0059 Dizzy Reece [On the Scene and More] FLAC 11(1.03.50)

Contributed by grumpy

(01-04)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Terry Shannon - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(05-07)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Victor Feldman - piano
Lloyd Thompson - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(08-11)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Sammy Walker - tenor
Norman Stenfalt - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Yardbird Suite
02 How Deep Is The Ocean
03 Bluebird - take 1
04 Bluebird - take 2
05 Stomp (Reece)
06 Get Up (Reece)
07 The Gypsy [Take 2]
08 A Variation On Monk
09 Sweet And Lovely
10 Eboo (Reece)
11 On The Scene

Label: Tempo - TAP4 Top Trumpets (01-04) TAP19 Transatlantic Alliance (05-07)
EXA84 A Variation On Monk (0809) EXA89 On The Scene (10 11)
Recorded: July 23 (01-04) December 28 1956 (05-07) November 29 1957 (08-11)

0051 Dizzy Reece [Blues in Trinity] FLAC 8(47.27)

Contributed by grumpy
In the late summer of 1958, Donald Byrd and Art Taylor came to the Continent for some jazz festivals and club dates. Paris had become an international jazz centre. There, American and European musicians would blow together in an environment very different from that in New York or London. The Americans would find in Paris a release from many of the domestic and social tensions and problems they experience at home. For British jazzmen, here was an opportunity to hear the Americans in less formal surroundings than the concert halls to which their British appearances were confined — and occasionally to sit in with them. (a Musicians Union ban prevented Americans from recording in the UK, so a meeting on record with Byrd and Taylor was only possible on the continent).

Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Terry Shannon - piano
Lloyd Thompson - bass
Art Taylor - drums

01 Blues in Trinity
02 I Had the Craziest Dream
03 Close-up
04 Shepherd's Serenade
05 Color Blind
06 Round About Midnight
07 Eboo
08 Just a Penny

Label: Blue Note BLP4006
Recorded: August 24 1958 Decca Studios London
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0036 Various [Speak Low] FLAC 11(51.14)

Contributed by delmonico
This is one of 3 Tempo samplers from January 1958. At the time of issue, these were un-issued  tracks combined with a selection of other tracks from the then current Tempo catalogue. Now, of course, all have been re-issued on cd by Jasmine.
A fabulously rare and expensive lp and not often seen these days this is the original lp and sound.
Of interest to trivia collectors is that the lovely Jackie Collins, then age 20, features on the cover as indeed she does on the other two samplers.
When Jasmine issued their own cd sampler, 'Keeping Tempo', in 2001 they used the same cover picture which was a nice little acknowledgement to the classic Tempo label.
Ripped in FLAC from lp with cover scans.

(01 06)
Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Terry Shannon - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Allan Ganley - drums
(02)
Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Eddie Harvey - piano
Kenny Napper  -bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(03)
Victor Feldman - vibes
Norman Stenfalt - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(04 11)
Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Ken Wray - trombone
Derek Humble - alto
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Victor Feldman - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(05)
Victor Feldman - vibes
Norman Stenfalt - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(07)
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Tubby Hayes - vibes
Terry Shannon - piano
Phil Bates - bass
Bill Eyden - drums
(08)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Victor Feldman - vibes
Tommy Pollard - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Tony Crombie - drums
(09)
Don Rendell - tenor
Damian Robinson - piano
Sammy Stokes - bass
Benny Goodman - drums
(10)
Victor Feldman - vibes
Tommy Pollard - piano
Eric Peter - bass
Tony Crombie - drums

01 Speak Low
02 How Long Has This Been Going On?
03 Duffle Coat
04 Bass House
05 Easy to Love
06 I'll Take Romance
07 On a Misty Night
08 When?
09 New Orleans
10 Time Will Tell
11 Treble Gold

Label:Tempo TAP 17
Recorded: April 26 May 02 September 12 21 1955
October 20 29 1956
March 29 August 08 19 1957
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0031 Dizzy Reece [A New Star] FLAC 6(28.06)

Contributed by grumpy

This is what musicians call a "blowing session". No attempt to create any so-called "new sounds". Just honest-to-goodness, down-to-earth, relaxed swinging jazz. This date gives a real first recording break to one of the British jazz scene's "musicians' musicians", trumpeter Dizzy Reece.Dizzy's following is confined to just about every musician who has blown with him, a handful of knowledgeable fans (the kind who dig Miles Davis) and a couple of critics. This particular writer has tried to wake the town and tell the people about Dizzy since early 1954, but so far all appears to have fallen on deaf ears.

