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FREMEAUX 232 ELLA FITZGERALD THE QUINTESSENCE • CHICAGO - NEW YORK 1936-1945 My Melancholy Baby • All My Life • Did You Mean It ? • ‘taint’ What You Do (It’s The Way That Cha Do It) • Stairway To The Stars • Deedle-De-Dum • Gulf Coast • Five O’clock Whistle • My Man (“Mon Homme”) • I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) • Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man • Cow Cow Boogie • Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall • And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine • I’m Beginning To See The Light • It’s Only A Paper Moon • Flying Home I • Stone Cold Dead In The Market • Petootie Pie • That’s Rich (= Bugle Call Rag) • You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) • The Frim Fram Sauce • I’m Just A Lucky So And So • Guilty • Oh, Lady Be Good • Budella (= Blue Skies) • Almost Like Being In Love • Lover Man • How High The Moon I • My Baby Likes To Bebop • How High The Moon Ii • Ool-Ya-Koo • Love That Boy • Mr. Paganini • How High The Moon III • Flying Home II (Orchestra: Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Schoen, Eddie Haywood, Bob Haggart, Johnny Long) (Collective Prsonnel: The Ink Spots, The Song Spinners, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Kai Winding, Lester Young, More) [1936-1948] 2-CD set. The First Lady of Song, of Swing or of Jazz, as her entire elegance was found in her music. For music gave this misbegotten creature, who appeared fiftyish all through her life, an incomparable bearing, an imposing stance. She was instantaneously transformed by her vocal organs. Her natural and generous nature was also acclaimed by the crowds. [Item Code: 46896 2-CD: $27.00] 285 THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET THE QUINTESSENCE - NEW YORK - STOCKHOLM - LENNOX The Modern Jazz Quartet • Vendome • The Queen’s Fancy • Delaunay’s Dilemma • Django • La Ronde • Suite • Milano • Ralph’s New Blues • Concorde • “Fontessa” • Versailles • Fontessa • Bluesology • Baden-Baden • Variation No 1 - On “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” • Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West • Sait-on jamais ? • The Golden Striker • Cortege • Festival Sketch • Sketch • A Cold Wind Is Blowing • Skating In Central Park • Pyramid • The Cylinder • Odds Against Tomorrow • Bag’s Groove (Collective Personnel: John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Connie Kay, Gerald Tarak, Allan Martin, Carl Eberel, Joe Tekula) [1952-1960] 2-CD set. It took five years of hesitation-waltzes, trial and error proceedings (some more convincing than others) and episodic revivals (in the month preceding that first session, the MJQ was at Birdland with Parker), before the identity of the group, both material and aesthetic, could assert itself definitively. There have been more spontaneous births, but none, however, engendered a combo whose members stayed so loyal to each other for so long. (Altogether, it lasted around thirty-two years, but actually corresponded to two periods separated by a seven-year hiatus.) [Item Code: 66595 2-CD: $27.00] FRESH SOUND 90 ART FARMER QUARTET PERCEPTION Punsu • The Day After • Lullaby of the Leaves • Kayin’ • Tonk • The Blue Room • Change Partners • Nobody’s Heart (Personnel: Harold Mabern, Tommy Williams, Roy McCurdy) [1961] This 1964 release of a 1961 date with pianist Harold Mabern, Drummer Ron Mc- Curdy, and bassist Tommy Williams is a breezy affair, a start contrast to the hard bop that was still pervasive at that time. Farmer had fully developed his sensual and lyrical style by this time, and was making records with Benny Golson when he led this date. Farmer had give up the trumpet completely but this time and concentrated all of his efforts on the flugelhorn. [Item Code: 66538 CD: $17.00] 616 BUDDY BREGMAN AND HIS DANCE BAND FEATURING ANNIE ROSS SWINGIN’ STANDARDS - GYPSY My Buddy • All Of You • In A Mellotone • I Love Paris • It’s All Right With Me • Too Close For Comfort • Baubles, Bangles, And Beads • Imagination • My Heart Stood Still • Just In Time • Gypsy Overture (Instrumental) • Everything’s Coming Up Roses • You’ll Never Getaway • Some People • All I Need Is A Boy • Small World • Together Where You Go • Let Me Entertain You • Roses (Collective Personnel: Al Porcino, Stu Williamson, Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Joe Howard, George Roberts, Richie Kamuca, Bob Cooper, Bill Holman, Bill Perkins, Russ Freeman, Jim Hall, Monty Budwig, Mel Lewis, Pete Candoli, Mel Lewis, more) [1959] The albums, ‘Swingin Standards’ and ‘Gypsy’. Listening to the ripe, full sound the band gets suggests awesome power carefully under control. This is the flamboyant swing of Buddy Bregman’s band. [Item Code: 66527 CD: $17.00] 617 COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA FEATURING ELLA