Hi-Fi Jazz Session Vinyl LP, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Charelie Ventura

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Hi-Fi Jazz Session Vinyl LP Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Charelie Ventura

SLEEVE: Very Good Plus.

VINYL: Excellent.

Label: Masterseal ?– MSLP 5013

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation

Country: US

Released: 1957

Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Blues

Style: Chicago Blues, Big Band, Rhythm & Blues, Swing

Tracklist
A1    Mean To Me
    Alto Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Parker
    Bass – Curly Russell
    Drums – Max Roach
    Guitar – Bill De Aranzo
    Piano – Nat Jaffe
    Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – Flip Phillips
    Trumpet [Solo] – Dizzy Gillespie
    Vocals – Sarah Vaughan

A2    –Charlie Ventura    Bouncy
    Baritone Saxophone [Solo] – Harry Carney
    Bass – John Levy
    Drums – Specs Powell
    Featuring – The Barons
    Piano – Jimmy Jones 
    Tenor Saxophone – Otto Hardwick
    Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Ventura, Johnny Bothwell
    Vibraphone [Solo] – Red Norvo

A3    –Red Norvo    Blues At Dawn
    Baritone Saxophone [Solo] – Harry Carney
    Bass – John Levy
    Drums – Specs Powell
    Featuring – The Barons
    Piano – Jimmy Jones (3)
    Tenor Saxophone – Otto Hardwick
    Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Ventura, Johnny Bothwell
    Vibraphone [Solo] – Red Norvo

A4    –Don Byas    What
    Alto Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Parker
    Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – Don Byas
    Trombone – Trummie Young
    Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
    Vocals – "Rubber Legs" Williams

A5    –Dizzy Gillespie    Every Bit
    Alto Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Parker
    Tenor Saxophone – Don Byas
    Trombone – Trummie Young
    Trumpet [Solo] – Dizzy Gillespie
    Vocals – "Rubber Legs" Williams

A6    Rose Noire
    Featuring – H. Carel's Combo

B1    –Cozy Cole    Comes The Don
    Bass – Slam Stewart
    Clarinet – Hank D'Amico
    Drums [Solo] – Cozy Cole
    Guitar – Tiny Grimes
    Piano – Johnny Guarnieri
    Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas
    Trumpet – Charlie Shavers

B2    –Red Norvo    Beat Bounce
    Baritone Saxophone [Solo] – Harry Carney
    Bass – John Levy
    Drums – Specs Powell
    Featuring – The Barons
    Piano – Jimmy Jones (3)
    Tenor Saxophone – Otto Hardwick
    Tenor Saxophone [Solo] – Charlie Ventura, Johnny Bothwell
    Vibraphone [Solo] – Red Norvo

B3    –Hen Gates Combo    Cravin'
    Piano – James Forman Jr.

B4    –Dorothy Donegan    Kilroy Was Here
    Piano – Dorothy Donegan

B5    Edna
    Featuring – Sabby Lewis Band

B6    Swinging The Blues
    Bass – Leonard Garkin
    Piano – Hand Jones
    Violin, Vocals – Eddie South

Credits
Liner Notes – Joseph P. Muranyi
Songwriter – Cavanaugh (tracks: A2, A3, B2), Jones (tracks: A2, A3, B2), Timme Rosenkrantz (tracks: A2, A3, B2)

Here is a cross section of jazz, blues and associated type of music as reeorded by such modern greats as Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Don Byas. They are presented here in the height of success and full bloom of their creative powers. Older masters of the idiom are also represented by such names as Red Norvo and Slam Stewart.

MEAN TD ME
Sarah’s lilting vocalizing 1-is introduced by Charlie Parker's alto sax. The tenor sax of Flip Phillips and Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet share a chorus in the middle of the record. The other members of the group are Bill De Aranzo, Max Roach, Curley Russell and Nat jaffe.

BOUNCY
This original riff opus is played by a Red Norvo pick-up group, originally supervised by the jazz critic, Timmie Rosenkrantz. Choruses are by Norvo, vibraharp, Charlie Ventura, tenor sax,
Harry Carney, baritone sax and Johnny Bothwell on alto sax. The other members of the group are Otto Hardwick, jimmy jones, Specs Powell and John Levy.

BLUES AT DAWN
Another original by Rosenkrantz-Jones-Cavam augh and played by the same group as in the previous selection. Solo honors go to Harry Carney (of Duke Ellington fame), Red Norvo and Charlie Ventura.

WHAT
This is a remarkable record in that here we have a blues singer. Rubber-Legs Williams. singing in the old tradition of Bessie Smith. with accompaniment by such modernists as Dizzy Gillespie
and Charles Parker. "Bird" and Don Byas take choruses while Dizzy and Trummie Young are to be heard backing up the yocal. Rubber-Legs and the backing blend quite successfully: this ride, as well as the next one, besides being good jazz music, are quite interesting curiosities to the jazz researcher.

EVERY BIT
This is another tune by the same group as above. The tempo is slower and the mood a little "funkier.” "Bird" again is heard to good advantage.

ROSE NOIRE
H. Carel's combo of piano, drums, bass. trumpet and baritone sax typi?es the music of the forties that by 1956 turned into Rock and Roll. The music is certainly jazz, yet the undertone is
strictly "Rhythm & Blues."

CCMES THE DON
The artists here consist of Coleman Hawkins. Don Byas, Hank D’Amico. Charlie Shavers, Tiny Grimes, Slam Stewart, Johnny Guarneri and Cozy Cole — an all star lineup if there eyer was one. The music they produce is not in the avant-garde'category, yet it certainly remains as fresh as when ?rst recorded.

BEAT BOUNCE
On this tune, you ?nd the same artists as for Bouncy and Blues At Dawn. Featured solists are Norvo, Carney, Ventura and Bothwell.

CRAVIN
This tune. by Hen Gates‘ combo, proves that there's nothing new under-the sun, not even in Rock and Roll.

KILROY WAS HERE
Dorothy Donegan, who has since become quite an attraction in the plusher music spots, here gives her version of the blues. Subclassi?cation: boogie-woogie.

EDNA
The Sabby Lewis band in a typical riff-oriented big band tune of the forties.

SWINGING THE BLUES
This features the violin and voice of Eddie South with Hand Jones. and Leonard Garkin on piano and bass. The group plays in a surprisingly modern style. This tune has no connection with
the Basie tune of the same name.

Notes by: JOSEPH P. MURANYI

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