0310 Tony Crombie [And His Sweet Beat] FLAC 10(23.59)

Contributed by azule serape, who writes:-
A 1957 recording by Tony Crombie during that period when he earned a living playing anything but jazz.
A gimmicky sort of record having the word 'Sweet' in all the titles and played by a smallish group sounding like a combination of Billy May, Sauter-Finegan and Knuckles O'Toole. It's music for doing the washing up by.
All the arrangements are by Crombie and none of the musicians are identified.
FLAC from lp with cover scans.

Tony Crombie - drums
big band - personnel unknown

01 Sweet Beat (Crombie) (2:24)
02 Sweet Lorraine (Parish, Burwell) (2:29)
03 Sweet Potato Piper (Monaco) (2:02)
04 Stay As Sweet As You Are (Gordon, Revel) (2:47)
05 The Sweetest Song In The World (Parr-Davies) (2:29)
06 Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Casy, Pinkard) (1:46)
07 Sweet And Gentle (del Portal) (2:26)
08 My Sweetie Went Away (Handman, Turk) (2:31)
09 Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim, LeMare, Tobias) (2:32)
10 Sweet Sue, Just You (Harris, Young) (2:34)

Label: Columbia 33S 1117
Recorded: 1957
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0309 Joe Harriott [Live At The Free Trade Hall Manchester] FLAC 4(31.26)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Joe's Quintet was the support group for the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their 1961 UK Tour.
This is not a complete set as Joe says before the first number...'continue with a composition...' but it is a typical live set with a mixture of jazz and free form. Joe's ground-breaking album 'Free Form' had been recorded a couple of months earlier but the public and critics had mixed views about this 'new' jazz. Joe thought that a concert audience might be more receptive to this music than club audiences but whilst the applause here for the free form numbers is polite, it is far from enthusiastic.
The drummer is Phil Seamen who plays more or less as usual ignoring the 'free' conventions but his days with the group were numbered as his addictions made him unreliable and notoriously unpunctual.
I saw Phil performing just once. He was part of the support group for one of the American touring bands, perhaps Woody Herman, at the Odeon Cinema in Leeds during the 1960s and he was the last to appear on stage. He looked absolutely dreadful - a walking skeleton, chalk white. He played the first number with the group and then left the stage. We never saw him again that night but his musical colleagues seemed unperturbed. They just played on without him as though this was a regular occurrence.  Perhaps it was.
Coleridge Goode the bass player in the Joe Harriott Quintet recalls that .....  'Phil could scarcely have chosen a worse night to miss the band call than their Brubeck tour performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.'   Coleridge remembered how the other members of the Quintet were forced to take the stage without Seamen who then appeared  suddenly from nowhere just as the performance seemed doomed.  'And there and then, in front of everybody, he was sick all over the place with Brubeck standing watching us.'
Joe announces the numbers speaking slowly and enunciating beautifully. He was immaculately turned out, always wearing a suit and tie wherever he was appearing and he was always the professional.
FLAC from cd with 'cover picture' and track/personnel details.

Les Condon - trumpet
Joe Harriott - alto
Pat Smythe - piano
Coleridge Goode - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Moanin' (Timmons) (6:39)
02 'Round About Midnight (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) (6:31)
03 Joe Explains Freeform: Coda (Harriott) (8:20)
04 Tempo (Harriott) (9:56)

Recorded: January 27 1961

0308 Tubby Hayes [And His Orchestra] FLAC 5(17.23)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:
'Deuces Wild', only previously issued on a 78rpm record, is added to the original ep tracklist as a bonus.
FLAC from oop re-issue cd with original cover scans.

Dickie Hawdon - trumpet
Dave Usden - trumpet
Mike Senn - alto, baritone
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Jackie Sharpe - tenor, baritone
Harry South - piano
Pete Blannin - bass
Lennie Breslow - drums (01 02 05)
Bill Eyden - drums (03 04)

01 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Ellington) (3:47)
02 Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) (3:46)
03 Fidelius (Feldman) (3:00)
04 Tootsie Roll (Paich) (3:04)
05 Deuces Wild (Stitt)  (3:46)

Label: Tempo EXA 17
Recorded: April 29 1955 (01 02 05) July 14 1955 (03 04)
Lineage: CD>FLAC

0307 Tubby Hayes [The Little Giant] FLAC 4(12.30)

Contributed by bellawoods, who writes:-
Another contribution from 'The Little Giant'
FLAC from OOP re-issue cd with original cover scans.

Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Dickie Hawdon - trumpet
Mike Senn - alto, baritone
Tubby Hayes - tenor
Jackie sharpe - tenor, baritone
Harry South - piano
Pete Blannin - bass
Lennie Breslow - drums

01 Jordu (Jordan) (3:46)
02 Orient Line (South) (2:47)
03 Mayreh (Silver) (2:32)
04 Monsoon (Feldman) (3:26)

Label: Tempo EXA 14
Recorded: March 10 1955
CD>FLAC

0306 Johnny Dankworth [And His Orchestra BBC Transcriptions 7, 8] FLAC 18(55.08)

 

Contributed by jazzandylan

Dickie Hawdon - trumpet
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet
Bob Carson - trumpet
Stan Palmer - trumpet
Laurie Monk - trombone
Johnny Dankworth - alto
Ken Moule - piano
Eric Dawson - bass
Kenny Clare - drums
and others

01 Signature Tune - Intro
02 International (Dankworth) (4:08)
03 Atcheson Topeka And The Santa Fe (Mercer) (3:48)
04 The Artful Dodger (Moule) (3:14)
05 Teach Me Tonight (Kahn, DePaul) (3:48)
06 Little Horror (Lindup) (4:18)
07 Round Midnight (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) (3:17)
08 Drums Galore (Lindup) (3:50)
09 Signature Tune - Sign Off (0:37)
10 Signature Tune - Intro (0:34)
11 After You've Gone (Creamer, Layton) (2:33)
12 Slo Twain (Lindup) (4:10)
13 Koller Size (Dankworth) (4:01)
14 Jones (5:23)
15 If I Had You (Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly) (2:47)
16 It's Easy To Remember (Rodgers, Hart) (3:59)
17 Idaho (Stone) (3:29)
18 Signature Tune - Sign Off (0:36)

Label: BBC Transcription Service
Recorded: 1963
Lineage: LP>FLAC