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AVID 1034 SONNY STITT FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS - SAXOPHONE SUPREMACY - PERSONAL APPEARANCE - SITS IN WITH THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO - THE BATTLE OF BIRDLAND Saxophone Supremacy- I Cover The Waterfront • Lazy Bones • Sunday • Just Friends • All Of Me • Two Bad Days Blues • It’s You Or No One • Blue Smile • Personal Appearance- Easy To Love • Easy Living • Autumn In New York • You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To • For Some Friends • I Never Knew • Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea • East Of The Sun • Original? • Avalon • Blues Greasy • Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love • Au Privave • The Gypsy • I’ll Remember April • Scrapple From The Apple • Moten Swing • Blues For Pres, Sweets, Ben And All The Other Funky Ones • Easy Does It • The Battle Of Birdland- Marchin’ • S.O.S. • Jaws • I Can’t Get Started (Collective Personnel: Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, Lou Levy, Bobby Timmons, Oscar Peterson, Leroy Vinnegar, Ray Brown, Mel Lewis, Ed Thigpen, more) [1954-1959] 2-CD set. Across four wonderfully diverse albums, Sonny is amongst four jazz quartets all discovering something new about each other along their musical journey. ‘Saxophone Supremacy’ finds Sonny alongside Lou Levy on piano, Leroy Vinegar on bass and Mel Lewis on drums. For ‘Personal Appearance’ he is joined by Bobby Timmins on piano, Edgar Willis on bass and Kenny Dennis on drums. ‘The Battle Of Birdland’ recorded one Sunday night at New York’s famed Birdland club, Sonny teams up with fellow sax titan Eddie Davis for a supercharged blowing session alongside Doc Bagby and Charlie Rice. Finally Sonny joins the Oscar Peterson Trio for a 1959 date ‘Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio’ paying tribute to amongst others, his great influence Charlie Parker, Sweets Edison, Ben Wbster, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie. [Item Code: 67202 2-CD: $19.00] 1036 BUCK CLAYTON THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS SONGS FOR SWINGERS - BUCK MEETS RUBY - HARRY EDISON SWINGS BUCK CLAYTON Songs For Swingers- Swinging At The Copper Rail • Outer Drive • Swingin’ Along On Broadway • Night Train • Mean To Me • Buckini • Moonglow • Sunday • Duke Ellington And The Buck Clayton All-Stars At Newport (One LP Side)- You Can Depend On Me • Newport Jump • In A Mellotone • ‘Buck Meets Ruby’- I Can’t Get Started • Love Is Just Around The Corner • Just A Groove • Kandee • Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton- Memories For The Count • Come With Me • Critic’s Delight • Oh How I Hate To Get Up In The Afternoon • It All Depends On You- Charmaine- How Long Has This Been Going On- Makin’ Whoopee • Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars- Royal Garden Blues • Sunday • Dinah • Deed I Do (Collective Personnel: Harry Edison, Ruby Braff, Vic Dickenson, Dicky Wells, J.J. Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Tate, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Jones, Freddie Green, Gus Johnson, more) [1954-1959] 2-CD set. On ‘Songs for Swingers’ all the writing is by Buck. Buck’s trumpet style is synonymous with good taste. His arrangements which are lucid and direct and always so constructed as to permit swinging interpretations’. ‘Buck Meets Ruby’ It’s Ruby Braff’s trumpet which gives this album that quality of excitement only rarely found in jam sessions. On ‘Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton’ Harry is playing with greater finesse and originality than in the Basie days. The pairing of Harry and Buck brings back some of the happiest memories in Jazz. [Item Code: 67280 2-CD: $19.00] 1037 HARRY EDISON THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS THE SWINGER - MR SWING - HARRY EDISON - GEE, BABY AIN’T I GOOD TO YOU The Swinger- Pussy Willow • The Very Thought Of You • Nasty • The Strollers • Sunday • Fair Ground • Mr. Swing, Harry Edison- Love