The Encyclopedia of Jazz: The Bebop Story
Discs 1 – 10 of 100
Released : December 9, 2008
Label: Membran
Quality: Mp3@ 320
>The Encyclopedia of Jazz: The Bebop Story
Discs 1 – 10 of 100
Released : December 9, 2008
Label: Membran
Quality: Mp3@ 320
span style="font-size:150[b">Disc 6 Cootie Williams And His Orchestra (1944-45)
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.Born in Mobile, Alabama, United States, Williams began his professional career with the Young Family band, which included saxophonist Lester Young, when he was 14 years old According to Williams he acquired his nickname as a boy when his father took him to a band concert. When it was over his father asked him what he'd heard and the lad replied "Cootie, cootie, cootie".
In 1928, he made his first recordings with pianist James P. Johnson in New York, where he also worked briefly in the bands of Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson. He rose to prominence as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra, with which he first performed from 1929 to 1940. He also recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and with other Ellington sidemen. Williams also sang occasionally, a notable vocal collaboration with Ellington was the piece, "Echoes of the Jungle".[2] Cootie Williams was renowned for his growling "jungle" style trumpet playing (in the manner of Ellington's earlier trumpeter Bubber Miley and trombonist Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton) and for his use of the plunger mute.In 1940 he joined Benny Goodman's orchestra, a highly publicized move that caused quite a stir at the time[ (commemorated by Raymond Scott with the song "When Cootie Left the Duke"), then in 1941 formed his own orchestra, in which over the years he employed Charlie Parker, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Bud Powell, Eddie Vinson, and other young players.
In 1947, Williams wrote the song "Cowpox Boogie" while recuperating from a bout with smallpox. He contracted the disease from a vaccination he insisted all band members receive.By the late 1940s Williams had fallen somewhat into obscurity, having had to reduce his band numbers and finally to disband. In the 1950s, he began to play more rhythm and blues, and toured with small groups. In the late 1950s he formed a small jazz group and recorded a number of albums with Rex Stewart, as well as his own album, Cootie in Hi-Fi (1958 ). In 1962, he rejoined Ellington and stayed with the orchestra until 1974, after Ellington's death. In 1975, he performed during the Super Bowl IX halftime show.
Cootie Williams died in New York on September 15, 1985, at age 74. Williams is a 1991 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
01. You Talk A Little Trash [03:01]
02. Floogie Boo [02:39]
03. I Don't Know [03:12]
04. Gotta Do Some War Work, Baby [03:05]
05. My Old Flame [03:14]
06. Sweet Lorraine [03:11]
07. Echoes Of Harlem [03:07]
08. Honeysuckle Rose [03:12]
09. Now I Know [03:00]
10. Tess's Torch Song (I Had A Man) [02:31]
11. Cherry Red Blues [03:05]
12. Things Ain't What They Used To Be [03:14]
13. Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby [02:45]
14. Somebody's Gotta Go [03:16]
15. 'Round Midnight (Round About Midnight) [03:15]
16. Blue Garden Blues (1) [03:18]
17. You Talk A Little Trash [03:22]
18. Blue Garden Blues (2) [03:37]
19. 'Round Midnight [03:18]
20. Birmingham Special [02:51]
21. The Rhythm Is Jumpin' [03:45]
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
Disc 7 Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra (1944)
Billy Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music. An influence looming large in the cultural development of soul and R&B singers from Sam Cooke to Prince, Eckstine was able to play it straight on his pop hits "Prisoner of Love," "My Foolish Heart" and "I Apologize." Born in Pittsburgh but raised in Washington, D.C., Eckstine began singing at the age of seven and entered many amateur talent shows. He had also planned on a football career, though after breaking his collar bone, he made music his focus. After working his way west to Chicago during the late '30s, Eckstine was hired by Earl Hines to join his Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939. Though white bands of the era featured males singing straight-ahead romantic ballads, black bands were forced to stick to novelty or blues vocal numbers until the advent of Eckstine and Herb Jeffries (from Duke Ellington's Orchestra).
