Swingtime!
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Swingtime! is an album by the Canadian Brass
, released in 1995. The album featured new arrangements of several jazz standards.
Also featuring:
The Canadian Brass Jazz All-Stars appear on tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14. The personnel for this ensemble is as follows:
Three tracks on this album also feature archival jazz recordings from the 1950s.
"Night and Day" features a performance from the Zoot Sims
Quartet, recorded at the Vogue Studios in Paris
in 1950. The lineup was: Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone, Gerry Wiggins: piano, Pierre Michelot
: bass, Kenny Clarke
: drums.
"The Lady is a Tramp" features a performance from the Gerry Mulligan
Quartet, recorded live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on June 3, 1954. The lineup was: Gerry Mulligan: baritone sax, Bob Brookmeyer
: valve trombone, Red Mitchell
: bass, Frank Isola
: drums.
"The Man I Love" features a performance by Roy Eldridge
, recorded at the Vogue Studios in Paris on June 9, 1950. The lineup for this performance was: Roy Eldridge: trumpet, Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone, Dick Hyman
: piano, Pierre Michelot: bass, Ed Shaughnessy: drums.
The album was produced and mixed by Steve Vining
.
(Tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14 arranged by Don Sebesky. Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 arranged by Chris Dedrick. Tracks 3 and 8 arranged by Luther Henderson
.)
Canadian Brass
The Canadian Brass is a brass quintet founded by Dr. Charles Daellenbach and Gene Watts in 1970. In addition to maintaining a heavy international touring schedule, the Canadian Brass have recorded over 80 CDs and DVDs...
, released in 1995. The album featured new arrangements of several jazz standards.
Personnel
The Canadian Brass:- Charles DaellenbachCharles DaellenbachCharles "Chuck" Daellenbach is an American-Canadian tuba player. He is one of the founders of the Canadian Brass and remains the quintet's tuba player.-Early life and personal life:...
: tubaTubaThe tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the... - Fred MillsFred Mills (musician)Fred Mills was University of Georgia music professor from 1996–2009, and a 1992 Grammy nominee who made more than 40 records as a trumpeter with the Canadian Brass quintet from 1972-1996....
: trumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air... - David OhanianDavid Ohanian-Accomplishments:*French Horn - B.M., New England Conservatory*Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, 63, 64, 65*Horn study with James Stagliano*Doctorate Honoris Causa Hartwick College, Doctorate Honoris Causa, New England Conservatory...
: horn - Ronald Romm: trumpet
- Eugene Watts: tromboneTromboneThe trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
Also featuring:
- Warren BernhardtWarren BernhardtWarren Bernhardt is a noted pianist in jazz, pop and classical music.His father was a pianist, leading him to have early childhood exposure to piano, and he learned some rudiments of keyboarding from his friends. At five his parents moved to New York City where he began studying seriously under...
: pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
on tracks 2 and 5; keyboards on tracks 1, 16, 13 and 14 - Natalie Cenovia Cummins: violin on tracks 5 and 11
- Crystal Garner: viola on tracks 5 and 11
- Gordon Gottlieb: percussion on tracks 1, 2, 6, 11, 13 and 14
- Evan Johnson: violin on tracks 5 and 11
- Karen Karlsrud: violin on tracks 5 and 11
- Maria Kitsopoulos: cello on tracks 5 and 11
- John Miller: bass on tracks 1, 5, 6, 11, 13 and 14
- Richard StoltzmanRichard StoltzmanRichard Stoltzman is an American clarinetist. Born Richard Leslie Stoltzman in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent his early years in San Francisco, California and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from Woodward High School in 1960. Today, Stoltzman is part of the faculty list at the New England Conservatory...
: clarinet on track 6 - Joe Taylor: guitar on track 14
- Belinda Whitney-Barratt: violin on tracks 5 and 11
- Ronnie Zito: drums on tracks 1, 5, 6, 13 and 14
The Canadian Brass Jazz All-Stars appear on tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14. The personnel for this ensemble is as follows:
- Don SebeskyDon SebeskyDon Sebesky is an American jazz trombonist and arranger.-Biography:Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding, Claude Thornhill, Tommy Dorsey, Warren Covington, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton...
: leader - Neil Balm: trumpet
- Warren Bernhardt: keyboard
- Gene BertonciniGene Bertoncini-Biography:Bertoncini was born in New York City, where he was raised in a musical family. His father played guitar and harmonica. Bertoncini began playing guitar at age seven and by age sixteen was appearing on television. He graduated from high school and attended the University of Notre Dame,...
: guitar - Rick Baptist: trumpet
- Bob Carlisle: French horn on tracks 1 & 13
- Larry Farrell: trombone
- Paul Faulise: bass trombone
- Lawrence Feldman: alto sax, flute, piccolo and clarinet on tracks 6 & 14
- Peter Gordon: French horn on tracks 1 & 13
- Gordon Gottlieb: percussion
- Ken Hitchcock: tenor sax, bass clarinet and clarinet on tracks 6 & 14
- Tony Kadleck: trumpet
- Jeff Lang: French horn on tracks 1 & 13
- John Miller: bass
- Kevin O'Quinn: trombone
- Joe Passaro: percussion
- Roger Rosenberg: bass clarinet, baritone sax and flute on tracks 6 & 14
- Dave Tofani: tenor sax, flute and clarinet on tracks 6 & 14
- Chuck Wilson: also sax, flute and clarinet on tracks 6 & 14
- Ronnie Zito: drums
Three tracks on this album also feature archival jazz recordings from the 1950s.
