The Sound Of Jazz - featuring Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Milt Hinton, Coleman Hawkins, Mal Waldron, Ben Webster, … (Mono)
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Bass – Milt Hinton (A1-2) [Click here to see more vinyl featuring Milt Hinton]
Clarinet – Pee Wee Russell (A1-2, A4)
Drums – Jo Jones (A1-4, B1, B4)
Piano – Nat Pierce (A1-2)
Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone (A1-3), Saxophone (B1, B4) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Coleman Hawkins]
Trombone – Vic Dickenson (A1-3, B1, B4), Dickie Wells (B1, B4), Frank Rehak (B1, B4)
Trumpet – Henry "Red" Allen (A1-2), Rex Stewart (A1-2), Doc Cheatham (B1, B4), Emmett Berry (B1, B4), Joe Newman (B1, B4), Roy Eldridge (B1, B4)
Billie Holiday – Vocals (A3) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Billie Holiday]
Bass – Jim Atlas (A3, B2), Eddie Jones (B1, B4)
Guitar – Danny Barker (A3-4), Freddy Green (B1, B4)
Piano – Mal Waldron (A3, B3) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Mal Waldron]
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster (A3) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ben Webster]
Jimmy Giuffre - Clarinet (A4, B2), Baritone Saxophone (B2), Tenor Saxophone (B2) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Jimmy Giuffre]
Piano – Count Basie (B1, B4) [click here to see more vinyl featuring Count Basie]
Saxophone – Earl Warren (B1, B4), Harry Carney (B1, B4), Lester Young (A3, B1, B4)
Vocals – Jimmy Rushing (B1)
Guitar – Jim Hall (B2) [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 (A3), A. Gibson (B1), Basie (B1, B4), Rushing (B1), Jimmy Giuffre (B2), Mal Waldron (B3), L. Young (B4)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Mono
Live Studio recording
Record Press : unspecified
Label : Pure Pleasure Records
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded at Columbia’s 30th Street Studios, New York. December 4th 1957
Produced by Irving Townsend
Remastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Liner Notes by Eric Larrabee
Originally released in 1958
Reissued in December 2022
Tracks :
Side A:
- Wild Man Blues - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
- Rosetta - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
- Fine And Mellow - Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron All-Stars
- Blues - Jimmy Giuffre, Pee Wee Russell, Jo Jones, Danny Barker
Side B:
- I Left My Baby - Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie All-Stars
- The Train And The River - Jimmy Giuffre Trio
- Nervous - Mal Waldron
- Dickie's Dream - Count Basie All-Stars
Reviews :
The Sound of Jazz" is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television.
The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City. The show was hosted by New York Herald-Tribune media critic John Crosby, directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were the primary music consultants.
The Sound of Jazz brought together 32 leading musicians from 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".
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.
Within two years, both Young and Holiday had died.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.45 / 5