Buddy Collette, The Buddy Collette Quintet (1962)

Tracks

1 A Taste of Fresh Air
2 Hunt and Peck
3 Emaline's Theme
4 The Meaning of the Blues
5 Laura
6 Just Friends
7 There Will Never Be Another You
8 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
9 Tenderly
10 Nobody Else But Me
11 Road Trip
12 Detour Ahead
13 Soft Touch
14 It's a Wonderful World



Personnel

Buddy Collette (flute, clarinet, tenor, alto)
Al Viola (guitar)
Jack Wilson (piano)
Jimmy Bond (bass)
Bill Goodwln (drums).



he fourth of four CDs released by Studio West, a subsidiary of V.S.O.P. Records, that is taken from previously unissued transcriptions made for the radio show "The Navy Swings" features the Buddy Collette Quintet, which in 1962 was comprised of the leader on flute, clarinet, tenor and alto, guitarist Al Viola, pianist Jack Wilson, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Bill Goodwin. As good as Collette (who contributed four melodic originals) plays on these very concise performances (all clocking in around three minutes or less), it is the six often-touching vocals of Irene Kral that particularly make this a recommended disc. Kral's versions of "The Meaning of the Blues," "Nobody Else but Me" and especially "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" are quite definitive and memorable.(Scott Yanow)