Fats Domino - Fats on fire

Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is a classic R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter and (according to Joel Whitburn's Billboard books) was the best selling R&B artist of the 1950s Read More...

Track List of Fats DOMINO - FATS on fire :

01. When I'm Walking (Let Me
02. I've Got A Right To Cry
03. There Goes My Heart Again
04. Just A Lonely Man
05. Red Sails In The Sunset
06. Bye Baby Bye Bye
07. Forever Forever
08. I'm Livin Right
09. Can't Go On Without You
10. Land Of 1000 Dances
11. Song For Rosemary
12. Tell Me The Truth Baby
13. I Don't Want To Set The W
14. You Known I Miss You (Ver
15. Fats On Fire
16. Land Of Make Believe
17. Old Man Trouble
18. Love Me
19. Mary Oh Mary
20. Gotta Get Ajob
21. Fat Man (Version 2)
22. Valley Of Tears (Version
23. Fats Shuffle
24. I'm A Fool To Care

Fats DOMINO - FATS on fire

Fats DOMINO - FATS on fire

External links :
Fats Domino on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame site
Domino's manager Bob Vernon's official website
Fats Domino discography (music city)
Vernon and Domino's Bobkat Music Trust
http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm
http://www.bsnpubs.com/imperial/imperiala.html
http://www.geocities.com/shakin_stacks/fatsdomino.txt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6675649.stm for Domino's return concert
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1142405984194440.xml

http://www.fatsonline.nl/

Videos:
Fats Domino - Blueberry hill - Youtube

Fats Domino & Ricky Nelson - I'm Walking (Colour) - Youtube

Samples:
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Johnny Griffin - Congregation [1957]

"I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode."

Johnny Griffin

A few years ago a new recording came out that showcased five young tenor saxophonists. The album's title, inspired, no doubt, by a desire to cash in on the "young lions" craze so much in vogue, anointed its youthful stars as "young tough tenors."

Well, there used to be a time when it meant something to be called a "tough tenor." It wasn't just a title your record label bestowed upon you. You had to serve your time on the frontlines of jazz, locking horns nightly with cats called Illinois, Sonny, Jug, Dexter, Wardell, Lockjaw. And when you finally earned the rank, the other tough tenors-not record producers or agents or publicists or critics-let you know.

Johnny Griffin won his "tough tenor" stripes in crack regiments like the Lionel Hampton big band, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and the Thelonious Monk quartet. In the early 1960s he co-led a quintet alongside that underrated monster of the tenor saxophone, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Then, in 1963, he emigrated to Europe and immediately became a fixture on the continent's thriving jazz scene. Griffin did not return to the States until 1978, when he was coaxed back for a guest appearance at fellow emigre Dexter Gordon's Carnegie Hall triumph.

Now, every April, the 65-year old Chicago Southsider makes an annual trip to the US, a highlight of which is a week-long birthday gig (April 24) at Chicago's Jazz Showcase, either preceded or followed by a week in New York. When he's not on tour, Griff enjoys his idyllic life in the French countryside, two hundred fifty miles outside of Paris. "It takes me almost an hour to drive to the nearest train station," he laughs.

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CD universe:
The Rudy Van Gelder-helmed reissue of 1957's THE CONGREGATION improves on what is already a classic Johnny Griffin date. Backed by Paul Chambers on bass, Kenny Dennis on drums, and Sonny Clark on piano, Griffin demonstrates his usual dazzling dexterity on the tenor sax. The mode is straightforward bop, with a balance of uptempo numbers and ballads, and plenty of stretching out all around. This set comes highly recommended--especially given the improved sound of the reissue--to fans of the style.

All About Jazz:
On this 1957 session, the “world’s fastest tenor” sets aside his gun-slinging ways in favor of comparatively restrained, straightforward preaching, consisting of some basic, rather predictable harmonic-rhythmic rhetoric and, of course, that distinctive sound. Griffin’s ample and slow Leslie- like vibrato is somewhat reminiscent of Dexter Gordon’s but without the long tall one’s frequently sardonic send-up of swing-era clichés, replacing them with tension-filled, dramatic alternatives derived from a chord's extended harmonies. In brief, the program on The Congregation is curiously unengaging: it would almost seem the “Little Giant” dispatched more souls with his six-shooters than his sermonizing.

