Winter 2011-2012 - Worlds Records

FRESH SOUND
650 GARY CROSBY BELTS THE BLUES - THE HAPPY BACHELOR Sentimental Journey • What’s Your Story,
Morning Glory? • In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning • Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me) • After The Lights
Go Down Low • St. Louis Blues • Miss You So • Night Train • Baltimore Oriole • I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts
Of Town • Mood Indigo • Blues In The Night • The Happy Bachelor • Glow Worm • Into Each Life Some Rain Must
Fall • This Little Girl Of Mine • Side By Side • You Won’t Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart • I’ve Got My Love
To Keep Me Warm • Manana • I’ll Never Be Free • Ole Buttermilk Sky • Undecided • I’m Beginning To See The
Light (Personnel: Paul Smith, Gene Estes, Howard Roberts, Joe Mondragon, Bill Richmond, Pete Candoli) [1959]
The eldest of Bing Crosby’s sons, Gary, became, almost inevitably, part of the entertainment business from his early
teens, performing for quite a few years with considerable success as an actor and singer. In the late 50s, while he was
still enjoying the limelight, he recorded these two albums, singing with swing, conviction and the benefit of some
exceptionally crisp and driving jazz backing. On the first, ‘G.C. Belts the Blues,’ an eleven-piece band conducted
and arranged by Marty Paich provides the swinging framework to Crosby’s interpretations of well known, bluesy tunes. On the second, ‘The Happy
Bachelor,’ arranger Bunny Botkin uses a quartet with guitar, with the occasional addition of a trumpet or a vibist to make it a quintet. The group’s
support adds zest to a collection of pleasant tunes, while Crosby’s charm and personality reveal an artist of style and individuality. [Item Code:
72679 CD: $17.00]
651 THE MONTGOMERY BROTHERS WES, BUDDY & MONK THE MONTGOMERYLAND SESSIONS PLUS HORNS & STRINGS BY GERALD
WILSON Far Wes • Leila • Old Folks • Wes’ Tune • Hymn For Carl • Montgomeryland Funk • Stompin’ At The Savoy • Far Wes • Leila • Old Folks
• Montgomeryland Funk • Summertime • Monk’s Shop • Falling In Love With Love • Renie • Summertime • Falling In Love With Love (Collective
Personnel: Harold Land, Tony Bazley, Louis Hayes, Pony Poindexter, John Audino, Larry McGuire, Alex Rodriguez, Jerome Rusch, Frank Strong, Lester
Robertson, Thurman Green, Mike Wimberly) [1958-1959/1968] The celebrated performances here, among the first that Wes Montgomery recorded,
come from 1958 and 1959, but acclaim for the guitarist shouldn’t diminish the impact of the other Montgomery Brothers - the skillful Buddy at the
piano, and the steady, driving Monk on electric bass, not to mention the men on the other dates. Harold Land, whose
robustly inventive tenor contrasts beautifully with the guitarist’s more gentle conception, is second only to him in
solo honors. The other horn in this set is the spare, direct and eloquent alto sax of Pony Poindexter, a player steeped
in the jazz tradition. [Item Code: 72680 CD: $17.00]
652 ERNIE HENRY PRESENTING ERNIE HENRY WITH KENNY DORHAM Gone With The Wind • Orient •
Free Flight • Checkmate • Cleo’s Chant • I Should Care • Active Ingredients • Lotus Blossom • Soon • The End Of
A Love Affair • I’ll Be Seeing You • Noose Bloos • S’posin’ • Is It True What They Say About Dixie? • Jazz-Classic
(Collective Personnel: Kenny Dorham, Eddie Mathias, Wilbur Ware, Granville T. Hogan, more) [1956-1957] By
1956 the trumpet of Kenny Dorham was recognized as one of the most exciting and swinging; he had become one
of the key voices in modern jazz. He had gone through the years from his first prominence in the Hampton, Eckstine,
and Gillespie bands, to the Charlie Parker and Art Blakey groups - always respected and admired, but never winning
any polls and never going out after individual fame as a leader. In this recordings he introduced his friend Ernie
Henry, a gifted alto player and jazz writer, with a firm command of his instrument, a fresh sound, and more than his
share of legitimately new ideas. He had been a part of the bop scene of the late 1940s, and had appeared on records
with Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, and Howard McGhee. His moment had arrived: he was fully ready to be heard
and enjoyed by as many as would give themselves that privilege. That Kenny and Ernie were close transpires in the
sound they achieve together: the fact is that Kenny and Ernie had known each other for a long time and had worked
out extensively in the Henry basement, although this was their first opportunity to demonstrate in a recording studio
their cohesive playing and thinking. [Item Code: 72681 CD: $17.00]
653 ERNIE HENRY THE LAST SESSIONS Beauty And The Blues • Autumn Leaves • Melba’s Tune • Stablemates
• All The Things You Are • I Get A Kick Out Of You • My Ideal • I’ve Got The World On A String • Sweet Lorraine
• Soon • Lover Man • Specific Gravity • Like Someone In Love • Like Someone In Love (Alternate Take) (Collective
Personnel: Melba Liston, Cecil Payne, Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Wilbur Ware, Philly Joe Jones) [1957] The
great bop trumpeter, Fats Navarro, used to tell his friends that the ill-starred Ernie Henry was the only other altoist
beside Bird who had something different, something very much worth having. Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Henry took
up violin at eight and alto at twelve and was discovered by Tadd Dameron, who asked him to join his band at the
Famous Door in 1947. He left Dameron after a year to play with Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie’s big band and the
groups of Charlie Ventura, Max Roach, Georgie Auld and Kenny Dorham. During his later, second stint in Gillespie’s
band (1956-57) his work was brilliant, often spectacular. On these, his final recording sessions, he was clearly on
the verge of finding himself musically. [Item Code: 72682 CD: $17.00]
654 HERBIE MANN AFRO-JAZZ SEXTET AFRICAN SUITE PLUS THE HERBIE MANN NONET FLUTE,
BRASS,VIBES & PERCUSSION St. Thomas • Jungle Fantasy • Sorimao • Bedouin-Part I • Sudan- Part II • Ekunda-
Part III • Guinean- Part IV • Dearly Beloved • You Stepped Out Of A Dream • I’ll Remember April • A Ritual • Fife ‘n
Tambourie Corps • Autumn Leaves (Personnel: Bob Corwin, Jack Six, Philly Joe Jones, Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes, Victor
Pantoja, Johnny Rae, Nabil ‘Knobby’ Totah, Rudy Collins, Ray Mantilla, Ray Barretto, ‘Doc’ Cheatham, Siggy Schatz,
Jerome Kail, Leo Ball) [1959] Herbie Mann was one of the most forthright, rhythmically acute and culturally
receptive of jazz flute players, virtues amply demonstrated on the two albums, made when, inspired by a stint with
Machito’s Afro-Cuban orchestra in 1958, he decided to form his own small-combo using some of the same basic
rhythmic concepts and opened with the new group in June 1959 at New York’s Basin Street East club. The move
established Mann as the leading exponent of jazz played with African percussion instruments added to the rhythm
section, a position underlined by his passionate playing and consistent musical perception on these two albums.
Although vibraphonist Johnny Rae is exhilarating throughout both, at the music’s core remains the wonderfully exciting
rhythmic interplay between the congas, bongos and drums. With this combination of ingredients Mann created
a signature style for himself for a time, one which appealed not only to jazz audiences, but whose accessibility also
appealed to audiences not normally receptive to jazz. [Item Code: 72683 CD: $17.00]
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