Contributed by grumpy
Woody Herman - leader, clarinet
Les Condon - trumpet
Bert Courtley - trumpet
Reunald Jones - trumpet
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet
Nat Adderley - cornet
Eddie Harvey - trombone
Bill Harris - trombone
Ken Wray - valve trombone
Johnny Scott - tenor
Art Ellefson - tenor
Don Rendell - tenor
Ronnie Ross - baritone
Vince Guaraldi - piano
Charlie Byrd - guitar
Keeter Betts - bass
Jimmy Campbell - drums
01 The Preacher (Silver) (5:54)
02 Like Some Blues, Man, Like (Herman) (12:20)
03 Pillar to Post (Salim) (2:44)
04 Four Brothers (Giuffre) (3:57)
05 Opus De Funk (Silver) (7:29)
06 Early Autumn (Burns, Herman, Mercer) (4:36)
07 Playgirl Stroll (Cadena?) (4:28)
08 Woodchoppers Ball (Herman, Bishop) (4:34)
Label: Jazz Groove 004
Recorded: April 18 1959 Manchester England
Lineage: LP>FLAC
Terrific stuff again. Never seen this one before. Many thanks.
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ReplyDeleteThanks yewsta.
I remember seeing this band at the Odeon Cinema in Leeds on 11 April 1959 (yes, this is a very old and now greying bluebird) and feeling cheated that it was not really a Herman band. Just full of our own jazzmen - where were the stars? We could see our own any day.
I've since revised my opinion so it's good to have this reminder of how good the band really was.
Nope, never 'herd' of this one. Great! Many thanks yewsta. A nice RR addition eh?
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Thank you Yewsta !
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ReplyDeleteNo need to apologise for the sound. We are lucky to have it at all . I have listened to this several times (and will so again) and find it perfectly acceptable given the conditions of recording. It is a valuable historical document as well as a pleasurable aesthetic experience.
It features at least two of my favourite jazz players in Don Rendell and Bill Harris (each introduced in his dry way by Woody), one UK , one US. There are many other great musicians involved.
I could write more about the cross- fertilisation of Uk and US, but (unlike blubird) was not there to experience it live in the 1950s.
More importantly , I would urge you to offer any other live /air shots from this period which still might qualify according to your admirable strict grading - and even those which you consider slightly low-par.
Good point, PW. Will try not to be too fussy but to state the condition as fairly as we can. Thanks for your support - keep it up.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid I must own up to the fact that there is no improved version, having had great success with previous recordings from the same era I had high hopes for this one too, sadly was not to be, spent hours on this with many different techniques each making the overall sound worse than before, I could reduce the background noise but this left artifacts even less desirable than the existing noise. So I reluctantly had to put this one down as a failure. As PW says, its the music than matters and amazingly the ear gets to anchor on the noise after a while, and the brain ignores it, something you cannot do with computer technology!!!
ReplyDeleteWOODY HERMAN'S ANGLO-AMERICAN HERD IN ENGLAND, APRIL 1959
ReplyDeleteAlmost half of the band was made up by U.S. musicians, including Nat Adderley and Bill Harris, so it was not totally without U.S. stars. The Brits acquit themselves very well in any case.
As for the sound, after reading some of the comments above, I was expecting something really bad, but that is not the case at all. For being a private recording, I think this is quite decent-sounding.
A look in the discographies reveal that a lot more was played at this concert. Presumably there are collectors out there sitting on the complete concert tapes, and wouldn't it be nice to hear them?
Programme notes here for those interested, courtesy of bluebird
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