A sense of over-familiarity sets in immediately with the introductory title song, a thinly disguised variation on Horace Silver's “The Preacher.” The remaining five tunes, including the ballad “I’m Glad There Is You,” all gravitate toward the same groove—a medium-up tempo in the key of concert F (a recurrent top tone in the tenor solos as well). And as solid, even sparkling, as they are, Paul Chambers’ bass solos on each of the tunes—at least three of them bowed—tend to underscore the repetitive, formulaic nature of the proceedings.

The virtuosity and rapid-fire articulations of the gifted tenor man begin to emerge on John Jenkins’ “Latin Quarter” (somewhat of a misnomer) with a couple of heated, double-timed choruses and an arresting cadenza, but the momentary spark is extinguished until Jule Styne’s always welcome “It’s You Or No One” which, though again in F, is at least taken at a slightly brighter tempo. Pianist Sonny Clark and Chambers are a flawless team as usual, and the somewhat unusual employment of drummer Kenny Dennis does nothing to obstruct their customary flow. The bonus track, “I Remember You” (in F, naturally), is another nice standard but does little for the program. Its inclusion, in fact, begs comparison with Cannonball Adderley’s superb Cannonball Takes Charge (Riverside, 1959), a session that employs the same instrumentation and a similar program yet maintains a hard, gemlike flame throughout.


Track List of Johnny Griffin - Congregation:

1. The Congregation
2. Latin Quarter
3. I'm Glad There Is You
4. Main Spring
5. It's You Or No One
6. I Remember You (Bonus Track)

Johnny Griffin - Congregation

External links

Johnny Griffin - Wikipedia

Johnny Griffin on The Hard Bop Homepage

Discography

ALUN MORGAN, from the liner notes,The Man I Love, Black Lion.

Video:

Johnny Griffin / Art Taylor 4tet - My Little Swede Shoes - Youtube

Grant Green - Grant's First Stand

Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979; some sources erroneously give the birth year as 1931) was a jazz guitarist and composer.

Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and latin-tinged settings throughout his career. Critics Michael Erlewine and Ron Wynn write, "A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar ... Green's playing is immediately recognizable -- perhaps more than any other guitarist." Read More...

Track List of Grant Green: Grant's First Stand:

01. Miss Ann's Tempo (5:38)
02. Lullaby of the Leaves (7:41)
03. Blues for Wilarene (7:08)
04. Baby's Minor Lope (7:19)
05. 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do (4:26)
06. A Wee Bit O' Green (7:49)

Grant Green: Grant's First Stand


See also
Organ trio, a type of small jazz ensemble in which Green often performed

References

Erlewine, Michael and Ron Wynn, "Grant Green" from Allmusic.com URL accessed January 26, 2007

External links

Grant Green transcriptions
Grant Green
Grant Green discography at MusicBrainz
Grant Green Pages
The Green Room
Grant Green Discography Project
Evergreen - Grant Green Tribute Page
GRANT GREEN - a discography with cover photos
An Excellent German Grant Green site with fully illustrated Discography

Grant Green - Website.Lineone
Grant Green - Play jazz Guitar

Some Videos:

Grant Green - Youtube
Barney Kessel / Kenny Burrell / Grant Green - Blue Mist - Youtube

Discography

A Discography with Cover Photos

Charlie Haden Quartet West - In Angel City [1988]

Allmusic:

The second recording by Charlie Haden's Quartet West is similar to the music that the group (bassist Haden, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, pianist Alan Broadbent and drummer Larance Marable) would play for the next decade. Among the highlights of this well-rounded set (one of the band's most definitive releases) is "First Song" (Haden's most memorable composition), Miles Davis' "Blue In Green," and a lengthy exploration of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman." An excellent showcase for Haden in a straight-ahead setting and for Watts, whose passionate sound perfectly fits the band. Highly recommended.

Amazon reviewer:
Recorded mid-1988, this is the second Quartet West album. The late Billy Higgins had departed, to be replaced by Larance Marable on every track bar one. Unlike its successors, 'Haunted Heart' and 'Always Say Goodbye', there is no splicing here with vintage recordings of classic artists such as Jo Stafford or Coleman Hawkins. No introductory fanfares either. But Haden's fixation with the LA of the past is clear. There's a lengthy Ray Chandler passage on the sleevenotes. The album cover features a photo of Haden back in the late 1950s, when the Ornette Coleman Quartet were appearing at the Club Hillcrest.

