Johnny Lytle - Four Classic Albums (Blue Vibes / Happy Ground / Nice and Easy / Moon Child) (Digitally Remastered) (2017)

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Artist: Johnny Lytle
Title: Four Classic Albums (Blue Vibes / Happy Ground / Nice and Easy / Moon Child) (Digitally Remastered)
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: AVID Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:38:00
Total Size: 826 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Blue Vibes (Blue Vibes) (05:41)
2. Over the Rainbow (Blue Vibes) (05:19)
3. For Heaven's Sake (Blue Vibes) (04:40)
4. Movin' Nicely (Blue Vibes) (05:00)
5. Autumn Leaves (Blue Vibes) (07:09)
6. Mister Strudel (Blue Vibes) (06:30)
7. Canadian Sunset (Blue Vibes) (06:25)
8. Lela (Happy Ground) (04:16)
9. Secret Love (Happy Ground) (06:54)
10. When I Fall in Love (Happy Ground) (04:27)
11. Tag Along (Happy Ground) (03:15)
12. It's All Right with Me (Happy Ground) (05:38)
13. Happy Ground (Happy Ground) (07:16)
14. My Funny Valentine (Happy Ground) (04:15)
15. Take the 'a' Train (Happy Ground) (02:51)
16. But Not for Me (Nice and Easy) (05:32)
17. Soul Time (Nice and Easy) (04:36)
18. That's All (Nice and Easy) (05:27)
19. 322-Wow! (Nice and Easy) (04:09)
20. Coroner's Blues (Nice and Easy) (07:23)
21. Nice and Easy (Nice and Easy) (08:19)
22. Old Folks (Nice and Easy) (04:44)
23. Moon Child (Moon Child) (04:42)
24. Work Song (Moon Child) (06:41)
25. The Nearness of You (Moon Child) (04:33)
26. The Moor Man (Moon Child) (04:03)
27. A Taste of Honey (Moon Child) (04:38)
28. When My Dreamboat Comes Home (Moon Child) (04:35)
29. Moonlight in Vermont (Moon Child) (04:30)
30. The House of Winchester (Moon Child) (04:18)

Born into a musical family Johnny started his professional musical career playing drums for the likes of Ray Charles and Jimmy Witherspoon before moving on to the vibes where he began touring as a three piece unit around 1957. Famously encouraged by one of his idols, Lionel Hampton, who declared Johnny to be the best vibes player in the world, Johnny Lytle had an incredibly fast technique and was somewhat of a consummate showman on stage. In fact he became known as “fast hands”. Perhaps because Johnny never recorded for any of the major labels, he never quite gained the attention that he, and vibes greats like Hampton and Milt Jackson thought he deserved. Our four selections find him primarily in a Trio unit with his trusted companion Milton Harris on organ, backed up by either William “Preppy” Hinnant or Albert Heath on drums. On “Nice & Easy” the mood is broken when Johnny lets rip accompanied by firebrand tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, Bobby Timmons on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Louis Hayes on drums.

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