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17 NEW RUDY VAN GELDER REMASTERS ON SALE FOR $10.98! (Ends Spetember 30th)

Donald Byrd - Royal Flush

This album, recorded in September 1961, was the swan song for the wonderful team of Byrd and Pepper Adams, but it was also the introduction to the jazz world of a remarkable pianist/composer who has dominated the music scene ever since, Herbie Hancock.

Donald Byrd - Off To The Races

Byrd was no stranger to Blue Note sessions by December 1958 when this album was made, but this was his first for the label as a leader and the beginning of a relationship that lasted until 1976. For the occasion, the trumpeter brought in two of his closest associates, Jackie McLean and Pepper Adams. Like all Blue Note sessions, the rhythm section of Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones and Art Taylor is first rate.

Miles Davis - Workin'

This historic album features Miles Davis' first great quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones.

Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound

This hard bop-oriented album is a point of departure for Eric Dolphy's unique style on alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute. Freddie Hubbard, Jaki Byard, George Tucker and Roy Haynes complete this empathetic, forward-thinking group. The CD includes three bonus tracks that complete the session.

Kenny Dorham - Trompeta Toccata

Kenny Dorham zeroed in on Joe Henderson's talent the moment the tenor saxophonist hts New York and introduced him on the album Una Mas in April 1963. They teamed up for Henderson's first three Blue Note albums. Tompeta Toccatta, made in September 1964 would be the final recorded collaboration and soon Henderson would join Horace Silver.

Charles Earland - Black Talk

This is the album that sent Earland into the jazz organ pantheon and earned him the name The Mighty Burner. Includes Houston Person, Melvin Sparks and Idris Muhammad.

Johnny Griffin - The Congregation

Griffin is one of the fastest, sharpest tenor saxophonists to emerge in the fertile fifties. His third and final Blue Note is one of handful that sported a cover illustration by then struggling artist Andy Warhol. This quartet date with Sonny Clark and Paul Chambers is a relaxed mature, varied affair. Added to the original album is "I Remember "You," a bonus track from the session.

Coleman Hawkins - At Ease

A relaxed 1960 session by this great tenor saxophonist with supported by the superb rhythm section of Tommy Flanagan, Wendell Marshall and Osie Johnson. The focus is on standard ballads and Hawk is in excellent form.

Freddie Hubbard - Here To Stay

This album was recorded in December 1962, mastered, given a catalog number and a cover that even appeared on inner sleeves of other Blue Note albums. But for reasons unknown, this recording which Hubbard later proclaimed one of his favorites sat in the can for another 13 years! With the exception of Philly Joe Jones, all of the musicians (Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Reggie Workman and Hubbard) were members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at the time and their empathy matches their considerable skills.

Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings

Happenings was this vibist's first album in a conventional quartet format (but what a band with Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw and Joe Chambers!). With exception of Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," the material is originals by the vibist. And the range and harmonic depth of his compositions is as impressive as his playing. A unique and rewarding album in long career of the exceptional musician.

Jackie McLean - Demon's Dance

Demon's Dance, recorded in December 1967, was Jackie McLean's last Blue Note album. And like everything he did, it was infused with fresh ideas, swing and unbridled passion. Jack DeJohnette drives this quintet without mercy and everyone rallies. Trumpeter/composer Woody Shaw is especially powerful throughout this varied set of two originals each by McLean, Shaw and Cal Massey.

Hank Mobley - Another Workout

During 1960 and '61, Hank Mobley made four albums with fellow Miles Davis bandmates Wynton Kelly and Paul Chambers. Soul Station, Roll Call and Workout were issued at the time and became hailed as the high points of his career (and they remain so). Mysteriously, the fourth session sat forgotten in the tape vaults until it was issued in 1986 as Another Workout. The quartet is completed by the amazing Philly Joe Jones.

Lee Morgan - City Lights

The fourth Blue Note album by 19-year-old trumpet phenom Lee Morgan in August 1957 was wisely stacked with tunes written and arranged by the brilliant Benny Golson. The charts and the playing by the entire sextet are superb. And Morgan, Curtis Fuller and George Coleman had the energy to cut an entire session with Jimmy Smith for his Sermon and House Party albums.

Lee Morgan - The Cooker

Blue Note was so taken by 18-year-old trumpet prodigy Lee Morgan that they signed him in November 1956 and recorded and issued an album every two months. "The Cooker" was the fifth in a series of six such albums. The band features Pepper Adams, Bobby Timmons, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones.

