Name: Showcase
Brand: Jazzology
SKU: 964377
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Showcase

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Album: Showcase
#	Song Title	Time
1)	When Your Lover Has Gone
2)	Yesterdays
3)	Why Was I Born?
4)	I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
5)	She's Funny That Way
6)	Just a Gigolo
7)	After You've Gone
8)	You Took Advantage of Me
9)	Memories of You
10)	St. James Infirmary
11)	Blues in the Air
12)	Sunday
13)	Blue and Broken Hearted
14)	Save It, Pretty Mama
15)	Love Me or Leave Me
16)	Blue Turning Grey over You
17)	Empty Arms
18)	I'll Build a Fence Around You

Album: Showcase
#	Song Title	Time
1)	When Your Lover Has Gone
2)	Yesterdays
3)	Why Was I Born?
4)	I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
5)	She's Funny That Way
6)	Just a Gigolo
7)	After You've Gone
8)	You Took Advantage of Me
9)	Memories of You
10)	St. James Infirmary
11)	Blues in the Air
12)	Sunday
13)	Blue and Broken Hearted
14)	Save It, Pretty Mama
15)	Love Me or Leave Me
16)	Blue Turning Grey over You
17)	Empty Arms
18)	I'll Build a Fence Around You

Performer Notes

Personnel: Wild Bill Davison (vocals, cornet); Garvin Bushell (clarinet, bassoon); Lubos Zajicek (cornet); Jimmy Archey (trombone); Pavel Klikar, Ralph Sutton (piano); Morey Feld (drums).
Liner Note Authors: George H. Buck, Jr.; Tom Saunders .
Recording information: Supraphon Studio Dejvice, Prague, Czech Republic (12/27/1947-10/19/1976).
Two unrelated but rewarding sessions by the great Dixieland cornetist Wild Bill Davison are combined on this delightful CD. The first session -- a six-song ballad-oriented date that also includes trombonist Jimmy Archey, Garvin Bushell on clarinet and (on "Yesterdays") bassoon, pianist Ralph Sutton, bassist Sid Weiss, and drummer Morey Feld -- has some particularly ferocious playing from Davison (who takes his first recorded vocal on "Ghost of a Chance"). The remaining dozen tunes come from a very successful matchup in 1976 between Davison and the Classic Jazz Collegium Orchestra, a talented ten-member Czechoslovakian group. Some of the numbers (most notably a classic rendition of "Sunday") have inventive arrangements that make the band sound like a unit from the 1920s. Wild Bill is quite inspired throughout, making this one of his most rewarding sets of the 1970s. Highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow