Billie Holiday co-wrote a song with her pianist -- then died before she could ever record it. Mal Waldron’s spare 1959 trio session for Bethlehem is both a memorial and a statement of purpose.
On Monday, April 13, Kissa Kissa hosts a pre-release early listening session for Verve's newly-unearthed 3LP set of the Oscar Peterson Trio live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, 1960 -- five complete sets with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen, unreleased for 65 years, played in full on vinyl.
Sonny Clark's final Blue Note date as a leader — a hard bop masterclass recorded fourteen months before his death, featuring Tommy Turrentine, Charlie Rouse, a rare Ike Quebec guest spot, and a rhythm section that swings like it has nowhere else to be.
