Samuel Jones (musician)
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Samuel Jones was a jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 bassist
Double bass
The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

, cellist, and composer.

Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL and moved to New York city in 1955. There, Jones played with Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons
Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...

, Tiny Bradshaw
Tiny Bradshaw
Myron C. Bradshaw was an American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer from Youngstown, Ohio.-Early years:...

, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham
McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...

, Illinois Jacquet
Illinois Jacquet
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, best remembered for his solo on "Flying Home", critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo....

, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

 (1958–59) and Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

. He is likely best known for his work with Cannonball Adderley (1959–65), but also spent several years working with Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...

)1966 / 1970' and Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...

 and recorded with Bill Evans
Bill Evans
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

 in the 1950s. His career primarily revolved around the New York City
New York City
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 jazz scene. Jones wrote the jazz standards "Del Sasser" and "Unit 7" while working with Adderley. Other compositions include "Blue Funk", "O.P.", and "Cannon's Theme".

As leader

  • 1960: The Soul Society (Riverside
    Riverside Records
    Riverside Records was a United States record label specializing in jazz. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. in 1953, the label was a major presence in the jazz record industry for a decade...

    )
  • 1961: The Chant (Riverside)
  • 1962: Down Home (Riverside)
  • 1974: Seven Minds (East Wind Records
    East Wind Records
    East Wind was a Japanese jazz record label.Among their most prominent artists were "The Great Jazz Trio", a group that has included Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Richard Davis, Ron Carter.-Discography:-External links:**...

    )Allmusic review
  • 1976: Cello Again (Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • 1977: Changes and Things (Xanadu)
  • 1977: Something In Common (Muse Records
    Muse Records
    Muse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s...

    )
  • 1978: Visitation (SteepleChase Records
    SteepleChase Records
    SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...

    )
  • 1988: Right Down Front: The Riverside Collection (Original Jazz Classics
    Original Jazz Classics
    Original Jazz Classics was started in 1983 as an imprint of Fantasy Records. Under this name facsimiles of original editions of jazz LPs have been reissued on CD and formerly on LP and cassette also. The LPs were originally released on Riverside, Prestige and other labels that had been purchased...

    )

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley
  • Somethin' Else (1958; Blue Note
    Blue Note Records
    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

    )
  • Portrait of Cannonball
    Portrait of Cannonball
    Portrait of Cannonball is the ninth album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, and his first release on the Riverside label, featuring performances by Blue Mitchell, Bill Evans, Sam Jones, and Philly Joe Jones. The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars and states "Everyone...

    by Cannonball Adderley (1959; Riverside)
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco is a 1959 album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet.The groundbreaking album launched "soul jazz", according to NPR, bridging "the gap between bebop and funk"....

    (1959; Riverside)
  • Them Dirty Blues
    Them Dirty Blues
    Them Dirty Blues is an album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, recorded in 1960.- Track listing :# “Work Song” – 5:07#“Dat Dere” – 5:29#“Easy Living” – 4:19...

    by Cannonball Adderley (1960; Riverside)
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring a performance by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • African Waltz
    African Waltz
    African Waltz is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label and performed by Adderley with an orchestra conducted by Ernie Wilkins. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states "The music on this CD reissue is better than it should be...

    (1961; Riverside)
  • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus
    The Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Victor Feldman, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1961; Riverside)
  • Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley
    Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley
    Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley is a 1961 studio album by Cannonball Adderley and his quintet with Nancy Wilson sitting in "as a sort of easy-going third horn"...

    (1961; Riverside)
  • The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York
    The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York
    The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Village Vanguard and released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.The Allmusic review by...

    (1962; Riverside)
  • Cannonball in Europe!
    Cannonball in Europe!
    Cannonball in Europe! is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Comblain-la-Tour in Belgium and released on the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1962; Riverside)
  • Jazz Workshop Revisited
    Jazz Workshop Revisited
    Jazz Workshop Revisited is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco and released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1962; Riverside)
  • Autumn Leaves (1963; Riverside [Japan])
  • Nippon Soul
    Nippon Soul
    Nippon Soul is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Sankei Hall in Tokyo during his 1963 Japanese tour and released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Yusef Lateef, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1963; Riverside)
  • Cannonball Adderley Live!
    Cannonball Adderley Live!
    Cannonball Adderley Live! is a live album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at Shelly's Mann Hole and released on the Capitol label featuring performances by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Charles Lloyd, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1964)
  • Live Session!
    Live Session!
    -Track listing:# Cannonball Adderley's Introduction - 0:28# "Big City" - 3:19# "Next Time I See You" - 3:53# "I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco" - 3:20# "Ten Years of Tears" - 2:48...