FITZGERALD AND JOE WILLIAMS ONE O’CLOCK JUMP One O’Clock Jump • Too Close For Comfort • Amazing Love • Smack Dab In The Middle • Only Forever • Don’t Worry About Me • Stop Pretty Baby Stop • One O’Clock Jump • Jamboree • I Don’t Like You No More • From Coast To Coast • April In Paris • Every Day I Have The Blues • Too Close For Comfort (Alt. Take) • Basie’s Back In Town • Party Blues (a) • One O’Clock Jump (Alt. Take) (Vocalist: a- Ella Fitzgerald) (Collective Personnel: Reunald Jones, Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Marshall Royal, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Freddie Green, Eddie Jones, Sonny Payne, more) [1956-1957] Two LPs: ‘One O’Clock Jump’ and ‘Metronome All-Stars 1956’. The band swings compulsively at all times, while the fun includes the scat dialogues between Joe and Ella on ‘Party Blues’, with Basie’s small combo backing. Gathered here in chronological order for the first time, these must-have sessions mark a memorable coming together for three major jazz talents: Count Basie, Joe Williams, and Ella Fitzgerald. [Item Code: 66528 CD: $17.00] 618 ANITA O’DAY WITH BILLY MAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA SWINGS COLE PORTER - RODGERS & HART Just One Of Those Things • Love For Sale • All Of You • Easy To Love • You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To • I Get A Kick Out Of You • I Love You • I’ve Got You Under My Skin • Get Out Of Town • What Is This Thing Called Love? • Night And Day • It’s De-Lovely • Falling In Love With Love • Johnny One Note • Lover • Have You Met Miss Jones? • Little Girl Blue • <strong>Spring</strong> Is Here • It Never Entered My Mind • Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered • I’ve Got Five Dollars • To Keep My Love Alive • Ten Cents A Dance • I Could Write A Book (Collective Personnel: Conrad Gozzo, Dave Wells, Si Zetner, Ronnie Lang, Wilbur Schwartz, Chuck Gentry, Al Pellegrini, George Morrow, Irv Cottler, Skeets Herfurt, Tommy Tedesco, Mel Lewis, Pete Candoli, Ted Nash, more) [1959-1960] May led three big-sized groups staffed by top musicians, and provided the swinging, tasteful charts in these two excellent albums dedicated to the songbooks of Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart. There is much to groove within this set and, be it for pop and jazz fans, listening to Anita O’Day is sure to be an incomparable musical pleasure. [Item Code: 66529 CD: $17.00] 16 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 S p r i n g 2 0 1 1 16
FRESH SOUND 619 ANITA O’DAY ORCHESTRAS ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY BILL HOLMAN AND RUSS GARCIA INCOMPARABLE - WAITER, MAKE MINE BLUES It Could Happen To You • Blue Champagne • Avalon • Old Devil Moon • The Party’s Over • Why Shouldn’t I? • Easy Living • Can’t We Be Friends • Slaughter On The 10th Avenue • If I Love Again • Speak Low • Indian Summer • Yesterdays • Mad About The Boy • That Old Feeling • Waiter, Make Mine Blues • When Sunny Gets Blue • Angel Eyes • Whatever Happened To You? • A Blues Serenade • The Thrill Is Gone • Detour Ahead • Goodbye • Stella By Starlight (Collective Personnel: Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Lee Katzman, Stu Williamson, Frank Rosolino, Joe Maini, Charlie Kennedy, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca, Jack Nimitz, Lou Levy, Joe Mondragon, Mel Lewis, Dick Nash, Harry Betts, Bud Shank, Barney Kessel, more) [1960] Two LPs: ‘Incomparable’ and ‘Waiter, Make Mine Blue’. This collection, recorded at the peak of Anita O’Day’s career, is a fine example of the groups that backed her vocals. These albums, without a doubt, are two of Anita’s best. [Item Code: 66530 CD: $17.00] 620 BUDDY DE FRANCO SEPTET COMPLETE 1959 SEPTET SESSIONS BRAVURA Sunday • Between The Devil And The Blue Sea • Tea For Two • Ballad Medley: ‘Round Midnight- You Don’t Know What Love Is- How Can We Be Wrong?- Lullaby Of The Leaves- Yesterdays • Blue Lou • Funky’s Oncle • Oh, Lady Be Good! • Satin Doll • My Funny Valentine • Blues For Space Travelers • Tin Reed Blues • Ballad Medley: I’m Glad There Is You- There’s No You- These Foolish Things • Crazy Rhythm • Just Squeeze Me • Undecided • Ja-Da • Ballad Medley: Now I Lay Me Down To Dream- Honey- This Love Of Mine- Darn That Dream • Lulu’s Back In Town • Ballad Medley Old Folks- How Long Has This Been Going On- Please • Witty (Collective Personnel: Harry Sweets Edison, Bob Hardaway, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Curtis Conce, Alvin Stoller, Herbie Mann, Victor Feldman, Pete Jolly, Scott LaFaro, Frank de Vito) [1959] The recordings in the present set are typically fluent, compelling De Franco music in a first-class small combo setting. One of the attractions is the delicacy of some of the ensemble textures and the way in which basic harmonies have been amended to fit the character of these 1959 De Franco