Various Artists

DIGIPACK EDITION

Known in New York and Denmark as the Jazz Baron, baron Niels Otte Timme Rosenkrantz was a man of many talents and many friends. On this CD, we find exclusive recordings of some of the grand musicians of Harlem’s golden jazz age – most of it recorded in Timmy’s (as the Americans nicknamed him) private Manhattan apartment, where the jazz society came to party and play.

This CD features tracks performed by renowned artists such as Stuff Smith, Thelonious Monk, Don Byas and pianist Erroll Garner, whom Timme Rosenkrantz is actually credited for discovering and being the first to record. The CD is the first ever release of these private recordings from the mid-1940s.

Carefully selected from the archives at the Music Library of the University of Southern Denmark by experts, the old tracks have been digitally cleaned and remastered, providing us an array of interesting material. Timme’s Treasures features extraordinary gems from a riveting epoch of jazz, and the CD is an unexpectedly recovered treasure chest, teaching us an important history lesson on musicality.

PERSONNEL, DATES & LOCATIONS:

ON TRACKS [1-3]:

JIMMY JONES, piano
JOHN LEVY, bass
SLAM STEWART, bass
New York, September 25, 1944

ON TRACK [4]:

DON BYAS, tenor sax
NITA BRADLEY, piano, vocal
SLAM STEWART, bass
New York, November 3, 1944

ON TRACK [5]:

DON BYAS, tenor sax
Unidentified piano
SLAM STEWART, bass
Probably late 1944

ON TRACK [6-7]:

THELONIOUS MONK, piano
New York, November 11, 1944

ON TRACK [8]:

STUFF SMITH, violin
FRANK FROEBA, piano
Plus unidentified musicians
Radio Broadcast, WNEW Swing Session, February 1, 1945

ON TRACK [9]:

DON BYAS, tenor sax
Unidentified alto sax
THELONIOUS MONK, piano
AL HALL, bass
Unidentified drums
New York, probably late 1944

ON TRACK 10:

STUFF SMITH, violin
FRANK FROEBA, piano
Plus unidentified musicians
Radio Broadcast, WNEW Swing Session, February 1, 1945

ON TRACK [11]:

DON BYAS, tenor sax
FRANK FROEBAM piano
Unidentified bass
SIDNEY CATLETT, drums
Radio Broadcast, Art Ford Swing Session, July 15, 1945

ON TRACK [12]:

LUCKY THOMPSON, tenord sax
ERROLL GARNER, piano
INEZ CAVANAUGH, vocal
New York, December 1944

TRACK LIST:

01. That Old Black Magic
02. Johnny Come Lately
03. Tea for Two
04. Embraceable You
05. Spor 05
06. These Foolish Things
07. 'Round Midnight
08. Swing Test 2149
09. Let's Go
10. I Got Rhythm
11. Cuckoo
12. All the Things You Are