Buddy De Franco

INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

This CD includes the complete album: Buddy De Franco and the Oscar Peterson Quartet (Verve LP, 1954). As a bonus track, there is "Lullaby In Rhythm", an extended 23+ minute studio jam session recorded the following day and with the same personnel plus Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris and Flip Phillips. The solo order on this rare track is as follows: Oscar Peterson, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Herb Ellis, Buddy De Franco, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and finally Louis Bellson.

PERSONNEL:

BUDDY DeFRANCO (cl)
OSCAR PETERSON  (p)
HERB ELLIS  (g)
RAY BROWN (b)
LOUIE BELLSON (d).

Recorded in Los Angeles, October 29, 1954.

TRACKS

01. Sweet And Lovely
02. Fascinating Rhythm
03 Love For Sale
04. Easy To Love
05. Pick Yourself Up
06. They Can't Take That Away From Me
07. Lullaby In Rhythm (*)

Total Time: 67:46 mins

(*) Bonus Track

"The unerring rhythm section behind Buddy all the way...is, I feel, one of the most rocking, irresistible forces in modern jazz with corollart taste and accuracy in the more lyrical assignments". - Nat Hentoff (from the liner notes)