Benny Bailey

It was in 1993 that TCB - The Montreux Jazz label launched its Swiss Radio Days series of albums and began releasing previously unpublished concert recordings by major jazz artists, which have been aired by Swiss Radio since 1946.

At Radio Studio Zurich there were also more than 100 live concerts with solo guest artists who were backed by the Jazz Live Trio, the house rhythm section, led by German pianist Klaus Koenig, with Switzerland’s Isla Eckinger or Peter Frei on bass. The drum chair was occupied successively by Switzerland’s Alex Bally, South Africa’s Makaya Ntshoko, Switzerland’s Pierre Favre and Switzerland’s Peter Schmidlin.

Now TCB is releasing ten more treasures from the Swiss Radio Days archive, recorded between 1966 and 1984 and featuring, among others, Gianni Basso, Guy Lafitte, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Phil Woods, Eddie Daniels, Stuff Smith, Leo Wright, Kenny Wheeler, Alan Skidmore, Sahib Shihab, Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Griffin, Hal Singer, Leszek Zadlo and Ferdinand Povel.

PERSONNEL, DATES & TRACKS:

01. Sanza:
BENNY BAILEY, trumpet
KLAUS KOENING, piano
PETER FREI, bass
MAKAYA NTSHOKO, drums
Live on May 2, 1970

02. Stella By Starlight
03. Summertime
BENNY BAILEY, trumpet
KLAUS KOENING, piano
PETER FREI, bass
HEINZ LIEB, drums
Live on December 12, 1983

04. I Can't Get Started
05. Nows the Time
IDRESS SULIEMAN, trumpet
KLAUS KOENING, piano
PETER FREI, bass
PETER SCHMIDLIN, drums
Live February 9, 1975

06. Misty
07. Wee
IDRESS SULIEMAN, trumpet
KLAUS KOENING, piano
PETER FREI, bass
PIERRE FAVRE, drums
Live on December 4, 1982