Jazz
Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, on September 17, 1955
Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge (tp), Ben Webster, Lester Young, Flip Phillips (ts), Sonny stitt (as), Bill Harris (tb), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b) and Louie Bellson (d)
Bonus tracks:
CD 2, tracks #3-5:
Recorded live at Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, on February 10, 1955
Same personnel but omit Ben Webster, Lester Young and Sonny Stitt. Buddy DeFranco (cl on #4 only)
CD 2, tracks #6-9:
Recorded live at the Carnegie Hall, New York, on February 11, 1949
Fat Navarro (tp), Sonny Criss (as), Flip Phillips (ts), Tommy Turk (tb), Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Shelly Manne (d) and Ella Fitzgerald (vcl on #7 & 9)
This release presents for the first time ever on CD a complete 1955 performances by the JATP All Stars featuring Ben Webster, Lester Young, Dizz Gillespie, Roy Eldridge and Sonny Stitt among others. This concert only previously appeared divided on three long out of print LPs.
As a bonus, a rare set by a similar JATP group in Germany that same year, plus four previously unissued tunes from a 1949 Carnegie Hall JATP concert featuring Fats Navarro, Sonny Criss and Ella Fitzgerald.
Total time: 79:05 + 74:21 min. |
