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| 1. | Spanish Eyes
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| 2. | Nature Boy
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| 3. | Fat Tessie's Ass
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| 4. | Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
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| 5. | Makin' Whoopee
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| 6. | Everything Happens to Me
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| 7. | Love Story
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| 8. | Jeannie
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| 9. | This Is All I Ask
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| 10. | Fat Tessie's Ass [Alternate Version]
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| 11. | Makin' Whoopee [Alternate Version]
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| 12. | Spanish Eyes [Alternate Version]
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Jazz
Flip Phillips - Clarinet (Bass), Main Performer, Sax (Tenor)
Alan Bates - Producer
Mickey Crane - Piano
Milt Hinton - Bass
Mousie Alexander - Drums
* Gerry MacDonald - Engineer, Producer
* Malcolm Walker - Design
This 1975 session, which originally was released as Phillips' Head by Choice, marked Flip Phillips' first date as a leader after a nearly a dozen years, although he had been recording during the period. With pianist Mickey Crane, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Mousie Alexander, Phillips ventures into a mix of vintage and current songs with great results throughout the date. A swinging rendition of "Spanish Eyes," written by easy listening bandleader Bert Kaempfert, became a favorite of the tenor saxophonist. His melodious takes on "This Is All I Ask" and "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" bring Ben Webster to mind. One surprise is the lively version of Hugo Montenegro's "Jeannie," which is the theme to the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie starring Barbara Eden. He switches to bass clarinet (an instrument on which he excelled but played only occasionally on record dates) for several tracks. He performs an inspired call-and-response duet with Hinton on "Nature Boy," a rather novel approach to a tune that can easily become hackneyed in the wrong hands, with the rest of the group joining him after a couple of choruses. His original blues "Fat Tessie's Ass" is a swinger with a fine solo by Hinton, while his use of the instrument on "Everything Happens to Me" adds to the already morose nature of this classic ballad. This 1997 reissue by Candid adds several alternate takes to this already worthwhile disc.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Flip Phillips
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Feb 26, 1915 in Brooklyn, NY
Died: Aug 17, 2001 in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, East Coast Blues, Jump Blues, Mainstream Jazz, Swing
Flip Phillips, who angered some critics early on because he gained riotous applause for his exciting solos during Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, for over 50 years was an excellent tenor saxophonist equally gifted on stomps, ballads, and standards. He played clarinet regularly in a Brooklyn restaurant during 1934-1939, was in Frankie Newton's group (1940-1941), and spent time in the bands of Benny Goodman, Wingy Manone, and Red Norvo. However, it was in 1944 that he had his breakthrough. As a well-featured soloist with Woody Herman's Herd (1944-1946), Phillips became a big star. His warm tenor was most influenced by Ben Webster but sounded distinctive even at that early stage. He toured regularly with Jazz at the Philharmonic during 1946-1957, scoring a bit of a sensation with his honking solo on "Perdido" and holding his own with heavy competition (including Charlie Parker and Lester Young). He occasionally co-led a group with Bill Harris, and that band was the nucleus of the ensemble that Benny Goodman used in 1959. Phillips then retired to Florida for 15 years, playing on just an occasional basis, taking up the bass clarinet as a double and making only a sporadic record date. But by 1975 he was back in music full-time, making quite a few records and playing at festivals and jazz parties. Even as he passed his 80th birthday, Flip Phillips had lost none of the enthusiasm or ability that he had a half-century earlier.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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