Ike Quebec - It Might As Well Be Spring

Two weeks after Ike Quebec recorded his comeback album Heavy Soul for Blue Note, he was back at the Van Gelder studio with same band (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton and Al Harewood), making a second album. Quebec's big-toned, vulnerable tenor playing is a thing to behold, as his heart-stopping version of the title tune, "Lover Man" and "Willow Weep For Me" attest.

Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness

What started out to be a quartet date with Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones became even more special with John Coltrane joined the proceedings for the title tune.

Horace Silver - Doin' The Thing At The Village Gate

Silver has had many bands during his career, but none rivaled the Blue Mitchell-Junior Cook edition of the quintet (1958-64). This live date (Silver's only official live album) was recorded at the Village Gate in New York City in May 1961 and finds the group in peak form, tearing through one great Silver original after another. "Filthy McNasty" was the hit of the album, but every selection, including two bonus tracks not on the original album, is absolutely first-rate and swinging.

OVER 30 JAZZ BOOKS

True Blue Music has gained access to a number of interesting jazz photography books, biographies and discographies, most of which are out of print. We are now offering the following titles, most for a limited time. Note: Orders with books will ship in 1 -2 weeks from order date.

PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS

OLE BRASK/DAN MORGENSTERN: JAZZ PEOPLE $24.98

Great black and white photos by Ole Brask and text by Dan Morgenstern which provides an historical overview of jazz, with chapters devoted to major musicians and styles.

Oversize (10" x 9"). Softcover. 300 pages.

WILLIAM CLAXTON: YOUNG CHET $14.98

Seventy stunning duotone William Claxton photos of Chet Baker taken from 1952 to '57 and reprinted in an attractive smaller (7.2" x 5.4") format. The photos are accompanied by Claxton's personal memories of Baker. Hardcover. 111 pages.

WILLIAM CLAXTON: JAZZ $22.98

Black and white images from one of the most important photographers in jazz, beautifully reproduced in duotone. Collected here are 77 evocative full-bleed images of the world's great jazz icons, including Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk, and many others. Oversize (9" x 12"). Softcover. 124 pages.

ESTHER BUBLEY: CHARLIE PARKER JAM SESSION $59.98

Illustrator David Stone Martin invited noted photographer Esther Bubley to Norman Granz's June 1952 jam session to shoot photos for his reference. These candid black and white shots capture this historic session which featured Parker, Johnny Hodges, Flip Phillips, Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson among others. The brief text is in French. Oversize (14" x 9"). Hardcover. 159 pages.

LEE FRIEDLANDER - JAZZ PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS $49.98

Ninety-four black and white images, taken between 1957 and '74 capture New Orleans clubs, street scenes, parades, funerals and many of its great jazz and blues artists. Includes an essay by Whitney Balliett. Hardcover. 119 pages.

CAROL FRIEDMAN - A MOMENT'S NOTICE $21.98

Black and white portraits -- posed and candid --of jazz musicians: Randy Weston, George Coleman, Betty Carter, the Jones Brothers and many more. Signed by Carol Friedman. Hardcover. 130 pages.

BENNY GOODMAN - KING OF SWING $24.98

A pictorial biography drawn from Benny Goodman's personal archives. Contains 212 illustrations.

Hardcover. 63 pages.

JACQUES LOWE - JAZZ: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MASTERS $39.98

This celebrated photographer turned his lens to jazz for 200 portraits of such giants as Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan, McCoy Tyner, Milt Jackson, Joe Henderson, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee, and Artie Shaw taken between 1990 and '94. Essays by Bob Blumenthal. Oversize (10.2" x 10.2"). Hardcover. 252 pages.

JIM MARSHALL - JAZZ $39.98

Although this exceptional photographer is best known for his work in rock, Jazz includes 115 of Marshall's favorite portraits, covering the golden age of jazz. Gathered for the first time are his intimate studies of Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, McCoy Tyner, and many more. Oversize (12.25" x 10.25"). Hardcover. 143 pages.

HANK O'NEAL - THE GHOSTS OF HARLEM $59.98

A fascinating photo/essay book on the early big band musicians who were rapidly fading from view in the '80s and '90s. Artists include Andy Kirk, Benny Waters, Doc Cheatham, Sammy Price, Buck Clayton and Maxine Sullivan. O'Neal has an incredible eye as he captures the soul and wisdom of these men and women with his lens. The text is in French, but the photographs speak for themselves.

Hardcover. 429 pages.

LEE TANNER et al - DIZZY: JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE IN HIS 75th YEAR $19.98

A beautiful tribute to Dizzy with photos by Tanner, Giusseppe Pino, Herman Leonard, Bill Claxton and dozens more. Tanner also includes quote from Dizzy's autobiography and praise from other artists. Hardcover. 86 pages.