Is Here To Stay • Short Coat • Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home • Impressario • Ill Wind • Gee, Baby Ain’t I Good To You- Blues For Piney Brown • Blues For The Blues • Blues For Bill Basie • Gee, Baby Ain’t I Good To You • You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me • Taste On The Place • Moonlight In Vermont • Sweets- Hollering At The Watkins • Used To Be Basie From Sweets • How Deep Is The Ocean • Studio Call • Love Is Here To Stay • K.M.Blues • Walkin’ With Sweets (Collective Personnel: Ben Webster, Jimmy Forrest, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Rowles, Jimmy Jones, Freddie Green, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Joe Benjamin, Joe Mondragon, Charlie Persip, Alvin Stoller, more) [1956-1958] 2-CD set. Harry Edison is the studio horn man of choice for both Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Here are a few well chosen quotes from the original sleeve notes to convey what you can expect on these finely re-mastered albums. ‘The Swinger’: In the words of Quincy Jones, then a rookie player himself: ‘It was the directness of what he did that made such an impression on me. he swung straight ahead. He has pure heart’. ‘Mr Swing- Harry Edison’: Using the same personnel as ‘The Swinger’, Jimmy Forrest tenor, Jimmy Jones piano, Freddie Green guitar, Joe Benjamin bass and Charlie Persip on drums, finds ‘Sweets’ in a more informal setting than his usual hot swinging mood. ‘Uncomplicated and plenty of room to solo’. ‘Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You’: Take a look at that line up. Sweets himself, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis and Alvin Stoller on drums. The relaxed mood continues with Webster displaying an ever richer sound with his tenor. The plus comprises seven of nine tracks from the album ‘Sweets’. As named by Lester Young, Sweets pretty much takes full ownership of this set, arranging all the selections and writing six of them. Let’s finish with the last quote from the ‘Sweets’ album. ‘Sweets Edison does have a readily identifiable sound. a powerful, virile, insinuating sound that is one of the most interesting around today. one which will be fresh when all the ephemeral cult sounds have been forgotten’. [Item Code: 67281 2-CD: $19.00] 1038 BEN WEBSTER THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS - BLUE SAXOPHONES - SOULVILLE - THE SOUL OF BEN WEBSTER Blue Saxophone- Tangerine • La Rosita • Cocktails For Two • Shine On Harvest Moon • You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To • Blues For Yolande • Maria • It Never Entered My Mind • Prisoner Of Love • Soulville- Soulville • Late Date • Time On My Hands • Lover Come Back To Me • Where Are You • Makin’ Whoopee • Ill Wind • The Soul Of Ben Webster- Fajista • Chelsea Bridge • Charlotte’s Piccolo • Coal Train • When I Fall In Love • Ev’s Mad • Ash • Sophisticated Lady- All To Soon • Love Is Here To Stay • It Happens To Be Me • My Funny Valentine • You’re Mine, You • Sophisticated Lady • Love’s Away (Collective Personnel: Art Farmer, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Jones, Tony Scott, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Billy Strayhorn, Mundell Lowe, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, more) [1954-1957] 2-CD set. Take the Oscar Peterson Trio with Alvin Stoller on drums, add two of the greatest tenor saxophonists who ever lived, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster and voila, you have ‘Blue Saxophones’. Two masters together in 1957, one (Hawkins) a huge influence on the other (Webster), but now, both very much their own men. On ‘Soulville’, Ben is once again joined by the Oscar Peterson Trio for another 1957 date. This time sitting in on drums is Stan Levey. On ‘The Soul Of Ben Webster’, Ben is joined by fellow tenor man Harold Ashby alongside among others Art Farmer on trumpet and Jimmy Jones on piano in a 1958 blowing date. [Item Code: 72719 2-CD: $19.00] 8 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 15% Discount On Everything 8
