The Sound Of Jazz - Count Basie, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday... (2LP, 45RPM)
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Bass – Milt Hinton (A1-2) [Click here to see more vinyl featuring Milt Hinton]
Clarinet – Pee Wee Russell (A1-2, B2)
Drums – Jo Jones (A1 to B2, C1, D2)
Piano – Nat Pierce (A1-2)
Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone (A1 to B1), Saxophone (C1, D2) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Coleman Hawkins]
Trombone – Vic Dickenson (A1 to B1, C1, D2), Dickie Wells (C1, D2), Frank Rehak (C1, D2)
Trumpet – Henry "Red" Allen (A1-2), Rex Stewart (A1-2), Doc Cheatham (C1, D2), Emmett Berry (C1, D2), Joe Newman (C1, D2), Roy Eldridge (C1, D2)
Billie Holiday – Vocals (B1) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Billie Holiday]
Bass – Jim Atlas (B1, C2), Eddie Jones (C1, D2)
Guitar – Danny Barker (B1-2), Freddy Green (C1, D2)
Piano – Mal Waldron (B1, D1) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Mal Waldron]
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster (B1) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ben Webster]
Jimmy Giuffre - Clarinet (B2, C2), Baritone Saxophone (C2), Tenor Saxophone (C2) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Jimmy Giuffre]
Piano – Count Basie (C1, D2) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Count Basie]
Saxophone – Earl Warren (C1, D2), Harry Carney (C1, D2), Lester Young (B1, C1, D2)
Vocals – Jimmy Rushing (C1)
Guitar – Jim Hall (C2) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Jim Hall]
Written-By – F. J. Morton (A1), L. Armstrong (A1), E. Hines (A2), W. H. Woode (A2), B. Holiday (B1), A. Gibson (C1), Basie (C1, D2), Rushing (C1), Jimmy Giuffre (C2), Mal Waldron (D1), L. Young (D2)
2LPs, gatefold sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Quality Record Pressings
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded at Columbia's 30th Street studios, December 5, 1957, as a rehearsal of the CBS Television show
Remastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound
Produced by Irving Townsend
Presented by "The Seven Lively Arts" over CBS Television Sunday, December 4, 1957. LP originally released in 1958
Reissued in 2020
Tracks :
Side A :
- Wild Man Blues - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
- Rosetta - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
Side B :
- Fine and Mellow - Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron All-Stars
- Blues - Jimmy Giuffre, Pee Wee Russell, Jo Jones, Danny Barker
Side C :
- I Left My Baby - Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie All-Stars
- The Train and The River - Jimmy Giuffre Trio
Side D :
- Nervous - Mal Waldron
- Dickie's Dream - Count Basie All-Stars
Reviews :
"The Sound of Jazz" brought together 32 leading musicians — a Who's Who of the swing era — including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry "Red" Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger 'modernist' musicians such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre. These players played separately with their compatriots (see the song list below), but also joined to combine various styles in one group, such as Red Allen's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on "Fine and Mellow".
Columbia Records released this LP in 1958 that is actually a rehearsal that preceded the telecast (recorded on December 4 at Columbia's 30th Street studios), and is not its soundtrack. The LP was released in 1958 as Columbia CL 1098, with liner notes by Eric Larrabee, and the cover photo is by Tom Yee. The recording doesn't include all of the performers on the TV show (Mulligan refused to participate because no additional payment was involved) and includes several who were not on the show. Bassist Walter Page rehearsed, and is featured on the LP, but collapsed on the way to the studio for the telecast.
For this Analogue Productions reissue we started with the original tape and the best mastering available — Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound did a steller job, and naturally, plating at Quality Record Pressings was handled by master plating technician Gary Salstrom. Our 200-gram QRP platters serve up an utterly noiseless background that lets the superior sonics shine through.
The show's performance of "Fine and Mellow" reunited Billie Holiday with her estranged long-time friend Lester Young for the final time. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, who was involved in the show, recalled that during rehearsals, they kept to opposite sides of the room. Young was very weak, and Hentoff told him to skip the big band section of the show and that he could sit while performing in the group with Holiday.
During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo. "Then", Hentoff remembered: "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half-smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been — whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways."
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.54 / 5