Don Byas - Complete American Small Group Recordings

Don Byas - Complete American Small Group Recordings
Жанр: Bop, Swing
Страна-производитель диска: Испания
Год издания диска: 2001
Издатель (лейбл): Definitive Records
Номер по каталогу: DRCD11213
Аудиокодек: APE (*.ape)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: CD1 - 72:23; CD2 - 72:04; CD3 - 76:11; CD4 - 72:20
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Треклист

CD1:
01. Riffin' and Jivin' (Byas) - 2:57
02. Free and Easy (Byas) - 2:52
03. Worried 'N Blue (Byas) - 3:15
04. Don's Idea (Byas) - 2:55
05. Savoy Jam Party (Part 2) (Byas) - 3:14
06. Savoy Jam Party (Part 1) (Byas) - 2:59
07. 1944 Stomp (Byas) - 3:01
08. What Do You Want with My Heart (Byas) - 3:01
09. Bass C Jam (Byas) - 2:55
10. Pennies from Heaven (Burke-Johnson) - 3:12
11. Should I? (Brown-Freed) - 2:37
12. You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love (Columbo-Conrad-Gregory-Dubois) - 2:54
13. Jamboree Jump (Byas) - 2:52
14. Little White Lies (Donaldson) - 2:50
15. Deep Purple (De Rose-Parish) - 3:06
16. Them There Eyes (Pinkard-Tracy-Tauber) - 3:04
17. Double Talk (Byas) - 3:31
18. Fruit Salad (Byas) - 3:02
19. Don Juan (unknown) - 2:51
20. Spots (Byas-Shad) - 2:58
21. Please Believe Me (Broonzy) - 2:49
22. Why Did You Do That to Me (Broonzy) - 3:05
23. You Got to Play Your Hand (Broonzy) - 3:19
24. Just a Dream (Broonzy) - 3:06
CD2:
01. Out of Nowhere (You Came Along) (Green-Heyman) - 3:17
02. Three O'Clock in the Morning (Terriss-Robledo) - 3:02
03. One O'Clock Jump (Basie) - 2:47
04. Harvard Blues (Frazier-Smith-Basie) - 3:09
05. Slam-In' Around (Byas) - 2:47
06. Laura (Raskin-Mercer) - 2:50
07. Stardust (Parish-Carmichael) - 3:05
08. Slam, Don't Shake Like That (Byas-Stewart) - 3:04
09. Dark Eyes (Trad.) - 3:03
10. Embraceable You (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 3:04
11. The Sheik of Araby (Smith-Wheeler-Synder) - 3:05
12. Super Session (Byas) - 3:00
13. Melody in Swing (Catlett-Grimes) - 3:18
14. Once in a While (Green-Edwards) - 3:20
15. Avalon (Jolson-DeSylva-Rose) - 3:07
16. Blue and Sentimental (David-Basie-Livingston) - 3:16
17. My Melancholy Baby (Norton-Burnett) - 3:05
18. The Gypsy (Reid) - 2:26
19. Nancy (Silver-Van Heusen) - 2:48
20. Poor Butterfly (Hubbell-Golden) - 3:03
21. Evil Gal Blues (Feather) - 3:05
22. Salty Papa Blues (Feather) - 2:52
23. Albinia's Blues (Jones) - 2:45
24. Don't You Wear No Black (What's the Matter with Me) (Haynes-Ramson-Smith) - 2:47
CD3:
01. Humoresque (Dvorak) - 2:51
02. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Koehler-Moll-Barris) - 3:01
03. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Kern-Harbach) - 2:50
04. Slamboree (Stewart-Byas-Garner-West) - 3:00
05. Annie Laurie (Scott-Douglas) - 3:00
06. Candy (Davis-Cramer) - 3:19
07. How High the Moon (Hamilton-Lewis) - 2:57
08. Donby (Byas) - 3:13
09. Byas-A-Drink (Byas) - 2:47
10. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) (Turk-Ahlert) - 3:01
11. London Donnie (Danny Boy) (Trad.) - 2:53
12. Old Folks (Lee-Robinson) - 3:04
13. Cherokee (Noble) - 3:02
14. September in the Rain (Dubin-Warren) - 2:59
15. Living My Life (unknown) - 2:45
16. To Each His Own (Livingston-Evans) - 2:58
17. They Say It's Wonderful (Berlin) - 2:24
18. Cynthia's in Love (White-Gish-Owens) - 2:47
19. September Song (Weill-Anderson) - 2:54
20. St. Louis Blues (Handy) - 3:00
21. I've Found a New Baby (Palmer-Williams) - 2:41
22. Marie (Berlin) - 2:56
23. You Go to My Head (Gillespie-Coots) - 2:54
24. Don't You Know I Care (Ellington) - 2:54
25. Gloomy Sunday (Seress-Javor-Lewis) - 3:07
26. More Than a Mood (Simon) - 2:53
CD4:
01. How High the Moon (Lewis-Hamilton) - 3:55
02. Sarcastic Lady (Hodges) - 4:43
03. Them There Eyes (Tracey-Tauber) - 3:50
04. Penthouse Serenade (Jason-Burton) - 4:43
05. Sweet and Lovely (Amheim-Tobias) - 3:02
06. White Rose Kick (Byas) - 2:33
07. My Deep Blue Dream (Rivera-Troob) - 3:05
08. Byas'd Opinion (Byas) - 2:42
09. Hank's Pranks (Rivera) - 2:49
10. Juke Box Judy (D'Amico) - 2:58
11. Shy Little Witch from Greenwich (Newton) - 3:01
12. Gone at Dawn (Simon) - 2:54
13. Morning Madness (Haynes) - 3:59
14. One Sad Thursday (Haynes) - 3:50
15. Across the Road (Haynes) - 3:48
16. Cedar Manor (Haynes) - 3:45
17. The Jeep Is Jumpin' (Hodges-Ellington) - 4:53
18. I'd Do Anything for You (Hopkins-Williams-Hill) - 2:44
19. Sophisticated Lady (Ellington) - 3:09
20. Armand the Groove (Guarnieri) - 3:03
21. Dot's My Baby (Guarnieri) - 2:54

