Manny Albam

2 LPs ON 1 CD

PERSONNEL:

TRACKS [1-6] from the 12" album THE DRUM SUITE (RCA Victor LPM-1279)

MANNY ALBAM - ERNIR WILKINS and Their Orchestra
The Eight Arms: DON LAMOND, OSIE JOHNSON, TED SOMMER & GUS JOHNSON, with:

(1 & 4) Conte Candoli, Joe Ferrante, Bernie Glow, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal (tp)
Urbie Green, Tommy Mitchell, Fred Ohms, Chauncey Welsh (tb)
Hal McKusick, Sam Marowitz, (as) Al Epstein, Al Cohn (ts) Sol Schlinger (bs)
Marty Wilson, (vib) Hank Jones (p) Freddie Green (g) Buddy Jones (b)
Recorded at Webster Hall, NYC, March 5, 1956.

(2 & 6) Conte Candoli, Joe Ferrante, Nick Travis, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal (tp)
Jimmy Cleveland, Tommy Mitchell, Fred Ohms, Chauncey Welsh (tb)
Hal McKusick, Sam Marowitz, (as) Al Epstein, Al Cohn (ts) Ed Wasserman (bs)
Marty Wilson (vib) Eddie Costa (p) Freddie Green (g) Buddy Jones (b)
Recorded at Webster Hall, NYC, March 6, 1956

(3 & 5) Conte Candoli, Joe Ferrante, Bernie Glow, Joe Newman (tp)
John Barrows, Jimmy Buffington (fhrn)
Urbie Green, Tommy Mitchell, Fred Ohms, Chauncey Welsh (tb)
Ray Beckenstein, Jerry Sanfino, Hal McKusick (as) Al Epstein, Al Cohn (ts)
Sol Schlinger (bs) Marty Wilson (vib) Eddie Costa (p) Buddy Jones (b)
Recorded at Webster Hall, NYC, March 7, 1956


TRACKS [7-12] from the 12" album SON OF DRUM SUITE (RCA Victor LSP-2312)

AL COHN ORCHESTRA: Jimmy Maxwell, Nick Travis, Clark Terry, Bernie Glow (tp)
Jim Buffington, Jim Barrows (fhrn) Frank Rehak, Urbie Green, Dick Hixson (tb)
Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb) Gene Quill, Ed Caine (as) Zoot Sims, Romeo Penque (ts)
Sol Schlinger (bs) Hank Jones (p) Mundell Lowe (g) Buddy Clark, George Duvivier (b)
Mel Lewis, Don Lamond, Jimmy Cobb, Charlie Persip, and Louis Hayes 7-9 or Gus Johnson 10-12 (d).
Recorded at Webster Hall, NYC, August 24 & 26, 1960.

01. First Movement: DANCERS ON DRUMS
02. Second Movement: BRISTLING
03. Third Movement: CHANT OF THE WITCH DOCTORS
04. Fourth Movement: SKINNING THE VALVES
05. Fifth Movement: CYMBALISMS
06. Sixth Movement: THE OCTOPUS
07. First Movement: SON OF A DRUM
08. Second Movement: BRUSHMANSHIP
09. Third Movement: DR. SKIN AND MR. HIDE
10. Fourth Movement: FIVE DRUMS IN FOUR-FOUR TIME
11. Fifth Movement: DRUMS LOCO
12. Sixth Movement: DRUM SMOKE