My First Recording By ______

[colinmce]

Clifford Brown Memorial Album (Blue Note) with Lou Donaldson, Elmo Hope, Gigi Gryce, Percy Heath, PJJ, Charlie Rouse, John Lewis, and Art Blakey.

[Noj]

Clifford Brown Memorial Album (Blue Note) with Lou Donaldson, Elmo Hope, Gigi Gryce, Percy Heath, PJJ, Charlie Rouse, John Lewis, and Art Blakey.

Dom Salvador,Amaury Tristao,Dom Um Romao, Portinho, Claudio Roditi, Ron Carter, Bernard Purdie, and Clifford Adams

[mjzee]

My first Charlie Rouse:

Kenny Burrell, Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook, Larry Gales, Willie Bobo, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Garvin Masseaux, and (on the bonus track) Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins.

[Dan Gould]

[JSngry]

Kenny Burrell

Richard Davis

Roy Haynes

Richard Wyands

Martin Rivera

Oliver Jackson.

Hank Jones

Milt Hinton

Elvin Jones

Richard Evans

Edited July 9, 2010 by JSngry

[Big Beat Steve]

How come, JSngry, I never see your "posted images" (of record covers, I suppose?) on my screen (displayed through Mozilla)??

How about some other image hoster, maybe?

[JSngry]

Is it fixed now?

[Joe G]

[carnivore]

with Hank Jones/Richard Wyands, Art Davis/Wendell Marshall, Charlie Persip

[aparxa]

* Cannonball Adderley - Alto saxophone, Leader

* Miles Davis - Trumpet

* Hank Jones - Piano

* Sam Jones - Bass

* Art Blakey - Drums

Edited July 9, 2010 by aparxa

[Hot Ptah]

My first Art Blakey album: Free For All, with Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Reggie Workman, Art Blakey.

Edited July 9, 2010 by Hot Ptah

[Big Beat Steve]

My first Art Blakey album: Free For All

MY first Art Blakeys albums (bought the same day at the same fleamarket stall):

Orgy In Rhythm Vol. 1 and 2 (BST 81554/81555)

feat. drummers/percussionists Art Blakey, Arthur Taylor, Jo Jones, Specs Wright, sabu, Potato Valdez, Jose Valiente, Ubaldo nieto, Evilio Quintero

as well as

Herbie Mann, Ray Bryant, Wendell Marshall.

MANY ways to go from here!

[carnivore]

My first Jo Jones album': Count Basie, Emmet Berry. Benny Green, Lawrence Brown, Lucky Thompson, Rudy Powell, Freddie Green, Nat Pierce, Pete Johnson, Walter Page, + Jo

[Hot Ptah]

This two LP set was my first Count Basie album:

[Noj]

Harry "Sweets" Edison with Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Joe Mondragon, and Alvin Stoller

[BillF]

Harry "Sweets" Edison with Ben Webster, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Joe Mondragon, and Alvin Stoller

First Kessel album:

with Ben Webster, Frank Rosolino, Jimmy Rowles, Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne

[carnivore]

First Ben Webster: 'Ben Webster & Don Byas - Two Kings of the Tenor Sax' Commodore

Marlowe Morris, John Simmons, Sid Catlett on the Websters; the Byas have Teddy Wilson and Slam Stewart - and Hot Lips Page, Earl Bostic, B.G. Hammond, Clyde Hart, Al Lucas and Jack Parker (drums)

[catesta]

Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Gene Ramey and Jo Jones.

[Big Beat Steve]

Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Gene Ramey and Jo Jones.

My first Lester Young leader LP:

"Pres At his Very Best"

(Mercury early 70s reissue of 1944 Keynote masters)

feat. Johnny Guarnieri, Slam Stewart, Sid Catlett

as well as

Buck Clayton, Dickie Wells and Basie-Richardson-Green-Jones rhythm section

Edited July 9, 2010 by Big Beat Steve

[catesta]

First Count Basie ...

Marshall Royal, Billy Graham (alto saxophone); Frank Foster, Frank Wess (tenor saxophone); Charlie Fowlkes (baritone saxophone); Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Wendell Cully, Reunald Jones (trumpet); Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes (trombone); Freddie Green (guitar); Ed Jones (bass); Sonny Payne (drums)

Edited July 9, 2010 by catesta

[Noj]

Frank Foster - Soul Outing

Bass - Bob Cunningham , Richard Davis (2) (tracks: A1, B2)

Congas - Alan Dawson

Drums - Alan Dawson

Guitar - Billy Butler (tracks: A1, B2)

Piano - Pat Rebillot

Saxophone - Frank Foster

Trumpet - Virgil Jones

[Big Beat Steve]

So hardly anybody around here was into Prez enough to state HIS first?

Prez aint just anybody, after all ...

[BillF]

So hardly anybody around here was into Prez enough to state HIS first?

Prez aint just anybody, after all ...

OK, but it's a bit complicated. My first Pres was a pair of LPs of Aladdin sides on Liberty/EMI bought in the 1960s with the following sidemen: Vic Dickenson, Dodo Marmarosa, Red Callender, Henry Tucker Green, Howard McGhee, Willie Smith, Wesley Jones, Curtis Counce, Johnny Otis, Joe Albany, Chico Hamilton, Shorts McConnell, Argonne Thornton, Fred Lacey, Rodney Richardson, Lyndell Marshall, Gene DiNovi, Chuck Wayne, Curley Russell, Tiny Kahn, Tex Briscoe and Roy Haynes

Edited July 10, 2010 by BillF

[carnivore]

My first Pres as leader - (in spite of the title I consider it Lester's album) ) was Jazz Giants '56 - bought new that year. Roy, Vic, Teddy, Gene Ramey, Jo Jones - made the day before Pres and Teddy

[JSngry]

My first Lester:

Jesse Drakes, Kenny Drew, Aaron Bell and Jo Jones