AVID 1040 JOHNNY HODGES THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS THE BLUES - IN A TENDER MOOD - JOHNNY HODGES AND HIS STRINGS PLAY THE PRETTIEST GERSHWIN The Blues- Rosanne • Hodge-Podge • Jappa • Through For The Night • Sheik Of Araby • Latino • Johnny’s Blues • Indiana • Easy Going Bounce • Burgundy Walk • More Of Johnny Hodges- Ballad Medley: Autumn In New York- Sweet Lorraine- Time On My Hands- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes- If You Were Mine- Poor Butterfly- All Of Me • On The Sunny Side Of The Street • Warm Valley • Madam Butterfly • Skokiaan • Used To Be Duke • In A Tender Mood- Who’s Excited • Sweepin’ The Blues Away • Standing Room Only • Below The Azores • Sweet Georgia Brown • Duke’s Blues • Tenderly • Tea For Two • What’s I’m Gotchere • Johnny Hodges And His Strings Play The Prettiest Gershwin- Nothin’ Yet • Sweet As Bear Meat • Love Is Here To Stay • Nice Work If You Can Get It • ‘S Wonderful • Summertime • Soon • But Not For Me • Somebody Loves Me • They Can’t Take That Away From Me • Someone To Watch Over Me • They All Laughed • The Man I Love • Oh, Lady Be Good (Collective Personnel: Ben Webster, Red Callender, Ray Brown, Lawrence Brown, Leroy Lovett, Louis Bellson, Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Hamilton, Harry Carney, Emmett Berry, Al Sears, Flip Phillips, Jim Marshall, J.C Heard, more) [1952- 1958] 2-CD set. Avid kicks off with ‘The Blues’ and the Orchestra indeed has blues in mind during these dates from 1952 through 1954. Jumping aboard to help ‘Rabbit’ for more big band favorites are among others Louis Bellson, Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Hamilton and Harry Carney. ‘In A Tender Mood’, as the title suggests finds ‘Rabbit’ in a tender mood, as he remarks in the original album liner notes after being asked what music hits him the most emotionally. Concluding the quartet of classics is the album ‘Johnny Hodges And His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin’ recorded in Stuttgart in 1958. [Item Code: 72760 2-CD: $19.00] 1041 SHORTY ROGERS FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS THE BIG SHORTY ROGERS EXPRESS - SHORTY ROGERS AND HIS GIANTS - WHER- EVER THE FIVE WINDS BLOW - CHANCES ARE IT SWINGS The Big Shorty Rogers Express- Blues Express • Pink Squirrel • Coop De Graas • Infinity Promenade • Short Stop • Boar- Jibu • Pay The Piper • Home With Sweets • Tale Of An African Lobster • Contours • Chiquito Loco • The Sweetheart Of Sigmund Freud • Shorty Rogers And His Giants- Morpo • Bunny • Powder Puff • Mambo Del Crow • Joycycle • The Lady Is A Tramp • The Pesky Serpent • Diablo’s Dance • Pirouette • Indian Club • The Goof And I • My Little Suede Shoes • Wherever The Five Winds Blow- Hurricane Carol • Breezin’ Along In The Trades • Marooned In A Monsoon • The Chinook That Melted My Heart • Prevailing On The Westerlies • Chances Are It Swings- Chances Are • No Such Luck • It’s Not For Me To Say • Lilac Chiffon • I Just Don’t Know • Who Needs You • Everybody Loves A Lover • Come To Me • My Very Good Friend In The Looking Glass • You Know How It Is • A Very Special Love • Teacher, Teacher (Collective Personnel: Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Jimmy Giuffre, Marty Paich, Pete & Conte Candoli, Bud Shank, Barney Kessell, Red Norvo, Paul Horn, Lou Levy, Ralph Pena, Larry Bunker, more) [1953-1958] 2-CD set. On ‘The Big Shorty Rogers Express’ the famed arranger and trumpeter Shorty Rogers moves away from the small group format and into the big band field. Shorty is once again joined by many fine players on ‘Shorty Rogers And His Giants’ including Milt Bernhart on trombone, Hampton Hawes on piano, John Grass on French horn alongside stalwarts Art Pepper, Jimmy Giuffre, and Shelly Manne for a combination of swing and small group numbers. On ‘Wherever The Five Wind Blows’, Jimmy Giuffre, Lou Levy, Ralph Pena and Larry Bunker join Shorty in a meteorlogical blowing journey where the band swings with its usual tasteful and mellifluous style. In ‘Wherever The Five Winds Blow’, Shorty encounters monsoons, hurricanes and prevailing Westerlies while the music remains beautifully explanatory and the band, all rightfully famous, are on top form. [Item Code: 72761 2-CD: $19.00] 1042 ANDRE PREVIN FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS - WEST SIDE STORY - COLLABORATION - KING SIZE - PAL JOEY West Side Story- Something’s Coming • Jet Song • Tonight • I Feel Pretty • Gee, Officer Krupke! • Cool • Maria • America • Collaboration- It’s Delovely • Porterhouse • Heat Wave • 40 Degrees Below • You Stepped Out Of A Dream • Claudia • You Do Something To Me • Call For Cole • Everything I’ve Got • Some Antics • It Only Happens When I Dance With You • General Cluster • King Size- I’ll Remember April • Much Too Late • You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To • It Could Happen To You • Low And Inside • I’m Beginning To See The Light • Pal Joey- I Could Write A Book • That Terrific Rainbow • Bewitched • Take Him • Zip • It’s A Great Big Town • What Is A Man • I’m Talkin’ With My Pal • Do It The Hard Way (Collective Personnel: Red Mitchell, Shelly Manne, Bud Shank, Jimmy Giuffre, Al Hendrickson, more) [1954-1959] 2-CD set. ‘West Side Story’ is a 1959 recording of the classic Leonard Bernstein score featuring Andre Previn on piano accompanied by Red Mitchell on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. In Bernstein’s thoughts from his book ‘The Joy Of Music’ ‘A popular song doesn’t become jazz until it is improvised on, and there you have the real core of jazz improvisation’. On ‘Collaboration’ Andre is joined by Shorty Rogers in an unusual collaboration where each arranger takes turns to lead off with three standard arrangements while the other follows with three original tunes based on the standards chords (with, of course, numerous variations). Joining in the fun are players such as Bud Shank, Jimmy Giuffre, Shelly Manne and Al Hendrickson on guitar. On ‘King Size’ Andre uses a trio he had regularly taken on tour, Red Mitchell on bass and Frankie Capp on drums. ‘King Size’ is shot through with a ‘group spirit and naturalness of interplay’ that could only come from a group who have spent a lot of time together on the road and know each other intimately. With ‘Pal Joey’ Previn is again joined by Shelly Manne and Red Mitchell for this completely improvised Rodgers and Hart classic. The album was developed by Previn playing the tunes through straight and then throwing them open to the band for their improvisational ideas. The resulting tracks were usually accomplished in one take. [Item Code: 72718 2-CD: $19.00] 1043 JACKIE MCLEAN FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS - FAT JAZZ - JACKIE’S BAG - NEW SOIL - SWING, SWANG, SWINGIN Fat Jazz- Filide • Millie’s Pad • Two Sons • What Good Am I Without You • Tune Up • Jackie’s Bag- Quadrangle • Blues Inn • Fidel • Appointment In Ghana • A Ballad For Doll • Isle Of Java • New Soil- Hip Strut • Minor Apprehension • Greasy • Sweet Cakes • Davis Cup • Swing, Swang, Swingin- What’s New • Let’s Face The Music And Dance • Stable Mates • I’ll Remember You • I Love You • I’ll Take Romance • 116th And Lenox (Collective Personnel: Doanld Byrd, Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Blue Mitchell, Tina Brooks, Kenny Drew, Art Taylor, more) 2-CD set. In this country, all professions requiring special talent are overcrowded. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this is that if a thing is done well - acting, writing, boxing, performing a surgical operation, or playing the alto saxophone - it looks so easy that anyone thinks it can be done. The quality that makes it look so easy, the quality that is easiest to detect and hardest to come by, is self-assurance. Jackie McLean has self-assurance now, where he has not had it before, and it is to be heard all through this set. [Item Code: 72878 2-CD: $19.00] 9 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 15% Discount On Everything 9
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