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Jazz on Verve (Reissues, Part 2)

Gold showers on Verve as well. LESTER YOUNG wit OSCAR PETERSON TRIO is the compiled original double 10“ plus a crazy track (# 13!) where Lester sings himself (or let’s say hums better). Barney Kessel on Guitar (his best years) and what will you do if Ray Brown wasn’t on bass? Following is: Oscar Peterson trio »We get requests« (no more Kessel but J.C.Heard on drums). A good catalogue of Peterson’s possibilities (basically anything) with a selection of ballads, hard funky swing and Bossa Nova. COLEMAN HAWKINS encounters BEN WEBSTER – sees again the Peterson trio but with my beloved HERB ELLIS on guitar doing some of his most striking 4/4 struming (á la Freddie Green). The two old mates on Tenor upfront are more than relaxed and at ease. What a nice afternoon it must have been. Probably more necessary for whom needs one record only is: Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges »Play the blues back to back« 1959. Again a dream-team cast here: HARRY SWEETS EDISON, LES SPANN, SAM JONES & JOE JONES. I can’t tell what the Duke and Hodges had in mind on that day but there’s some sort of »Satchmo in LA« atmosphere. And listening to Ellington on Piano only is always a turning point for all of us. Bill Evans »Alone« 1968, we’re getting closer to the decadence, or even right in the middle. Bill Evans and »Alone« are two words I hardly imagine not together. Yes you will probably cry again and the photo shows him as a lost Sam Sheppard hero (but no Jessica Lange here). »JIMMY SMITH&WES MONTGOMERY« that’s more of a quick session than a real project. I mean Wes and Smith are such geniuses that they handle it without any problem but you can tell it’s not been really organised (altough Oliver Nelson’s at the Arrangments). A couple of Blues, Riffs and good old songs. Nevermind, we can always find something to hear in this collection of fantastic sessions and albums.

Gold showers on Verve as well. LESTER YOUNG wit OSCAR PETERSON TRIO is the compiled original double 10“ plus a crazy track (# 13!) where Lester sings himself (or let’s say hums better). Barney Kessel on Guitar (his best years) and what will you do if Ray Brown wasn’t on bass? Following is: Oscar Peterson trio »We get requests« (no more Kessel but J.C.Heard on drums). A good catalogue of Peterson’s possibilities (basically anything) with a selection of ballads, hard funky swing and Bossa Nova.
COLEMAN HAWKINS encounters BEN WEBSTER – sees again the Peterson trio but with my beloved HERB ELLIS on guitar doing some of his most striking 4/4 struming (á la Freddie Green). The two old mates on Tenor upfront are more than relaxed and at ease.
What a nice afternoon it must have been. Probably more necessary for whom needs one record only is: Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges »Play the blues back to back« 1959. Again a dream-team cast here: HARRY SWEETS EDISON, LES SPANN, SAM JONES & JOE JONES. I can’t tell what the Duke and Hodges had in mind on that day but there’s some sort of »Satchmo in LA« atmosphere. And listening to Ellington on Piano only is always a turning point for all of us. Bill Evans »Alone« 1968, we’re getting closer to the decadence, or even right in the middle. Bill Evans and »Alone« are two words I hardly imagine not together. Yes you will probably cry again and the photo shows him as a lost Sam Sheppard hero (but no Jessica Lange here). »JIMMY SMITH&WES MONTGOMERY« that’s more of a quick session than a real project. I mean Wes and Smith are such geniuses that they handle it without any problem but you can tell it’s not been really organised (altough Oliver Nelson’s at the Arrangments).
A couple of Blues, Riffs and good old songs. Nevermind, we can always find something to hear in this collection of fantastic sessions and albums.

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25.01.2006

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