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Лог создания рипа CD3

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Содержание индексной карты (.CUE) CD1

Содержание индексной карты (.CUE) CD2

Содержание индексной карты (.CUE) CD3

Содержание индексной карты (.CUE) CD4

Review by Mike Neely

Oklahoma born tenor saxophonist Don Byas moved easily between swing and bebop with an earthy, blues sound that brings to mind Coleman Hawkins but with a lightness of touch and rhythmic agility reminiscent of Lester Young. He successfully synthesized these two influences, in many ways updating them into the bebop era. Byas mastered the breathtaking tempos associated with Parker and Gillespie but avoided the angular, sharp phrasing- with the result that his up-tempo approach had a more rounded, swing solo sound. Byas reminds us that bebop arose out of the world of swing, and that many of the most significant jazz musicians of the forties were at home in both worlds.
Byas arrived in New York via Kansas City. His journey included stints with Benny Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra and Walter Page’s Blue Devils, both highly regarded mid-west bands. Having worked with Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, and Andy Kirk, Don Byas was far from being unknown in the New York jazz scene of the early 1940s. In 1941 he replaced Lester Young in the Count Basie Band. Several years later he was playing tenor in Dizzy Gillespie’s big band. In short, Byas was a rising tenor star of exceptional talent, backed by an impressive resume.
His recording career as a leader in the United States lasted for about two years, from 1944-46. In the autumn of 1946 he left for Europe touring with the Don Redman Band; essentially, from that point on he simply stayed in Europe until his death in 1972. Considering the time period, and the extent of his talent, expatriation was a doubtful career move if he was concerned with his place in the contemporary jazz scene and ultimately his place in jazz history.
This four disc set, Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings, documents Byas’ recordings as a leader prior to his emigration, with one disc documenting his work as a sideman in a variety of bands. Although he was later to record extensively in Europe, Byas should be established as a major tenor saxophonist based on this four disc set alone.
The opening disc presents a Don Byas composition, an up-tempo, boppish Riffin’ and Jivin’ that brings together Count Basie’s influence and a peek at the modernists to be in the alternating swing and almost boppish solo and riff passages. The easy communication between the two styles is evident with the extremes best illustrated by the bowed swing bass of Slam Stewart and the aggressive, trumpet solo of Charlie Shavers. The easy back and forth is suggestive of the evolutionary rather than revolutionary nature of be-bop. Compositions such as Riffin’ and Jivin’ and the Ellington/Hodges’ composition The Jeep Is Jumpin’ is evidence enough, if anyone doubted, that be-bop grew from the soil of swing.
This fine band, that Byas fronted as the Don Byas Orchestra, included Clyde Hart on piano (and celeste), Charlie Shavers on trumpet, Slam Stewart on bass, and Jack “The Bear” Parker on drums. These two 1944 sessions helps to set the tone for the four disc set: excellent musicians with a bluesy feel and an extraordinary range of resources. Count Basie’s influence and Kansas City loom large in the background; the rising development of bebop appears in flashes, compositional touches, and in the solos of individual musicians. Charlie Shavers is superb throughout the nine tracks with this band presenting a good foil to the bluesy Byas with his staccato, bright, trumpet sound. This is for the most part a pre-modernist Clyde Hart, demonstrating an obvious Count Basie piano influence.
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