SOUL TENORS: FROM KING CURTIS TO GENE AMMONS - MILESTONES OF JAZZ LEGENDS (10 CDS)

The tenor sax was to Rhythm & Blues-hits of the 40s and 50s, what the guitar went on to become to RocknRoll. Put on an R&B-single from that era and you will most likely hear a tenor sax break or solo. Eventually, the tenor players stepped out to make records under their own name. These Soul Tenors were expressing themselves by honkin, shoutin, riffin, riding high on a single note or barking out a guttural howl, as Ted Gioia described it in The History of Jazz, all the while, carrying the moan in their tone, according to Cannonball Adderley. These masters, whose own instrumentals were hits in the jukeboxes from Harlem to South Central and all across the South, played Soul Jazz of the highest order melodic, expressive, straight from the heart. On into the 60s and 70s, when it came to emotions that simply couldnt be expressed with words, artists from Ray Charles via Aretha to John Lennon called on tenor sax players like David Fathead Newman or King Curtis. This unique 10-box-set presents some of the greatest original LPs of the genre. They are milestones by the above mentioned legends of the genre, plus Gene Ammons, Teddy Edwards, Illinois Jacquet, Budd Johnson, Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Nelson, Stanley Turrentine, Arnett Cobb, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Willis Jackson, Roland Kirk and Sam "The Man" Taylor. The album titles already tell a good part of the story, from Country Soul via Swings The Thing on to Hip Soul or simply Funky.

CD 1

King Curtis The New Scene Of King Curtis / King Curtis Country Soul

King Curtis - Have You Heard?
King Curtis - Willow Weep for Me
King Curtis - Little Brother Soul
King Curtis - In a Funky Groove
King Curtis - Brown Eyes
King Curtis - I'm Movin On
King Curtis - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
King Curtis - Walking The Floor Over You
King Curtis - Your Cheatin' Heart
King Curtis - Night Train To Memphis
King Curtis - Tennessee Waltz
King Curtis - Any Time
King Curtis - Home On The Range
King Curtis - Raunchy
King Curtis - Wagon Wheels
King Curtis - High Noon

CD 2

Ray Charles Presents David «Fathead» Newman

David Newman - Hard Times
David Newman - Weird Beard
David Newman - Willow Weep for Me
David Newman - Bill for Bennie
David Newman - Sweet Eyes
David Newman - Fathead
David Newman - Mean to Me
David Newman - Tin Tin Deo

Teddy Edwards Quartet Good Gravy !

Teddy Edwards Quartet - Good Gravy
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Could You Forget
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Stairway to the Stars
Teddy Edwards Quartet - A Little Later
Teddy Edwards Quartet - On Green Dolphin Street
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Just Friends
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Laura
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Yes, I'll Be Ready
Teddy Edwards Quartet - Not So Strange Blues

CD 3

Illinois Jacquet Swing's the Thing

Illinois Jacquet Swings - Las Vegas Blues
Illinois Jacquet Swings - Harlem Nocturne
Illinois Jacquet Swings - Can't We Be Friends?
Illinois Jacquet Swings - Achtung
Illinois Jacquet Swings - Have You Met Miss Jones?
Illinois Jacquet Swings - Lullaby of the Leaves

Budd Johnson Quintet Let's Swing !

Budd Johnson Quintet - Serenade in Blue
Budd Johnson Quintet - I Only Have Eyes for You
Budd Johnson Quintet - Downtown Manhattan
Budd Johnson Quintet - Someone to Watch over Me
Budd Johnson Quintet - Falling in Love with Love
Budd Johnson Quintet - Blues by Budd
Budd Johnson Quintet - Uptown Manhattan

CD 4

Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest: Soul Battle

Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest - Blues At The Five Spot
Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest - Blues For M..F.
Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest - Anacruses Spot
Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest - Perdido
Oliver Nelson, King Curtis, Jimmy Forrest - In Passing Spot

Jimmy Forrest: Forrest Fire

Jimmy Forrest - Remember
Jimmy Forrest - Dexter's Deck
Jimmy Forrest - Jim's Jam
Jimmy Forrest - Bags' Groove
Jimmy Forrest - When Your Lover Has Gone
Jimmy Forrest - Help!

CD 5

Gene Ammons: Funky & Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor

Gene Ammons - The Happy Blues
Gene Ammons - The Great Lie
Gene Ammons - Can't We Be Friends?
Gene Ammons - Madhouse
Gene Ammons - Hittin' the Jug
Gene Ammons - Close Your Eyes
Gene Ammons - My Romance
Gene Ammons - Canadian Sunset
Gene Ammons - Blue Ammons Jug
Gene Ammons - Confirmation
Gene Ammons - Stompin' at the Savoy

CD 6

Shirley Scott (with Stanley Turrentine): Hip Soul 

Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Hip Soul
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - 411 West
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - By Myself
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Trane's Blues
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Stanley's Time
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Out of This World

Shirley Scott (with Stanley Turrentine): Hip Twist

Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Hip Twist
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - At Last
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Rippin' an' Runnin'
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - The Very Thought of You
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - Violent Blues
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - That's All
Shirley Scott w. Stanley Turrentine - All Tore Down

CD 7

Arnett Cobb Movin' Right Along

Arnett Cobb - Nitty Gritty
Arnett Cobb - All I Do Is Dream of You
Arnett Cobb - I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
Arnett Cobb - Exactly Like
Arnett Cobb - Walkin'
Arnett Cobb - Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
Arnett Cobb - Fast Ride
Arnett Cobb - The Shy One

Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis Blow Arnett Blow

Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - When I Grow Too Old to Dream
Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Go Power
Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Dutch Kitchen Bounce
Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Go Red Go
Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Eely One
Arnett Cobb & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Fluke

CD 8

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet With Shirley Scott Jaws In Orbit

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Intermission Riff
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Can't Get Out of This Mood
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Foxy
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Our Delight
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Bahia
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet - Bingo Domingo

Willis Jackson Please Mr. Jackson

Willis Jackson - Cool Grits
Willis Jackson - Come Back to Sorrento
Willis Jackson - Dinky's Mood
Willis Jackson - Please Mr. Jackson
Willis Jackson - 633 Knock
Willis Jackson - Memories of You

CD 9

Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff Kirk's Work

Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Three for Dizzy
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Makin' Whoopee
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Funk Underneath
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Kirk's Work
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Doin' the Sixty-Eight
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Too Late Now
Roland Kirk With Jack McDuff - Skater's Waltz

Jack McDuff (with Jimmy Forrest) Tough Duff

Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Smooth Sailing
Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Mean to Me
Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Tippin' In
Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Yeah, Baby
Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Autumn Leaves
Jack McDuff w. Jimmy Forrest - Tough 'Duff

CD 10

Sam "The Man" Taylor Plays The Bad And The Beautiful

Sam "The Man" Taylor - Ruby
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Love Song From Suzie Wong
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Laura
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Anastasia
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Gloria
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Barefoot Contessa
Sam "The Man" Taylor - The Bad And The Beautiful
Sam "The Man" Taylor - Anna

David Newman Fathead Comes On

David Newman - Unchain My Heart
David Newman - Cellar Groove
David Newman - Alto Sauce
David Newman - Hello There
David Newman - Scufflin'
David Newman - Esther's Melody
David Newman - Lady Day