Spring 2011 - Worlds Records

STORYVILLE
8416 HANK JONES TRIO WITH MADS VINDING & AL FOSTER Pent Up House • When Will I
Know You • Bloomdido • Midnight Sun • Monk’s Mood • Quintessence • Bemsha Swing • Up Jumped
Spring • Bag’s Groove • Four (Personnel: Mads Vinding, Al Foster) [1991] What an excellent programme
of jazz originals this is. Alongside the tunes already mentioned, there are two by Thelonious Monk including
‘Monk’s Mood’, which Hank says he was the first person ever to hear on the night it was composed. And
numbers by Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis (out of Eddie Vinson) and Freddie Hubbard. [Item Code: 66480
CD: $14.00]
SUMMIT RECORDS
554 DAVID MILLER TRIO RAPTURE Line For Lyons • Little Niles • I Thought About You • Time On
My Hands • In My Life • Rapture • Peaches • Blue Daniel • Just Squeeze Me • Dream Dancing • You Must
Believe In Spring • Alice In Wonderland (Personnel: Mario Suraci, Bill Belasco) Seasoned musicians in
an ear-friendly, infectious, absorbing listening experience. David Miller keeps it real on his fifth recording
as a leader with a recording that gives the standard jazz trio sound a punch and a fresh feel. The artists in
this trio are rich in experience and have played with the likes of Art Pepper, James Moody, Maynard Ferguson, Joe Pass, Benny Goodman, Jules
Brouusard, and Sly Stone, to name a few. Bass player Mario Suraci has played with Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.
66343 CD: $16.00]
555 MARTY NAU GROUP MOOD EBONY Slipped Disc • As Long As I Live • Smoke Dreams •
Doctor Tee • Three In One • Night In Tunisia • Ballad For Hank • Bossa For Eddie • Blues For Benny • You
Came Into My Life (Personnel: Scott Silbert, Robert Redd, Wade Beach, Tommy Cecil, Steve Novesel, Chuck
Redd, Brooks Tegler) [2010] Critically acclaimed, with great reviews for his last recording due to his Phil
Woods-like skills on the saxophone, Marty Nau proved to all to be the real deal. Here, he presents a multiclarinet-led
recording with new compositions from the great Phil Woods. Nau is a clarinet master (and a
damn good saxophonist) who has recorded a masterpiece. He takes the clarinet through its paces from A to
Z, employing four or five clarinets through the re-recording process—but this is not a gimmick. It works as a
bona fide musical device. A highly active and sought-after jazz alto saxophone player in the DC area, Nau
has performed with the National Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Daniels, Stanley
Turrentine, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Wilson, Maureen McGovern, Snooky Young, and many
others. He was also a staple with the famous Navy Commodores. [Item Code: 66344 CD: $16.00]
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SUPERBATONE
743 THE VIRGINIANS WHEN THE TWENTIES BEGAN TO ROAR Memphis Blues • Lonesome Mama Blues • The Yankee Doodle Blues •
Nobody Lied • (I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate • Gee, But I Hate To Go Home Alone • Kiss
Mama, Kiss Papa • Choo Choo Blues • Teddy Bear Blues • Bees Knees • Rose Of The Rio Grande • Who
Did You Fool After All? • That Da Da Strain- I’ve Got To Cool My Doggies Now • He May Be Your Man (But
He Comes To See Me Sometimes) • Aggravatin’ Papa • Apple Sauce • Aunt Hagar’s Blues • Farewell Blues •
She Wouldn’t Do What I Asked Her To (a) • Hurdy Gurdy Blues • Scissor Grinder Joe • Whose Izzy Is He? (a
• Bringing Home The Bacon (b) • Shine (Personnel: Ross Gorman, Henry Busse, Frank Siegrist, Hale Byers,
Ferde Grofe, more) (vocal; a- Billy Murray; b- Vernon Dalhart and Ed Smalle) [1922-1924] The Virginians
was a ten-man, compact version of Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra, that functioned as a “house band” at Victor
Records between 1922 and 1924. They made dozens of eminently danceable, peppy, jazzy records, dispensing
what we think of today as quintessential “Roaring Twenties” music, just as that decade was getting
under way. Clarinetist Ross Gorman led the band, and gave it much of its “hot” character with his excellent
playing; trumpeter Henry Busse and pianist/arranger Ferdie Grofe also contributed strongly. Early versions
of many classic tunes are heard on this CD, such as “Memphis Blues,” “Rose of the Rio Grande,” “Farewell
Blues,” “Shine,” “Sister Kate” and George Gershwin’s “Yankee Doodle Blues.” These 88-year-old original
78s were unearthed recently in pristine, never-played condition. You will be astounded by their sonic crispness
and fidelity on this CD, terms not often applied to recordings from the pre-electrical (acoustic) era of audio technology. This is fun, terrific
and highly listenable music, shining brightly from a time almost beyond living memory. Fans of the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire” should feel
right at home with it. We recommend “The Virginians” for dinner parties! Vintage fashion shows! Dances!
[Item Code: 66465 CD: $14.00]
TCB
2222 ALBERT MANGELSDORFF FRANCOIS JEANNEAU SWISS RADIO DAYS, VOL. 22 Part 1 • Part
2 • Le Lynx • Suite Eolienne (Personnel: Klaus Koenig, Peter Frei, Peter Schmidlin, Francois Jeanneau,
Pierre Favre) [1972•1979] Both Albert Mangelsdorff & Francois Jeanneau were guests on Jazz Live, and
this new release in the Swiss Radio Days series presents some examples of their excellent appearances. The
first time Mangelsdorff appeared, in 1967, the group played a series of standards in the mainstream style. In
1972, however, he suggested that they play two half-hour sets without any specific written material, and the
evening was both relaxed and exciting. A recording of that concert’s first set is included here. Janneau was
the first Frenchman invited for a Jazz Live concert. He sent a series of themes, and said that it was free music.
But the themes definitely had harmony structures, as well as a form. The group was excited by this challenge
of filtering unknown results from very traditional pieces, accepting the composed patterns solely as a general
reference point and not as binding structures [Item Code: 66440 CD: $13.00]
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