On the debut album, the band opened with a Metheny standard, 'Hermitage'. For this album, Metheny specially writes a piece entitled 'The Red Wind'. It is by far the most joyful track on the album -- Alan Broadbent seems almost surprised at having to play upbeat piano licks that Metheny would normally expect Lyle Mays to perform. The CD includes an extra couple of reasonable tracks not on the LP. If you had bought the LP, you wouldn't have got any Alan Broadbent compositions at all. Broadbent has really flourished as both composer and arranger on subsequent albums; here you only get an inkling of his potential.



Track list of Charlie Haden Quartet West - In Angel City :

1. Sunday at the Hillcrest 6:21
2. First Song (For Ruth) 6:57
3. The Red Wind 4:55
4. Blue in Green 7:16
5. Alpha 6:27
6. Live Your Dreams 6:32
7. Child's Play 3:06
8. Fortune's Fame 8:09
9. Tantantella 3:15
10. Lonely Woman 13:41


Charlie Haden Quartet West - In Angel City
Charlie Haden Quartet West - In Angel City


Haden's Quartet West at Jazz Baltica, Salzhau June 2000 with "Here's Looking at you" Ernie Watts (tenor) Alan Broadbent (pno) Haden on bass and Lawrence Marable on drums. Beautiful. Does Watts have one of the most distinctive tenor sounds in jazz?

Charlie Haden Quartet West with string orchestra - Youtube

Charlie Haden Official Website
Charlie Haden interview on Democracy Now!, September 1, 2006
Official Documentary Website
Charlie Haden at the Internet Movie Database
Liberation Music Orchestra

Charlie Haden - Wikipedia

Gil Mellé: The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions [1998]

Born in 1931 in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gil Mellé displayed an early, precocious talent for art in all its forms. A winner of several national painting competitions while still in his teens, Mellé was also playing the jazz clubs of Greenwich Village before he was old enough to drive. Read more...

Track List of Gil Mellé : The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions

CD 1:

01.- Four moons (2:26)
02.- The Gears (3:09)
03.- Mars (2:50)
04.- Sunset Concerto (2:06)
05.- Cyclotron (3:16)
06.- October (3:45)
07.- Under Capricorn (3:02)
08.- Venus (3:43)
09.- Lover Man (5:59)
10.- Spellbound (3:21)
11.- Transition (5:16)
12.- A Lion Lives Here (3:54)
13.- Timepiece (3:13)
14.- Ginger Snap (3:21)
15.- The Nearness Of You (4:21)
16.- Lullaby Of Birdland (3:49)
17.- Ballade for Guitar (3:55)
18.- Metropolitan (2:53)
19.- Newport News (4:56)

CD 2:

01.- Summertime (4:03)
02.- Quadrille for Moderns (3:34)
03.- Five Impressions of Color: a) Spectrum Violet / b) Sea Green / c) Royal Blue / d) Ebony / e) Spectrum Red (12:41)
04.- Life Begins at Midnight (4:27)
05.- Night Train to Wildwood (4:13)
06.- Threadneedle Street (4:18)
07.- Weird Valley (5:16)
08.- The Set Break (4:51)
09.- Moonlight in Vermont (4:55)
10.- Long Ago and Far Away (4:35)
11.- The Arab Barber Blues (9:08)
12.- Nice Questions (8:17)


Gil Mellé: The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions [1998]

Gil Mellé: The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions [1998]

Gil Mellé: The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions [1998]

Gil Mellé: The Complete Blue Note 50's Sessions [1998]

Gil Mellé Offical Site

Gil Mellé - IMDB

Gil Mellé - Wikipedia

Gil Melle + Night Gallery - Youtube

Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Stin Epohi Tou Oneirou

Track List of Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Stin Epohi Tou Oneirou :


1. ELA PARE MOU TIN LYPI
2. FTEROTO MOU TRAGOUDAKI
3. ESENA DEN SOU AXIZE AGAPI [ME GIORGO NTALARA]
4. TO LIMANI
5. OLA TA DYSKOLA
6. S'AGAPO GIATI EISAI ORAIA
7. MIN PERIMENEIS PIA
8. NA M'AGAPAS
9. TA LMANIA [TO PLOIO THA SALPAREI]
10. TA PAIDIA TIS GEITONIA SOU
11. POTE THA SE VARETHO
12. TZIVAERI
13. STIN AGORA TOU AL HALILI

Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Stin Epohi Tou Oneirou

Offical Page

Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Eksi Sozluk

Eleni Tsaligopoulou - IMDB