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| 1. | Everything's Coming Up Roses
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| 2. | You'll Never Get Away from Me
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| 3. | Together
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| 4. | Little Lamb
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| 5. | Some People
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| 6. | Mama's Talkin' Soft
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| 7. | Cow Song
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| 8. | Small World
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Jazz
Recorded: June 9 & 10, 1959, New York City
Tracks #1,3,5,6,8:
Herb Geller (as), Thad Jones (tp), Hank Jones (p), Scott LaFaro (b), Elvin Jones (d)
Track #7:
Same, except Billy Taylor (p) replaces Hank Jones
Tracks #2,4:
Herb Geller (as), Thad Jones (tp), Scott LaFaro (b), Elvin Jones (d)
Tracks #1,3,6,8:
Barbara Long (vcl) added
With these sides, Herb Geller and his All-Stars set down one of the best jazz versions of Jule Styne's score from the Broadway musical "Gypsy".
Geller's brilliant improvisational ability is put to the test in some of the numbers, there are also outstanding contributions from Thad Jones and a young Scott LaFaro on bass, while in four of the tunes Barbara Long's beautiful voice and deep feeling for jazz give Sondheim's lyrics the attention they deserve. And Herb Geller's arrangements carry off the difficult feat of not only reflecting the emotional essence of the original show, but also creating the climate where good jazz can flourish.
Originally issued on Atco SD-33-109.
Original recordings supervised by Nesuhi Ertegun.
Recording engineers: Tom Dowd & Phil Iehle.
Reissued for CD by Jordi Pujol.
Herb Geller
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 02, 1928 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Standards, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Herb Geller is a survivor of the Los Angeles jazz scene of the 1950s who played better than ever in the mid-'90s. Geller played in 1946 with Joe Venuti's Orchestra and in 1949, he traveled to New York to play with Claude Thornhill. In 1951, he moved back to L.A. and married the excellent bop pianist Lorraine Walsh. Geller was a fixture in L.A., playing with Billy May (1952), Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bill Holman, and Chet Baker, among others; jamming with Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954); and leading a quartet that included his wife (1954-1955). Lorraine Geller's sudden death in 1958 eventually resulted in the altoist deciding to leave the country to escape his grief. He played with Benny Goodman off and on between 1958-1961, spent time in Brazil, and in 1962, moved to Berlin. Geller worked in German radio orchestras for 30 years, played in European big bands, and continued to grow as a musician, although he was pretty much forgotten in the U.S. From the early '90s on, Herb Geller returned to the States on a more regular basis and he recorded a tribute to Al Cohn for Hep. Geller also recorded as a leader in the 1950s for EmArcy, Jubilee, and Atco, and in the 1980s and '90s for Enja, Fresh Sound, and V.S.O.P.
---Scott Yanow, Rovi |
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