INGO WULFF - CHET BAKER IN EUROPE $79.98

Black and white photos from Chet Baker's various concerts in Europe between 1975 and l988.

Text in German and English. Includes a CD of previously unissued material from l975 and l985 that is only available with the book. Hardcover. 172 pages + CD.

DISCOGRAPHIES

HAMPTON HAWES: A DISCOGRAPHY $19.98

Prefaced by a 53-page biography/commentary section, this 1986 discography by Roger Hunter and Mike Davis is also indexed by song title and musicians. Illustrated. Softcover with spiral spine. 127 pages.

LONG TALL DEXTER: THE DISCOGRAPHY OF DEXTER GORDON $19.98

This 1986 work by Thorbjorn Sjogren features indices by song titles and musicians and is illustrated with album covers. Softcover. 205 pages.

THE DUKE JORDAN DISCOGRAPHY $9.98

The updated 1984 edition of this discography by Thorbjorn Sjogren with an index by musicians. Softcover. 74 pages.

THE BEN WEBSTER DISCOGRAPHY

Compiled in 1995, this excellent discography by Thorbjorn Sjogren and Peter Langhorn covers Webster's entire career (1931-1973) and includes photographs, many unpublished, from all eras. 531 sessions are entered covering all of his recording activity as well as existing radio, TV and private tapes. All musician and songs are cross-indexed. Hardcover. 74 pages.

BIOGRAPHIES & COLLECTED ESSAYS

CHET BAKER - AS THOUGH I HAD WINGS $16.98

Chet Baker - musician, junkie, and progenitor of West Coast cool jazz - has always been an aloof mystery and a tortured saint. Until now. In these memoirs divided into 13 chapters, discovered after his mysterious death in 1988, Chet Baker's real voice can finally be heard as he writes of his life as a musician with stories of romances, drugs and prison interspersed along the way. Baker's original handwritten draft is shown along with the typeset version. Hardcover. 118 pages.

WHITNEY BALLIETT - AMERICAN MUSICIANS II: 72 PORTRAITS IN JAZZ - $39.98

A greatly expanded edition of Ballietts American Musicians - 56 Portraits in Jazz'. Contains sixteen new essays and remains a great introduction to the giants of jazz. Balliett's poetic, descriptive style is singular in jazz journalism. His brilliant essays here included such artists as King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Lester Young, Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Dave Tough, Jack Teagarden, Coleman Hawkins, Red Norvo, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Desmond, Zoot Sims, Art Farmer, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman. Hardcover. 520 pages.

WHITNEY BALLIETT - AMERICAN SINGERS: 27 PORTRAITS IN SONG $19.98

Essays by this master writer on Alec Wilder, Nellie Lutcher, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, Carol Sloane, David Frishberg and more. Hardcover. 244 pages.

GARVIN BUSHELL - JAZZ FROM THE BEGINNING $14.98

Reedman Bushell's memoir as told to Mark Tucker vibrates with the excitement of being a part of the evolution of jazz. His career began as a teenager, playing in a circus band. In the 1920's , he played in rowdy Harlem cabarets and was a member of the Sam Wooding ensemble, one of the first black groups to tour Europe, Russia and South America. In the 1930's he performed with the big bands of Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway and Chick Webb. He participated in the Dixieland revival of the 1950's and '60s and in the modern experiments of Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane. Includes photographs and discography. Softcover. 198 pages.

JOHN CHILTON - SIDNEY BECHET: THE WIZARD OF JAZZ $24.98

An excellent and authoritative biography of this great artist that debunks many of the apocryphal stories and illuminates his extraordinary life. Hardcover. 331 pages.

BUDDY COLLETTE - JAZZ GENERATIONS $14.98

A fascinating autobiography in which Buddy Collette illuminates the world of the studio musician and charts the developing jazz and social scene on the west coast from the 1930s, through the Watts upheavals in the 1960s, to the present. He offers moving, first hand portraits of his friends Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Chico Hamilton, as well as personal accounts of Frank Sinatra, Paul Robeson and Charlie Parker. Softcover. 214 pages.

GARY GIDDINS - VISIONS OF JAZZ: THE FIRST CENTURY $35.98

79 enlightening chapters, each about a single jazz musician who is considered a major contributor to the musical form, from Bert Williams to Don Byron. Hardcover. 690 pages.

