Sonny Clark - The Art of the Trio (Blue Note Tone Poet Edition) - VINYL LP

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. The soulful, elegant pianist Sonny Clark brings his A-game to My Conception, a program of originals recorded in 1959, but not released until 1979. Joining the pianist are a cast of hard bop masters including Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, and Art Blakey. Highlights include InchJunka,Inch InchMinor Meeting,Inch and Hank Mobley's solo on InchRoyal Flush.Inch Blue Note Tone Poet Series features all-analog, remastered recordings. Produced by Joe Harley. Mastered by Kevin Gray. Album Tracks 1. Junka 2. Blues Blue 3. Minor Meeting 4. Royal Flush 5. Some Clark Bars 6. My Conception

Vinyl LP pressing. Other than Elvis, Carl, and Gene Vincent, not many rockabillies could claim a genuine national hit during the genre's mid-'50s heyday-but Sanford Clark could. His low-key vocal on The Fool, supplied by Clark's Phoenix, Arizona-based producer Lee Hazlewood, gave the deadpan lament precisely the feel that it required, Al Casey's blistering lead guitar adding it's snarling rockabilly edge. Once Dot Records picked up the master and it's Elvis-like flip Lonesome For A Letter for national consumption and it hit big in 1956, Sanford found himself a sudden star, touring with Perkins and Vincent and churning out more rocking product for Dot. The Fool put Lee on the map as a producer, well before he masterminded the rise of Duane Eddy. Bear Family's 'Sanford Clark Rocks' surveys the very best of Sanford's Dot output-Usta Be My Baby, A Cheat (both the original Dot and the snare drum overdub version), Ooo Baby, Love Charms, Lou Be Doo, an unissued-at-the-time Cross-Eyed Alley Cat. There's also a motherlode of rarities! Album Tracks 1. Be-Bop 2. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 3. Two Bass Hit 1. Tadd's Delight 2. Softly As in a Morning Sunrise 3. I'll Remember April

Sonny Clark - InchSonny's Crib (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition)Inch. One of the finest pianists of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark followed up his 1957 Blue Note debut, Dial InchSInch for Sonny, with the stellar sextet session, Sonny's Crib, a swinging set of standards and Clark originals - featuring John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. Album Tracks 1. With a Song in My Heart 2. Speak Low 3. Come Rain or Come Shine 4. Sonny's Crib 5. News for Lulu