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1960s hard bop at YourMusic.com


GA Russell

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For the past few weeks I have been enjoying Wayne Shorter's JuJu, Jackie McLean's Jackie's Bag and John Coltrane's Ballads. So I have decided to pick up a couple of 1960s hard bop albums from YourMusic.com before the price goes up.

I am thinking about Hank Mobley's Soul Station, which I gather is pretty good, and Joe Henderson's In 'n' Out, because McCoy Tyner is on it.

Can you recommend any better from the YourMusic selection? I don't have a great many hard bop albums from the 60s, and I could use some ideas.

I am especially interested in albums with McCoy Tyner or Tommy Flanagan on piano.

Thanks!

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127 views, yet only 4 responses. It looks like I'm not the only one who could use some help here!

OK, you've sold me on Soul Station. I'll get that one for sure.

Peggy-Ann, I already have Hub Tones. Thanks for the tip about Ready For Freddy. I think that I would benefit from seeing a McCoy Tyner discography.

Unless somebody has a better idea, I'll get In 'n' Out when I get Soul Station.

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I just did a label search on BN at the BMG site, and extracted these titles from the list that came back:

Andrew Hill - Black Fire, Dance of Death

Art Blakey - Moanin, Night at Birdland 1/2, Indestructible, Night in Tunisia, Free for All

Cannonball - Somethin Else

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador

Charlie Rouse - Bossa Nova Bacchanal

Chick Corea - Now he sings, now he sobs

Clifford Brown - Memorial Album

Count Basie - Basie meets bond, Chairman of the Board

Dexter Gordon - Go, Our Man in Paris, Doin Alright

Donald Byrd - Free Form, At the Half Note Cafe

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle

Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee

Eric Dolphy - Illinois Concert

Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones, Hubcap, Ready for Freddie, Night of the Cookers 1/2

Grant Green - Am I Blue, Grantstand, Goin West

Hank Mobley - Soul Station, Straight No Filter

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

Horace Silver - Song for my Father, Horace Silver Trio, Cape Verdean Blues, Serenade to a Soul Sister

Jack Wilson - Easterly Winds

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag, Right Now!

Jimmy McGriff - The Worm

Jimmy Smith - Sermon, Cool Blues, Rockin the Boat, Prayer Meetin, Home Cookin

Joe Henderson - In and Out

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Johnny Griffin - Blowin Session

Kenny Burrell - Midnight BLue

Larry Young - Mother Ship, Of Love and Peace

Lee Morgan - Sidewinder, Sixth Sense

Lou Donaldson - Natural Soul

McCoy Tyner - Real McCoy

Miles Davis - Vol 1/2, Birth of the Cool

Ornette Coleman - Golden Circle 1/2

Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song, Countours

Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin

Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time, Vol. 1

Stanley Turrentine - Blue Hour, Never let Me go

Monk/Coltrane - Live at the Five Spot

Monk - Genious of Modern Music 1/2

Wayn Shorter - Speak No Evil, JuJu

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Great idea, Aggie. Thanks!

Of course, I wouldn't want to disregard any worthy OJCs. I just don't know of any.

So, of Aggie's list, are there any this group is particularly keen on?

PS - What about Lee Morgan's The Sixth Sense? Does anybody like that one?

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If I had to pick 10 favorites from this list, I'd say:

The Real McCoy

Now He Sings Now He Sobs

Black Fire

Genius of Modern Music Vol. 2

Ju ju

Right Now

Fuschia Swing Song

Live at the Golden Circle Vol. 1

Midnight Blue

Blue Train

I recommend avoiding Grant Green's Am I Blue. It's not very good.

Guy

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Thanks for your list, Guy!

I see that Ready For Freddie also has Wayne Shorter on it. I think I would benefit from seeing a Shorter discography as well as a Tyner. I didn't know that Shorter played on any albums other than Art Blakey's and his own during the mid-60s.

He plays (and I mean PLAYS) on two Tyner albums, Expansions and Extensions. He matches wits with Sam Rivers on Tony Williams's Spring. And he also shows up on a few albums by Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd. I'm sure I'm missing one or two other BN sideman appearances.

Guy

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Thanks for your list, Guy!

I see that Ready For Freddie also has Wayne Shorter on it. I think I would benefit from seeing a Shorter discography as well as a Tyner. I didn't know that Shorter played on any albums other than Art Blakey's and his own during the mid-60s.

And there's the Miles Davis Quintet albums, of course...

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Thanks for your list, Guy!

I see that Ready For Freddie also has Wayne Shorter on it.  I think I would benefit from seeing a Shorter discography as well as a Tyner.  I didn't know that Shorter played on any albums other than Art Blakey's and his own during the mid-60s.

He plays (and I mean PLAYS) on two Tyner albums, Expansions and Extensions. He matches wits with Sam Rivers on Tony Williams's Spring. And he also shows up on a few albums by Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd. I'm sure I'm missing one or two other BN sideman appearances.

Guy

Only two, one of which was not released for quite awhile: Some Other Stuff and Lou Donaldson's Lush Life.

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Thanks for your list, Guy!

I see that Ready For Freddie also has Wayne Shorter on it.  I think I would benefit from seeing a Shorter discography as well as a Tyner.  I didn't know that Shorter played on any albums other than Art Blakey's and his own during the mid-60s.

And there's the Miles Davis Quintet albums, of course...

Of course! I usually think of Shorter with Miles in '66, but he joined in Sept of '64 I think, so that would put him with Miles squarely in the mid-60s.

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