Harry `Sweets´ Edison

THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL ALBUMS "PATENTED BY EDISON"
FEATURING AN ALL-STAR QUINTET WITH JIMMY FORREST ON TENOR SAX, TOMMY FLANAGAN ON PIANO, TOMMY POTTER ON BASS AND ELVIN JONES ON DRUMS. AS A BONUS, WE OFFER THE COMPLETE ALBUM "SWEETENINGS", WHICH FEATURES "SWEETS" IN A QUARTET FORMAT ON 8 TRACKS (HE RARELY RECORDED IN QUARTET) AND IN A QUINTET FORMAT ON 4 TRACKS WITH JIMMY FORREST ADDED ON TENOR SAX.
BOTH LPs APPEAR HERE ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.

HARRY EDISON (tp), JIMMY FORREST (ts), TOMMY POTTER (b), TOMMY FLANAGAN (p), ELVIN JONES (d). New York, February 12, 1960.

1) WITCHCRAFT 2:43
2) BLUE SKIES 1:56
3) I'M CONFESSIN' THAT I LOVE YOU 2:34
4) AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' 2:39
5) CANDIED SWEETS 2:35
6) THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME 2:47
7) TEA FOR TWO 2:14
8) THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE 2:59
9) TWENTY-FORTY 1:58
10) IT'S EASY TO REMEMBER 3:43
11) SWEETCAKES 3:08
12) ANGEL EYES 3:30
13) CENTERPIECE 3:32*
14) CANDY 2:36*
15) JIVE AT FIVE 2:53*
16) IMAGINATION 2:38
17) LOUISIANA 2:34*
18) HARRIET 3:14*
19) IT HAPPENED IN MONTEREY 2:07*
20) IF I HAD YOU 3:21*
21) PARADISE 3:38*
22) INDIANA 1:54*
23) PUSSY WILLOW 4:04*
24) SWEETENINGS 2:40*
TT: 68:07

*Bonus album:
13-24: SWEETENINGS
Harry "Sweets" Edison (tp), Jimmy Forrest (ts), Jimmy Jones or Kenny Drew (p), Joe Benjamin or John Simmons (b), Charlie Persip (d).
New York, November 12-14, 1958.

Born in Columbus, Ohio on October 10, 1915, Harry "Sweets" Edison was one of the most respected and sought after studio jazz trumpeters for many decades. He participated on countless sessions with such celebrated figures as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Ben Webster, Buddy Rich, Nelson Riddle, Shorty Rogers, Quincy Jones and Woody Herman, to name but a few.
This edition presents two complete small group albums by Harry "Sweets" Edison, both appearing here for the first time ever on CD. Patented by Edison features an all-star quintet fronted by Edison and tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest, who by the time of this recording (February 12, 1960) had already participated on three 1958 albums with Sweets (The Swinger, Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton and Vice Versa and our bonus album Sweetenings). The bonus album, Sweetenings, appears directly before the album Patented by Edison in Edison's discography as a leader, with respect to chronological order. Despite this fact, he participated on many LPs by other artists in the interim period between these two albums.