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| 1. | Gilded Cage
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| 2. | My Wild Irish Rose
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| 3. | Tetched In The Head
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| 4. | Snow In Lovers Lane
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| 5. | You Got Nothin'
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| 6. | Love Gave Me You
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| 7. | Kentucky Home
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| 8. | Good Old Summertime
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| 9. | Give My Regards To Broadway
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| 10. | Fooled Again
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| 11. | Carry Me Back
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| 12. | Old Apple Tree
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| 13. | Kingdom Coming
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| 14. | Petals Of Roses
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| 15. | Kiss Me Again
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| 16. | Angie
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| 17. | Coffee Break
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| 18. | Deep River
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| 19. | Golden Slippers
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| 20. | Why Not
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| 21. | Molly Malone
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| 22. | Sweet And Simple
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| 23. | Charlie Is My Darling
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| 24. | Saw Mill River Road
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Jazz
Recorded in New York City, 1961
Charlie Shavers (tp)
Ray Bryant (p), Tommy Flanagan (p), Tommy Bryant (b), Oliver Jackson (d)
While other trumpet men fell by the wayside or were merely content to occupy an accustomed groove, Charles James Shavers roared on. Charlie was one of the very few trumpeters who successfully bridged the gap between the swing era and the genuine jazz moods of today. His time-honoured formula consisted of a unique and completely original style and tone, a flair for showmanship, a dash of humour and an instrumental virtuosity that's difficult to transcend. As a "little Shavers", Charlie started on banjo, later switching to trumpet, thus launching a professional career that fulfilled stints with Lucky Millinder, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and John Kirby's combo, among others, and found him as a sextet co-leader with Louis Bellson and Terry Gibbs. He was an Esquire Silver Award and Down Beat Poll winner as well as an accomplished songwriter. On recordings, Charlie performed with most of the leading names in the jazz world.
Charlie's arranging prowess is also brought to the fore in this "SWING ALONG WITH CHARLIE SHAVERS" set. Backed and embellished by a highly volatile rhythm section from Ray Bryant's usual trio, with Tommy Flanagan on piano for a handful of tunes, the Shavers trumpet shines with sizzling abandon, both fluent and fiery with tremendous vitality and drive, yet sensitive and touching with a beautifully projected gift of lyricism. The resultant tone is clean and robust with individual notes deliberately full-bodied.
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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