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The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet: The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet

Read "The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet" reviewed by Robert Spencer


There's no use denying it, so I'll confess: I am not a big jazz flute fan. The instrument has always seemed to me to be too slight to power a rhythm section and too breathy to maintain an individual attractiveness. But Herbie Mann and Sam Most have converted me on this unlikeliest of ensembles, a double flute quintet.The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet is a 1956 album of eleven genial, high-spirited tracks featuring Mann and Most trading bright, up-tempo, ...

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Bill Evans and Joe Puma

Bill Evans and Joe Puma

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Before he began recording exclusively as leader of a working trio, pianist Bill Evans was a prolific sideman. Between 1954 and 1958, Evans appeared on more than 20 recordings led by other artists. Except for New Jazz Conceptions, his first one-off trio date for Riverside in 1956, Evans was a top keyboard gun for hire in New York. One of those dates in 1957 was accompanying guitarist Joe Puma on an album called Joe Puma: Jazz. Unfortunately, the quartet with ...

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Kedar Entertainment Group
1961

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Parlophone
1958

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Wild Kitten

Kedar Entertainment Group
1957

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The Herbie Mann-Sam...

Avenue Records
1956

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Joe Puma

Kedar Entertainment Group
1954

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