Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra: Not in Our Name (2005)

Track Listing: 

Not In Our Name; 

This Is Not America;

 Blue Anthem; 

America The Beautiful (Medley);

 Amazing Grace;

 Goin' Home (from Dvorak's New World Symphony);

 Throughout; Adagio (from Barber's Adagio For Strings).

Personnel: 

Michael Rodriguez, trumpet;

 Seneca Black, trumpet;

 Curtis Fowlkes, trombone;

 Ahnee Sharon Freeman, French horn;

 Joe Daley, tuba;

 Miguel Zenon, alto saxophone;

 Chris Cheek, tenor saxophone;

 Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone;

 Steve Cardenas, electric and acoustic guitars;

 Carla Bley, piano;

 Charlie Haden, bass;

 Matt Wilson, drums.

 Arranged and conducted by Carla Bley.

Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island (comp.1994)

Personnel

Dexter Gordon 

Grant Green

Herbie Hancock

Billy Higgins

Freddie Hubbard

Hank Mobley

Tony Williams

Ron Carter

Track Listing

1-Cantaloupe Island

2-Watermelon Man

3-Driftin'

4-Blind Man, Blind Man

5-And What If I Don't

6-Maiden Voyage

Bill Frisell - Beautiful Dreamers (2010)

Track Listing: 

Love Sick; 

Winslow Homer; 

Beautiful Dreamer (for Karle Seydel); 

A Worthy Endeavor (for Cajori); 

It's Nobody's Fault But My Own; 

Baby Cry; 

Benny's Bugle; 

Tea For Two; No Time To Cry; 

Better Than A Machine (for Vic Chestnut); 

Goin' Out Of My Head; 

Worried Woman; 

Keep On The Sunny Side; 

Sweetie; 

All We Can Do; 

Who Was That Girl?

Personnel: 

Bill Frisell: guitar; 

Eyvind Kang: viola; 

Rudy Royston: drums.

Sonny Rollins - Volume 1 (1956)

Tracklist

01 - Decision

02 - Bluesnote

03 - How Are Things In Glocca Morra

04 - Plain Jane

05 - Sonnysphere

Personnel:

Sonny Rollins Quintet

Donald Byrd (tp)

Sonny Rollins (ts)

Wynton Kelly (p)

Gene Ramey (b)

Max Roach (d)

Recorded at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, December 16, 1956.

Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (2007)

Carla Bley :The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu

Track Listing:

The Banana Quintet:
 One Banana,
Two Banana,
Three Banana,
 Four,
Five Banana,
 One Banana More;
Liver of Life;
 Death of Superman/Dream Sequence #1--Flying; Ad Infinitum.

Personnel: 

Paolo Fresu: trumpet, flugelhorn;
 Andy Sheppard: soprano and tenor saxophones;
 Carla Bley: piano;
 Steve Swallow: bass;
 Billy Drummond: drums.

Bill Evans - California Here I Come (1967)

Personnel

Bill Evans - piano

Eddie Gómez - bass

Philly Joe Jones - drums

Track listing

1-"California, Here I Come" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Joseph Meyer) – 5:32

2-"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:22

3-"Turn Out the Stars" (Bill Evans) – 5:52

4-"Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 4:06

5-"You're Gonna Hear From Me" (André Previn, Dory Previn) – 4:57

6-"In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz) – 3:53

7-"G Waltz" (Bill Evans) – 4:35

8-"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 4:53

9-"Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 5:35

10-"If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 3:39

11-"Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 5:12

12-"Very Early" (Bill Evans) – 4:44

13-"'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 6:07

14-"Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 5:18

15-"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:49

Ron Carter - Blues Fram (1973)

Personnel

Ron Carter - bass, arranger, conductor

Hubert Laws - flute (tracks 1, 5 & 6)

Richard Tee - electric piano, piano (tracks 1, 4 & 5)

Bob James - piano (tracks 2, 3 & 6)

Gene Bertoncini (track 5), Sam Brown (track 3) - guitar

Billy Cobham - drums

Ralph MacDonald - percussion (tracks 1 & 4-6)

Track listing

All compositions by Ron Carter except as indicated

"Blues Farm" - 7:59

"A Small Ballad" - 5:38

"Django" (John Lewis) - 5:30

"A Hymn for Him" - 8:11

"Two-Beat Johnson" - 2:49

"R2, M1" - 6:08

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on January 10, 1973

Michael Brecker - Time is of the Essence (1999)

Personnel

Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); 

Larry Goldings (organ); 

Pat Metheny (guitar); 

Elvin Jones (drums); 

Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums); 

Bill Stewart (drums).

Track Listing

Arc of the Pendulum (08:59) 

Sound Off (06:04) 

Half Past Late (07:54) 

Timeline (06:05) 

The Morning of This Night (07:42) 

Renaissance Man (08:36) 

Dr. Slate (07:40) 

As I Am (06:49) 

Outrance (10:08)

    

Mingus at Antibes (1960)

Personnel

Charles Mingus – bass, piano (on tracks 1 and 6)

Ted Curson – trumpet

Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone, bass clarinet (on track 3)

Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone (except on track 3)

Dannie Richmond – drums

Bud Powell – piano (on track 4)

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.

"Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" – 11:54 

"Prayer For Passive Resistance" – 8:06 

"What Love?" – 13:34 

"I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul) – 13:39 

"Folk Forms I" – 11:08 

"Better Git Hit In Your Soul" – 11:00

Corea, Clarke & White - Forever 2011

Corea, Clarke & White - Forever 2011

Personnel: 

Chick Corea: piano (CD1, CD2#3-7, CD2#10), keyboards (CD2#1-2, CD2#8-9); 

Stanley Clarke: acoustic bass (CD1, CD2#1, CD2#4-7, CD2#10), electric bass (CD2#2, CD2#8-9); Lenny White: drums (CD1, CD2#1-3, CDF2#5-10);

 Bill Connors: guitar (CD2#2, CD2#7-9);

 Jean-Luc Ponty: violin (CD2#4-5, CD2#7-9); 

Chaka Khan: vocals (CD2#6-7).

Track Listing: 

CD1: On Green Dolphin Street; 

Waltz for Debby; 

Bud Powell; 

La Canción de Sofia; 

Windows;

 Hackensack; 

No Mystery;

 Señor Mouse. 

CD2:

 Captain Marvel;

 Señor Mouse; 

Crescent; 

Armando's Rhumba;

 Renaissance; 

High Wire--The Aerialist; 

I Loves You Porgy; 

After the Cosmic Rain;

 Space Circus; 

500 Miles High.