Septet sessions. There’s a lot of great listening here whatever the bias. It will be just fine if it does help bring the clarinet back. [Item Code: 66531 2-CD: $26.00] 621 THE MASTERSOUNDS PLAY COMPOSITIONS BY HORACE SILVER BALLADS & BLUES · IN CONCERT Ecaroh (a) • Enchantment (a) • Nica’s Dream (a) • Doodlin’ (a) • Moonrays (a) • Buhania (a) • Blues Medley: Bluesology - Purple Sounds - Fontessa (b) • Heidi (b) • Little Stevie (b) • Solar (b) • Mint Julep (c) • How Deep Is The Ocean (c) • The Champ (c) • Monk’s Ballad (c) • Light Blue (c) • Stompin’ At The Savoy (d) • Medley: In A Sentimental Mood - Our Very Own - These Foolish Things (d) • Love For Sale (d) • Star Eyes (d) • Two Different <strong>Worlds</strong> (d) • Somebody Loves Me (d) (Personnel: Buddy Montgomery, Monk Montgomery, Richie Crabtree, Benny Barth) (Source: a- Play Horace Silver; b- Ballads & Blues; c- Ballads & Blues; d- In Concert) [1959-1960] 2-CD set. The Mastersounds were together from January 1957 up until late 1960, and although they were often compared to the Modern Jazz Quartet, they played with far more fire. Their basic conception was less “highbrow” than the MJQ floating workshop. Vibist Monk Montgomery, who acted as spokesman of the group, said, “The first thing, it must swing,” and they stuck to that credo throughout the three albums that make up this splendid example of their work. The first, Play Horace Silver was considered one of their best efforts on record. It takes notable talent to play Silver’s compositions and, while respecting the qualities that tie Silver’s works so closely to the central core of jazz, to put a distinctively personal brand on them as The Mastersounds managed to do. On the second, Ballads and Blues the group’s playing is striking throughout. Buddy Montgomery cooks, pianist Richie Crabtree displays a firm, almost classical touch, with formidable technique and ideas, while Monk Montgomery’s skill on electric bass is pre-eminent. He and drummer Benny Barth provide sympathetic and driving support, contributing some fine solos of their own. In Concert, the third album on this set, was recorded live at the Pasadena Junior College on April 1959, and produced some polished, graceful performances. Playing a nice selection of finely crafted arrangements, the group displayed the kind of synergy rarely achieved in working relationships, while compromising not one whit on their ability to play with heat and swing. [Item Code: 66645 2-CD: $26.00] 622 BIG MILLER DID YOU EVER HEAR THE BLUES? + REVELATIONS AND THE BLUES Five O’Clock Blues (a) • Lament (a) • Did You Ever Hear The Blues? (a) • Tired As I Can Be (a) • Good Old Guy (a) • Mr. Blues Child (a) • Red Sun Blues (a) • Mojo Blues (a) • Cool Saturday Night (a) • Got To Live (a) • Wee Small Hours (a) • About My Baby (b) • I Know (b) • Lament To Love (b) • The Monterey Story (b) • I Never Had A Woman (b) • Wanna See My Baby (b) • When You’re Not Around (b) • It’s A Hard Life (b) • Sweet Slumber (b) • If You Don’t Love Me (b) (Collective Personnel: Al Cohn, Chuck Wayne, Turk Van Lake, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Cleveland, Sol Schlinger, Everett Barksdale, Kenny Burrell, Pat Brooks, Vic Dickenson, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Jones, Billy Bauer, Barry Galbraith, Chet Amsterdam, Gus Johnson, Ben Webster, Gildo Mahones, Bobby Gibbons, Ike Isaacs, Jimmy Wormworth, Plas Johnson, Ernie Freeman, Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, Frank Butler) (Source: a- Did You Ever Hear The Blues?; b- Revelations And The Blues) [1959-1960] Clarence H. Miller, known to his friends as “Big”, was one of the most impressive new blues singers on the late Fifties scene. With a childhood background of church singing and piano and trombone studies, he became a professional musician in 1946 after Army service, when he led a band touring with a repertoire largely based on Louis Jordan “jump” numbers, before switching to bass and joining Jay McShann’s earthy, Kansas City based outfit. Influenced by Walter Brown and Joe Turner, he started singing blues with the band and moved to Chicago and Cincinatti, forming a group with trombonist Al Grey which went to Texas. A year touring the small Texas towns honed his gift for blues singing and a move to New York led to his big breakthrough. He made a debut LP, Did you ever hear the blues?, for United Artists, went with Nat Pierce’s band into Birdland and then, through singer Jon Hendricks, was invited to the 1960 Monterey Jazz Festival. That led to Hollywood. Stints at Shelly Manne’s celebrated club and an album, Revelation and the Blues, with Ben Webster confirmed his status as a front-rank blues singer with a unique style which was influenced by bop. [Item Code: 66646 CD: $17.00] 17 worldsrecords.com (800) 742-6663 S p r i n g 2 0 1 1 17
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