Great piano / vibes records

[Rabshakeh]

I love the combination: joint piano and vibes front line, with intricate traded solos, with or without a rhythm section or an occasional horn.

There's obviously the classic Hutcherson / Hancock Blue Notes and the MJQ. I would also include Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson on Pablo, Khan Jamal and Matthew Ship, and Burton's Hotel Hello with Steve Swallow on electric piano.

What are.some other examples I'm missing?

[Peter Friedman]

Eddie Costa / Bill Evans

Dave Pike / Barry Harris

Dave Pike / Bill Evans

McCoy Tyner / Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson / Mulgrew Miller

Bobby Hutcherson / Kenny Barron

Milt Jackson / Hank Jones

Steve Nelson / Mulgrew Miller

Steve Nelson / Kirk Lighsey

Steve Nelson  / Kirk Lighsey (again)

Lionel Hampton / Oscar Peterson

 

[Ken Dryden]

I would add:

Chick Corea & Gary Burton (numerous recordings)

Gary Burton & Makoto Ozone (several recordings)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Martin Denny:

• Exotica
• Exotica II
• Forbidden Island
• Primitiva
• Exotica III
• Quiet Village
• The Enchanted Sea

 

Nearly every 1950s record by Cal Trader on Fantasy.

Bobby Hutcherson's BN albums.

George Shearing's early MGM records.

Also, his Capitol debut "The Shearing Spell."

And any of this Capitol albums with the word "Latin" in the title.

[jazzbo]

I posted this on the "other" thread.

 

Walt Dickerson albums you may be missing. . . with Ra, Crowe, Hill, Davis Jr. and Dailey.

Jarrett and Burton on Atlantic is a favorite.

Lem Winchester and the Ramsey Lewis Trio and With Feeling.

Of course there are the Corea/Burton ECMs.

Ben Thomas with Neto on Madman's Difference.

Stefon Harris Kindred with Terrasson.

Johnny Rae Opus de Jazz Vol. 2.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks everyone!

[mikeweil]

Roy Ayers and Jack Wilson

Steve Nelson and Geoffrey Keezer

[Rabshakeh]

5 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Of course there are the Corea/Burton ECMs.

Which of these are your favourites?

[JSngry]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterson. 

Already mentioned, I see. Good call! 

[Rabshakeh]

I really enjoy that record Peterson did with Milt Jackson too. Vibes seem to tame the beast.

I do really think that the two instruments have a magical sympathy.

[Teasing the Korean]

48 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I really enjoy that record Peterson did with Milt Jackson too. Vibes seem to tame the beast.

I do really think that the two instruments have a magical sympathy.

The one with "On Green Dolphin Street?"

[JSngry]

54 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I really enjoy that record Peterson did with Milt Jackson too. Vibes seem to tame the beast.

I do really think that the two instruments have a magical sympathy.

Same keyboard layout. And both are percussion instruments.

[Larry Kart]

7 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

I would add:

Chick Corea & Gary Burton (numerous recordings)

Gary Burton & Makoto Ozone (several recordings)

 

 

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

I really enjoy that record Peterson did with Milt Jackson too. Vibes seem to tame the beast.

I do really think that the two instruments have a magical sympathy.

Eddie Costa's "'Guys and Dolls' Like Vibes," with terrific first period Bill Evans 

[Teasing the Korean]

 

Edited September 25, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[B. Clugston]

Teddy Charles and Hall Overton, 3 for Duke with Oscar Pettiford. Excellent all-Ellington album.

Walt Dickerson with Sun Ra, Impressions of a Patch of Blue

[NIS]

"Under The Double Moon" by Anthony Davis and Jay Hoggard is a really good album. Do not know if it ever came out on CD and may be OOP but worth looking into. Spotify maybe.

A couple thing a little different are Mattias Stahl/Sten Sandell - "Gran Musik (Clean Feed) and Futari (which is Taiko Saito - marimba and vibes and Satoko Fujii - piano) "underground" (Libra).

This instrumentation is a favorite for me too.

[jazzbo]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Which of these are your favourites?

Chrystal Silence towers over the others for me.

38 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

 

Eddie Costa's "'Guys and Dolls' Like Vibes," with terrific first period Bill Evans 

Yes, and there's "Pike's Peak" with Evans and Pike--good one.

[DMP]

Mastersounds. 

[randyhersom]

Jay Hoggard and Anthony Davis

MJQ

Live recordings of Joe Locke with Cecil Taylor

Joe Locke and Frank Kimbrough

[mhatta]

My all-time favorite jazz is Milt Jackson Quartet, which is Milt / Horace Silver.  The sound is very different from MJQ, and Horace is a superb accompanist.

 

 

The combination of Milt with Monty Alexander is also good.

 

[Milestones]

I really enjoy the combination of Tyner and Hutcherson.  There was one with only the two players--the relatively obscure Manhattan Moods.  I think there were just two in the quartet format: Time for Tyner and (much later) Land of Giants.  Hutch appeared a few times in larger Tyner groups.

 

[Rabshakeh]

The River is another good one that I’ve just remembered 

6 hours ago, randyhersom said:

Live recordings of Joe Locke with Cecil Taylor

Which are these? I’ve tried googling.

[Ken Dryden]

Joe Locke and David Hazeltine recorded at lest two excellent CDs for harp Nine.

Locke recorded a duo CD with Kenny Barron for SteepleChase as well.

I nearly forgot Kenny Barton’s excellent small group with Stefan Harris, which I saw live during visit to NYC.

[Teasing the Korean]

 

[randyhersom]

16 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Which are these? I’ve tried googling.

Not commercially released.