Willie Pickens
"JazzSpirit Volume 2"
S-SSD 0120
UPC: 700797012025
"JazzSpirit Volume 1"
S-SSD 0119
UPC: 700797011929
WILLIE PICKENS - JazzSpirit Volume 1 & Volume 2
Southport pianist/composer and arranger Willie Pickens will release a two volume set, "JazzSpirit," with new arrangements for quartet and duo of religious music, Co-Produced by Hyde Park Union Church with segments taped for two 9' Grand's at U of C's Mandel Hall, featuring Willie with his pianist daughter, Bethany Pickens. Other musicians on the CD's feature Pat Mallinger, Tito Carillo, Ari Brown, Robert Shy, Kobie Watkins, Rob Amster, Larry Gray and Marlene Rosenberg. This collection grew out of a sacred jazz concert series at Hyde Park Union Church, on Chicago's South Side.
"A Jazz Christmas"
S-SSD 0054
UPC: 700797005621
November 1998
Christmas arrangements from pianist Pickens that BOP and SWING- with Nicholas Payton, Larry Gray & Robert Shy.
"It's About Time!"
S-SSD 0048
UPC: 700797004822
August 1998
SOUTHPORT re-issue of the famed 1987 album with piano great Pickens, 2 trios and 4 unreleased live bonus tracks! With the late, great Wilbur Campbell on drums…