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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Landslide
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| 2. | Time After Time
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| 3. | Mia
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| 4. | Sarah
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| 5. | A Fifth for Frank
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| 6. | Big Foot
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| 7. | Sonar
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| 8. | Stranger in Paradise
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| 9. | Woody'n You
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| 10. | Pink Lady
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| 11. | Counceltation
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| 12. | Love Walked In
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| 13. | Sophisticated Lady
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| 14. | A Fifth for Frank
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| 15. | The Butler Did It
drum solo
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Love Walked In
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| 2. | Too Close for Comfort
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| 3. | How Deep Is the Ocean?
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| 4. | Complete
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| 5. | Nica's Dream
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| 6. | How Long Has This Been Going On?
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| 7. | Mean to Me
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| 8. | I Can't Get Started
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| 9. | La Rue
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| 10. | Carl's Blues
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| 11. | A Night in Tunisia
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Jazz
Recorded: Los Angeles
CD 1: #1-6: October 8, 1956.
# 7-9: October 15, 1956.
#10-11 & CD 2, #1-2: April 22, 1957.
CD 2: #3-4: May 13, 1957.
#5-6: August 29, 1957.
#7: September 3, 1957.
#8 & 15: January 6, 1958.
#9-11: Same date. Gerald Wilson (tp) replaces Sheldon.
#12-14: Jack Sheldon (tp) replaces Wilson. TV Show, November 12, 1956.
Curtis Sheldon (b)
Jack Sheldon (tp), Carl Perkins (p), Frank Butler (d)
Includes 16-page booklet with photos by William Claxton.
Celebrated American jazz bassist Curtis Counce was born in Kansas City on 23, 1926 and died prematurely of a heart attack on July 31, 1963. He recorded prolifically as a sideman accompanying figures like Clifford Brown, and before creating his famous quintet in 1956, featuring Harold Land, Jack Sheldon, Frank Butler and another ill-fated musician, pianist Carl Perkins. All of the master take recordings by the original Curtis Counce Quintet are included on this release.
As a splendid bonus to the original studio master takes, they have added the complete soundtrack from a rare 1956 TV Show, the only known TV studio recording by this quintet. Although both "Love Walked In" and "A Fifth for Frank" were also recorded by the quintet in the same period, the longer tune, "Sophisticated Lady", is a welcome addition as it was never commercially recorded by this group.
CD 1: Total Time: 79:47 mins.
Bonus tracks: 12-15
CD 2: Total Time: 79:00 mins.
Bassist Curtis Counce led one of the top hard bop groups to be based on the West Coast during the mid-'50s, a quintet with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, tenor saxophonist Harold Land (shortly after he left the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet), pianist Carl Perkins and drummer Frank Butler. Nearly all of that group's recordings are on this two-CD set. Reissued are the contents of the Contemporary LPs Landslide, You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce and Carl's Blues except for three alternate takes and three selections with pianist Elmo Hope that were issued years after the original LPs. Gerald Wilson takes Sheldon's place on three selections from the band's final date. Also not here is the group's obscure Dooto LP from 1958 which has Elmo Hope and trumpeter Rolf Ericson joining Land, Butler and Counce. In its place are three numbers from the band's appearance on the Stars of Jazz television series. On these 26 selections, the Curtis Counce Quintet features an attractive mixture of jazz standards and group originals with plenty of passionate and colorful solos from Sheldon, Land and Perkins. This was an excellent band, so collectors who do not have their Contemporary sets will certainly want to pick up this attractive two-fer.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Curtis Counce
Active Decades: '40s, '50s and '60s
Born: Jan 23, 1926 in Kansas City, MO
Died: Jul 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, West Coast Jazz
Curtis Counce was an in-demand session bassist and one of the first African Americans to get heavily involved in the West Coast jazz movement in the 1940s. He studied violin and tuba in addition to bass before leaving his native city for employment with the Nat Towles Band in Omaha at the age of 16. He moved to L.A. in 1945, taking a job with Johnny Otis at the Club Alabam and made his recording debut with Lester Young the following year. He recorded prolifically as a sideman (Shelly Manne, Lyle Murphy, Teddy Charles, Clifford Brown) before starting his famous quintet in 1956. His premature death from a heart attack was a tragic loss to jazz. All of Counce's Contemporary dates as a leader have been reissued, as has the once rare Exploring the Future. An added bonus was the appearance of previously unreleased Contemporary masters on the 1989 CD Sonority.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide |
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