Nat Hentoff's Liner Notes - A List

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Any attempt to compile a discography of albums whose liner notes are written by Nat Hentoff will be needing a team of ten devoted researchers who could go through thousands of not only jazz albums for major labels, but also material recorded for long defunct obscure ones and beyond jazz, for pop, easy listening, folk and country music. Any result, either as a comprehensive online database or an anthology of such writings in print would prove to be one of the most invaluable examples of music criticism and journalism in 20th century.


Here, with the permission of Mr. Hentoff himself, I started taking note of every jazz albums that I knew, and whenever possible, transcribing and adding the original notes to this blog.

Abbey Lincoln	Straight Ahead	1961
Al Casey	Buck Jumpin'	1960
Archie Shepp	Fire Music	1965
Archie Shepp	On This Night	1966
Art Davis Quartet	Life	1986
Art Farmer	Portrait Of Art Farmer	1958
Art Pepper	Modern Jazz Classics	1959
Ben Webster	Soul Of Ben Webster, The	1957
Benny Carter	Jazz Giant	1958
Benny Golson	Benny Golson's New York Scene	1957
Big Bill Broonzy	Big Bill's Blues Portrait
Billie Holiday	At Carnegie Hall: The Billie Holiday Story, Volume 6	1956
Bob Cooper	Coop! The Music Of Bob Cooper	1957
Bob Dylan	Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The	1963
Bobby Hutcherson	Components	1965
Booker Ervin	That's It	1961
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Little Wheel Spin And Spin	1966
Cecil Taylor	Air	1960
Cecil Taylor Quartet	Looking Ahead!	1959
Charles Mingus	East Coasting	1957
Charles Mingus	Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry With Charles Mingus, A	1957
Charles Mingus	Jazz Portraits Mingus In Wonderland	1959
Charles Mingus	Clown, The	1961
Charles Mingus	Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus	1963
Charles Mingus	Mingus Moves	1974
Charles Mingus	Changes One	1975
Charles Mingus	Changes Two	1975
Charlie Barnet	Cherokee Evidence	1958
Charlie Barnet	More Charlie Barnet	1959
Charlie Haden/Billy Higgins/Enrico Pieranunzi	First Song	1990
Chico Freeman	Beyond The Rain	1978
Clark Terry	What A Wonderful World - For Louis & Duke	1993
Curtis Counce	You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce	1957
David Murray	Saxmen	1994
Dino Betti Van Der Noot	Here Comes Springtime	1985
Dizzy Gillespie	Birks Works: The Verve Big-Band Sessions	1995
Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Rollins/Sonny Stitt	Sonny Side Up	1958
Donald Byrd	Fancy Free	1969
Donald Byrd	Electric Byrd	1970
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	In A Mellotone	1957
Duke Pearson	Sweet Honey Bee	1966
Duke Pearson	Right Touch, The	1967
Enrico Rava	Rava String Band	1984
Eric Dolphy/Booker Little	Far Cry	1960
Erica Lindsay	Dreamer	1989
Ernie Watts	Reaching Up	1994
Freddie Hubbard	Ready For Freddie	1961
Freddie Hubbard	Backlash	1967
Gato Barbieri	Chapter Three Viva Emiliano Zapata	1974
Gato Barbieri	Third World Revisited, The	1974
George Lewis/His Ragtime Band	Hot Creole Jazz	1953
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond	Quartet	1957
Gil Scott-Heron	Small Talk At 125th And Lenox	1972
Gloria Lynne	Miss Gloria Lynne	1958
Hampton Hawes	Four!	1958
Helen Humes	Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do	1959
Herbie Nichols Trio	Love, Gloom, Cash, Love	1957
Ian & Sylvia	Ian & Sylvia	1963
Jelly Roll Morton	Original Versions Of The Music Inspiring "Jelly's Last Jam"	1992
Jimmy Smith	Open House/Plain Talk	1960
Jimmy Woods	Awakening!	1962
Joan Baez	Joan Baez Volume 2	1961
Joe Henderson	Inner Urge	1964
John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1960
John Coltrane	Live At The Village Vanguard	1962
John Coltrane	Crescent	1964
John Coltrane	Om	1965
John Coltrane	Meditations	1966
John Coltrane	Best Of John Coltrane Rhino	1970
John Coltrane/Archie Shepp	New Thing At Newport, A	1965
John Hicks	Friends Old And New	1992
John Hicks	Lover Man: A Tribute To Billie Holiday	1993
King Curtis	New Scene Of King Curtis, The	1960
Lee Morgan	Leeway	1960
Lightnin' Hopkins	Lightnin' In New York	1970
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes	Expansions	1974
Louis Armstrong	Satchmo The Great	1955
Mal Waldron	Update	1987
McCoy Tyner	Real McCoy, The	1967
Miles Davis	Sketches Of Spain	1960
Modern Jazz Quartet	Last Concert	1974
Modern Jazz Quartet	Together Again - "Echoes"	1984
Mose Allison	I Don't Worry About A Thing	1962
Ornette Coleman	Music Of Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!,	1958
Ornette Coleman	Tomorrow Is The Question!	1959
Oscar Peterson Trio With Milt Jackson	Very Tall	1962
Phil Woods	Rights Of Swing	1960
Randy Brecker	Score	1969
Red Garland Quintet	Soul Junction	1957
Stanley Turrentine	Never Let Me Go	1963
Stephane Grappelli/McCoy Tyner	One On One	1990
The Bob Thiele Collective	Louis Satchmo	1992
The Kingston Trio	At Large/Here We Go Again	1959
Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin	Carnegie Hall Concert	1992
Toshiko Mariano Quartet	Toshiko Mariano Quartet	1960
Various Artists	Newport Rebels	1992
Wayne Shorter	Night Dreamer	1964
Wayne Shorter	All Seeing Eye, The	1966
Woody Herman	Herd Rides Again...In Stereo, The	1958
Woody Herman/Tito Puente	Herman's Heat & Puente's Beat	1958