My First Recording By ______

[vegheadjones]

Keeping out of Thad jones territory, I give you:

Mel Lewis and friends

The friends are Freddie Hubbard, Cecil Bridgewater, Michael Brecker, Gregory Herbert, Hank Jones and Ron Carter.

The first record I owned with Ron Carter as leader:

Ron Carter Bass

Steve Kroon Percussion

Harvey Mason, Sr. Drums

Stephen Scott Piano

[Dan Gould]

Gotta play off of Stephen Scott:

Something to Consider

with Craig Handy, Justin Robinson, Roy Hargrove, Joe Henderson, Peter Washington, Tain Watts, Lewis Nash and Christian McBride

[mjzee]

Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Booby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers.

[Dan Gould]

Pretty sure the first Morgan date bought by Mogie Man was Introducing on Savoy.

with Hank Mobley, Hank Jones, Doug Watkins and Art Taylor

[Larry Kart]

First Johnny Griffin album - 'The Little Giant' with Blue Mitchell, Julian Priester, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones and 'Tootie' Heath

The Johnny Griffin Sextet (Riverside) -- with Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware, and Philly Joe Jones.

[mjzee]

Larry, I think you needed to pull someone from the "Introducing Lee Morgan" album.

[Big Beat Steve]

Larry, I think you needed to pull someone from the "Introducing Lee Morgan" album.

OK, so I'll try (had already considered posting after the Ron Carter disc named earlier) but since we are turning in circles name-wise it's going to be the same record anyhow:

My first Hank Jones disc(s) (discS because I bought both at the same moment in the same shop and cannot really recall which one I picked first )

either

Bluebird - The Hank Jones Trio with Guests (Savoy MG 12053)

or

Hank Jones Trio - (Savoy MG-12087)

Lots of the usual hard bop suspects in the lineups again ( we are really turning in circles, it seems) but .... (see below)

Edited June 27, 2010 by Big Beat Steve

[Larry Kart]

Larry, I think you needed to pull someone from the "Introducing Lee Morgan" album.

So every post on the thread other than the most recent one is "dead?"

[Big Beat Steve]

...... in order to get into a slightly different area I am going to list my first BOBBY JASPAR (from the Hank Jones Savoy MG-12087 lineup above) record ever bought:

BOBBY JASPAR REVISITED (Inner City IC 7013)

Lineups feat. H. Renaud, J. Gourley, B.Quersin, Fats Sadi, J.-L. Viale, Nat Peck, M. Vander, P. Michelot, A. Migiani, D. Pochonet etc.

Anyone care to go up THAT trail?

(JAZZ IN PARIS CD series collectors reading this, maybe? :D)

[Dan Gould]

Larry, I think you needed to pull someone from the "Introducing Lee Morgan" album.

So every post on the thread other than the most recent one is "dead?"

Correct, as I originally referenced "Name Three People" as partial inspiration. One leads to the other, you don't grab something from before when the trail has moved on.

...... in order to get into a slightly different area I am going to list my first BOBBY JASPAR (from the Hank Jones Savoy MG-12087 lineup above) record ever bought:

BOBBY JASPAR REVISITED (Inner City IC 7013)

Lineups feat. H. Renaud, J. Gourley, B.Quersin, Fats Sadi, J.-L. Viale, Nat Peck, M. Vander, P. Michelot, A. Migiani, D. Pochonet etc.

Anyone care to go up THAT trail?

(JAZZ IN PARIS CD series collectors reading this, maybe? :D)

I got a Jimmy Gourley but its relatively recent:

That's Ralph Moore, Don Sickler, Marc Johnson, Victor Lewis

[mjzee]

Ooh, ooh, I've got one:

Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron

[Shawn]

my first Pat Metheny album...purchased primarily because of Coleman's involvement (though I had never heard either artist at this point, so this was pretty much my introduction to every player on this date.)

Which can take us all kinds of interesting places considering the lineup.

Edited June 27, 2010 by Shawn

[kh1958]

Ornette Coleman--Tomorrow is the Question!--with Don Cherry, Percy Heath, Red Mitchell, Shelly Manne

[Big Beat Steve]

Ornette Coleman--Tomorrow is the Question!--with Don Cherry, Percy Heath, Red Mitchell, Shelly Manne

My first one by Shelly:

Shelly Manne & His Men - The West Coast Sound (Contemporary)

also feat. Bob Enevoldsen, Art Pepper, Bob Cooper, Jimmy Giuffre, Marty Paich, Curtis Counce, Joe Maini, Bill Holman, Russ Freeman, Ralph Pena.

Now THAT should get us somewhere (else) again!

[carnivore]

At last!!

Shelly at the Blackhawk with Joe Gordon, Richie Kamuca, Victor Feldman and Monty Budwig

[Dan Gould]

was my first, because I was on a Frank Strozier jag. After that I went after the Blackhawk recordings.

Frank Strozier

Conte Candoli

Russ Freeman

Monte Budwig

[BillF]

With Vince Guaraldi, Monty Budwig and Stan Levey

[kh1958]

First Frank Strozier:

MJT + 3--Make Everybody Happy (Veejay)

Frank Strozier, Harold Mabern, Willie Thomas, Bob Cranshaw, Walter Perkins.

[aparxa]

Jazz Contemporaries - Reasons in tonality

harold mabern, piano

clifford jordan, george coleman, ts

julius watkins, fr horn

keno duke, ds

larry ridley, bs

[colinmce]

Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore - Blowing in From Chicago with Art Blakey, Curley Russell and Horace Silver.

[Dan Gould]

First Horace

Horace, Hank, KD, Watkins and Blakey

(and Bill, sorry but I guess we skipped over you)

Edited June 27, 2010 by Dan Gould

[carnivore]

Let's not skip over Bill.....(and also get out of this interminable hard bop circle)

my first Stan Levey:

THe Stan Levey Quintet with Conte, Richie, Lou Levy and Budwig

[Dan Gould]

OK, if we're reorienting the line, my first Conte:

With Guaraldi, Buddy Collette, Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey

[BillF]

OK, if we're reorienting the line, my first Conte:

With Guaraldi, Buddy Collette, Leroy Vinnegar and Stan Levey

My first Levey:

With Richie Kamuca, Conte Candoli, Lou Levy and Monty Budwig

Edited June 27, 2010 by BillF

[Peter Johnson]

First Leroy:

with Victor Feldman, Gerald Wilson, Teddy Edwards, Carl Perkins, and Tony Bazley.