Don Schlitten
Appearances
![Jazz for the Quiet Times [32 Jazz]](/cache/JHS/d3/130x130_on-sale_d32196o60ix.png)
Jazz giants like Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, and Bobby Hutcherson all contribute tracks and brush shoulders with jazz middleweights like Wallace [more]
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![Jazz for When You're Alone [32 Jazz]](/cache/JHS/f4/130x130_on-sale_f45792woek6.png)
The 32Jazz label, under the leadership of Joel Dorn, continues to release compilations designed to fit a particular mood or state of being. Thus there have been [more]
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![Jazz for a Lazy Day [32 Jazz]](/cache/JHS/d6/130x130_on-sale_d690854oi3a.png)
Jazz for a Lazy Day lives up to its name, providing the kind of cool, languid jazz that adds that extra something to a weekend or day off. A mix of standards and [more]
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I remember the sessions well, I remember how the musicians wanted to sound, and I remember their reactions to the playbacks. Today, I feel strongly that I am their messenger. -Rudy van Gelder
For his final Prestige-related session as a sideman, John Coltrane (tenor sax) and Kenny Burrell (guitar) are supported by an all-star cast of Paul [more]
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![Blues, Songs and Ballads [Compilation]](/cache/JHS/c4/130x130_c429291sj82.jpg)
A 23-song collection combining two albums that Tom Rush recorded in 1963 (Got a Mind to Ramble and Blues, Songs and Ballads) onto a single CD. Rush plays acoustic [more]
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Although chronologically the last to be issued, this collection includes some of the best performances from the tapes which would produce the albums Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and [more]
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As is often the case with an artist as prolific as John Coltrane, not every release can be considered as essential. Black Pearls seems a bit ambiguous when placed in a more historical [more]
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After having left the ensemble of Charles Mingus and upon working with John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy formed a short-lived but potent [more]
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The second of three CDs that document the Eric Dolphy/Booker Little quintet's playing at the Five Spot (the third volume is titled [more]
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This formerly obscure set (reissued on CD by Evidence) matches together the always complementary (and sometimes identical-sounding) tenors of Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. A special treat to the [more]
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Biography
- Born Mar 4th 1932 in New York, NY
Don Schlitten was involved in countless sessions as a producer, particularly with his main love, straight-ahead bop-oriented jazz. He co-founded the Signal label with Jules Colomby and Harold Goldberg in 1955, recording Duke Jordan, Gigi Gryce, Red Rodney and others. The label only lasted a couple years before being sold to Savoy. Schlitten worked as a producer on a freelance basis until the early '70s, when he joined Joe Fields in founding Cobblestone, a subsidiary of Buddah. Among Schlitten's major projects were a couple of Sonny Stitt's finest sessions (Tune Up and Constellation) and six records cut at the 1972 Newport In New York Jazz Festival. Later in 1972, Schlitten joined Fields at Muse and the two of them formed Onyx in 1973. A few years later, the partners ended their collaborations; Fields ended up with Muse, and Schlitten founded the Xanadu label. During the next decade, Don Schlitten produced over 200 releases for Xanadu, including current bop dates for the likes of Barry Harris, Al Cohn, Charles McPherson, and others, plus historical reissues of bop sessions (mostly small-label dates from the mid- to late '40s). Schlitten was not only the label head and producer, but wrote many of the liner notes. His labor of love largely became inactive in the late '80s with the rise of the CD, although some Xanadu dates have since been leased to European labels. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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