Al Cohn, Joe Newman & Freddie Green - Mosaic Select (2007)

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Artist: Al Cohn, Joe Newman, Freddie Green
Title: Mosaic Select
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Mosaic Records[MS-027]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 03:12:00
Total Size: 731 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

CD1:

1 Kiss To Build A Dream On
2 Doggin Around
3 Jump The Blues Away
4 Jack's Kinda Swing
5 The Natural Thing To Do
6 A.C. Meets Osie
7 Baby Please
8 9:20 Special
9 Pick A Dilly
10 Count Me In
11 Freddie's Tune
12 Osie's Blues
13 Up In The Blues
14 Down For Double
15 Back And Forth
16 Free And Easy
17 Learnin' The Blues
18 Feed Bag
19 Something's Gotta Give
20 Easy Does It
21 Little Red
22 Swinging Back
23 A Date With Ray
24 When You Wish Upon A Star

CD2:

1 Pretty Skinny Bunny
2 Leonice
3 Jack's Wax
4 Topsy
5 Captain Spaulding
6 I Could Have Told You
7 Soon
8 Limehouse Blues
9 Dream A Little Dream Of Me
10 Corner Pocket
11 If I Could Be With You
12 It's A Thing Of The Past
13 Lullaby Of Birdland
14 Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails
15 You Can Depend On Me
16 We'll Be Together Again
17 It's Bad For Me
18 Exactly Like You
19 Shameful Roger

CD3:

1 The Daughter Of Miss Thing
2 Sometimes I'm Happy
3 Sweethearts On Parade
4 Slats
5 Lament For A Lost Love
6 Perfidia
7 Rosetta
8 The Song Is Ended
9 Linger Awhile
10 Every Time
11 Haroosh
12 Just Plain Sam
13 I'm Coming Virginia
14 Cohn Not Cohen
15 A Little Song
16 Foggy Water
17 Sugar Cohn

This Mosaic compilation draws from material that comprised five separate RCA Victor LPs of the 1950: Al Cohn's The Natural Seven and The Jazz Workshop: Four Brass, One Tenor, Freddie Green's Mr. Rhythm, plus two Joe Newman records, All I Wanna Do Is Swing and I'm Still Swinging. Cohn, Green, and Newman are the common element to all of the recording sessions, leading bands ranging from septets to nonets.The Natural Seven was inspired by the Kansas City Seven drawn from the Count Basie band of the 1930s, and while the arrangements by Cohn and Manny Albam swing lightly in the style of Basie's septet, the focus is more on originals written for the session rather than simply recreating earlier recordings. Joining them are pianist Nat Pierce, trombonist Frank Rehak, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Osie Johnson, highlighted by the upbeat unison horn line in Cohn's "Pick a Dilly" and Albam's swinging "Jump the Blues Away." Johnson even adds a vocal on his fun-filled "Osie's Blues." Cohn's other session as a leader includes Thad Jones with either Joe Wilder, Bernie Glow, or Phil Sunkel on third trumpet, with Dick Katz doubling on valve trombone and trumpet, pianist Dick Katz, and bassist Buddy Jones subbing for the previous personnel. Once more, Cohn and Albam split up the arrangements, with the tenor saxophonist benefiting from the quartet of brass players accompanying him. "Rosetta" and the leader's "Cohn Not Cohen" are among the highlights. Freddie Green was known for his superb timekeeping in the Basie band, a tenure which lasted a half-century until his passing in 1987, just a few years after the leader. Mr. Rhythm marked the first issued under his own name, plus eight of the dozen songs are Green's compositions, with Green sticking to playing rhythm throughout the date. Cohn, Albam, and Ernie Wilkins provide the swinging arrangements of the mostly blues-oriented material, while Cohn doubles on both clarinet and bass clarinet in addition to playing tenor sax. Two dates led by Newman in 1955 also fit in nicely, with either Frank Rehak or Urbie Green on trombone, Wilkins or Gene Quill on alto sax, and Pierce or Dick Katz on piano. Newman, who tended to be overshadowed by many of the other swing and bop trumpeters active at the time, shines on both open and muted horn, while featuring his musicians prominently throughout both dates. Green's "Corner Pocket" and a buoyant treatment of the standard "Exactly Like You" especially stand out. Most of this music was reissued on CD during the '80s and '90s, though none of it remained in print for long.~Ken Dryden

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