Some favourite upbeat 50s/60s Blue Note tracks. I make no apologies for including a Clifford Brown tune on another label, or for the fact that some favourite players crop up several times (my mix, my rules). There are YouTube links below, so you could always make your own playlist if the music appeals (my version's on CD). To my ears, it flows quite nicely...
1. The Horace Silver Quintet – Finger Poppin’ (Silver) (from the album ‘Finger Poppin’ With The Horace Silver Quintet’) Silver (p); Blue Mitchell (t); Junior Cook (ts); Gene Taylor (b); Louis Hayes (d). 1/59. Blue Note.
2. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Ping Pong (Shorter) (from the album ‘Roots And Herbs’) Blakey (d); Lee Morgan (t); Wayne Shorter (ts); Bobby Timmons (p); Jymie Merritt (b). 2-5/61. Blue Note.
3. Clifford Brown and Max Roach – George’s Dilemma (Brown) (from the album ‘Study In Brown’) Brown (t); Roach (d); Harold Land (ts); Richie Powell (p); George Morrow (b). 2/55. Emarcy.
4. Bud Powell – A Night In Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli) (from the album ‘The Amazing Bud Powell: Volume 1’) Powell (p); Curley Russell (b); Max Roach (d). 5/51. Blue Note.
5. Lee Morgan – Yes I Can, No You Can’t (Morgan) (from the album ‘The Gigolo’) Morgan (t); Wayne Shorter (ts); Harold Mabern (p); Bob Cranshaw (b); Billy Higgins (d). 6-7/65. Blue Note.
6. The Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson – Nutville (Silver) (from the album ‘The Cape Verdean Blues’) Silver (p); Johnson (tb); Woody Shaw (t); Joe Henderson (ts); Bob Cranshaw (b); Roger Humphries (d). 10/65. Blue Note.
7. Lee Morgan – Mr. Kenyatta (Morgan) (from the album ‘Search For The New Land’) Morgan (t); Wayne Shorter (ts); Herbie Hancock (p); Grant Green (g); Reggie Workman (b); Billy Higgins (d). 2/64. Blue Note.
8. Joe Henderson – Recorda Me (Henderson) (from the album ‘Page One’) Henderson (ts); Kenny Dorham (t); McCoy Tyner (p); Butch Warren (b); Pete La Roca (d). 6/63. Blue Note.
9. Joe Henderson – Caribbean Fire Dance (Henderson) (from the album ‘Mode For Joe’) Henderson (ts); Lee Morgan (t); Curtis Fuller (tb); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); Cedar Walton (p); Ron Carter (b); Joe Chambers (d). 1/66. Blue Note.
10. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Mosaic (Walton) (from the album ‘Mosaic’) Blakey (d); Freddie Hubbard (t); Curtis Fuller (tb); Wayne Shorter (ts); Cedar Walton (p); Jymie Merritt (b). 10/61. Blue Note.
