January - February 2010 - Worlds Records

FRESH SOUND566 COUNT BASIE COUNT BASIE IN LONDON How High The Moon • Shiny Stockings • PlymouthRock • Sixteen Men Swinging • Yesterdays • Flute Juice • Untitled • Blee Blop Blues • Nails • CornerPocket • Blues Backstage • Well, Alright, OK, You Win • Roll ‘em Pete • The Comeback • One O’clockJump • Jumpin’ At The Woodside (Personnel: Reunald Jones, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, Thad Jones,Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes, Marshall Royal, Bill Graham, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, CharlieFowlkes, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones, Sonny Payne, Joe Williams [1956] There is an unmatched, limitlessvitality to this band led by Count Basie. It has ensemble drive, and its charts are vital jazz statements whichdemand the best of soloists. Joe Newman, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, and Benny Powell’s playing is inspiredand meaningful, while Joe Williams’ singing is vibrantly effective. The rhythm section, with the great FreddieGreen, Eddie Jones and Sonny Payne is the ultimate basic of the band, and, of course, the key man here isThe Count himself. All musicians at the top of their games, the crowd is fanatically enthusiastic and the bandreturns their enthusiasm in full. Here is Basie’s band at its best! [Item Code: 65011 CD: $17.00]567 COUNT BASIE HALL OF FAME Blues Inside Out • Big Red • Trick Or Treat • Lady In Lace • FluteJuice • Lollypop • Slats • Move • Dolphin Dip • Stompin’ And Jumpin’ • Low Life (Personnel: RenauldJones, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Bill Hughes, Marshall Royal, Bill Graham, Frank Wess, Frank Foster,Charlie Fowlkes, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones, Sonny Payne) [1956] Strangely enough, “Hall Of Fame” has been forgotten, over the years, bymost of the big band fans. Recorded at the same time as the “April In Paris” sessions, this one truly deserves to be rediscovered. There is no explanationfor this album’s seemingly lack of recognition; it is every bit as good as the other. There is plentyof substantial moments on these sides. The opening, Inside Out, is a long slow blues, with Marshall Royalplaying some great, funky and warm clarinet choruses. Joe Newman’s perennial muted trumpet shines inLow Life. Frank Foster plays pretty in his own original Lady in Lace. The modern language of Thad Jones andFrank Wess is at its best on Move… and that Just to mention a few highlights. This is a must for any fan ofthe Count. Timeless. [Item Code: 65012 CD: $17.00]568 BOB BROOKMEYER PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST BOB BROOKMEYER Out Of Nowhere • DarnThat Dream • Blues Suite: Introduction And First Movement • Second Movement • Third Movement • FourthMovement • Mellow Drama • It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) • Air Conditioned • ThisCan’t Be Love • Exactly Like You • The Things I Love • Only When You Are Near • Green Stamps • You’reMy Everything • Co-Operation (Collective Personnel: Irving “Marky” Markowitz, Ray Copeland, Ernie Royal,Bernie Glow, Nick Travis, Frank Rehak, Bill Barber, Don Butterfield, Danny Bank, Al Cohn, Gene Quill,Gene Allen, George Duvivier, Charlie Persip, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Curtis Fuller, Hank Jones, WyntonKelly, Eddie Jones, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip, Paul Motian) [1959-1960] The portrait that emergesfrom this disc reveals a trombonist with excellent technique, a smooth, pungent percussive wit, dark and butterytone, down home stomping and slyly musical humor; a pianist who ranges from a basic, solid, four-square attack to a delightfully airy way; acomposer who is strongly conscious of the foundations of jazz; and an arranger who mainly writes with a heavy emphasis on a rolling swing, andoccasionally blending it with impressionistic devices, but always with strength and simplicity. In a revealinginsight, Nat Hentoff considered that “Brookmeyer has opened himself to jazz of all eras. He has absorbed,tested, and selected from the whole reservoir of autobiographies in sound that is the jazz language, thoseelements he felt relevant to his own experience in living and telling his history of jazz. He has not limitedhimself to any one era, school or attitude, preferring to filter all of jazz through his emotions rather thanremain a parochial hipster.” [Item Code: 65013 CD: $17.00]1638 ROY ELDRIDGE DIZZY GILLESPIE TOUR DE FORCE Steeplechase (Solos Order: Peterson, Eldridge,Gillespie, Edison) • Ballad Medley: I’m Through With Love (Soloist: Roy Eldridge) - The Nearness OfYou (Soloist: Dizzy Gillespie) - Moonlight In Vermont (Soloist: Roy Eldridge) - Summertime (Soloist: DizzyGillespie) • Tour De Force (Solos Order: Edison, Eldridge, Gillespie, Peterson) (Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie,Harry “Sweets” Edison, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich) [1955] During the JATP‘golden’ period, 1944-1958, a lot of albums were recorded, live or in the studios. Strangely enough, thisstudio session, which remains one of the best ever made in that context, has never been reissued on CD.The blowing is superb, and every trumpeter is not competing each together but conversing each together,which is very rare and important to emphasize. We know that neither Dizzy nor ‘Sweets’ were ever eager ofthese kinds of settings (battles of the horns). In this reunion, Roy plays more naturally and he’s more relaxed that he used to be, which it gives us amuch better good idea of what he really could do - very well - at that time. Three major soloists in full top form backed by a firm swinging rhythmsection. Encore appearance in catalog. [Item Code: 64362 CD: $17.00]1639 THE SAX SECTION JAZZ WORKSHOP UNDER THE DIRECTION OF AL COHN Shazam • TheMellow Side • Shutout • Double Fracture • While My Lady Sleeps • Shorty George • The Return Of TheRedhead • Villa Rowboats • Solsville • Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me • Blues For The High Brow • Tears By MeOut The Heart (Personnel: Romeo Penque, Phil Bodner, Peanuts Hucko, Charlie O’Kane, Boomie Richman,Sam Marowitz, Gene Quill, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Eddie Wasserman, Sol Schlinger, Johnny Williams, HankJones, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, Don Lamond) [1956] This CD contains sides made by three differentgroupings of reedmen and rhythm section. The usual big band section, as featured in group one, gets a finesound and offers Al Cohn and Gene Quill a framework for some excellent soloing. John Williams is heardfrom, too, with his solidly swinging piano style. The second grouping, with a woodwind instrumentationlends a different coloration to the section. Peanuts Hucko is featured on clarinet, Phil Bodner plays goodflute, and Boomie Richman sounds great on bass clarinet. The third set has three tenors and a baritone. A“Four Brothers” sound with Al and Zoot soloing and Hank Jones playing really lovely piano—tasty, clean,and swinging—behind them and on his own solos. As an experiment in the various shapes a sax section canbe drawn in, this was a very successful project. [Item Code: 65014 CD: $17.00]15 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 January - February 2010 15