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| 1. | Rompin' At Red Bank
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| 2. | Blue Creek
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| 3. | A Swinging Doll
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| 4. | Dallas Delight
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| 5. | Don't Mind If I Do
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| 6. | Blue Breeze
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| 7. | Blue Ebony
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Jazz / Mainstream Jazz
Buck Clayton - Trumpet
Buddy Tate Clarinet, Performer, Sax (Tenor)
Don Schlitten Design, Photography
Esmond Edwards Supervisor
Gene Ramey Bass
Gus Johnson Drums
Joe Goldberg Liner Notes
Phil DeLancie Digital Remastering
Rudy Van Gelder Engineer
Sir Charles Thompson Piano
Buck, Buddy, Basie, and the blues; a natural combination. Count Basie is on this classic 1961 session only in spirit, but his inspiration pervades the album. Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Gene Ramey, and Gus Johnson were all veterans of the Basie band. Sir Charles Thompson knew and understood Basie's approach to the piano. The result was swing generated by masters from the era that bore its name. But this was not a ghost of Basie's small groups or an exercise in nostalgia. None of the musicians was over 50; each of them was in good shape and full of creativity. Clayton was still setting standards for jazz trumpeters. Tate was recognized as a major figure among Texas tenors. Their empathy and singleness of artistic vision made them brothers in the Basie tradition, and in the blues.
Trumpeter Buck Clayton and tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate, both Count Basie veterans, teamed up with the Basieish pianist Sir Charles Thompson, bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Mousie Alexander in 1960 for a set of three standards and a trio of Clayton originals. Although the musicians all play well on this mainstream set, few surprises or exciting moments occur and the performances are not as memorable as one would expect. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Buck Clayton
Active Decades: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Nov 12, 1911 in Parsons, KS
Died: Dec 08, 1991 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Mainstream Jazz
An excellent bandleader and accompanist for many vocalists, including Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton was a valued soloist with Count Basie Orchestra during the '30s and '40s, and later was a celebrated studio and jam session player, writer, and arranger. His tart, striking tone and melodic dexterity were his trademark, and Clayton provided several charts for Basie's orchestra and many other groups. Clayton began his career in California, where he organized a big band that had a residency in China in 1934. When he returned, Clayton led a group and played with other local bands. During a 1936 visit to Kansas City, he was invited to join Basie's orchestra as a replacement for Hot Lips Page. Clayton was also featured on sessions with Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, and Holiday in the late '30s. He remained in the Basie band until 1943, when he left for army service. After leaving the army, Clayton did arrangements for Basie, Benny Goodman, and Harry James before forming a sextet in the late '40s. He toured Europe with this group in 1949 and 1950. Clayton continued heading a combo during the '50s, and worked with Joe Bushkin, Tony Parenti, and Jimmy Rushing, among others. He organized a series of outstanding recordings for Columbia in the mid-'50s under the title Jam Session (compiled and reissued by Mosaic in 1993). There were sessions with Rushing, Ruby Braff, and Nat Pierce. Clayton led a combo with Coleman Hawkins and J.J. Johnson at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, then reunited with Goodman in 1957 at the Waldorf Astoria. There was another European tour, this time with Mezz Mezzrow. He appeared in the 1956 film The Benny Goodman Story and played the 1958 Brussels World Fair with Sidney Bechet. Clayton later made another European visit with a Newport Jazz Festival tour. He joined Eddie Condon's band in 1959, a year after appearing in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day. Clayton toured Japan and Australia with Condon's group in 1964, and continued to revisit Europe throughout the '60s, often with Humphrey Lyttelton's band, while playing festivals across the country. But lip and health problems virtually ended his playing career in the late '60s. After a period outside of music, Clayton once again became active in music, this time as a non-playing arranger, touring Africa as part of a State Department series in 1977. He provided arrangements and compositions for a 1974 Lyttleton and Buddy Tate album, and did more jam session albums for Chiaroscuro in 1974 and 1975. He also became an educator, teaching at Hunter College in the early '80s. Clayton led a group of Basie sidemen on a European tour in 1983, then headed his own big band in 1987 that played almost exclusively his compositions and arrangements. That same year Clayton's extensive autobiography -Buck Clayton's Jazz World, with Nancy Miller-Elliot, was published. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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