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COUNT BASIE / HARRY JAMES

BASIE RHYTHM

Description:
This is a most unusual collection, with its share of surprises amid some considerable overlap with GRP's Complete Decca Recordings. The first four tracks consist of the four small group sides that Basie cut clandestinely with producer John Hammond in November of 1936. Those are attractive enough as a showcase for Lester Young, whose playing is humbling to listen to even for non sax players, and Basie is quite impressive as well. The next eight tracks are really interesting, and unique John Hammond lost out on his ability to record Basie and his band for Columbia between 1937 and 1939, but he used the Basie band sans Basie with Jess Stacy to back up 21 year old Harry James in his first formal recording sessions under his own name. And even without the Count present, it all comes out sounding a lot like a Basie recording, with a few twists in place of tenorman Lester Young, the featured soloist is Herschel Evans, a beloved reedman who premature death from heart trouble in 1939 robbed Basie and his band of one of their key members; Evans and James, who plays better here than he did on many of his later sides, make these sides exciting and genuinely rewarding. Helen Humes was brought in by Hammond as a singer on "Jubilee," "The Dreamer In Me," and "Song of the Wanderer," and she later joined the Basie band. The most unusual of the numbers here is an abbreviated version of "One O'Clock Jump," featuring Evans' sax, Vernon Brown's trombone, and James' trumpet soaring above the rock solid Basie rhythm section. The sound is impeccable throughout, and the annotation is thorough

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

Shoe Shine Boy

Evenin'

Boogie Woogie

Oh! Lady Be Good

Jubilee

When We're Alone

I Can Dream, Can't I?

Life Goes To A Party

Texas Chatter

Song Of The Wanderer

The Dreamer In Me

One O'Clock Jump

My Heart Belongs To Daddy

Sing For Your Supper

You Can Depend On Me

Cherokee, Part 1

Cherokee, Part 2

Blame It On My Last Affair

Jive At Five

Thursday

Evil Blues

Oh! Lady Be Good

Personnel: Buck Clayton, Herschel Evans, Helen Humes, Jess Stacy, Benny Morton, Jimmy Rushing, Chu Berry, Lester Young, more

Label:	HEP
Number:	1032
Item Code:	2089
Format:	CD
Genre:	JAZZ
Dates:	(1936-1939)
Price:	$15.00
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