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581 ANITA O’DAY ANITA MEETS THE RHYTHM SECTIONS No Soap, No Hope Blues • Speak Low •
The Lady Is A Tramp • A Strawberry Moon • The Gypsy In My Soul • Just One Of Those Things • The Man
I Love • Frankie And Johnny • Anita’s Blues • I Cover The Waterfront • I Didn’t Know What Time It Was •
Let’s Fall In Love • You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me • From This Moment On • You Don’t Know What
Love Is • Medley: There Will Never Be Another You - Just Friends • Who Cares? • Fine And Dandy • As Long
As I Live • Beautiful Love • Don’t Be That Way • Let’s Face The Music And Dance • Pick Yourself Up • I
Used To Be Color Blind (Collective Personnel: Roy Kral, Arnold Ross, Bud Lavin, Jimmy Rowles, Paul Smith,
Earl Backus, Barney Kessel, Tal Farlow, Johnny Frigo, Monty Budwig, Leroy Vinnegar, Joe Mondragon, Red
Lionberg, Jackie Mills, John Poole, Alvin Stoller, Larry Bunker, Jimmy Wilson) [1954•1959] Few vocalists
merited the compliment of ‘singer’s singer’ as thoroughly as Anita O’Day. This is Miss O’Day at her best. On
these sides she sings accompanied by some of the finest rhythm sections, with her hotly wailing beat and
an intensely personal, jazz-driven phrasing that is an exciting delight. Above all, there is the warm, husky
O’Day sound, a happiness, a sensual zest in the pleasures of blowing with the voice, that combine into one
of the most infectious delights of jazz listening. [Item Code: 65546 CD: $17.00]
582 JUNIOR MANCE TRIO JUNIOR A Smooth One • Miss Jackie’s Delight • Whisper Not • Love For Sale • Lilacs In The Rain • Small
Fry • Jubilation • Birk’s Works • Blues For Beverlee • Junior’s Tune • Hot Springs (*) • 111 East Ontario (*) (Collective Personnel: Ray Brown,
Lex Humphries, Israel Crosby, Buddy Smith) (*- bonus tracks) [1954•1959] Oscar Peterson notes that Junior has the unusual ability to exude
tremendous emotional qualities in his playing whilst still retaining the necessary and fundamental swinging
condiments inherent in jazz. Junior Mance is a new direction as far as modern jazz pianists are concerned.
His ideas have the continuity and diversification that lend a story-telling quality to his playing. [Item Code:
65545 CD: $17.00]
583 TERRY GIBBS AND HIS DREAM BAND SWING IS HERE Opus #1 • Moten Swing • I’m Getting’
Sentimental Over You • Let’s Dance • Stardust • Cotton Tail • Begin The Beguine • Jumpin’ At The
Woodside • Prelude To A Kiss • Don’t Be That Way • Midnight Sun • Flying Home • The Song Is You • It
Might As Well Be Swing • Dancing In The Dark • Moonglow • Bright Eyes • The Fat Man • My Reverie •
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise • Evil Eyes • Back Bay Shuffle (Personnel: Conte Candoli, Al Porcino, Ray
Triscari, Phil Gilbert, Stu Williamson, John Audino, Frank Rosolino, Vern Friley, Tommy Shepard, Bob Pring,
Bob Enevoldsen, Charlie Kennedy, Joe Maini, Med Flory, Bill Holman, Bill Perkins, Jack Schwartz, Pete Jolly,
Lou Levy, Max Bennett, Joe Mondragon, Buddy Clark, Mel Lewis) [1959-1960] All the vitality and sparkle
of the Terry Gibbs’ Dream Band is infectiously conjured up here. Spirit is the key word: it is certain that the
essence of jazz captured in Gibbs’ albums - Launching a New Band, and Swing Is Her - has everything to do
with the jazz nature of the musicians involved, and their unwavering loyalty to the idea of this big band, with
Gibbs, the focal point, bringing all his musical effervescence to bear on these exciting performances. The penchant for Woody Herman’s groove is
apparent, and traces of Basie crop up from time to time in the clean, precise and powerful treatment of deftly written charts played with the emphasis
on heat and swing. And they remain equally rewarding on all levels. [Item Code: 65544 CD: $17.00]
584 ANITA O’DAY SINGS BUDDY BREGMAN & JIMMY GIUFFRE ARRANGEMENTS HOT & COOL
HEAT You’re The Top • Honeysuckle Rose • No Moon At All • I’ll See You In My Dreams • I Never Had
A Chance • Stompin’ At The Savoy • Sweet Georgia Brown • I Won’t Dance • Let’s Begin • Come Rain Or
Come Shine • You’re A Clown • Easy Come, Easy Go • A Lover Is Blue • Mack The Knife • Gone With The
Wind • Hershey Bar • My Heart Belongs To Daddy • Orphan Annie • The Way You Look Tonight • It Had
To Be You • Hooray For Hollywood (Collective Personnel: Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Gil
Falco, Tom Reeves, Milt Bernhart, Lloyd Ulyate, Joe Howard, Si Zentner, Frank Rosolino, Gil Falco, Alan
Harding, Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Les Robinson, Stan Getz, Richie Kamuca, Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Smith, Andre
Previn, Barney Kessel, Jim Hall, Joe Mondragon, George Morrow, Alvin Stoller, Mel Lewis) [1955-1959]
Anita O’Day shows in this set why her over-all feeling and delivery mark her as one of the few women in
the field who could ever accurately be called a jazz singer. She was a more imaginative singer than her
imitators, not merely because she was original, but also because she was much more inventive. Two talented
and utterly dissimilar arrangers contributed the imaginatively varied scores for these sessions, the first two by
Buddy Bregman, the last three by Jimmy Giuffre. Reveling in the settings - the difference between hot and
cool - Anita O’Day has a great time, not only on the swinging tunes, to which she contributes some trademark, zestful, inventive scatting, but also
in singing ballads with a sure touch. Backing her, Bregman and Giuffre used some of the finest Hollywood jazzmen, with Stan Getz particularly
warm and lyrical on I Never Had a Chance. These are probably the best jazz sides recorded by Anita O’Day
in the Fifties, and if you enjoy vocal records in the slightest bit. [Item Code: 65543 CD: $17.00]
1642 YOUNG MEN FROM MEMPHIS DOWN HOME REUNION Things Ain’t What They Used to
Be • Blue ‘N’ Boogie • After Hours • Star Eyes (Young Men: Booker Little, Louis Smith, Frank Strozier,
George Coleman, Phineas Newborn Jr., Calvin Newborn, George Joyner, Charles Crosby) [1959] Few cities
of comparable size have produced the extraordinary flowering of talent represented by the eight jazzmen
from Memphis heard here. Preeminent among them, of course, are Booker Little, a precocious and singular
trumpeter who died tragically young, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, who subsequently made his name
with Miles Davis, the searingly blues-inflected alto of Frank Strozier and the gifted Phineas Newborn Jr, a
remarkably virtuosic pianist, whose stunning, two-handed unison playing attracted astonishment and admiration
in equal measure. Add to that the authoritative trumpet of Louis Smith, who carved out a career in the
upper echelons of jazz, while the fleet and reliable Calvin Newborn on guitar and George Joyner on bass,
with drummer Charles Crosby, formed a richly supportive rhythm section. It was a reunion of home-town
boys from a city previously celebrated for its associations with blues composer W.C. Handy and, fittingly, it
produced some memorable music. [Item Code: 65542 CD: $17.00]
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