Buck Clayton

· SIX-PANEL DIGIPACK COLLECTOR'S SERIE

· THE COMPLETE LP + BONUS ALBUM: "How Hi the Fi + Blue Moon"

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Presented here is the complete LP All the Cats Join In (Columbia CL-882), which was arguably the best of those Jam Session albums. “After hours”, a song from the same sessions that wasn’t included on the original LP, plus two jam session tracks featuring Woody Herman (originally issued on the 10” LP How Hi the Fi + Blue Moon (Columbia CL-6326), have been added here as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• BUCK CLAYTON, trumpet on all tracks, plus:

• COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL
• Ruby Braff (cornet), Joe Newman, Billy Butterfield (tp),
• J.C. Higginbotham, Urbie Green (tb), Coleman Hawkins, Julian Dash (ts),
• Kenny Kersey, Sir Charles Thompson (p), Freddie Green, Steve Jordan (g),
• Milt Hinton, Walter Page (b), Jo Jones, Bobby Donaldson (d),
• Jimmy Rushing (vcl on 3), among others.

New York, 1953-56.

(*) BONUS TRACKS:

• [6]: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.
• [7-8]: Woody Herman (cl), Joe Thomas (tp), Urbie Green, Trummy Young (tb),.
• Lem Davis (as), Al Cohn, Julian Dash (ts), Jimmy Jones (p, celeste),.
• Steve Jordan (g), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (d).
• New York, March 31, 1954.

TRACKS:

• 01 All the Cats Join In
• 02 Out of Nowhere
• 03 Don’t You Miss Your Baby
• 04 Lean Baby
• 05 Blue Lou
• 06 After Hours (*)
• 07 How Hi the Fi (*)
• 08 Blue Moon (*)

• TOTAL TIME: 75:58 Min.