    (1964)
  • Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof
    Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof
    Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Capitol label featuring performances of material from the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof by Adderley with Nat Adderley, Charles Lloyd, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    (1964)
  • Phenix
    Phenix (album)
    Phenix is an album by jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley recorded at the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in 1975 featuring performances by Adderley's Quintet with Nat Adderley, Michael Wolff, Walter Booker and Roy McCurdy with guest percussionist Airto Moreira and sessions featuring past...

    (1975, Fantasy)

With Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Adderley was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....

  • To the Ivy League from Nat
    To the Ivy League from Nat
    To the Ivy League from Nat is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the EmArcy label featuring performances by Adderley with his brother Cannonball Adderley, Junior Mance, Sam Jones/Al McKibbon, and Charles "Specs" Wright with arrangements by Ernie Wilkins...

    (1956; EmArcy)
  • Work Song
    Work Song
    Work Song is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley, recorded in January 1960 and released on the Riverside label. It features Adderley with Bobby Timmons, Wes Montgomery, Sam Jones, Percy Heath, Keter Betts and Louis Hayes in various combinations from a trio to a sextet, with the unusual sound of...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • In the Bag (1962; Jazzland)

With Walter Davis Jr.
  • Davis Cup
    Davis Cup (album)
    Davis Cup is the debut album by American pianist Walter Davis Jr. featuring performances recorded in 1959 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...

    (1959; Blue Note)

With Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were...

  • The Time is Right
    The Time Is Right
    The Time Is Right is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Donaldson with Blue Mitchell, Horace Parlan, Laymon Jackson, Dave Bailey, and Ray Barretto with Sam Jones and Al Harewood replacing Jackson and Bailey on one track. The album was...

    (1959; Blue Note)
  • Sunny Side Up
    Sunny Side Up (Lou Donaldson album)
    Sunny Side Up is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Donaldson with Bill Hardman, Horace Parlan, Sam Jones, Al Harewood, with Laymon Jackson replacing Jones on four tracks...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Blowing in the Wind
    Blowing in the Wind (album)
    Blowing in the Wind is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Cadet label in 1966 and performed by Donaldson with Herman Foster, Sam Jones, Leo Morris and Richard Landrum....

    (1966; Cadet
    Cadet Records
    Cadet Records was started as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records. Argo changed its name in 1965 to Cadet to avoid confusion with the similarly named label in the UK...

    )
  • Lou Donaldson At His Best
    Lou Donaldson At His Best
    Lou Donaldson At His Best is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded for the Cadet label in 1966 and performed by Donaldson with Herman Foster, Sam Jones, Leo Morris, and Richard Landrum....

    (1966; Cadet)

With Terry Gibbs
Terry Gibbs
Terry Gibbs is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.He has performed and/or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others...

  • Take It from Me
    Take It from Me (album)
    Take It from Me is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Terry Gibbs featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Impulse! label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "This is a likable small-group date"....

    (Impulse!, 1964)

With Blue Mitchell
Blue Mitchell
Richard Allen Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.-Biography:...

  • Blue's Moods
    Blue's Moods
    Blue's Moods is the third album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "the trumpeter is typically distinctive, swinging and inventive within the hard bop...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • A Sure Thing
    A Sure Thing
    A Sure Thing is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell with orchestra recorded in late 1962 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:...

    (1962; Riverside)

With Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons
Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...

  • This Here is Bobby Timmons
    This Here is Bobby Timmons
    This Here is Bobby Timmons is the debut album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.-Track listing:# "This Here" - 3:34# "Moanin'" - 5:08...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • Soul Time
    Soul Time
    Soul Time is a jazz album by Bobby Timmons on piano, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Sam Jones on bass and Art Blakey on drums.After "This Here Is Bobby Timmons" , "Soul Time" was the second album recorded under Timmons' leadership. He handpicked an impressive cast of jazz musicians to complement his...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • Easy Does It
    Easy Does It (Bobby Timmons album)
    Easy Does It is the third studio album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "the music is excellent"....

    (1961; Riverside)
  • Sweet and Soulful Sounds
    Sweet and Soulful Sounds
    Sweet and Soulful Sounds is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:...

