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660 TONY FRUSCELLA BREW MOORE QUINTET THE 1954 UNISSUED ATLANTIC SESSION Blues Medium
• Minor Blues • Bill Triglia’s Original • Slow Blues • Brew’s Nightmare • Fast Blues • Blues Medium II • Minor Blues
II • Bill Triglia’s Original II • Brew’s Nightmare II • Fast Blues II • Blues Medium III • Blue Bells • Round-Up Time
(Collective Personnel: Brew Moore, Bill Triglia, Teddy Kotick, Bill Heine, Stan Getz, John Williams, Bill Anthony,
Frank Isola) [1954/1955] These recordings are among the rarest treasures in jazz, unseen and unheard since Atlantic
produced them in 1954, and their release can be considered an event for all the jazz community. This was a
relaxed and easy session, essentially valuable for the musicians involved, trumpeter Tony Fruscella, and tenor Brew
Moore, most particularly for the former. Fruscella who never enjoyed the recognition he deserved, was a poet of
the trumpet with a veiled, haunting sound and a touching, very personal conception. The other unsung hero of this
date is Brew Moore, a warm, emotional swinger whose musical god was Lester Young. A relaxed and swinging, but
subtle and sophisticated player, for this date he assembled the kind of quintet he was most at home with, to play the
sort of things they played in clubs, mostly variations on major and minor blues, and a delightfully original swinger by pianist Bill Triglia. Kindred
spirits all, they speak with a shared pleasure and freshness undimmed by the years since then. An addition to this legendary session are two sides
recorded in 1955 while the trumpeter was member of Stan Getz’s quintet, which project all the lyrical fire for which the group was celebrated.
[Item Code: 72689 CD: $18.00]
662 LURLEAN HUNTER THE VELVET VOICE OF LURLEAN HUNTER Lonesome Gal- Lonesome Gal • Alone Together • It’s You Or No One
• You Don’t Know What Love Is • You Make Me Feel So Young • My Heart And I Decided • It Never Entered My Mind • You’d Be So Nice To
Come Home To • Brief Encounter • A Stranger In Town • But Not For Me • On Green Dolphin Street • Night Life- Georgia On My Mind • What
A Difference A Day Made • Have You Met Miss Jones • That Old Feeling • It’s The Talk Of The Town • Gentleman Friend • Night Life • It Could
Happen To You • Moondrift • Sunday • Like Someone In Love • This Time The Dream’s On Me • Stepping Out- Steppin’ Out With My Baby •
Easy To Love • I Feel So Smoochie • Kiss Me Again • Old Devil Moon • If I Could Be With You • Blues In The Night • Nobody’s Heart • You Do
Something To Me • Under A Blanket Of Blue • Oh! Look At Me Now • Some Other Time • Blue And Sentimental-
Blue Turning Grey Over You • If You Could See Me Now • My Kinda Love • Crazy He Calls Me • Just Imagine •
Blue And Sentimental • The Song Is You • Then I’ll Be Tired Of You • Fool That I Am • We’ll Be Together Again •
As Long As I Live (Collective Personnel: Al Nevins, Ernie Royal, Urbie Green, Jimmy Buffington, Hal McKusick,
Frank Wess, Charlie Fowlkes, Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith, Osie Johnson, Phil Kraus, more) [1955-1957] 2-CD
set. Lurlean Hunter was, with all her skills, one of the most underappreciated singers in America. Other singers, who
held her in universal high regard, were in no doubt as to her quality. A singers’ singer, she was revered for her near
perfection in vocal styling, technique, and delivery, gifts she blended into a captivating combination. This distinction
is self-evident in the four albums she recorded during her career: ‘Lonesome Gal’ (1955), ‘Night Life’ (1956), ‘Stepping
Out’ (1957), and ‘Blue and Sentimental’ (1960). On them she is accompanied by orchestras filled by some of
the best New York jazz musicians. The skillful writing was provided by a handful of top arrangers, including Quincy
Jones, Marion Evans, Manny Albam, Al Cohn, Ernie Wilkins, Phil Moore, and Jimmy Giuffre. All of them - with the
exception of Cohn and Wilkins - also conducted their own scores. Throughout she is refreshingly unselfconscious, her voice strong and firm, her
conception mature and intelligent and her phrasing meaningful. Blessed with fantastic intonation, effortless ease and innate musicianship, she also
had an innately lyrical approach to the songs she sang, and they flowed out of her like something made of rich velvet, done in exquisite taste.
