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| 1. | Shoe Shine Boy
first take
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| 2. | Lover Man
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| 3. | Georgia Mae
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| 4. | Caravan
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| 5. | Lincoln Heights
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| 6. | Embraceable You
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| 7. | Shoe Shine Boy
second take
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Jazz
Recorded in New York City, August 11 & 16, 1955
Jo Jones (d)
Emmet Berry (tp), Benny Green, Lawrence Brown (tb), Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Powell (cl, as), Freddie Green (g), Nat Pierce, Pete Johnson (p), Walter Page (b)
This was the first album "the man who plays like the wind" did as a leader. On four of the numbers he fronted a septet with Nat Pierce on piano. Soloists Benny Green and Emmett Berry are excellent, but if one hornman especially excels here is tenor Lucky Thompson, one of the most unjustly neglected artists in jazz. On the two magnificently robust takes of Shoe Shine Boy, the guest pianist is Count Basie, thereby reuniting, for the first time in eight years, what was the greatest rhythm section in jazz. On Caravan, there were some changes on the line-up of the septet, but throughout all the sides, the uniting personality is Jo, a master of flowingly musical jazz drumming.
This is a first-rate, swing-influenced set, later combined with a second album into the Essential Jo Jones package on Vogue.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
Jo Jones
Active Decades: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Oct 07, 1911 in Chicago, IL
Died: Sep 03, 1985 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
Jo Jones shifted the timekeeping role of the drums from the bass drum to the hi-hat cymbal, greatly influencing all swing and bop drummers. Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson were just two who learned from his light but forceful playing, as Jones swung the Count Basie Orchestra with just the right accents and sounds. After growing up in Alabama, Jones worked as a drummer and tap-dancer with carnival shows. He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in Oklahoma City in the late '20s. After a period with Lloyd Hunter's band in Nebraska, Jones moved to Kansas City in 1933, joining Count Basie's band the following year. He went with Basie to New York in 1936 and with Count, Freddie Green and Walter Page he formed one of the great rhythm sections. Jones was with the Basie band (other than 1944-46 when he was in the military) until 1948 and in later years he participated in many reunions with Basie alumni. He was on some Jazz at the Philharmonic tours and recorded in the 1950s with Illinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Art Tatum and Duke Ellington among others; Jones appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival with both Basie and the Coleman Hawkins-Roy Eldridge Sextet. Jo Jones led sessions for Vanguard (1955 and 1959) and Everest (1959-60), a date for Jazz Odyssey on which he reminisced and played drum solos (1970) and mid-'70s sessions for Pablo and Denon. In later years he was known as "Papa" Jo Jones and thought of as a wise if brutally frank elder statesman.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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