Kenny Burrell - On View At The Five Spot Cafe (Complete?)

[bertrand]

Glad he liked Grant which is how I have a copy of the rejected KD session. I am sure the McLean was AWL before he started copying en masse.

[Rooster_Ties]

3 hours ago, david weiss said:

Belden… …wanted every record that Herbie Hancock (which is probably why he had the Tyrone Washington session) was ever on.

Herbie is phenomenal on that unreleased Tyrone session.

I’ve often imagined what a Herbie piano-trio album from about 1965-1968 or so might have sounded like… but specifically with the kind of playing Herbie displays on the Tyrone Session (also on Wayne’s All Seeing Eye).  More percussive, less harmony-driven, and less about ‘tunes’ and changes.

Edited May 7 by Rooster_Ties

[JSngry]

Bob gave me a list of Most Overlooked Herbie Hancock Sideman Dates (or something like that) and it was full of Creed Taylor easylisten-ish sessions that i would have easily overlooked. That list made for some really fun investigating!

[Mark Stryker]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Bob gave me a list of Most Overlooked Herbie Hancock Sideman Dates (or something like that) and it was full of Creed Taylor easylisten-ish sessions that i would have easily overlooked. That list made for some really fun investigating!

Core trio here is Herbie, Ron, and Mel Lewis. Herbie solos at 3:38.

 

Edited May 7 by Mark Stryker

[JSngry]

This one was on the list, one that I had long overlooked:

But hey, looks like it's not unknown!

http://www.stevekhan.com/59tha.htm

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Bob was asking me if I had heard the Japanese-only release, "The Piano", saying it was one of Herbie's best recordings. When I told him I had never heard it, he sent me a bunch of takes from the session. It turned out that he was in the middle of producing the 2004 reissue of this session.

[Rooster_Ties]

3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Bob was asking me if I had heard the Japanese-only release, "The Piano", saying it was one of Herbie's best recordings. When I told him I had never heard it, he sent me a bunch of takes from the session. It turned out that he was in the middle of producing the 2004 reissue of this session.

I’ve almost bought that solo-piano Herbie date a dozen times or more. Maybe one of these days I’ll finally bite.

[mikeweil]

Herbie always delivered as a sideman. I always like him in that role, and think he often played better than on his own records made around the same time. Like, he kills on Joe Henderson's Jobim tribute on Verve, but his New Standard album never caught me.

[Holy Ghost]

On 5/7/2025 at 11:57 AM, Rooster_Ties said:

I’ve almost bought that solo-piano Herbie date a dozen times or more. Maybe one of these days I’ll finally bite.

Played it last night, and still affordable. Rounding the corner, my wife thought I was playing Bach. It is a gorgeous record, but get why Columbia didn't distribute it here in America, as 1977 meant Kiss's Love Gun was blaring on the radio, or fixate on radio-friendly tunes (frankly, like those radio-friendly tunes). A great record that can be had for under a Jackson. 

[danasgoodstuff]

I picked up KB at the 5 Spot 2 CD expanded version the other day and I'm glad I did - enjoying the new material and like the packaging.  $25 well spent IMHO, YMMV.  Maybe now we'll get the rest of the material from the 3 Sounds at the Lighthouse, their last really good recording for me.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

Played it last night, and still affordable. Rounding the corner, my wife thought I was playing Bach. It is a gorgeous record, but get why Columbia didn't distribute it here in America, as 1977 meant Kiss's Love Gun was blaring on the radio, or fixate on radio-friendly tunes (frankly, like those radio-friendly tunes). A great record that can be had for under a Jackson. 

Herbie was making good-selling poppies records then. Columbia had no interest in a solo piano record. They got Sunlight instead.

[felser]

49 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Herbie was making good-selling poppies records then. Columbia had no interest in a solo piano record. They got Sunlight instead.

