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| 1. | What a Diff'rence a Day Made
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| 2. | Polka Dots and Moonbeams
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| 3. | Blow Fiddle Blow
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| 4. | Blue Orchids
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| 5. | Gone With the Wind
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| 6. | Squeeze Me
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| 7. | You Stepped Out of a Dream
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| 8. | Moonlight in Vermont
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| 9. | If Love Is Good to Me
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| 10. | Big Me -- Little Me
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Jazz
Recorded 1957 at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago
Johnny Frigo - Bass, Violin
Cy Touff - Trumpet (Bass)
Dick Marx - Celeste, Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Norm Jeffries - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass
John Frigo was best known as a bassist until the 1980s, when he began concentrating on his first instrument, the violin. These swinging small-group sides, recorded in 1957, offered a tantalizing taste of the turn Frigo's career would eventually take, as he temporarily relinquished the bass chair to the great Ray Brown and proved himself to be an outstanding jazz violinist.
* Bob Irwin - Mastering
* Bryan Koniarz - Producer
* Don Gold - Liner Notes
* Hollis King - Art Direction
* Ken Druker - Executive Producer
* Kip Smith - Mastering
* Sherniece Smith - Art Producer
Johnny Frigo spent most of his professional life as a jazz bassist, but in the mid-'80s he picked up his first instrument, the violin, and started what amounted to a second jazz career on that instrument. Frigo biographies frequently refer to an obscure album release from the 1950s that prefigured this change, and this is it, a session Frigo recorded in 1957 at Universal Recording Studios in Chicago for Mercury Records. Joined by guitarist Herb Ellis (Frigo and Ellis had previously worked together in the Soft Winds Trio with pianist Lou Carter), Norm Jeffries on drums, Dick Marx on piano, Cy Touff on trumpet, and the great Ray Brown on bass, Frigo delivers a wonderful swingbop mixture that stands seamlessly with his 1980s releases. At times he uses the violin like a horn, punching in and blocking out solid runs, and at other times, like on the beautiful "Blue Orchids," he uses the instrument to approximate a tenor vocalist, stretching the melody into marvelous shapes. Frigo even does a call-and-response duet with himself on the self-penned "Big Me -- Little Me," answering the violin lines with his own bass runs. I Love John Frigo...He Swings somehow got lost in the shuffle when it was released, and Frigo went back to bass playing for 30 years before getting a late second chance at recording this kind of small-group sides on violin once more. The original master tapes of this session apparently suffered some degradation, and the recordings red-line occasionally in the digital transfer, but it's nothing too serious. MercuryVerve should be commended for bringing this delightful album back to life.
---Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
Johnny Frigo
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 27, 1916 in Chicago, IL
Died: Jul 03, 2007 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing
Johnny Frigo has really had two careers. He started out playing violin in grammar school and after switching to tuba in order to play in his junior high school band, he took up the bass. Frigo started playing professionally as a bassist in 1934 and had some low-profile jobs until joining Jimmy Dorsey in the mid-'40s. In 1947, he formed a trio with guitarist Herb Ellis and pianist Lou Carter, called Soft Winds, that was popular for a few years; they co-wrote "Detour Ahead" and "I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out." After the group disbanded in the early '50s, Frigo became a studio bassist in Chicago for decades, playing sessions, jingles, and club dates. Although Frigo had an opportunity to record an album on violin in 1957 for Mercury, it was not until 1988 that he returned to his first instrument, guesting on a Herb Ellis Justice CD and leading two excellent and swinging dates of his own for Chesky that put him near the top of his field.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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