JRR 21 March 2015

JRR 210315

 

DISC 1

Artist                        Lil Hardin Armstrong

Title                        Clip Joint

Composer            Armstrong

Album                        The Living Legends: Lil Hardin Armstrong

Label                        Riverside

Number            RLP 390 Track 5

Duration             4.42

Performers: Bill Martin, Leroi Nabors, t; Al Wynn, Preston Jackson, tb; Darnell Howard, Franz Jackson, cl; Lil Armstrong, p, v; Pops Foster, b; Booker Washington, d. 7 Sep 1961.

 

DISC 2

Artist                        Shelly Manne

Title                         Wouldn’t It Be Loverly

Composer            Lerner, Leowe

Album                        My Fair Lady

Album                        My Fair Lady

Label                        Contemporary

Number            3527 S 1 T 1

Duration             5.33

Performers: Shelly Manne, d; Leroy Vinnegar, b; Andre Previn, p. 1956

 

DISC 3

Artist                        Ella Fitzgerald

Title                        Money Can’t Buy Me Love

Composer            Lennon / McCartney

Album                        Hello Dolly

Label                        Verve

Number            4064 Track 3

Duration             2.36

Performers: Ella Fitzgerald and the Johnny Spence Orchestra

 

DISC 4

Artist                        Pete Johnson

Title                        Death Ray Boogie

Composer            Johnson, Dexter

Album                        Boogie Woogie

Label                        Proper

Number            Properbox 117 CD 2 Track 22

Duration             2.58

Performers: Pete Johnson, p; Al Hall, b; A G Godley, d, May 1941

 

DISC 5

Artist                        Art Tatum

Title                        Humoresque

Composer            Dvorak arr Tatum

Album                        Complete Original American Decca Recordings

Label                        Definitive

Number            11200 CD 3 Track 4

Duration             3.07

Performers: Art Tatum, p, Feb 1940.

 

DISC 6

Artist                        Carmen McRae

Title                        I’m Glad There is You

Composer            Dorsey, Madeira

Album                        Complete Kapp Recordings

Label                        Fresh Sound

Number            677 CD 2 Track 5

Duration             3.54

Performers:             Carmen McRae, v, with Frank Hunter’s Orchestra in 1959.

 

 

DISC 7

Artist                        Jack Hylton with Coleman Hawkins

Title                        Darktown Strutters’ Ball

Composer            Brooks

Album                        Coleman Hawkins 1927-39

Label                        BBC

Number            RPCD 698

Duration             2.40

Performers: Jack Hylton (dir); George Swift , Stan Roderick , Stanley Howard (tp); Jack Bentley , Woolf Phillips (tb); 
Benny Daniels , Freddy Schweitzer , Joe Crossman , Leslie Gilbert (as,cl); 
Coleman Hawkins, Billy Ternent , Freddy Schweitzer , Joe Crossman (ts); 
Billy Hill (p); Al Thomas (g); Bruce Trent (b); Lew Stevenson (d); 
London, May 26, 1939

 

DISC 8

Artist                        Lew Tabackin

Title                        My Ideal

Composer            Whiting / Chase

Album                        Dual Nature

Label                        Inner City

Number            Track 5

Duration             6.56

Performers: Lew Tabackin, ts; Don Friedman, piano, Bob Daugherty, bass and Shelly Manne drums. 1976.

 

 

DISC 9

Artist                        Thelonious Monk

Title                        This Is My Story This Is My Song

Composer            Knapp / Crosby

Album                        Monk Alone

Label                        Columbia

Number            ?

Duration             1.41

Performers            Thelonious Monk, p.

 

 

DISC 10

Artist                        John Abercrombie

Title                        Gimme Five

Composer            Abercrombie

Album                        Open Land

Label                        ECM

Number            557 652-2 Track 4

Duration             7.24

Performers            John Abercrombie, g; Mark Feldman, vn; Kenny Wheeler, t; Joe Lovano, ts; Dan Wall, org, Adam Nussbaum, d. 1999.

 

DISC 11

Artist                        Ken Moule

Title                        Get Happy

Composer            Arlen / Koehler

Album                        n/a

Label                        Decca

Number            EP6261 S 1 T 1

Duration             approx 3.30

Performers: Dave Usden (tp), Keith Barr, Roy Sidwell (ts), Don Cooper (bs), Ken Moule (p), Arthur Watts (b), Lennie Breslaw (d). 1955

 

DISC 12

Artist                        Duke Ellington

Title                        Take The A Train

Composer            Strayhorn

Album                        The Indispensible: Vols 7/8

Label                        RCA Black and White

Number            ND 89274 CD 1 Track 1

Duration             2.54

Performers: DE, p, dir; Wardell Jones, Rex Stewart, t; Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Juan Tizol, tb; Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwick, Ben Webster, reeds; Fred Guy, g; Jimmy Blanton, b; Sonny Greer, d. 15 Feb 1941.

 

 

DISC 13

Artist                        Annie Lennox

Title                        Mood Indigo

Composer            Bigard / Ellington / Mills

Album                        Nostalgia

Label                        Island

Number            Track 12

Duration             5.34

Personnel: Annie Lennox, v; Simon Finch, t; Nichol Thompson, tb; Steven Hussey, strings, Mike Stevens, g, kb; Chris Hill, b; Neil Wilkinson, d,