It is strange that this album was not released until the CD came out in 1990, for tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims and pianist Jimmy Rowles' tribute to Billie Holiday is melodic, tasteful, and largely memorable. Together with bassist George Mraz ...

Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). FUN TIME is an apt description for Count Basie's music. A consummate entertainer as well as a brilliant musical artist, Basie knew how to get the audience bouncing to the ...

Pianist Oscar Peterson's final Pablo album (after a countless amount of appearances as both a leader and a sideman) features his quartet (which at the time included guitarist Joe Pass, bassist David Young and drummer Martin Drew) on the second ...

Guitarist Joe Pass came to fame 18 years before this recording with Virtuoso, also released on the Pablo label. In 1991, he was still playing occasional unaccompanied concerts, and he had neither run out of ideas nor gone stale despite ...

Guitarist Ron Affie's debut recording offers bright, often impressive performances done in vintage swing/mainstream form from the 27-year-old Pittsburgh native. It's heavy on standards, and his renditions of shopworn numbers like "Time After Time," "Blues In The Closet," and "How ...

Recorded live at Yoshi's, Oakland, California on January 30-31 and February 1, 1992. Includes liner notes by Jeff Levenson. An inspired and exciting set by jazz's guitarist nonpareil, it ranges from a blistering race through Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" to the gentle ...

Art Pepper & Zoot Sims All Stars: Art Pepper (alto saxophone); Zoot Sims (tenor saxophone); Victor Feldman (piano); Ray Brown (bass); Billy Higgins (drums). This historic music, which was released for the first time on this 1995 CD, features an exuberant ...

The cool-toned guitarist Ron Affif recalls Kenny Burrell a bit in this outing with a pianoless trio also including bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. Although the program is dedicated to 52nd Street, the opening number ("Bohemia After ...

Far from being a casual collection of rejects, there is plenty of mellow gold from Joe Pass on this posthumously released second volume from what must have been a memorable gig at this Oakland, California night spot. The two-guitar quartet ...

Recorded live before a hand-picked audience at Fantasy Records' Studio A, guitarist Affif blows through eight selections with Essiet Essiet on string bass and Colin Bailey on drums giving solid support. The opener, "If I Were a Bell," sets the ...

Pablo serves up another scoop of material from the delicious John Pisano guitar duet sessions of summer/fall 1994 with no dropoff at all in tasty musical value. Lee Ritenour, Phil Upchurch, Ted Greene and Dori Caymmi return from the Among ...

Here is a second brace of solo Pass tracks from the sessions that have already yielded Songs for Ellen. The ambience is ruminative and extremely intimate; the menu consists entirely of much-explored standards at mostly unrelieved slow tempos. Several notes ...

For 13 tracks (ten standards and three originals), Ron Affif plays some of the most beautiful solo guitar you will ever hear. He's on nylon six-string acoustic for four numbers, electric guitar for the rest. All feature his patient, measured ...

Recorded between 1967 and 1986. Includes liner notes by Ken Dryden. Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1999, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Duke Ellington's music has long excited Oscar Peterson. So when Pablo, in 1999, decided to assemble a collection of Peterson's interpretations ...

Recorded between 1954 and 1983. Includes liner notes by Richard S. Ginell. Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1999, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Jazz lost more than its share of greats in 1999 -- everyone from Mel Torme, Charlie Byrd, Grover Washington, Jr., ...

Recorded live in Malmo, Sweden; Stuggart, Germany; Antwerp, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; and Paris, France in October 1975. Includes liner notes by Larry Hollis. Digitally remastered by George Horn (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Pairing Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis together on stage ...

Digitally remastered using 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology. Digitally remastered by JVC using XRCD (Extended Resolution Compact Disc) technology. Sarah Vaughan is accompanied by her regular rhythm section of the early '80s (with pianist George Gaffney, bassist Andy Simpkins, and drummer ...

Digital remastering by Joe Tarantino (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, 1991). Though the Duke's "stay" on Pablo Records was 1969-1971 and not necessarily representative of his massive body of work, if you're smitten by the sounds of Duke Ellington, this set is ...

Personnel includes: Zoot Sims (tenor sxophone), Jerome Richardson (reeds), Oscar Brashear (trumpet), Frank Rosolino (trombone), Ray Bryant (piano), George Mraz (acoustic bass), Nick Ceroli, Grady Tate (drums).

Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1987, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Personnel includes: Louie Bellson (drums); Dick Spencer (alto saxophone, piccolo); Ted Nash (alto saxophone, flute); Don Menza, Peter Christlieb (tenor saxophone, piccolo); Andy Macintosh (baritone saxophone); Blue Mitchell (trumpet, flugelhorn); ...

Derived from sessions recorded in the early '80s, THE BEST OF COUNT BASIE presents the leader in his usual, 17-piece big-band setting. Staying true to the concept of swing he developed in the late '30s and early '40s, Basie performs ...

Misleading title; collection of cuts made for various 70s and 80s Pablo sessions. ~ Ron Wynn Personnel includes: Benny Carter, Cat Anderson, Ray Bryant, George Duvivier, Budd Johnson, Cecil Payne, Jimmie Smith, Britt Woodman.

Recorded in Tokyo, Japan on February 15, 1975 and in Montreaux, Switzerland on July 13, 1977. Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Personnel: Tommy Flanagan (piano); Keter Betts (bass); Bobby Durham (drums).

Producers: Norman Granz, Arturo O'Farrill, Mario Bauza, Lalo Schifrin. Personnel includes: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Jim Horn, Ray Pizzi (saxophone, flute); Victor Paz, Raul Gonzalez (trumpet, flugelhorn); Oscar Brashear (trumpet); Barry Marrow, Lewis Kahn (trombone); Ernie Watts, Jerome Richardson (flute); Jose Madera, ...

Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). A trumpet player, bandleader, and composer, Hubbard is so multi-dimensional that it would take many volumes to truly sum up his career. This 1987 BEST OF collection from Pablo is a ...