"Night and Day" features a performance from the Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
John Haley "Zoot" Sims was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor and soprano.-Biography:He was born in Inglewood, California, the son of vaudeville performers Kate Haley and John Sims. Growing up in a performing family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age...
Quartet, recorded at the Vogue Studios in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in 1950. The lineup was: Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone, Gerry Wiggins: piano, Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot was a French bebop and hard bop double bass player.Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen...
: bass, Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke , born Kenneth Spearman Clarke, nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming...
: drums.
"The Lady is a Tramp" features a performance from the Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...
Quartet, recorded live at the Salle Pleyel in Paris on June 3, 1954. The lineup was: Gerry Mulligan: baritone sax, Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
Robert Brookmeyer is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.-Biography:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957. He later worked with Jimmy Giuffre...
: valve trombone, Red Mitchell
Red Mitchell
Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell Keith Moore "Red" Mitchell (September 20, 1927, New York City - November 8, 1992, Salem, Oregon, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. He was the brother of Whitey Mitchell....
: bass, Frank Isola
Frank Isola
Frank Isola was an American jazz drummer. Died in Detroit, Michigan, on December 12, 2004.Isola was born and raised in Detroit and was heavily influenced by Gene Krupa. He played in the U.S. military during World War II , and then studied and performed in California with Bobby Sherwood and Earle...
: drums.
"The Man I Love" features a performance by Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
Roy David Eldridge , nicknamed "Little Jazz" was an American jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos and his strong influence on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most exciting musicians of the swing era and a...
, recorded at the Vogue Studios in Paris on June 9, 1950. The lineup for this performance was: Roy Eldridge: trumpet, Zoot Sims: tenor saxophone, Dick Hyman
Dick Hyman
Richard “Dick” Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best-known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career, he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer...
: piano, Pierre Michelot: bass, Ed Shaughnessy: drums.
The album was produced and mixed by Steve Vining
Steve Vining
Steve Vining is an American drummer, producer and engineer. He started out as a staff producer at Pickwick Records before rising to power as the head of Windham Hill Records...
.
Track listing
- 1. "Artistry in Rhythm" (Stan KentonStan KentonStanley Newcomb "Stan" Kenton was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led a highly innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was widely active as an educator....
) (5:05) - 2. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (Dave BrubeckDave BrubeckDavid Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...
) (4:29) - 3. "Back Home in Indiana" (James F. Hanley-Ballard MacDonaldBallard MacDonaldBallard MacDonald was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.Born in Portland, Oregon, among his credits are:Beautiful Ohio, Rose of Washington Square, Second Hand Rose, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Back Home Again in Indiana, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Play That Barbershop Chord, Clap Hands, Here Comes...
) (3:13) - 4. "Night and Day" (Cole PorterCole PorterCole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
) (3:00) - 5. "'Round about Midnight" (Thelonious MonkThelonious MonkThelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
-Cootie WilliamsCootie WilliamsCharles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.-Biography:...
-Bert Hanighen) (5:03) - 6. "At the Woodchopper's Ball" (Joe BishopJoe BishopJoe Bishop was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer.Bishop learned piano, trumpet, and tuba when young, and also played flugelhorn and mellophone. He attended Hendrix College, and played professionally with the Louisiana Ramblers in 1927, including in Mexico...
-Woody HermanWoody HermanWoodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...
) (3:21) - 7. "The Lady is a TrampThe Lady Is a Tramp"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette...
" (Richard RodgersRichard RodgersRichard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
-Lorenz HartLorenz HartLorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
) (3:45) - 8. "Sugar Blues" (Clarence Williams-Lucy Fletcher) (2:47)
- 9. "The Man I Love" (George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
-Ira GershwinIra GershwinIra Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
) (3:32) - 10. "Whatever Happened To The Dream" (Luther HendersonLuther HendersonLuther Henderson was an African American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was educated at the Juilliard School of Music where he received a B.S. in 1942...
) (2:48) - 11. "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquin RodrigoJoaquín RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
) (9:10) - 12. "I Found Love" (Chris Dedrick) (3:35)
- 13. "Ellington Medley" (4:03)
- (a) "Mood Indigo" (Duke EllingtonDuke EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
-Barney BigardBarney BigardAlbany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....
-Irving MillsIrving MillsIrving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
) - (b) "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington-Bob RussellBob Russell (songwriter)Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell, was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey.In 1968, Russell along with songwriting partner Quincy Jones was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category...
) - (c) "Take the "A" Train" (Billy StrayhornBilly StrayhornWilliam Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...
)
- (a) "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington
- 14. "One O'Clock Jump" (Count BasieCount BasieWilliam "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...
) (4:39)
(Tracks 1, 6, 13 and 14 arranged by Don Sebesky. Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 arranged by Chris Dedrick. Tracks 3 and 8 arranged by Luther Henderson
Luther Henderson
Luther Henderson was an African American arranger, composer, orchestrator, and pianist.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was educated at the Juilliard School of Music where he received a B.S. in 1942...
.)