And 'V.S.O.P. The Quintet'. and 'An Evening With Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea'.  The big 2013 Hancock Complete Columbia Recordings box is an enlightening listen (even if many of the latter commercial albums are dismal), as it gives a full picture of what he was recording in each era, with many of the best albums being released only in Japan when they were new.  34 CD's, and you can still get it for under $200 on discogs or ebay.  

[JSngry]

Directdtep and  Flood are excellent Headhunters-band albums and Dedication has "Nobu", which was WAAAAAY ahead of its time:

 

[Son Of Ice Bag]

On 5/11/2025 at 10:40 PM, danasgoodstuff said:

I picked up KB at the 5 Spot 2 CD expanded version the other day and I'm glad I did - enjoying the new material and like the packaging.  $25 well spent IMHO, YMMV.  Maybe now we'll get the rest of the material from the 3 Sounds at the Lighthouse, their last really good recording for me.

Give "Gene Harris of the Three Sounds" (1972) another try!

I don't like the cover, the music is great.

[danasgoodstuff]

6 hours ago, Son Of Ice Bag said:

Give "Gene Harris of the Three Sounds" (1972) another try!

I don't like the cover, the music is great.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it's not The Three Sounds, not hardly.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I've been trying to buy this CD set locally since it came out but none of my area's Bull Moose stores have gotten it in.

[mikeweil]

There is a very elaborate track listing here: https://attictoys.com/tina-brooks/tina-brooks-discography/

But Noal has yet to include the latest reissue.

[Dan Gould]

On 5/11/2025 at 4:40 PM, danasgoodstuff said:

Maybe now we'll get the rest of the material from the 3 Sounds at the Lighthouse, their last really good recording for me.

I thought that the expanded release MC put together had put out everything or everything worthy of release?  Of course, "worthy of release" has pretty elastic parameters these days.  But if they go by expected sales, MC was quoted somewhere as saying that the Three Sounds were such consistent sellers at the time, and the CD reissues hardly sold at all. We're really lucky that the expanded Lighthouse, Babe's Blues, the It Club volumes, and the Standards CD saw the light of day.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I know Michael once thought about doing a Mosaic set of the Three Sounds Blue Notes but I guess the sales numbers of the individual CDs he was able to release must've scared him away from that.

[danasgoodstuff]

16 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

I thought that the expanded release MC put together had put out everything or everything worthy of release?  Of course, "worthy of release" has pretty elastic parameters these days.  But if they go by expected sales, MC was quoted somewhere as saying that the Three Sounds were such consistent sellers at the time, and the CD reissues hardly sold at all. We're really lucky that the expanded Lighthouse, Babe's Blues, the It Club volumes, and the Standards CD saw the light of day.

There's easily another LP's worth listed in Cuscuna's BN discography, and listed as 'unreleased' not 'rejected' and I honestly don't trust his notion of what's worth putting out.  The 3 Sounds were a working band and very consistent, until they weren't.

The Three Sounds

Gene Harris, piano; Andrew Simpkins, bass; Donald Bailey, drums; Dick Bock, producer.

The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA, June 9 and 10, 1967

	Still I'm Sad	Blue Note 45-1935, BLP 4265
	June Night: Just Give Me A June Night / The Moonlight And You	Blue Note BLP 4265
	I Thought About You	-
	Summertime	-
	Makin' Bread Again	Blue Note 45-1935, BLP 4265
	Here's That Rainy Day	Blue Note BLP 4265
	Blues March	-
	Never Say Yes	Blue Note 7243 5 23995 2 9
	River Shallow	-
	Sunny	-
	Bad Bad Whiskey	-
	C Jam Blues (set call)	-
	Sylvie	unissued
	Like Someone In Love	-
	Georgia On My Mind	-
	Goin' Out Of My Head	-
	Yesterday	-
	The Shadow Of Your Smile	-
	Stella By Starlight	-
	Bluesette	-
	Makin' Whoopee	-
	Cute	-
	Sherry	-
	It Was A Very Good Year	-
	Li'l Darlin' https://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/discography-1967-1968/	-