[Item Code: 72841 2-CD: $26.00]
663 THE JAZZ SOUL OF PORGY & BESS ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY BILL POTTS Summertime • A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
• My Man’s Gone Now • It Takes a Long Pull to Get Here • I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin • Bess, You Is My Woman • It Ain’t Necessarily So • Medley:
Minor Themes- Prayer- Strawberries Honey Man- Crab Man • I Loves You, Porgy • Clara, Clara • There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York •
Oh Bess, Oh, Where’s My Bess • Oh Lawd, I’m on My Way (Personnel: Charlie Shavers, Harry Edison, Bernie Glow, Art Farmer, Markie Makowitz,
Bob Brookmeyer, Frank Rehak, Earl Swope, Jimmy Cleveland, Rod Levitt, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Sol Schlinger, Bill Evans,
Herbie Powell, George Duvivier, Charlie Persip) [1959] Music that will endure, played with all the skill, passion and imagination that great jazz
musicians can bring to bear on it. These are but two of the basic factors which make ‘The Jazz Soul Of Porgy And
Bess’ one of the finest jazz albums ever made. Just as crucial was a third - the superb work of arranger Bill Potts,
which established him as a major figure in the field of arranging for jazz orchestra. Add to all that a score that includes
the top songs written by George and Ira Gershwin for this classic musical. The result was itself a multifaceted
classic, a faithful translation to the language of big band jazz of the emotional rollercoaster of love and tragedy set to
music by the Gershwins, brought to dramatic life by one of the finest groups of jazz ever assembled under one roof
for a recording session. [Item Code: 72842 CD: $18.00]
664 PAUL SERRANO QUINTET BLUES HOLIDAY Blues Holiday- Me, Too • Dream of Igor • Blues Holiday
• Little Niles • Mr. Lucky • Everything’s Coming Up Roses • Daddy-O Presents MJT + 3- Ray’s Idea • My One and
Only Love • End of the Line • They Can’t Take That Away From Me • Egypic • No Name • Temporarily Out of Order
• Little Brother • No Man’s Land (Collective Personnel: Bunky Green, Jodie Christian, Don Garrett, Pete LaRoca,
Nicky Hill , Richard Abrams, Bob Cranshaw, Walter Perkins) [1957/1960] In 1960, Paul Serrano was a young
trumpet player from Chicago, with a considerable and varied experience as a sideman, mainly in his hometown jazz
scene. Cannonball Adderley heard him there with this group of promising jazz musicians, and decided to record
him. The result was the album, ‘Blues Holiday,’ on which Serrano’s quintet displays a driving, penetrating attack
that was carried partly by the leader’s flaring, brassy trumpet, and partly by Bunky Green’s hard, lean, multitoned
alto saxophone, that reflected the band’s strength and potential. The rhythm section is tight and ideal, with fine solos
by Jodie Christian and further bolstered by Pete LaRoca, who filled in when the quintet’s regular drummer was
unavailable for the date. The other album included here finds a younger Serrano when he was member of another
outstanding Chicago quintet, MJT + 3; the name stands for Modern Jazz Two, and refers to bassist Bob Cranshaw and
drummer Walter Perkins, the co-leaders, while the three are Serrano, tenor Nicky Hill, and pianist Richard Abrams.
It was a strong, empathetic group and makes a fitting addition to this homage to Paul Serrano, an unsung hardbop
trumpeter. [Item Code: 72843 CD: $17.00]
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