January - February 2009 - Worlds Records

LONE HILL JAZZ
10358 BUDDY DE FRANCO QUINTET COOKING THE BLUES + SWEET & LOVELY I Can’t Get Started
• Cooking The Blues • Stardust • How About You • Little Girl Blue • Indian Summer • Getting A Balance •
Old Black Magic • They Say It’s Wonderful • But Beautiful • The Nearness Of You • What Can I Say Dear
[After I Say I’m Sorry?] • Moe (Personnel: Sonny Clark, Tal Farlow, Gene Wright, Bobby White) [1954]
Buddy De Franco’s two albums Cooking the Blues and Sweet & Lovely contain material from three different
quintet sessions featuring the same personnel. In John A. Tynan’s 1958 review for Down Beat magazine, he
expressed the desire to have both of the aforementioned LPs compiled in their complete form on one sole
edition. His wish has finally been granted 50 years later on this CD! [Item Code: 63643 CD: $15.00]
10359 OSCAR PETERSON PLAYS AND SINGS SOFT SANDS + PLAYS “MY FAIR LADY” Soft Sands
• On The Outside Looking In • It Happens Every Spring • Chanel • You Took Advantage Of Me • Why,
Oh Why • Song To The Stars • Echoes • I’ve Never Left Your Arms • I Can’t Get Started • Dream On
A Summer Night • Susquehanna • I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face • Get Me To The Church On
Time • Show Me • I Could Have Danced All Night • On The Street Where You Live • Wouldn’t It Be
Lovely • The Rain In Spain • The Golden Striker (Personnel: Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman)
[1957] To limit a pianist like Oscar Peterson – who is mostly known for his swinging style – to playing straight melodies on what in the mid-fifties
was called a “mood” album, seems an unlikely possibility. However, like many other jazz pianists of the period, Peterson was a lover of good
melodies, and also enjoyed playing them with subtle embellishment. On his 1957 album Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady (added here in its
complete form as a bonus LP), which is surely more jazzy than Soft Sands, the pianist pays great attention
to playing melodies straigh. Another point of interest on this rare Peterson album is the opportunity to hear
him sing. The pianist had a very beautiful voice creating a romantic ambiance that contrasted with his more
characteristic swinging piano style. [Item Code: 63644 CD: $15.00]
10360 THELONIOUS MONK FEATURING JOHNNY GRIFFIN COMPLETE LIVE AT THE FIVE SPOT
Light Blue • Coming On The Hudson • Rhythm-A-Ning • Just A Gigolo • Blue Monk • Evidence • Epistrophy
[Theme] • Nutty • Blues Five Spot • Let’s Cool One • In Walked Bud • Misterioso • Epistrophy [Theme]
• Evidence • Blues Five Spot • In Walked Bud • Sweet Stranger • ‘Round Midnight • Bya-Ya•Epistrophy •
Coming On The Hudson (Collective Personnel: Johnny Griffin, Ahmed-Abdul Malik, Roy Haynes, Donald
Byrd, Pepper Adams, Wilbur Ware, Philly Joe Jones) [1958] 2-CD set. Just after John Coltrane left him and
before the arrival of Charlie Rouse, Thelonious Monk formed a quartet with Johnny Griffin, which played at
the Five Spot in New York during 1958. Half of this music was issued on two albums: In Action and Misterioso.
This edition contains all known music from that gig plus a rare bonus track also featuring Griffin. As a
bonus, a rare sextet selection by Monk including Griffin, Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams. Includes 16-page
booklet. [Item Code: 63645 2-CD: $25.00]
10361 HELEN MERRILL THE NEARNESS OF YOU Bye Bye Blackbird • When The Sun Comes Out • I Remember You • Softly, As In A Morning
Sunrise • Dearly Beloved • Summertime • All Of You • I See Your Face Before Me • Let Me Love You • The Nearness Of You • This Time The Dream’s On
Me • Just Imagine • The Blues [From Black, Brown & Beige] • Am I Blue? • Blue Gardenia • You’ve Got A Date
With The Blues • The Thrill Is Gone • When The World Was Young • Blues In My Heart • Vous M’eblouissez
(You Go To My Head) • Lorsque Tu M’embrasses (Just Squeeze Me) • The Meaning Of The Blues • Signing Off
(Collective Personnel: Bobby Jaspar, Bill Evans, George Russell, Oscar Pettiford, Jo Jones, Mike Simpson,
Dick Marx, Fred Rundquist, Johnny Frigo, Jerry Slosberg, Kenny Dorham, Jerome Richardson, Frank Wess,
Jimmy Jones, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Al Hall, Johnny Cresci) [1957-1959] Two albums on one CD.
The complete original LPs The Nearness of You and You’ve Got a Date with the Blues, presenting Merrill in
splendid form backed by swinging combos. Featuring Bill Evans, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Jaspar, Oscar Pettiford,
Milt Hinton & Jo Jones. Includes 16-page booklet. Although she was well-known among fellow musicians,
Helen Merrill wasn’t a star like Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald at the time these two albums were
made. Her recording debut consisted of a few songs made with the Earl Hines sextet in December 1952,
followed by a couple of tunes with Jimmy Raney in 1953. She would also record four tracks with an orchestra
conducted by Johnny Richards in February 1954 prior to her participation on the justly celebrated sessions
with Clifford Brown (December 22 & 24, 1954), which would mark her first LP. In fact, Merrill would never
become as “commercial” as Sarah, Ella, or even Dinah Washington, and she only gained greater fame after
she started touring Europe shortly after the two albums compiled here were made. [Item Code: 63646 CD: $15.00]
LOUP GAROUS
1004 DAN LEVINSON AND HIS SWING WING LIVE AT THE CODFISH BALL At The Codfish Ball •
A Garden In The Rain • Old Man Moon • Hot Club Stomp • The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies, O! • Promenade
Aux Champs-Elysees • Last Night • Arabian Rhapsody • I Didn’t Know About You • Keep Smiling At Trouble
(Trouble’s A Bubble) • The Milkman’s Matinee • Oh Peter (You’re So Nice) • Mis’ry And The Blues • Dr.
Heckle And Mr. Jibe • Ten Cents A Dance • Copenhagen • A Brown Bird Singing • The Lorelei (Personnel:
Randy Reinhart, Jim Fryer, Mark Shane, Matt Munisteri, Mike Weatherly, Kevin Dorn, Molly Ryan) At the
Codfish Ball is the culmination of many years of preparation, during which time producer/arranger/musician
Dan Levinson collected material and wrote arrangements. He has brought together an all-star lineup
of talent to produce a tour de force that combines driving rhythm, lush harmony, and timeless melodies.
Although most of Dan’s previous CDs have focused on ragtime and early jazz, At the Codfish Ball is decidedly
swing, a prominent aspect of his musical persona virtually unexplored in his own recordings.
Code: 63718 CD: $16.00]
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