My First Recording By ______

[Tom 1960]

My first Donald Bryd purchase, the excellent Bryd In Flight.

Featuring:

Jackie McLean

Hank Mobley

Duke Pearson

Doug Watkins

Reggie Workman

Lex Humphries

[Dan Gould]

Pretty sure my first Hank was Hank Mobley Quintet

with Art Farmer, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey

I remember thinking "its practically a Jazz Messengers recording by another name!"

[jeffcrom]

Okay, maybe this will take things in another direction. I had admired Art Farmer on other folks' records, but my first Art Farmer album was the Art Farmer/Jim Hall Big Blues album on CTI. Also on board were Mike Mainieri on vibes, the great, underrated Michael Moore on bass, and Steve Gadd (!) on drums.

[carnivore]

Art was always one of my favorite trumpet players...my first album under his name, albeit as co-leader would have been 'Meet the Jazztet' with Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, McCoy Tyner, Addison Farmer, and Lex Humphries.

[Niko]

my first Art Farmer record was the Lonehill edition of Modern Art, remember that purchase well because I wasn't really into jazz at the time and was just looking for some nice 50s bop album with lyrical trumpet... i saw those bins which had most of the ojcs for 3 euro a piece but didn't consider it worth looking through them... that was bound to change in the next few weeks...

[BillF]

my first Art Farmer record was the Lonehill edition of Modern Art, remember that purchase well because I wasn't really into jazz at the time and was just looking for some nice 50s bop album with lyrical trumpet... i saw those bins which had most of the ojcs for 3 euro a piece but didn't consider it worth looking through them... that was bound to change in the next few weeks...

My first album by Bill Evans (who was on Modern Art) was Portrait in Jazz with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.

[colinmce]

Well, to make things more interesting, the first Motian date I bought was the very recent Lost In A Dream with Jason Moran and Chris Potter.

[BillF]

Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks as I have no albums by any of them as leader! I will have to wait for someone else to take up the baton!

Edited June 26, 2010 by BillF

[Larry Kart]

First Clifford Jordan album - Mosaic

Players:

Kenny Dorham

Sonny Red

Tommy Flanagan

Cedar Walton

Wilbur Ware

Albert "Tootie" Heath

Elvin Jones

OK -- I'll try again. First Clifford Jordan album -- "Cliff Craft" (Blue Note), with Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker, and Louis Hayes.

[mjzee]

My first Sonny Clark album: the great...

What a great day that was...I picked it up as a $1.99 cutout, along with the Trip version of Jordu - Clifford Brown and Max Roach.

[BillF]

My first PJJ album:

[JSngry]

Well, to make things more interesting, the first Motian date I bought was the very recent Lost In A Dream with Jason Moran and Chris Potter.

Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks as I have no albums by any of them as leader! I will have to wait for someone else to take up the baton!

Paul Motian with Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Leroy Jenkins/Sam Brown/Becky Friend

[BillF]

Well, to make things more interesting, the first Motian date I bought was the very recent Lost In A Dream with Jason Moran and Chris Potter.

Well, that stopped me dead in my tracks as I have no albums by any of them as leader! I will have to wait for someone else to take up the baton!

Paul Motian with Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Leroy Jenkins/Sam Brown/Becky Friend

Still waitin'!

[colinmce]

Well, this won't help poor Bill any, but Keith Jarrett, Standards Live with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

Though he could also always pick up the Cliff Jordan - Sonny Clark - Philly Joe Jones thread!

[Dan Gould]

Yeah, we've got a split going but I don't want to give Larry a hard time since he came back to contribute after muddying things up.

The way this is conceived, its interesting if you get into what I'll call the post-Coltrane side whether you can get back into our hard bop sweet spot. Same thing if you get into some younger neoboppers. I know if we get to Don Cherry, I can lay down Art Deco which brings in James Clay.

I kinda want to see what happens ...

[colinmce]

Likewise, I wonder how far back we can take it? How many steps 'til we can make it to the twenties or thirties?

Probably not too hard to find an "in" with 50s/60s recordings by the likes of Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Benny Carter et al which featured modern players.

[JSngry]

Well, this won't help poor Bill any, but Keith Jarrett, Standards Live with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette.

[Shawn]

I'm stuck...either that or the rules are so convoluted I'm afraid to post anything.

[JSngry]

You got some sides w/Jack on'em as sideman, right? Which was the first? I think that would qualify, the leader-to-sideman gambit? Yes? No? Dan?

Or somebody's gotta have a Bennie Maupin side - if it's the right one, we can get back to Herbie, if that's what needs to be done. From Herbie, all roads are eventually possible, I'll bet.

[colinmce]

Bennie Maupin, Jewel in the Lotus with Herbie Hancock, Charles Sullivan, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, Bill Summers and Freddie Waits.

That should help things ...

[Dan Gould]

You got some sides w/Jack on'em as sideman, right? Which was the first? I think that would qualify, the leader-to-sideman gambit? Yes? No? Dan?

Officially, no, if you pick another date by the leader it should also be a leader date; if you pick a date by a sideman its supposed to be a leader date too, but I'm not quite so sure we should stick with that latter rule. It does open things up if we relax that requirement.

Since Colin jumped in while I was searching for an image, I'll work off of him and offer my first Herbie-as-Leader purchase. Without a doubt its the classic Watermelon Man Takin' Off.

:blush2:

Anyone with a Dex?

Edited June 26, 2010 by Dan Gould

[BillF]

You got some sides w/Jack on'em as sideman, right? Which was the first? I think that would qualify, the leader-to-sideman gambit? Yes? No? Dan?

Officially, no, if you pick another date by the leader it should also be a leader date; if you pick a date by a sideman its supposed to be a leader date too, but I'm not quite so sure we should stick with that latter rule. It does open things up if we relax that requirement.

Since Colin jumped in while I was searching for an image, I'll work off of him and offer my first Herbie-as-Leader purchase. Without a doubt its the classic Watermelon Man Takin' Off.

:blush2:

Anyone with a Dex?

[carnivore]

Dexter - 'The Chase' with Wardell. Jimmy Bunn, Red Callender and ??? drums (Chuck Thompson?)

(Red should open things out......)

[Dan Gould]

Since I was first a Dexaholic, I have to stick with Dexter:

[colinmce]

Well, if I went with Sonny Clark, we'd be back to Cool Struttin', so I'll stick with Dex: the peerless Our Man in Paris with Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke.