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QUINTET, QUARTET, TRIO & DUO

COMPLETE DEBUT RECORDINGS

Description:
2 CD set. This is the first time the master takes ever appear on CD. Not only that, "Saxidental" and twelve alternate takes included here have never been previously released on any format. Tracks 1 12 on CD 1 appear here on CD for the first time ever. Tracks 13 20 on CD 1 and 1 5 on CD 2 are previously unreleased. As a bonus, the two complete sessions following in John LaPorta's discography as a leader. John Daniel LaPorta was not born in Philadelphia on April 1, 1920 – as all jazz encyclopedias officially claim – but on April 22 of that year. He reported this in person, jokingly alluding to the fact that he therefore was not perpetually doomed to be branded an 'April Fool's child' for the rest of his life. Whether he was or not is of course irrelevant, as it has no bearing whatsoever on his considerable musical abilities and achievements. He was one of those rare musicians who felt completely at ease performing both composed i.e. classical and improvised music jazz at a time when these two forms of art were still completely 'segregated'. As a result, in the first stages of his professional career he played with artists of considerable fame and merit who were dedicated to widely divergent forms of music, such as Woody Herman, Igor Stravinsky, Lennie Tristano, Leonard Bernstein, Charlie Parker, Leopold Stokowski, Charles Mingus, Gunther Schuller, and Zita Carno in the midfifties, he recorded the 'Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano', composed by Johannes Brahms, with Carno on one side of an LP and on the other four pieces for jazz trio – a quite unusual recording venture for those times. His very first jazz composition, the swinging opus 'Non Alcoholic' which had nothing to do with the budding 'Alcoholics Anonymous' movement at the time was written for Woody Herman's most famous 'First Herd' and recorded on December 10, 1946 in Chicago.

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

Fluid Drive

Right Around Home

The Old Man's Touch

The Hectic Life

Quarto

Fringe Area

Three Moods (Bright-Eyed Blues Minor Rhythm/Bird's World)

Harangue

Don't Blame Me

Two Party Campaign

All The Things You Are

Chance Acquaintance

Saxidental

Fringe Area (Alternate Take)

Fluid Drive (Alternate Take)

Fluid Drive (Alternate Take 2)

Right Around Home (Alternate Take)

This Hectic Life (Alternate Take) The Old Man's Touch (Alternate Take)

Quarto (Alternate Take)

All The Things You Are (Alternate Take)

Bright-Eyed Blues (Alternate Take)

Saxidental (Alternate Take -Incomplete)

Don't Blame Me (Alternate Take)

All The Things You Are (Alternate Take 2)

Nightly Vigil

Concertina For Clarinet

Triplets, You Say?

Small Blue Opus

Little Fantasy

En Rapport

Wash Day

Perdido

Lou's Tune

Absentee

Fermé La Porta

Dirge For Dorsey

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Darn That Dream

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Collective Personnel: Wally Cirillo, Ed Shaughnessy, Louis Mucci, Barry Galbraith, Richard Carter, Charlie Perry

Label:	LONE HILL JAZZ
Number:	10345
Item Code:	63155
Format:	2-CD
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Dates:	(1954-1957)
Price:	$25.00

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