Suites (OJC) Jazz Party, Festival Session, Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia) Bill Evans Trio – Portrait in Jazz (Riverside) Jimmy Giuffre – The Easy Way (album) (Verve) Benny Golson – Gone with Golson, Groovin' with Golson (OJC) Chico Hamilton – The Three Faces of Chico (Warner Bros.) Gongs East! (Discovery) Coleman Hawkins – Hawk Eyes, (OJC) Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige) Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington – Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, Side by Side (Verve) Milt Jackson and John Coltrane – Bags & Trane (Atlantic) Wynton Kelly – Kelly Blue (Contemporary) Stan Kenton – Standards in Silhouette (Capitol) Yusef Lateef – Cry! – Tender (Prestige) Abbey Lincoln – Abbey Is Blue (Riverside/OJC) Jackie McLean – New Soil, Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note) Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Dynasty (Columbia), Blues and Roots (Atlantic) Blue Mitchell – Blue Soul (Riverside) Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall, 5 by Monk by 5 (Riverside/OJC) Wes Montgomery – The Wes Montgomery Trio (Riverside/OJC) Gerry Mulligan – Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Verve) Oliver Nelson – Meet Oliver Nelson (OJC) Art Pepper – Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary/OJC) Sun Ra and His Arkestra – Jazz in Silhouette (Saturn) Max Roach – The Many Sides of Max (Mercury) George Russell – New York, N.Y. (album) (Impulse) Horace Silver – Blowin' the Blues Away, Finger Poppin' (Blue Note) Jimmy Smith – The Sermon! (Blue Note) Frank Strozier – Fantastic Frank Strozier (Vee Jay) Dinah Washington- What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (Mercury) Ben Webster – Ben Webster and Associates (Verve) Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette (Savoy) Standards Deaths January 3 – Ed Cuffee, American trombonist (born 1902). 30 – Boyce Brown, American dixieland alto saxophonist (born 1910). February 14 – Baby Dodds, American drummer (born 1898). March 15 – Lester Young, American tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (born 1909). May 5 – Hal McIntyre, American saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (born 1914). 14 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (born 1897). June 5 – Lawrence Marrero, American banjoist (born 1900). 23 – Boris Vian, French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer (born 1920). July 11 – Shadow Wilson, American drummer (born 1919). 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer nicknamed "Lady Day" (born 1915). September 17