Clifford Jordan, 7 Classic Albums

I can highly recommend this collection. You'll be doing yourself a favor by adding this to your jazz library.

I am pleased with the product and the speed in which it was sent.

Horrible sound. Awful. Worse than an mp3. Bootleg. Illegal. It's only legal to sell these stolen albums in Europe, but I suspect they are still not paying artist royalties. Boycott this crap. I am.

great music.

Condition as described, very satisfied.

Great music, generally decent sound. Does not include the famous sessions with Max Roach and Sonny Rollins (one is a Roach album "It's Time" from 1962), but you do get about five hours of great classic jazz. These albums feature such legends as: Trumpeters Lee Morgan and Art Farmer, pianists include Horace Silver, Ray Bryant, and Cedar Walton. Iconic drummers include Art Blakey, Tootie Heath, Art Taylor, and Roach. Paul Chambers and Curly Russell appear on bass, and Abbey Lincoln sings one tune on the Roach album. In the Real Gone fashion, four CD's in a double jewel case with minimal packaging, LP covers shown dumped upon each other. Great value for money spent-this music is in the public domain in European Union, so they pay no royalties. This review stands for all of the Real Gone sets I have heard.

The tenor saxophone of Clifford Jordan.Totaling 45 tracks ~ over 4 1/2 hrs. in length1. Blowing in from Chicago ~ 1957 - with John Gilmore.2. Cliff Jordan ~ 19573. Cliff Craft ~ 19574. Spellbound ~ 19605. Starting Time ~ 19616. Expoobident ~ 19607. In TimeDisc One ~~~~ Blowing In From Chicago ~~~ 19571. Status Quo2. Bo-Till3. Blue Lights4. Billie's Bounce5. Evil Eye6. Everywhere~~~ Cliff Jordan ~~~ 19577. Not Guilty8. St. John9. Blue Shoes----------------DISC Two ~~~~ Cliff Jordan cont. ~~~ 19571. Beyond the Horizon2. Ju-Ba~~~ Spell Bound ~~~ 19603. Laconia4. Soul-Lo-Blues5. Cliff Craft6. Confirmation7. Sophisticated Lady8. Anthropology~~~ In Time ~~~9. Toy10. Lush Life11. Moon-A-Tic12. Spellbound----------------DISC Three ~1. Hot Water2. Last Night When We Were Young3. Au Privave~~~ Starting Time ~~~ 19614. Sunrise in Mexico5. Extempore6. Down Through the Years7. Quittin' Time8. One Flight Down9. Windmill10. Don't You Know I Care11. Mosaic----------------DISC Four ~~~~ Expoobident ~~~ 19601. Expoobident2. Easy Living3. Triple Track4. Fire5. Just in Time6. The Hearing7. Lost and Found8. It's Time9. Another Valley10. Sunday Afternoon11. Living Room12. The Profit13. Lonesome LoverThese remastered recording have excellent sound.As with other titles in this series, there's no liner notes, just the tracks listing and album dates.

Quite possibly the best album of the 1970s is "Glass Bead Games," featuring Clifford Jordan with two rhythm sections (Billy Higgins appears with both). Better to obtain that album BEFORE sampling any others.

As an earlier review points out this is a four disc box set consisting of seven LP's of music led by or featuring tenor saxist Clifford Jordan. He was always a very good player, fluent and swinging, with a sound originating from pre sheets of sound John Coltrane, although somewhat lighter. This placed him in the same bag as quite a lot of other players of the time, so you do't expect a great deal of originality but he always remained a very satisfying player. Another plus point of this collection is that Jordan worked with a number of the better players around at the time so you get a bird's eye view of quite a lot of good musicians.The first session is 'Blowing In From Chicago' on which Jordan is coupled with fellow tenorman John Gilmore and a forceful rhythm section of Horace Silver, Curly Russell and Art Blakey. A very good session indeed although the two tenors are a little difficult to tell apart. Gilmore later developed into a very original player indeed but here both are young Turks trying to establish themselves. Next comes 'Cliff Jordan - 1957' with a collective personnel of Jordan, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, the little known John Jenkins on alto and a rhythm section of Ray Bryant, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor. Another very good session with all the horns playing well, with Lee Morgan probably the standout. Ray Bryant, another genuinely original musician probably takes the honours overall. 'Cliff Craft', also from 1957, features Jordan with Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker and Louis Hayes. Jordan as ever plays well, Farmer with great clarity and incisiveness and the great Sonny Clark with swing and melody, both of which seem to have come absolutely naturally to him. Another fine session.There was then a slight gap until 1960 and 'Spellbound', a quartet session with Jordan, Cedar Walton, Spanky DeBrest and Albert Heath. By this time Jordan's style had become slightly more angular, although the difference is not great. Walton is a fluent pianist, DeBrest a powerful swinging bassist and Heath a very good and original drummer. 'Starting Time', from the following year, has Jordan with Kenny Dorham, Walton and Heath again and Wilbur Ware on bass. It is a good session, with Dorham a thoughtful player but doesn't quite have the zing of the earlier dates. 'Expoobident', from 1960, was a Lee Morgan date and disappoints a little. Everybody sounds a little under wraps and the session never quite catches fire, which is a bit of a surprise, bearing in mind that Art Blakey is stoking the drum kit. I have noticed this on other Vee Jay recordings and it may be nothing more than a slightly dull recorded sound. Certainly, nobody plays badly.The last session, Max Roach's 'It's Time' features a sextet with a choir throughout conducted by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and with a vocal by Abbey Lincoln on one track. To my surprise it works quite well although I am not sure I would want to repeat it. The choir work as the equivalent to a backing big band and are quite intrusive. The front line horns are Richard Williams on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, and Jordan, with Mal Waldron on piano. All play absolutely brilliantly, either because they were lashed into life by Max' drumming or inspired by the singing behind them. Williams, a most exciting and extrovert player and Waldron are probably the star soloists but all four are committed and exciting. I very nearly avoided buying the collection because of the presence of this session but I now find I enjoy it One thing that is noticeable, however, when Abbey Lincoln sings in front of the choir is just what a difference there is in the timing of a jazz and blues singer and a classical choir.

Great albums recalling the days when ordinary folk listened to superb music rather than garbage. Clifford is a great musician and he had some fabulous bands.

Clifford Jordan was one of the most individual voices of the tenor saxophone with a lyrical melodic concept and a high clear and rich sound. He never forgets the blues either. This collection mixes in some of his earliest albums and gives you a great picture of this artist.

This is a good compilation of clifford's music....smoking hard bop!!!.I bought this to fill in a couple gaps in my collection.Recommended

Great music & sound quality. However, the seven albums are split across four CDs and several albums are split across two disks. This makes importing into iTunes not straightforward. It can be done but be prepared to do some file manipulation to make each album appear separately iniTunes.