• USED / SECOND HAND / MINT CONDITION

• Includes 16-page booklet with photos by William Claxton.

Celebrated American jazz bassist Curtis Counce was born in Kansas City on 23, 1926 and died prematurely of a heart attack on July 31, 1963. He recorded prolifically as a sideman accompanying figures like Clifford Brown, and before creating his famous quintet in 1956, featuring Harold Land, Jack Sheldon, Frank Butler and another ill-fated musician, pianist Carl Perkins. All of the master take recordings by the original Curtis Counce Quintet are included on this release.

As a splendid bonus to the original studio master takes, they have added the complete soundtrack from a rare 1956 TV Show, the only known TV studio recording by this quintet. Although both "Love Walked In" and "A Fifth for Frank" were also recorded by the quintet in the same period, the longer tune, "Sophisticated Lady", is a welcome addition as it was never commercially recorded by this group.


CD 1: 1. Landslide
2. Time After Time
3. Mia
4. Sarah
5. A Fifth for Frank
6. Big Foot
7. Sonar
8. Stranger in Paradise
9. Woody'n You
10. Pink Lady
11. Counceltation

Bonus tracks:
12. Love Walked In
13. Sophisticated Lady
14. A Fifth for Frank
15. The Butler Did It (drum solo)

Total Time: 79:47 mins.


CD 2:
1. Love Walked In
2. Too Close for Comfort
3. How Deep Is the Ocean?
4. Complete
5. Nica's Dream
6. How Long Has This Been Going On?
7. Mean to Me
8. I Can't Get Started
9. La Rue
10. Carl's Blues
11. A Night in Tunisia

Total Time: 79:00 mins.


Recording dates:
CD 1: #1-6: October 8, 1956.
# 7-9: October 15, 1956.
#10-11 & CD 2, #1-2: April 22, 1957.

CD 2: #3-4: May 13, 1957.
#5-6: August 29, 1957.
#7: September 3, 1957.
#8 & 15: January 6, 1958.
#9-11: Same date. Gerald Wilson (tp) replaces Sheldon.
#12-14: Jack Sheldon (tp) replaces Wilson. TV Show, November 12, 1956.

All tracks recorded in Los Angeles.