    (1962; Riverside)
  • Born to Be Blue!
    Born to Be Blue! (Bobby Timmons album)
    Born to Be Blue! is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is excellent music but unfortunately Timmons would not grow much musically after this...

    (1963; Riverside)
  • From the Bottom
    From the Bottom
    From the Bottom is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Bobby Timmons, a highly influential funk pianist, is in generally excellent form".-Track listing:#...

    (1964; Riverside)
  • Workin' Out!
    Workin' Out!
    Workin' Out! is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "Bobby Timmons most advanced recordings of the 1960s"....

    (1964; Riverside)

With Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...

  • Blues Etude
    Blues Etude
    Blues Etude is a 1966 album by Oscar Peterson. - Track listing :# "Blues Etude" – 3:53# "Shelley's World" – 5:20# "Let's Fall in Love" – 3:49...

    (1966; Limelight)
  • Soul Espanol
    Soul Espanõl
    Soul Español is a 1966 album by Oscar Peterson.-Track listing:#"Mas Que Nada" – 2:27#"Manhã de Carnaval" – 3:45#"Call Me" – 5:19...

    (1966; Limelight)
  • The Way I Really Play
    The Way I Really Play
    The Way I Really Play is a 1968 album by Oscar Peterson. The Penguin Guide to Jazz includes the album in its selected "Core Collection."It is the third part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series.-Track listing:...

    (1968; MPS)
  • Mellow Mood
    Mellow Mood
    Mellow Mood is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1968 . It was reissued on CD in 2006 by MPS and in 2004 as the fifth part of the Exclusively for My Friends series...

    (1968; MPS)
  • Travelin' On
    Travelin' On
    Travelin' On is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1968 . It was recorded during the same sessions as Mellow Mood...

    (1968; MPS)
  • Hello Herbie
    Hello Herbie
    Hello Herbie is an album by pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, joined by guitarist Herb Ellis. -Track listing:# "Naptown Blues" – 5:20# "Exactly Like You" – 4:50...

    (1969; MPS)
  • Tristeza on Piano
    Tristeza on Piano
    Tristeza on Piano is a 1970 album by Oscar Peterson .-Track listing:# "Tristeza" – 3:13# "Nightingale" – 6:42# "I Loves You, Porgy" – 6:12...

    (1970; MPS)

With Others
  • Kenny Dorham
    Kenny Dorham
    McKinley Howard Dorham was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the kind of attention from the jazz establishment that many of his peers did...

     - 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia
    'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia
    Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1956 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was originally released in 1956 in two volumes with a third volume released later on the Japanese Blue Note label...

    (1956; Blue Note)
  • Kenny Burrell
    Kenny Burrell
    Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...

     - Blue Lights Volume 1 (1958; Blue Note)
  • Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights Volume 2 (1958; Blue Note)
  • Clark Terry
    Clark Terry
    Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...

     - In Orbit
    In Orbit (Clark Terry album)
    In Orbit is an album by jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, notably featuring Thelonious Monk as sideman and originally released in 1958.It was Monk's only Riverside appearance as sideman, the first of Terry's recordings on flugelhorn, the first Riverside date with bassist Sam Jones, and the only time...

    (1958; Riverside Records
    Riverside Records
    Riverside Records was a United States record label specializing in jazz. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. in 1953, the label was a major presence in the jazz record industry for a decade...

    )
  • Bud Powell
    Bud Powell
    Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...

     - Time Waits
    Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 4)
    Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell , also known as The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4: Time Waits, is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Blue Note Records in 1958, featuring a session Powell recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on May 24, 1958, with Sam...

    (1958; Blue Note)
  • Bill Evans
    Bill Evans
    William John Evans, known as Bill Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists including: Chick Corea, Herbie...

     - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
    Everybody Digs Bill Evans
    Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a record album by jazz musician Bill Evans, released in 1958, see .-History:Everybody Digs Bill Evans was the artist's second album, done two years after his first record as a leader...

    (1958; Riverside)
  • Chet Baker
    Chet Baker
    Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

     - It Could Happen to You
    (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You
    -CD Reissue bonus tracks:-Personnel:*Chet Baker - vocals, trumpet*Kenny Drew - piano*Sam Jones - bass*George Morrow - bass*Philly Joe Jones - drums*Dannie Richmond - drums...

    (1958)
  • Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd
    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...

