I think you can tell from these that I am buying a lot of music from the late 50’s / early 60s lately.

Us3 - Hand on the Torch – A fantastic merging of 50s Blue Note jazz and 90s hip-hop sounds. They had a big hit with the first track, Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) but all of the tracks are really interesting and funky groovy. If you dig 50s Blue Note sounds and also hip-hop beats, it’s still very worth a listen, IMO.

Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler on the Roof – I don’t know / haven’t listened to this yet but it seems to have been a fairly common thing to have jazz combos cover songs from popular movies, back in the 60’s at least. Love everything else in my collection from Cannonball and Nat Adderley though so I’m sure this won’t disappoint. Also features Charles Lloyd, Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes.

The Horace Silver Quintet - Finger Poppin’ – One of the classic albums by this combo: Horace (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Gene Taylor (bass), Louis Hayes (drums). These guys has so much swing and yet still stretched out and explored new sounds. From 1959, the year famous for being the last for Jazz.

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis Again – More from this duet. I’ve listened to my scratchy, skipping copy of the first Ella and Louis album so many times, I just had to check out this second go around. From the first listen, I already know I’ll do the same with this one.