Name: Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased
Brand: Nimbus
SKU: 749096
Price: 13.25 USD
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Last Recordings

Rating

Album: Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Imagination
2)	Besame Mucho
3)	My Funny Valentine
4)	Too Marvelous for Words
5)	I Can't Get Started
6)	Sad Sack, The
7)	Dancing on the Ceiling
8)	Someone to Watch Over Me
9)	Mysterioso
10)	Chaser, The
1)	Pied Piper Theme
2)	Love of My Life
3)	Rough Ridin'
4)	Yesterdays
5)	Lyric
6)	Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
7)	Lugubrious
8)	S'posin'
9)	Tenderly
10)	When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin

Album: Last Recordings: Rare and Unreleased
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Imagination
2)	Besame Mucho
3)	My Funny Valentine
4)	Too Marvelous for Words
5)	I Can't Get Started
6)	Sad Sack, The
7)	Dancing on the Ceiling
8)	Someone to Watch Over Me
9)	Mysterioso
10)	Chaser, The
1)	Pied Piper Theme
2)	Love of My Life
3)	Rough Ridin'
4)	Yesterdays
5)	Lyric
6)	Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
7)	Lugubrious
8)	S'posin'
9)	Tenderly
10)	When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin

Performer Notes

Personnel: Artie Shaw (clarinet); Joe Roland (vibraphone); Hank Jones (piano); Tal Farlow, Joe Puma (guitar); Tommy Potter (bass); Irv Kluger (drums).
Recorded in New York and Hollywood, California in 1954.
Personnel: Artie Shaw (clarinet); Joe Puma, Tal Farlow (guitar); Hank Jones Great Jazz Trio , Hank Jones (piano); Joe Roland (vibraphone); Tommy Potter (bass instrument, bass guitar); Irv Kluger (drums).
Liner Note Authors: Dan Morgenstern; Loren Schoenberg.
Recording information: Hollywood, CA (03/1954-06/1954); New York, NY (03/1954-06/1954).
Authors: Dan Morgenstern; Loren Schoenberg.
Arranger: Artie Shaw.
Of all the popular Swing Era (circa 1934-1946) big-band leaders, one of the most forward was clarinetist Artie Shaw. In the early `50s, when many of his contemporaries disbanded their orchestras or peddled nostalgia, Shaw embraced the then-new sounds in jazz, mainly bebop. The double-disc LAST RECORDINGS features the last go-`round of Shaw's small group from 1954. His band included some of jazz's most durable and progressive players: Hank Jones on piano, Tal Farlow on guitar, and Charlie Parker bassist Tommy Potter. Best described as sophisticated small-band swing with bebop leanings, LAST RECORDINGS features Shaw stretching out--not to mention the terse, inspired, and freewheeling solos from Jones and Farlow.

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (5/92, p.34) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...With neither band or stopwatch bearing down on him, he lays out long, spacious, and gentle lines full of sinewy bends and twists of phrase...full of resplendant grace and elegance..."