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Cal MASSEY (1928-1972)

L'un des compositeurs les plus estimés par les plus grands musiciens de jazz.

Titre	Interprète	Album	Année	Label
Bakai	John Coltrane	Coltrane	1957	Prestige
Nakatini Serenade	John Coltrane	The Believer	1958	Prestige
Trinidad	Herbie Mann	Just Wailin'	1958	New Jazz
Fiesta	Philly Joe Jones	Blues for Dracula	1958	Riverside
Nakatini Suite	Lee Morgan	Lee-Way	1960	Blue Note
These Are Soulful Days	Lee Morgan	Lee-Way	1960	Blue Note
Blues To Coltrane	Cal Massey	Blues To Coltrane	1961	Candid
What's Wrong	Cal Massey	Blues To Coltrane	1961	Candid
Bakai	Cal Massey	Blues To Coltrane	1961	Candid
These Are Soulful Days	Cal Massey	Blues To Coltrane	1961	Candid
Father and Son	Cal Massey	Blues To Coltrane	1961	Candid
The Damned Don't Cry	John Coltrane	Africa/Brass	1961	Impulse!
Assunta	Bill Hardman	Saying Something	1961	Savoy
Father and Son	Freddie Hubbard	Here to Stay	1962	Blue Note
Assunta	Freddie Hubbard	Here to Stay	1962	Blue Note
Lady Charlotte	Cedar Walton	Spectrum	1964	Prestige
A Pilgrim's Funny Farm	Lee Morgan	The Rajah	1966	Blue Note
The Cry of My People	Lee Morgan	The Sixth Sense	1967	Blue Note
Message From Trane	Jackie McLean	Demon's Dance	1967	Blue Note
Toyland	Jackie McLean	Demon's Dance	1967	Blue Note
Taru, What's Wrong With You	Lee Morgan	Taru	1968	Blue Note
A Baby's Smile	Lee Morgan	Caramba	1968	Blue Note
I Thought I'd Let You Know	McCoy Tyner	Expansions	1968	Blue Note
Funky London	Houston Person	Blue Odyssey	1968	Prestige
Bakai	Archie Shepp	Kwanza	1969	Impulse!
What Would It Be Without You	Archie Shepp	For Losers	1969	Impulse!
Quiet Dawn	Cedar Walton	Soul Cycle	1969	Prestige
Things Have Got to Change	Archie Shepp	Things Have Got to Change	1971	Impulse!
Dr. King, the Peaceful Warrior	Archie Shepp	Things Have Got to Change	1971	Impulse!
Good Bye Sweet Pops	Archie Shepp	Attica Blues	1972	Impulse!
Quiet Dawn	Archie Shepp	Attica Blues	1972	Impulse!
The Cry of My People	Archie Shepp	The Cry of My People	1972	Impulse!
These Are Soulful Days	Don Patterson	These Are Soulful Days	1973	Muse
What Would It Be Without You	Joe Lee Wilson & Bond Street	What Would It Be Without You	1975	Survival
Lookin' for Someone to Love	Archie Shepp	A Sea of Faces	1975	Black Saint
A Message From Trane	Archie Shepp	Steam	1976	Enja
Bakai	Horace Tapscott	Songs of The Unsung	1978	Interplay
Assunta	Ahmed Abdullah	Life's Force	1978-79	About Time
Quiet Dawn	Archie Shepp	Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais des Glaces	1979	Blue Marge
Goodbye Sweet Pops	Archie Shepp	Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais des Glaces	1979	Blue Marge
Quiet Dawn	Joe Bonner	Impressions of Copenhagen	1981	Theresa
The Cry of My People	Harold Mabern & Kieran Overs	Philadelphia Bound	1991-92	Sackville
These Are Soulful Days	Benny Green	These Are Soulful Days	1999	Blue Note
These Are Soulful Days	Joey DeFrancesco	Ballads and Blues	2002	Concord

Cal Massey est aussi l'auteur de la musique scénique de Lady Day, A Musical Tragedy (1972), spectacle créé au lendemain de sa mort.

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Le pianiste Stanley Cowell a écrit un morceau en hommage au compositeur, sobrement intitulé "Cal Massey", qu'il a enregistré en solo (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Concord, 1990) en quartet (avec le saxophoniste Clifford Jordan, Glass Bead Games, Strata-East, 1973) et en quintet (Great Friends, avec Sonny Fortune, Billy Harper, Reggie Workman et Billy Hart, Black & Blue, 1986). - McCoy Tyner lui a également dédié une composition, "Folks" (Echoes of A Friend, Milestones).

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Le fils de Cal Massey, le saxophoniste Zane Massey, a enregistré deux albums pour Delmark (Brass Knuckles et Safe To Imagine), sur lesquels figurent des morceaux signés par son père.