Bill Perkins

• 2 ORIGINAL ALBUMS ON 1 CD

• INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

• 12-PAGE BOOKLET

This CD presents Bill Perkins’ first two studio albums as a leader, accompanied by his quintet with Richie Kamuca. Perkins’ only previous album as a leader contained the material from two live nconcerts at Hollywood’s Music Box Theater in 1956.

This edition begins with one of the two aforementioned studio albums, consisting of five songs recorded on October 29, 1956, with Kamuca and the original Hampton Hawes trio. The CD continues with the eight tracks from Perkins’ other studio album, recorded in July of that same year. In closing, we added some of the tracks from the December 11 session -with Art Pepper replacing Kamuca- as bonus tracks.

PERSONNEL:

• ON TRACKS [1-5]: JUST FRIENDS (Pacific Jazz PJM-401)
• BILL PERKINS, tenor sax, bass clarinet, flute
• RICHIE KAMUCA, tenor sax
• HAMPTON HAWES, piano
• RED MITCHELL, bass
• MEL LEWIS, bass
• Los Angeles, October 29, 1956

• ON TRACKS [6-13]: TENORS HEAD-ON (Liberty LRP-3051)
• BILL PERKINS, RICHIE KAMUCA, tenor sax
• PETE JOLLY, piano
• RED MITCHELL, bass
• STAN LEVEY, drums
• Los Angeles, July 1956
• ON TRACKS [14-17]:
• ART PEPPER, ato sax, arranger
• BILL PERKINS, tenor sax
• JIMMY ROWLES, piano
• BEN TUCKER, bass
• MEL LEWIS, drums
• Los Angeles, December 11, 1956

TRACKS:

• 01. Just Friends
• 02. All of Me
• 03. Limehouse Blues
• 04. Solid De Sylva
• 05. Sweet and Lovely
• 06. Cotton Tail
• 07. I Want a Little Girl
• 08. Blues for Two
• 09. Indian Summer
• 10. Don’t Be that Way
• 11. Oh! Look at Me Now
• 12. Spain
• 13. Pick a Dilly
• 14. Diane-a-Flow (*)
• 15. Zenobia (*)
• 16. A Foggy Day (*)
• 17. Angel Eyes (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 79:28 Min