(01-04)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Sammy Walker - tenor
Tony Crombie - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(05 06)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Harry South - piano
Pete Blannin - bass
Bill Eyden - drums

01 O Moon
02 Butch
03 Bang!
04 This Is Always
05 Now's The Time
06 Please Call

Label: Tempo LAP3
Recorded: May 16 (01-04) July 14 (05 06) 1955
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0021 Dizzy Reece [Progress Report] FLAC 8(39.32)

Contributed by grumpy
Contemporary review (amusing to see Phil Seamen referred to as backward looking!):
I must admit to regarding this record unfavourably on first hearing- but it reveals a deal more depth and commend-ability on further listening. It is an undisguised showcase for Dizzy Reece and the title of the disc is "Progress Report.' Although he is supported here by the remaining handful of backward looking British modernists, it is his disc, and he seizes his opportunity with all three valves.
Tony Hall in his cover notes enthuses, as always, about Dizzy Reece’s playing, and understandably so, for he reveals himself here as a talented musician. He has a command and feel for his instrument that few other players on the British scene can match. Unfortunately, he seems to be limiting his endeavours at the moment to a very small corner of jazz. The whole mood of this LP is, to my ears, claustrophobically turned back-wards into the middle and early forties. I would very much like to hear Dizzy break out of the strait jacket that he and the other musicians have voluntarily donned on this disc. He gives promise of doing so on many occasions, and I look forward with interest to Dizzy's next LP. Given the wider range that he must obviously seek, Dizzy Reece will become a very powerful voice in British jazz.
Brian Nicholls, Jazz Journal Vol 10, No6, June 1957.

(01 04 05 07)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Victor Feldman - piano
Lloyd Thompson - bass
Phil Seamen - drums 
(02 06)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Johnny Weed - piano
Dave Goldberg - guitar
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(03 08)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Terry Shannon - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Riviera
02 Chorous
03 Out Of Nowhere
04 Momentum
05 Now
06 Basie Line
07 Gypsy
08 Scrapple For The Apple

Label: Tempo TAP9
Recorded: April 26 July 23  December 28 1956
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0007 Dizzy Reece [Nowhere To Go] FLAC 4(11.23)

Contributed by grumpy

Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Tubby Hayes - tenor, baritone
Lloyd Thompson - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Main Title (Nowhere to Go) (Reece) (3:32)
02 The Escape and Chase (Reece) (2:52)
03 The Search (Reece) (3:30)
04 The Sunset Scene (Reece) (1:29)

Label: Tempa EXA 86
Recorded: October 02 1958

A contemporary review:
Only limited use has been made of jazz as incidental music for British films, but Dizzy Reece’s ambitious scores for the recent Balcon production "Nowhere To Go" are a step in the right direction and compare favourably with some of the colourful themes played by the West Coasters for Hollywood movies. Moody and expressive, these tracks rank among Dizzy's most noteworthy compositions, and are outstanding examples of descriptive writing.
Both Dizzy and his front-line partner Tubby Hayes blow short, virile solos on "Main Title" and skate nimbly around the chords of the fast blues, "Escape And Chase". This title opens with some insistent cowbell work by Phil Seamen, while the up-tempo sequences are highlighted by Lloyd Thompson's powerful bass-work. "The Search" (sub-titled ''On The Scene") is a down-to-earth blues with crisp, crackling trumpet, a generous helping of robust tenor, and excellent "walking" bass. "Sunset Scene" is a reiteration of "Main Title"—a mournful melody that you'll find spinning round in your head long after the record has finished.
Keith Goodwin ~ Jazz Journal Vol12 No4, April 1959