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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#jazzsky | The great bassists Sam Jones and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen recorded this sensational album on February 15 and 16, 1974, for the SteepleChase label, accompanied by guitarist Philip Catherine, Billy Higgins on drums, and Tootie Heath on percussion.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#jazzsky | Saw this on Amazon. Who the hell are the guys on the cover?

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#classical | The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, performs Igor Stravinsky's "Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments" (1923) and "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra" (1929). Nikita Magaloff, piano.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#classical | The pianist brothers John and Richard Contiguglia made the first recording of Béla Bartók's "Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 4b" and "Fourteen Pieces from Mikrokosmos" in 1970.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#jazzsky | In 2008, multi-instrumentalist Kenny Garrett recorded this live double album at the famous Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, accompanied by Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone, bassist Nat Reeves, Benito Gonzalez on keyboards, and Jamire Williams on drums.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#jazzsky | Bud Powell recorded two sessions for Blue Note on August 8, 1949, and May 1, 1951, at WOR Studios, NYC which were released on 10-inch records. They were later reissued as a two-volume set of 12-inch LPs titled "The Amazing Bud Powell", also by Blue Note.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#jazzsky | "Domination" is an interesting album by Cannonball Adderley, recorded in 1965 with a fine group of musicians—including Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, and others—and featuring an orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#jazzsky | "Trio Jeepy" is a double album by saxophonist Branford Marsalis, on which he leads a trio featuring veteran bassist Milt Hinton. It was recorded on January 3 and 4, 1988, at Astoria Studios in NYC. Bassist Delbert Felix and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts also appear on the album.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#jazzsky | "Brown and Roach Inc." was recorded in 1954 at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Joining the leaders were Harold Land on tenor saxophone, Richie Powell on piano, and George Morrow on bass. This fabulous quintet was cut short by the tragic accident that claimed the lives of Brownie and Powell.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#jazzsky | Gifted trumpeter Booker Little with an all-star lineup featuring pianists Tommy Flanagan & Wynton Kelly, bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Roy Haynes | Recorded in NYC, April 1960. Booker Little performed with Max Roach, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy, among others. He died at the age of 23

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#jazzsky | More material for the John Coltrane Centennial. In this case, it’s the release of a 6-LP box set containing a selection of recordings from 1951 to 1957. Unfortunately, none of them are previously unreleased.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#jazzsky |Kenny Dorham, this giant of bebop—though underrated—was nonetheless a highly talented musician who played alongside some of the most prominent performers of the era. This LP features recordings of Dorham at the top of his game during a live concert held at the JazzWorkshop in SF in Nov 61.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#jazzsky | Lee Morgan recorded "Expoobident" in a single session on October 13, 1960, in Chicago, featuring a strong hard bop quintet that also includes tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, Eddie Higgins on piano, Art Davis on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#jazzsky | One of the masterpieces of post-bop is undoubtedly "Miles Smiles," recorded by Davis and the Second Great Quintet at CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City on October 24–25, 1966, and released in February of the following year. Hats off!

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#jazzsky | While Clifford Brown was playing with Max Roach in California, Dick Bock recorded this album featuring Brown accompanied by Zoot Sims and the cream of the West Coast—Russ Freeman, Shelly Manne, Carson Smith, Joe Mondragon, Jack Montrose, Stu Williamson, and Bob Gordon.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#jazzsky | On November 20, 1978, saxophonists Bill Perkins, Pepper Adams, and Gordon Goodwin recorded this blowing session for Interplay Records alongside pianist Lou Levy, bassist Bob Magnusson, and drummer Carl Burnett.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#jazzsky | The great drummer Gene Krupa recorded this album for Verve Records in 1964 with a quartet featuring tenor saxophonist Charlie Ventura, pianist John Bunch, and Nabil Totah on bass. The repertoire consists of standards and a theme composed jointly by Krupa and Ventura.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Kansas City Revisited" is a 1958 album by trombonist and arranger Bob Brookmeyer. It features his updated arrangements of Kansas City jazz tunes from the 1920s and 1930s and was released by United Artists label.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Pike's Peak" is an excellent straight-ahead album, vibraphonist Dave Peak's second recording as a leader, recorded in 1962. Pike is accompanied by bassist Herbie Lewis, drummer Walter Perkins, and Bill Evans on piano, in one of his first sessions following the death of Scott LaFaro.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#jazzsky | In 1983, Johnny Griffin recorded the album "Call it Whachawana" at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA, alongside a young rhythm section consisting of Mulgrew Miller on piano, bassist Curtis Lundy, and Kenny Washington on drums.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Gleanings" is a compilation of material spanning 1963-1965, recorded by Coltrane during the period when he was signed to Impulse! accompanied by McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and Roy Haynes, who appears on one track. The album was released exclusively for the Japanese market.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#jazzsky | Starting November 11, Craft Recording's new John Coltrane release will be available: the three albums he recorded for Savoy with trumpeter Wilbur Harden, accompanied by Tommy Flanagan, Curtis Fuller, Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes, and Art Taylor.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tras el fallecimiento hoy de Eduardo Rodríguez Rodway, que sucede a los de Jesús de la Rosa (1983) y "Tele" Palacios (2002), han desaparecido los tres miembros originales del mítico grupo de rock andaluz Triana.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The liner notes in the booklet indicate "restoration, mastered" by Paul Blakemore (CMG Mastering), but there is no information about the source used; there is no notes that they are the original tapes. Nevertheless, the sound quality is excellent.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You're right, Richard. Since I didn't check the album notes, my memory confused this album—of which I have the Japanese edition—with "Gleanings".