01. Blue'n Boogie (Theme) [01:26]
02. Blowin' The Blues Away [01:58]
03. 'Deed I Do [02:39]
04. I Wanna Talk About You [03:18]
05. Blue'n Boogie (Theme) 1 [00:45]
06. Blue'n Boogie (Theme) 2 [00:47]
07. Together [04:00]
08. Mean To Me [04:26]
09. Without A Song [04:15]
10. Mr. Chips [03:00]
11. Blue 'n' Boogie (Theme) 3 [00:55]
12. Blue 'n' Boogie (Theme) 4 [01:21]
13. Air Mail Special [03:51]
14. Don't Blame Me [03:33]
15. If That's The Way You Feel [03:42]
16. Blue 'n' Boogie (Theme) 5 [01:13]
17. Blue 'n' Boogie (Theme) 6 [01:11]
18. Opus X [02:38]
19. Love Me Or Leave Me [04:25]
20. One O'Clock Jump [01:38]
21. Lonesome Lover Blues [02:47]
22. A Cottage For Sale [02:46]
23. I Love The Rhythm In A Riff [02:48]
24. Last Night [02:59]
Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra
Disc 8 Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra (1945-46)
01. My Deep Blue Dream [03:00]
02. Prisoner Of Love [02:54]
03. It Ain' Like That [02:52]
04. A Penny For Your Thoughts [02:56]
05. I'm In The Mood For Love [02:55]
06. You Call It Madness [03:01]
07. All I Sing Is Blues [02:49]
08. Long Long Journey [03:06]
09. I Only Have Eyes For You [02:34]
10. You're My Everything [02:44]
11. The Jitney Man [02:44]
12. Blue [02:57]
13. Second Balcony Jump [02:52]
14. Tell Me Pretty Baby [02:58]
15. Love Is The Thing [02:49]
16. Without A Song [02:52]
17. Cool Breeze [02:52]
18. Don't Ever Take Your Love From Me [02:55]
19. Oo Bop Sh'Bam [03:03]
20. Oo Bop Sh'Bam [03:00]
21. In The Still Of The Night [02:53]
22. Jelly Jelly [03:16]
Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra
Disc 9 Woody Herman And His Orchestra (1944-45)
Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and 1940s bandleaders. His bands often played music that was experimental for its time.
01. Flying Home [03:05]
02. It Must Be Jelly [02:52]
03. Red Top [04:31]
04. Jones Beachhaed [03:28]
05. Apple Honey [04:39]
06. John Hardy's Wife [04:29]
07. Apple Honey [03:16]
08. Caldonia [03:01]
09. Goosey Gander [03:22]
10. Northwest Passage [03:10]
11. Bijou [03:21]
12. Ah Your Father's Moustache [06:12]
13. Don't Worry 'Bout The Mule [03:58]
14. 125th St. Prophet [04:11]
15. Meshugah [05:58]
16. Caldonia [03:43]
17. Jackson Fiddles While Ralph Burns [03:53]
18. Blowin' Up A Storm [04:11]
Woody Herman and His Orchestra (First Herd) (Tracks 1-5,7-18 )
Woody Herman and The V-Disc All-Stars (Track 6)
Disc 10 Red Norvo, Stan Hasselgard (1943-47
01. 1-2-3-4 Jump [03:57]
02. Seven Come Eleven [04:16]
03. In A Mellotone (Red Norvo Repeats) [05:11]
04. Flying Home [04:16]
05. The Sergeant On Furlough [05:01]
06. NRC Jump [04:56]
07. Lagwood Walk [05:05]
08. Red Dust [04:49]
09. Blues Skies [04:41]
10. Purple Feathers [04:45]
11. Subtle sextology [03:44]
12. Blues A La red [04:00]
13. The Man I Love [04:13]
14. Seven Come eleven [04:07]
15. Swedish Pastry [03:01]
16. Sweet And Hot Mop [02:41]
17. Who Sleeps [02:50]
18. I'll Never Be The Same [03:14]
Red Norvo and His Overseas Spotlight Band (Tracks 1-7)
Red Norvo Quintet (Tracks 8-10)
Red Norvo All-Star Sextet (Tracks 11-14)
Stan Hasselgard and His Smorgasbirds (Tracks 15-18 )
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