The Last Sessions (FSRCD 653)

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The Last Sessions

Fresh Sound Records

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FSRCD 653

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The Last Sessions

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The great bop trumpeter, Fats Navarro, used to tell his friends that the ill-starred Ernie Henry was the only other altoist beside Bird who had something different, something very much worth having. Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Henry took up violin at eight and alto at twelve and was discovered by Tadd Dameron, who asked him to join his band at the Famous Door in 1947. He left Dameron after a year to play with Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie’s big band and the groups of Charlie Ventura, Max Roach, Georgie Auld and Kenny Dorham. During his later, second stint in Gillespie’s band (1956-57) his work was brilliant, often spectacular. It wasn’t to last. His life was suddenly cut short on December 29, 1957, after Gillespie’s band finished its Saturday night stint at Sugar Hill on Newark, NJ.
Before his death he had been playing in and around New York, appearing for a while with the Charlie Mingus group and proving himself to be an altoist of exceptional promise. On these, his final recording sessions, he was clearly on the verge of finding himself musically.


Original sources:
(1-3,5 & 14) from the Riverside album "Ernie Henry - Last Chorus" (RLP 12-266).
(6-13)  from the Riverside album "Seven Standards and A Blues" (RLP 12-248

PERSONNEL:

(1-4) Ernie Henry Octet
Lee Morgan (tp), Melba Liston (tb), Ernie Henry (as)
Benny Golson (ts), Cecil Payne (bs), Wynton Kelly (p),
Paul Chambers (b), Philly Joe Jones (d).

(5) Ernie Henry Quintet
Lee Morgan (tp), Ernie Henry (as), Wynton Kelly (p),
Paul Chambers (b), Philly Joe Jones (d).

(6-14) Ernie Henry Quartet
Ernie Henry (as), Wynton Kelly (p), Wilbur Ware (b), Philly Joe Jones (d).

Rrcorded at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City, on September 23 (##1-5) & 30 (##6-14), 1957.

Tracks:

01. Beauty and the Blues (Golson) 6:24
02. Autumn Leaves (Prevert-Kosma -Arr. B.Golson) 3:11
03. Melba’s Tune (Liston) 2:37
04. Stablemates (Golson) 4:28
05. All the Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) 7:44
06. I Get a Kick Out of You (Porter) 4:34
07. My Ideal (Chase-Whiting) 2:41
08. I’ve Got the World on a String (Arlen-Koehler) 6:28
09. Sweet Lorraine (Burwell-Parish) 4:57
10. Soon (G. & I. Gershwin) 5:56
11. Lover Man (Davis-Sherman-Ramirez) 2:38
12. Specific Gravity (Henry) 6:34
13. Like Someone In Love (Burke-Van Heusen) 5:13
14. Like Someone In Love (Burke-Van Heusen) 4:36 (*) Alternate Take

Total time: 68:00 min. aprox.


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