[JPL] 1957 / JAH anniversary celebration

[Jim Wilke]

Friends,

Next weekend, I'm having a triple celebration on my show - I'm 
beginning my 24th year hosting Jazz After Hours on Public Radio 
International, it's my 50th year in radio, and so I'm featuring music 
from one of the greatest years of jazz recording, 1957.  I'll be 
playing some of the "new sides" I was spinning as a boy radio announcer 
in '57, great albums by Miles, Coltrane, Basie, Ellington, Billie, 
Ella, Sarah, Brubeck, Hawkins, Dizzy, Mingus, Quincy, Rollins, Monk, 
Louis, Nat Cole, Gil Evans and more!

I've noticed over the years there were an extraordinary number of 
excellent albums recorded in 1957, so I started making a list.   So far 
I've got better than 3 dozen albums including such diverse titles as

Miles / Gil Evans - Miles Ahead
Quincy Jones:  This is How I Feel About Jazz
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross:  Sing A Song of Basie
Monk & Coltrane
Mingus: The Clown
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Coltrane:  Blue Train
Various artists:  The Sound of Jazz  (TV show w. Billie Holiday, Pres, 
Hawkins, Basie et al)
Ella Fitzgerald:  Duke Ellington Songbook (with Duke Ellington!)
Ella & Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder
Count Basie "Atomic" album,  as well as Basie in London
Gil Evans + ten
Sarah Vaughan at Mr. Kelly's
Dizzy Gillespie:  Sonny Side Up (with Stitt & Rollins)  + Birks' Works 
big band sessions
Nat King Cole: The After Midnight Sessions
Billie Holiday:  Songs for Distingue Lovers
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
and more....

How's that for starters?  If you can think of some other major albums 
from 1957 (when records were RECORDS!)  please pass them on and I'll 
include them if I have them or can run them down on our SPECIAL 
ANNIVERSARY SHOW NOV 17-18.

Thanks!

Jim Wilke
Jazz After Hours, PRI
www.jazzafterhours.org