Ronnie Ross & Allan Ganley - The Jazz Makers (1959) [2013 Japan 24-bit Remaster] CD-Rip

What ever happened to The Jazz Makers? In 1959, the British jazz quintet The Jazz Makers came second in the British Melody Maker journal reader’s poll small jazz combo section, beating even the Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Couriers. They first established a US presence in 1958, appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival, and subsequently touring on the same bill as Thelonious Monk, where they caught the ear of Atlantic boss Nesuhi Ertegan. He brought them into a New York studio to record this album, The Swinging Sounds of The Jazz Makers, Atlantic 1333. Ronnie Ross went on to receive a Downbeat magazine New Star award.

This was the The Jazz Makers only recording. They dissolved the following year, each going their separate ways. Canadian Ellefson disappeared into the Johnny Dankworth big band, and then took off overseas. Ganley took the drum hot-seat with the Tubby Hayes Quintet, and later by becoming the resident drummer at Ronnie Scott’s club, followed by leading his own big band, as composer, arranger and one of Britain’s elite studio musicians. Ronnie Ross formed a quartet with pianist Bill le Sage, pursuing a varied musical career in studio work, appearing on the Beatles White Album and as a soloist on the Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”. The others I guess disappeared into obscurity from whence they came, such is life.


Tracks:

01 - Lisa
02 - Dynamic Duo
03 - First Time Down
04 - Walsing At Rosa's Place
05 - Meditation
06 - Sophisticated Lady

Personnel:

Ronnie Ross - baritone sax
Art Ellefson - tenor sax
Stan Jones - piano
Stan Wasser - bass
Allan Ganley - drums