitars in jazz, Jennings was always biased towards reeds and (admittedly a frustrated saxophonist) claimed that his style had been heavily influenced by Charlie Parker and Herschel Evans.

Stan Getz - Quartet 1960 - Live In Amsterdam, Dusseldorf & Zurich (2016) {Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 897 rec 1960}
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© 1960, 2016 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 897 | 24bit remastering
Jazz / Cool / West Coast Jazz / Saxophone

Stan Getz, one of the most gifted and influential of American jazzmen of his time and a consistent favorite of the U.S. public, was living since July 1958 in a small town outside Copenhagen, where he had started a new life. Like many American expatriate jazzmen, he found the relaxed European lifestyle more conducive to his creativity; there was more time to develop and try out new ideas. It was to prove an artistically flourishing and assertive time for him.

Milt Buckner - Rockin' With Milt (2008) {2CD Set Fresh Sound FSR-CD 511 rec 1955-1957}
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© 1955-57, 2008 Capitol / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 511
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Piano / Hammond Organ

Milton Milt Buckner (1915-1977), was an original and dynamic pianist, organist and arranger. He joined Lionel Hamptons orchestra in 1941 and became, not only one of its main attractions and arrangers, but also the first musician to use a piano technique called block chords / locked-hands. In 1952 he formed an excellent trio in which, besides using the piano, he also used a Hammond organ, and was one of the pioneers in the field of rhythm and blues. His powerful interpretations, always full of extraordinary swing, his fruitful imagination, and his tasty sense of humour, made him one of the greatest organists in jazz. These two CDs assemble, for the first time, all the tracks Milt Buckner recorded under his own name and released with Capitol between 1955 and 1957.

Lee Morgan & Clifford Jordan Quintet - Live In Baltimore 1968 (2014) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 824}
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© 1968, 2014 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 824
Jazz / Hard Bop / Trumpet / Saxophone

Lee Morgan’s first meeting on record with Clifford Jordan was in June 1957, when Morgan was about to turn nineteen and Jordan had just begun making a name for himself. After their first collaboration, the precocious Morgan occasionally called Jordan to play tenor on his recordings; thus they recorded together twice in 1960 and once in January 1962.

Bill Barron - Quintet & Sextet (1961-1962) {2012 2CD Savoy Jazz-Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 707}
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© 1961-62, 2012 Savoy / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 707 | 24bit remaster
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone

The three albums tenorman Bill Barron made as a leader for Savoy Records in early 60s embody every facet of this accomplished jazzman as a talented soloist, composer and arranger. And, despite the similarities in their harmonic ideas, Barron was not a slavish disciple of John Coltrane.

Hank Crawford - More Soul & The Soul Clinic (2012) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 685 rec 1960-1961}
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© 1960-61, 2012 Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 685
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Jazz Blues / Saxophone

This inspired and talented group under the leadership of altoist/arranger Hank Crawford, is the Ray Charles band, minus Ray. But it is also a striking unit in its own right. The big-little-band sound on these two exciting albums, "More Soul" and "The Soul Clinic," is compellingly arranged and orchestrated, equally arresting on incendiary, swinging up-tempo performances as it is on blues-drenched ballads. And it provides a frame for notably lyrical and melodic soloists.

Eddie Duran - Jazz Guitarist: Modern Music From San Francisco (2017) {Fresh Sound FSR-CD 924 rec 1955-1957}
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© 1955-57, 2017 Fantasy / Jazz Records / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 924
Jazz / Cool / Bebop / Guitar

Born in San Francisco in 1925, Eddie Duran is an unfairly neglected jazz guitarist and a soloist full of imagination and heart who was already playing professionally at 15. To this day he considers himself an “ear player,” despite having played and recorded with Vince Guaraldi, Red Norvo, Cal Tjader, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, George Shearing, Earl “Fatha” Hines and Benny Goodman, in the heyday of the San Francisco bebop scene.