     - Byrd in Hand
    Byrd in Hand
    Byrd in Hand is an album by Donald Byrd engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. It was recorded in May 1959 and was released in the same year as BLP 4019 and BST 84019...

    (1959; Blue Note)
  • Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

     - At Town Hall
    The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
    The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall is an album by Thelonious Monk, originally released in 1959. The concert included Hall Overton’s arrangements on Monk’s tunes...

    (1959; Riverside)
  • Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

     - 5 by Monk by 5
    5 by Monk by 5
    5 by Monk by 5 is an album by jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, released in 1959. The album's basis is five of Monk's original compositions performed in a quintet setting.-Track listing :All songs by Thelonious Monk unless otherwise noted....

    (1959; Riverside)
  • Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie
    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

     - Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
    Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
    Have Trumpet, Will Excite! is a 1959 studio album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. -Track listing:# "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" – 6:02# "My Man" – 4:19...

    (1959; Verve)
  • Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie
    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

     - The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959; Verve)
  • Julian Priester
    Julian Priester
    Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...

     - Spiritsville (1960)
  • Sonny Red
    Sonny Red
    Sonny Red was an American alto saxophonist associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles...

     - Out of the Blue
    Out of the Blue (Sonny Red album)
    Out of the Blue is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red recorded in late 1959 and early 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....

     - Movin' & Groovin'
    Movin' & Groovin'
    Movin' & Groovin' is the debut album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1960.-Reception:...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard
    Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

      - Open Sesame
    Open Sesame
    Open Sesame is a children's television series composed solely of the skits and segments of the long-running American television series Sesame Street. While some countries air the American program in whole, and some create their own versions of the show, many more air this title of loosely...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Tina Brooks
    Tina Brooks
    Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer.-Early years:Harold Floyd Brooks was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was the brother of David "Bubba" Brooks. The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a slight variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker....

      - True Blue
    True Blue (Tina Brooks Album)
    True Blue is an album by hard-bop tenor Tina Brooks recorded on June 25, 1960, and released on the Blue Note label. This was Brooks only date as leader to be released during his lifetime...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Barry Harris
    Barry Harris
    Barry Doyle Harris is an American bebop jazz pianist and educator.-Biography:Harris left Detroit for New York City in 1960...

      - Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960; Riverside)
  • John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker
    John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

     - That's My Story
    That's My Story
    That's My Story is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker, released in 1960 on Riverside Records. The album was recorded in one session on February 9, 1960 at Reeves Sound Studio in New York City. It was produced by Orrin Keepnews and features the rhythm section from saxophonist...

    (1960; Riverside)
  • Harold Land
    Harold Land
    Harold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to...

     - West Coast Blues!
    West Coast Blues!
    -Track listing:# Ursula – 7:07# Klactoveedsedstene – 9:59# Don't Explain – 4:54# West Coast Blues – 6:02# Terrain – 7:46# Compulsion – 6:48-Personnel:...

    (1960; Jazzland Records)
  • Kenny Drew
    Kenny Drew
    Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...

     - Undercurrent
    Undercurrent (Kenny Drew album)
    Undercurrent is an album by American pianist Kenny Drew recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Michael G...

    (1960; Blue Note)
  • Wes Montgomery
    Wes Montgomery
    John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...

     - Movin' Along
    Movin' Along
    Movin' Along is an album by American jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1960. It has been reissued by Original Jazz Classics. The reissue includes two alternate takes....

    (1960)
  • Paul Gonsalves
    Paul Gonsalves
    Paul Gonsalves, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"...

     - Gettin' Together (1960; Jazzland)
  • Wynton Kelly
    Wynton Kelly
    Wynton Kelly was a Jamaican-born jazz pianist, who spent his career in the United States. He is perhaps best known for working with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1959-1962.-Biography:...

     - Wynton Kelly!
    Wynton Kelly!
    -Track listing:# "Come Rain or Come Shine" - 5:53# "Make the Man Love Me" - 3:39# "Autumn Leaves" - 6:11...

    (1961; Vee-Jay
    Vee-Jay Records
    Vee-Jay Records is a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. It was owned and operated by African Americans.-History:...

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  • Grant Green
    Grant Green
    Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....

     - Gooden's Corner
    Gooden's Corner
    Gooden's Corner is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1961 and released on the Japanese Blue Note label...

