Savoy Story Vol 1 (1999)

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Product Summary Label: Savoy Jazz Records UPC: 00795041705020 Release Date: 5/7/2002 Buy.com Sku: 61016883 Item#: MVXKH4 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Jersey Jump Off - Cozy Cole/Coleman Hawkins ~ Various Artists 2. Honeysuckle Rose - Ben Webster ~ Various Artists 3. Tush - Earl Warren/Lester Young ~ Various Artists 4. These Foolish Things - Johnny Guarnieri/Lester Young ~ Various Artists 5. Blue Lester - Lester Young/Count Basie ~ Various Artists 6. Uncle Sam's Blues - Hot Lips Page/Don Byas ~ Various Artists 7. Moppin' The Blues - Pete Brown ~ Various Artists 8. Sweet Man - Miss Rhapsody ~ Various Artists 9. Buck's Boogie Woogie - Herbie Fields ~ Various Artists 10. Johnson And Turner Blues - Joe Turner ~ Various Artists 11. Jim Dawgs - Ike Quebec ~ Various Artists 12. Laura - Erroll Garner ~ Various Artists 13. Jumpin' Jacquet - Illinois Jacquet ~ Various Artists 14. Candy - Don Byas ~ Various Artists 15. Slim's Jam - Slim Gaillard ~ Various Artists 16. Lonesome Lover Blues - Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 17. How High The Moon - Don Byas ~ Various Artists 18. Now's The Time - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists 19. Dexter's Deck - Dexter Gordon ~ Various Artists 20. I Love The Rhythm In A Riff - Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 21. Boyd Meets Stravinsky - Boyd Raeburn ~ Various Artists 22. Koko - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Don't Worry Bout Me - Stan Getz ~ Various Artists 2. Mad Be Bop - J.J. Johnson ~ Various Artists 3. Ray's Idea - The Be Bop Boys ~ Various Artists 4. Nostalgia - Fats Navarro ~ Various Artists 5. Ice Freezes Red - Fats Navarro/Leo Parker ~ Various Artists 6. Churchmouse - Allen Eager ~ Various Artists 7. Gaberdine And Serge - Serge Chaloff ~ Various Artists 8. Chasin' the Bird - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists 9. Half Nelson - Miles Davis ~ Various Artists 10. Settin' The Pace - Dexter Gordon ~ Various Artists 11. Wee Dot - Leo Parker/J.J. Johnson ~ Various Artists 12. Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists 13. Euphoria - Charlie Ventura & His Orchestra ~ Various Artists 14. Stan's Mood - Stan Getz ~ Various Artists 15. Moon Over Miami - George Shearing ~ Various Artists 16. Bird Gets The Worm - Charlie Parker ~ Various Artists 17. Move - Red Norvo Trio ~ Various Artists 18. Surf Ride - Art Pepper ~ Various Artists 19. Tin Tin Deo - Dizzy Gillespie ~ Various Artists 20. Champ, The - Dizzy Gillespie ~ Various Artists 21. Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, A - Marian McPartland ~ Various Artists 22. Red Top - Gene Ammons ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Bernie's Tune - J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding ~ Various Artists 2. Eulogy For Rudy Williams - Charles Mingus ~ Various Artists 3. When Did You Leave Heaven - Little Jimmy Scott ~ Various Artists 4. With Apologies To Oscar - Kenny Clarke ~ Various Artists 5. Little Taste, A - Cannonball Adderley ~ Various Artists 6. You Leave Me Breathless - Milt Jackson ~ Various Artists 7. If I Love Again - Donald Byrd ~ Various Artists 8. Afternoon In Paris - Kenny Clarke/Kenny Burrell ~ Various Artists 9. 8540 Twelfth Street - Yusef Lateef ~ Various Artists 10. Spring Is Here - Charlie Byrd ~ Various Artists 11. Yardbird Suite - Herbie Mann ~ Various Artists 12. E.F.F.P.H. - Wilbur Harden/John Coltrane ~ Various Artists 13. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - Coleman Hawkins ~ Various Artists 14. Blues-ette - Curtis Fuller/Benny Golson ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes a 70 page booklet with liner notes by Bob Porter. Compilation producers: Orrin Keepnews, Bob Porter. All tracks have been digitally remastered using Denon's 20-Bit Mastersonic process. The old Savoy catalog gets bounced around from one distributor to the next like an unwanted foster child, with everyone starting from scratch once they get a hold of it. By 1999, it was Atlantic's turn and, hot on the heels of other label retrospectives, they have compiled a very good three-CD anthology of Savoy's jazz activities over 15 years in the middle of the 20th century. Decently remastered, the set opens around the tail end of the swing era (capturing some major figures in small-combo jazz like Ben Webster, Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet) and moves on to a detailed portrait of the emergence of bop just after the war. While rarely sticking with artists for very long to track their progress, Savoy (and the labels it absorbed) was a hugely important player in the early days of bop, managing to capture some of the earliest work of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Stan Getz, George Shearing, and Dexter Gordon. The set also tracks mid- to late-'50s hard bop, including numbers by Milt Jackson, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Byrd, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann, and other major figures. There are no unreleased goodies -- not much that truly ventures out beyond hard bop -- and only after the opening of disc three does the canvas of each track expand beyond the length of a single. The set comes in a compact, laminated mini-box with mid-century-style cover art. ~ Richard S. Ginell   Technical Info Release Date : 10/01/2005 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 17050 Label : Savoy Jazz (USA) Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mixed SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00795041705020    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...