CHARLES GRAHAM et al: THE GREAT JAZZ DAY $24.98

The famous Art Kane photograph of August 12, l958 is the focal point of this sepia-tone documentary, with many previously unpublished shots by Kane, Dizzy, and Milt Hinton. This remarkable photograph and the outtakes and candids shot that day--reproduced here in elegant duotone on high-quality paper--are complemented by biographical information on all the musicians in the photograph and by essays from some of the greatest jazz writers of our time--Whitney Balliett, Ralph Ellison, Gary Giddins, and Dan Morgenstern. Also included is a section on the Herb Snitzer 1961 photo of trumpet players in Central Park. Oversize (12" x 9"). Softcover. 143 pages.

CHRIS HILLMAN - BUNK JOHNSON $11.98

This book is the best available source on Bunk Johnson, separating tall tales from historical fact as it tells the fascinating story of one of the true legends of jazz history. It includes a discographical essay in which the artist's recordings are analyzed. Softcover. 128 pages.

RANDI HULTIN - BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF JAZZ $39.98

Norwegian Randi Hultin, an accomplished musician and journalist on the subject of jazz, opened her home to touring musicians whom she had befriended like Basie, Armstrong, Coltrane, Rollins, Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Chet Baker, and many more. This book is full of anecdotes, photographs and ephemera. An accompanying CD captures these famous artists talking, laughing and jamming. Hardcover. 399 pages.

JOHN LITWEILER - ORNETTE COLEMAN: A HARMELODIC LIFE $22.98

Litweiler's well-researched book is the first full-length biography of this unique artist. He traces his early years through his breakthrough in 1959, his two-year retirement and all his accomplishments in the ensuing years. Hardcover. 258 pages.

DONALD L. MAGGIN - STAN GETZ: A LIFE IN JAZZ $24.98

Don Maggin chronicles the 48 years that Stan Getz spent as a jazz musician, discussing his experiences, recordings and style in depth. But he doesn't avoid the arrests, the drugs, the alcoholism, depression and vicious divorce from his second wife that were in direct contrast to the beauty of his playing.

Hardcover. 417 pages.

ERIC NISSENSON - OPEN SKY: SONNY ROLLINS AND HIS WORLD OF IMPROVISATION $24.98

A long overdue biography and analysis of Rollins done with the artist's consent and co-operation. Hardcover. 216 pages.

ALYN SHIPTON - FATS WALLER $10.98

Although there is no new ground broken here, Shipton's thoroughly researched and well written biography is an excellent look at the life and music of this extraordinary pianist/singer/songwriter/showman. Softcover. 134 pages.

BEN SIDRAN: TALKING JAZZ - THE BOOK

Transcribed in this book are 50 conversations with musicians such as Miles, Gil, Dizzy, McShann, Roach, Blakey, Rollins, Hancock, Silver and more. Each is illustrated with two duotone photographs of the artist. Hardcover (9.5" x 12.25"). 210 pages.

JOHN SZWED - SPACE IS THE PLACE: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF SUN RA $29.98

Szwed does an amazing job recreating Ra's Birmingham childhood through the development of his musical ideas and his methods with musicians, getting inside the music (and the Solar Arkestra) through all its evolutionary stages. Includes an excellent discography. Absolutely fascinating. Hardcover. 476 pages.

MARK TUCKER - ELLINGTON: THE EARLY YEARS $34.98

The first book to explore Ellington's formative years, personal and professional. The late Mark Tucker was the foremost authority on Ellington's music and provides documentation and musical notation samples of Ellington's first recordings as well as accounts from newspapers, periodicals, trade publications, published sheet music, stock arrangements and interviews with Ellington's friends, family members and fellow musicians. All these sources help illuminate Ellington's childhood and young adult years in Washington, D.C., and his early years in New York. Hardcover. 343 pages. University Of Illinois Press.

WARREN VACHE - CRAZY FINGERS: CLAUDE HOPKINS' LIFE IN JAZZ $14.98

Drawing on Hopkins' own journal and on interviews with musicians who knew him, Vache chronicles the career of one of the most successful bandleaders of the 1920s and 1930s. The book tells of Hopkins' struggle to keep bands together and find work, his jobs in rough underworld clubs during prohibition, and his residency at the Roseland Ballroom which, through nationwide radio hookups, helped make the Claude Hopkins orchestra one of the most successful black bands in the nation. Includes photographs and a discography. Softcover. 134 pages. Smithsonian Press.

MARTIN WILLIAMS - JAZZ CHANGES $24.98

The late Martin Williams's third and perhaps best collection of jazz portraits, interviews, narrative accounts and far reaching discussions of musicians and their music. The collection includes thirty years of Williams's finest pieces taking readers on an engaging tour of the changing jazz world. There are appreciation-profiles and comments on like John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Jelly Roll Morton, Ornette Coleman, Dinah Washington, and Thelonious Monk. Hardcover. 317 pages. Oxford University Press.

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