    (1961; Blue Note)
  • Fred Jackson
    Fred Jackson (saxophonist)
    Fred Jackson, Jr. is a jazz fusion saxophonist and flautist who has recorded with Bobby Hutcherson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, and Solomon Burke, among others.-As Sideman:With Ry Cooder*Chicken Skin Music...

     - Hootin' 'n Tootin'
    Hootin' 'n Tootin'
    Hootin' 'n Tootin' is the debut album by American saxophonist Fred Jackson, and the sole recording under his leadership, recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label...

    (1962; Blue Note)
  • Terry Gibbs
    Terry Gibbs
    Terry Gibbs is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.He has performed and/or recorded with Tommy Dorsey, Chubby Jackson, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Louie Bellson, Charlie Shavers, Mel Tormé, Buddy DeFranco, and others...

     - Bopstacle Course
    Bopstacle Course
    Bopstacle Course is a jazz album by vibraphonist Terry Gibbs, recorded in 1974 for Xanadu Records.-Track listing:# "Bopstacle Course" - 4:39# "Body and Soul" - 7:06# "Waltz For My Children" - 4:42...

    (1974; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • Jimmy Raney
    Jimmy Raney
    Jimmy Raney was an American jazz guitarist born in Louisville, Kentucky most notable for his work from 1951–1952 and 1962–1963 with Stan Getz and for his work from 1953–1954 with the Red Norvo trio, replacing Tal Farlow. In 1954 and 1955 he won the Down Beat critics poll for guitar...

     - The Influence
    The Influence (album)
    The Influence is a jazz guitar album by jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney, recorded in 1975 for Xanadu Records.-Track listing:#"I Love You"#"Body and Soul"#"It Could Happen To You"#"Suzanne"#"Get Out of Town"#"There Will Never Be Another You"...

    (1975; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • Clifford Jordan
    Clifford Jordan
    Clifford Laconia Jordan was a jazz saxophone player. While in Chicago, he performed with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some rhythm and blues groups. He moved to New York City in 1957, after which he recorded three albums for Blue Note. He also recorded with Horace Silver, J.J. Johnson, Kenny...

     - The Highest Mountain (1975; Inner City)
  • Al Cohn
    Al Cohn
    Al Cohn was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger and composer.-Biography:Alvin Gilbert Cohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was initially known in the 1940s for playing in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, and Serge Chaloff...

     - Al Cohn's America
    Al Cohn's America
    Al Cohn's America is a jazz album by saxophonist Al Cohn, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.-Track listing:#"You're My Thrill"#"Pauletta"#"Neptune"#"This Masquerade"#"Magic Carpet"#"Shapes"- Personnel :* Al Cohn – sax...

    (1976; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • Cedar Walton
    Cedar Walton
    Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...

     - Firm Roots (1976; Muse)
  • Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon
    Dexter Gordon
    Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

     - True Blue by (1976; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    ), Silver Blue
    Silver Blue (album)
    Silver Blue is a jazz album by saxophonists Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, recorded in 1976 for Xanadu Records.- Personnel :* Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone* Blue Mitchell & Sam Noto - trumpet* Barry Harris piano* Sam Jones - bass guitar...

    (1976; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • Ted Dunbar
    Ted Dunbar
    Ted Dunbar was a jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. He published four volumes on jazz. He trained as a pharmacist at Texas Southern University, but by the 1970s only did pharmacy work part-time. He was also a trained numerologist and had studied other aspects of mysticism...

      - Opening Remarks
    Opening Remarks
    Opening Remarks is a 1978 studio album by jazz guitarist Ted Dunbar, recorded for Xanadu Records.-Track listing:#"Entrance"#"Two Areas" - 9:08#"Hang In There" - 7:43#"Lazy Lane" - 4:41#"Never Again" - 5:23#"Tonal Search" - 8:06...

    (1978; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
  • Billy Mitchell
    Billy Mitchell (jazz musician)
    Billy Mitchell was an American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his close association with fellow Detroiter Thad Jones and work with a variety of big bands including Woody Herman when he replaced Gene Ammons in his band...

     - The Colossus Of Detroit
    The Colossus of Detroit
    The Colossus Of Detroit is an album by jazz saxophonist Billy Mitchell, released in 1978 by Xanadu Records.-Track listing:#"Recorda-Me"#"I Had the Craziest Dream"#"I Should Care"#"Unforgettable"#"How Am I to Know"#"Be My Guest"- Personnel :...

    (1978; Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records
    Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...

    )
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