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Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil [rec. 24 Dec 1964] Blue Note Wayne Shorter — tenor sax Freddie Hubbard — trumpet Herbie Hancock — piano Ron Carter — bass Elvin Jones — drums
Happy Birthday Wayne Shorter [born August 25, 1933]
Jazz album covers by Andy Warhol [1952-58]
Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner at “Night Dreamer” sessions, Van Gelder Studio [29 April 1964] by Francis Wolff
Horace Silver, Serenade to a Soul Sister [1968] Blue Note
Horace Silver – piano Charles Tolliver – trumpet Stanley Turrentine – tenor sax Bob Cranshaw – bass Mickey Roker – drums
No jazz pianist was more drenched in minor blues than Sonny Clark. Yet he blended his blues with a buoyant, ventilated swing. And to this day, nobody sounds like Sonny Clark.
Sonny Clark, pic by Francis Wolff
Grant Green and Herbie Hancock [1962] photo by Francis Wolff
Recording session for Donald Byrd's, A New Perspective, 12th January 1963
Donald Byrd – trumpet Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock – piano Kenny Burrell – guitar Donald Best – vibraphone, vocals Butch Warren – bass Lex Humphries – drums Duke Pearson – arranger Alfred Lion – producer
Herbie Hancock, session for My Point Of View, 19th March 1963, by Francis Wolff
Blue Note Records at MoMA, artwork by Reid Miles
Larry Young, Unity [1966] Lee Morgan, The Rumproller [1965] Joe Henderson, In ‘n Out [1964] Jackie Mclean, It’s Time! [1964] Freddie Hubbard, Hub-Tones [1962] Lou Donaldson, Sunny Side Up [1960] Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims [1957]
Hank Mobley and Grant Green [1961] by Francis Wolff
Tony Williams by Francis Wolff [1965]
To put it mildly, Tony Williams’ drumming on Miles Davis’ 1963 recording of Seven Steps to Heaven shocked the Jazz world in general and Jazz drummers in particular. No one had ever played Jazz drums like that before. Bar lines disappeared; solos stopped and started everywhere and anywhere; drums crackled, popped and exploded; cymbals splashed and crashed in unexpected places; the hi-hat was played on four-beats-to-the-bar almost as though it were being danced on; the metronomic pulse that underscores Jazz became heightened and unrelenting. Tony pushed, shoved and pulled the momentum of the music unceasingly, almost unmercifully at times. The rest as they say is history.
Stanley Turrentine, Rough 'n' Tumble [1966] Blue Note
Stanley Turrentine - tenor sax Blue Mitchell - trumpet James Spaulding - alto sax Pepper Adams - baritone sax McCoy Tyner - piano Grant Green - guitar Bob Cranshaw - bass Mickey Roker - drums Duke Pearson - arranger
Sam Rivers pictured during his ‘A New Conception’ session, October 1966 by Francis Wolff
Duke Pearson, Sweet Honey Bee [1967] Blue Note
Duke Pearson – piano Joe Henderson – tenor sax Freddie Hubbard – trumpet James Spaulding – flute, alto sax Ron Carter – bass Mickey Roker – drums
“Bobby has a very open mind. He hears and feels a lot of things that are beyond the limits of jazz as that term has been conventionally used. Also, he’s a very warm person–direct and candid–and that comes through in his music. What he plays has a particular lift to it because he himself is so alive, because he so digs being.” Herbie Hancock
Bobby Hutcherson, November 1963 by Francis Wolff
Chet Baker, Kenny Clarke and René Urtreger, Blue Note, Paris, 31 August 1959 by Jean-Pierre Leloir
