Joe Newman

Featuring: Joe Newman (tp), Matthew Gee, Henry Cooker, Benny Powell (tb), Frank Wess (ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs), Count Basie (p, org), Johnny Acea, Sir Charles Thompson (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Osie Johnson, Shadow Wilson (d)

Joe Newman was the ideal example of the merger of two jazz generations. A New Orleans emigrant, born and reared in the shadow of Louis Armstrong, he was in and around New York before he had come of age, and soon found himself working with the bop pioneers and absorbing some of their influence. But when he joined the Count Basie Band, of which he was a member off and on from December 1943, he broke out and played the way he felt he should play.

The result was a vivid new style; a trademark personal expression of a player who, without altering his style, was equally at home among both mainstream swingers and bop musicians. On these sides, leading groups partly composed of Basie sidemen, he is a clear, intelligent and influential presence.

Tracklisting:

CD 1
01. Close Quarters
02. José Beguines
03. Blues for Slim
04. The Sleeper
05. In Case You Didn’t Know
06. These Foolish Things
07. Peter Pan
08. Ain’t It the Truth
09. Ingin’ the Ooh
10. Confessin’
11. In Case You Didn’t Know (*) Alternate take
12. These Foolish Things (*) Alternate take
13. East of the Sun
14. Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You?
15. My Blue Heaven
16. Sweetie Cake


CD 2
01. Sidewalks of New York
02. Careless Love
03. Jumpin’ at the Woodside
04. Casey Jones
05. The Midgets
06. Alone in the Night
07. A.M. Romp
08. Annie Laurie
09. Frankie and Johnny


Personnel on CD 1:
Joe Newman (tp), Matthew Gee, Henry Cooker (tb), Frank Wess (ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bars), Count Basie (p, org), Johnny Acea, Sir Charles Thompson (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b), Osie Johnson, Shadow Wilson (d).

Recorded in New York City, March, Boston, September, 1954; and New York City, September, 1955.


Personnel on CD 2:
Joe Newman (tp), Benny Powell (tb), Frank Wess (ts, fl), Frank Foster (ts), Sir Charles Thompson (p), Eddie Jones (b), Shadow Wilson (d).

Recorded in New York City, September, 1955.

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