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Although some people think that story is apocryphal, it seems very plausible because it's the kind of situation where the group gives the person at the center of the story a nickname.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#jazzsky | "The Other Village Vanguard Tapes" is a double album released on the Japanese market in 1977 that compiles previously unreleased recordings from John Coltrane's residency at the NY club in November 1961. In these recordings, musicians Garvin Bushell and Ahmed Abdul-Malik join the quintet.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#jazzsky | Recorded at the famous New York club, "Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard" brings together various recordings from November 2 and 3, 1961. In these performances, Trane was backed by a quintet featuring Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, and Elvin Jones.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#jazzsky | John Coltrane, 1961. Photo: Pete Turner

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#jazzsky | As the name suggests, “Historical Masterpieces” is a three-LP series featuring live recordings by Bird made at the Royal Roost and Cafe Society jazz clubs, which were broadcast between 1948 and 1950.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#jazzsky | "New Sounds in Modern Music" is a 4-LP set of 10-inch records released by Savoy Records that brings together recordings by Charlie Parker from 1944 to 1948 alongside the biggest stars of the New York City bebop scene: Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach and Miles Davis, among others.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Standard Coltrane" is an album recorded in a single session at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, NJ, in 1958, and released in 1961. Along with Trane, the album features trumpeter Wilbur Harden, pianist Red Garland, Paul Chambers on bass, and drummer Jimmy Cobb.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#jazzsky "Winner's Circle" is a studio album featuring who placed first or second in the 1957 "Down Beat" magazine critics' poll. The selected musicians were Al Cohn, Donald Byrd, Oscar Pettiford, John Coltrane, Gene Quill, Kenny Burrell, Art Farmer, Philly Joe Jones, and Harry Tubbs, among others.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#jazzsky John Coltrane Centennial September 23, 1926 - 2026

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#jazzsky | Composed in the style of a diary during 2018 and 2019, "I Paint You" chronicles the time Finnish saxophonist Adele Sauros spent living in London. The album compiles a series of tracks, all composed and arranged by Adele Sauros, in an evocative and elegant post-bop style.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#jazzsky | Another great lineup of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers is the one featured on this double album, recorded live by Rudy Van Gelder at Café Bohemia in New York City on November 23, 1955, featuring trumpeter Kenny Dorham, tenor Hank Mobley, Horace Silver on piano, and bassist Doug Watkins.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#jazzsky | Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at Birdland in NYC on February 21, 1954, this double album features a live performance by Art Blakey with a group consisting of Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, and Curley Russell—the nucleus of what would later become the Jazz Messengers.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Walkin’" is a 1957 Miles Davis compilation album released by Prestige Records. It features recordings from two groups led by the trumpeter, Miles Davis All-Star Sextet and Miles Davis Quintet, made in April 1954 and originally issued on two 10-inch LPs. This is a reissue from the 1970s.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#jazzsky | This famous album was recorded during the period when Cannonball was a member of Miles Davis’s “First Great Quintet,” and it is also one of the few recordings Davis made as a sideman beginning in 1955, although the prominent role of his solos play leads one to believe it is a Davis album.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#jazzsky | Recorded in 1960 and released the following year, “Cookin’” is an excellent straight-ahead album by tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin, superbly backed by a quintet featuring trumpeter Richard Williams, Horace Parlan on piano, bassist George Tucker, and Dannie Richmond on drums.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#jazzsky | "Miles Davis Quartet PRLP12," later reissued as "Blue Haze," was recorded in two sessions, on May 19, 1953, and April 10, 1954, and released in 1954 as 10". The musicians are Horace Silver; Percy Heath; and Art Blakey (1st session); John Lewis; Charles Mingus; and Max Roach, (2nd session)

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#jazzsky | "The New Sounds" is the debut solo studio album by Miles Davis. Recorded at Apex Studio, NYC, on October 5, 1951 and released the same year as a 10-inch LP, it is his first album as a bandleader and his first full album for Prestige Records.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#jazzsky | Tenormen Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves recorded "Salt and Pepper" for the Impulse! label on September 5, 1963, alongside an excellent group featuring Hank Jones on piano, bassist Milt Hinton, and Osie Johnson on drums. A great album.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#jazzsky | Another gem from the rich vein that is Black Lion Records is this album recorded by Sonny Stitt at Turicop Studios in Zurich on October 18, 1967, produced by Alan Bates and backed by a talented group of giants: Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop Jr., Tommy Potter, and Kenny Clarke.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#jazzsky | In 2017, the sadly departed jaimie branch released her first solo album, "Fly or Die", which was named one of the 50 best albums of the year by NPR Music. The album marked the evolution on the East Coast of the avant-garde Chicago style that the trumpeter had been developing previously.

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José Álvarez @twjosealvarez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#jazzsky | Ronnie Foster is a funk and soul jazz organist and record producer. His albums, recorded for Blue Note Records in the 1970s, have been recognized—following the emergence of acid jazz—as ahead of their time. "Two Headed Freap" is his debut album, recorded in 1972.

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