Herb Pomeroy

Featuring: Herb Pomeroy (tp), Varty Haroutunian (ts), Ray Santisi (p), John Neves (b), Jimmy Zitano (d)

This was the Boston school of jazz in more ways than one. The Stable was a Jazz Workshop where most of the important developments in New England’s mid-50s jazz scene were made. The men who played regularly there invited Boston’s serious young jazzmen to sit in; there were no “cutting sessions”; newcomers were not given a rough time in a sink or swim situation. These men were performing a service to jazz and made Boston an important center for developing jazz talent. It’s epitomised by the key band of Herb Pomeroy and His Stablemates.
A well-integrated ensemble packed with quality musicians, the quintet served up a fine brand of bop-derived contemporary swing, hard blowing, fast thinking, to a full house in the small room, and always with the essential emotional elements that all good jazz must comunícate.

Track Listing:

01. It Might As Well Be Spring
02. Honey Bunny
03. Motten Swing
04. Porta Desks And Tuxedos
05. One Bass Hit
06. Off Minor
07. Sweet And Lovely
08. Ray’s Idea
09. Dear Old Stockholm
10. Tiny’s Blues (*) Bonus Track

Recorded live at the Stable, Boston, Mass. On March 13, 1955