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| 1. | Stella by Starlight
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| 2. | Ill Wind
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| 3. | Stormy Weather
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| 4. | Out of Nowhere
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| 5. | Easy to Remember
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| 6. | Stardust
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| 7. | I Cover the Waterfront
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| 8. | Memories of You
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| 9. | You're Mine, You
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| 10. | Let's Fall in Love
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| 11. | I've Got a Crush on You
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| 12. | Someone to Watch Over Me
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| 13. | Somebody Loves Me
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| 14. | The Man I Love
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| 15. | It Ain't Necessarily So
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| 16. | Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
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| 17. | Embraceable You
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| 18. | I've Got Rhythm
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| 19. | Summertime
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| 20. | But Not for Me
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Jazz
Recorded in NYC, 1955
Charlie Shavers (tp)
with
Large Studio Orchestra including Strings, Sy Oliver (arr,cond)
Contains complete LPs:
- "The most intimate" (Bethlehem, 1955)
- "Gershwin, Shavers & Strings" (Bethlehem, 1955)
All tracks by Charlie Shavers (tp) with Large Studio Orchestra including Strings, Sy Oliver (arr,cond)
Considering his stature, it is surprising that the exciting trumpeter Charlie Shavers did not lead more sessions throughout his career. This set, only his second and third LPs as a leader, is purely mood music with concise and very melodic versions of familiar ballads. Shavers, who is backed by a large string orchestra, shows off the prettier side of his tone.
Two similar albums have been reissued in full on the single CD Complete Intimate Interpretations. In both cases, trumpeter Charlie Shavers is accompanied by an unidentified string orchestra arranged by Sy Oliver. While the first set has a variety of standards, the second sticks to George Gershwin songs. In all but one case, the tempos are taken as slow ballads with the arrangements being disappointingly unimaginative and a bit dull. Shavers plays fine as usual but mostly sticks to very melodic statements. The lone exception is the 18th selection on the program, a version of "I've Got Rhythm" that is surprising in that it is performed at a heated tempo and the trumpeter takes a typically dazzling solo. He is also quite dramatic on "Summertime," but otherwise the music often borders on Muzak despite Shavers' playing. It is a pity that these potentially exciting projects are so sleepy and predictable.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Charlie Shavers
Active Decades: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Aug 03, 1917 in New York, NY
Died: Jul 08, 1971 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Swing, Trad Jazz
Charlie Shavers was one of the great trumpeters to emerge during the swing era, a virtuoso with an open-minded and extroverted style along with a strong sense of humor. He originally played piano and banjo before switching to trumpet, and he developed very quickly. In 1935, he was with Tiny Bradshaw's band and two years later he joined Lucky Millinder's big band. Soon afterward he became a key member of John Kirby's Sextet where he showed his versatility by mostly playing crisp solos while muted. Shavers was in demand for recording sessions and participated on notable dates with New Orleans jazz pioneers Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, and Sidney Bechet. He also had many opportunities to write arrangements for Kirby and had a major hit with his composition "Undecided." After leaving Kirby in 1944, Charlie Shavers worked for a year with Raymond Scott's CBS staff orchestra, and then was an important part of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra from 1945 until past TD's death in 1956. Although well-featured, this association kept Shavers out of the spotlight of jazz, but fortunately he did have occasional vacations in which he recorded with the Metronome All-Stars and toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic; at the latter's concerts in 1953, Shaver's trumpet battles with Roy Eldridge were quite exciting. After Dorsey's death, Shavers often led his own quartet although he came back to the ghost band from time to time. During the 1960s, his range and technique gradually faded, and Charlie Shavers died from throat cancer in 1971 at the age of 53.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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