Cootie Williams And His Orchestra - 1941-1944

Artist: Cootie Williams And His Orchestra
Album: 1941-1944 [Classics]
Rating AMG: 4 1/2
Recording Date: May 7, 1941-Aug 22, 1944
Release Date: 1995
Label: Classics (Chronological 827)
Type: Compilation
Genre: Jazz, Styles: Swing, Big Band, Bop, Standards, Jive
Time: 72:46
Format/Bitrate - mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 100+86 Mb

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Titles:
1. West End Blues
2. Ain't Misbehavin'
3. Blues in My Condition
4. G-Men
5. Sleepy Valley
6. Marcheta
7. When My Baby Left Me
8. Fly Right (Epistrophy)
9. You Talk a Little Trash
10. Floogie Boo
11. I Don't Know
12. Do Some War Work, Baby
13. My Old Flame
14. Sweet Lorraine
15. Echoes of Harlem
16. Honeysuckle Rose
17. Now I Know
18. Tess's Torch Song (I Had a Man)
19. Cherry Red Blues
20. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
21. Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
22. Somebody's Gotta Go
23. 'Round Midnight
24. Blue Garden Blues (Royal Garden Blues)

Personel: Cootie Williams (trumpet). Bud Powell (piano), Pearl Bailey (vocal), Joe Guy (trumpet), Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (alto sax), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (tenor sax), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Jo Jones (drums), other.

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Review arwulf arwulf, AMG:
In addition to serving as a primal ingredient in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Charles "Cootie" Williams led a series of outstanding small groups and big bands during the 1940s, employing and encouraging young, innovative musicians at a time when other bandleaders resisted the inevitable evolution of swing to bop. This collection assembles eight sessions' worth of rare recordings made over a relatively short period of time. Vocalists are Pearl Bailey, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, and Williams himself. Four superb septet sides from May 1941 feature the trumpeter bolstered by a well-oiled front line of trombone and alto and baritone saxophones driven by drummer Jo Jones, pianist Johnny Guarnieri, and bassist Artie Bernstein. "West End Blues" and "Blues in My Condition" are without question two of Williams' greatest achievements on record. Two recordings dating from April 1942 are emblematic of major stylistic movements that were evolving rapidly among Afro-American musicians. Cleanhead Vinson established himself as a modern blues vocalist with "When My Baby Left Me" and the Cootie Williams Orchestra served up what was without question the most advanced piece of music on the scene at that time: "Fly Right," also known as "Epistrophy," is credited to Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, and Cootie Williams. What the senior members of this band -- Louis Bacon, Charlie Holmes, and John Williams, musicians whose careers reached back to the 1920s -- thought of this futuristic opus is food for thought. Beginning with "Floogie Boo," the remaining 19 tracks all date from the year 1944, and illustrate Cootie Williams' position near the eye of the hurricane of modern jazz. For now he had begun to employ remarkably imaginative musicians, taking the young Bud Powell under his wing and welcoming into the pack such fiery personalities as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Charlie Parker. The most exciting record of all is saved for the last track, as Cootie Williams demonstrates his uncanny ability to talk through his trumpet using the mute in a mysterious manner with a facility equaled only by Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton. This rare recording of "Blue Garden Blues," a gloriously modern big-band treatment of the old "Royal Garden Blues," is an astonishing, startling, mind-blowing treat, one of the greatest accomplishments in all of recorded jazz.


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