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Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner at “Night Dreamer” sessions, Van Gelder Studio [29 April 1964] by Francis Wolff
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
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Happy Birthday Lou Donaldson, 93 today!
Donaldson pictured here with Clifford Brown, Curly Russell and Art Blakey, Birdland NYC, February 1954, pic by Francis Wolff
Herbie Hancock, session for My Point Of View, 19th March 1963, by Francis Wolff
John Coltrane at Sonny Clark’s ‘Sonny’s Crib' session, Van Gelder Studio [1957] by Francis Wolff
Bud Powell with his son, Earl John Powell, at a rehearsal for 'The Scene Changes', Birdland, NYC, December 1958 by Francis Wolff
Thelonious Monk at the Royal Roost, NYC [1949] by Francis Wolff
Hank Mobley and Grant Green [1961] by Francis Wolff
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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.
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Sam Rivers pictured during his ‘A New Conception’ session, October 1966 by Francis Wolff
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“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
Wilbur Ware, recording with J. R. Monterose [1956]
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Kenny Burrell at the Five Spot [1959] by Francis Wolff
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Herbie Hancock [1961] by Francis Wolf
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Moanin' [rec. 30th Oct. 1958] Blue Note.
Art Blakey – drums Bobby Timmons – piano Benny Golson – tenor saxophone Jymie Merritt – bass Lee Morgan – trumpet
Pics by Francis Wolff