Seeking Comments on Some Storyville Titles

[Saint Vitus]

I'm thinking of picking up some of the following titles and wonder about how you feel about them. Thanks in advance for advice.

• Louis Armstrong All-Stars
  Benny Carter - Summer Serenade
  Wild Bill Davison - Sweet and Lovely
  Wild Bill Davison/Ralph Sutton - Together Again
  Earl Hines - Master of Jazz, Vol. 2
  George Lewis - Jam Sessions
  George Lewis - Live at Club Hangover 1953
  Art Pepper - A Night in Tunisia
  Art Pepper - I'll Remember April
  Art Pepper - Live in Japan
  Ben Webster - Master of Jazz, Vol. 5
  Lester Young - Master of Jazz, Vol. 7
  

Edited March 14, 2003 by Saint Vitus

[Dan Gould]

SV, I pulled out the Benny Carter Summer Serenade disc and give it a big thumbs up. Kenny Drew and Benny are in fine fettle, my only complaint would be that Richard Boone's vocal on "All That Jazz" was unnecessary, and a few more tunes from Carter's pen would have been welcome instead of the predictable standards (Indiana, Almost Like Being in Love, Taking a Chance on Love).

Still, what is here is topnotch. Definitely grab it!

[jazzbo]

I don't know quite how to begin. . . I would say if you are familiar with other contemporaneous works by these artists you would like these Storyville releases. The Wild Bill Davisons are very good, in keeping with the excellent work he was doing at this time (at all times, really.) If you like the George Lewis work on other labels, you'll like these; sound is decent and nice representations of his playing at the time. (The Dragon "George Lewis in Sweden" is also very good!) The Armstrong and the Young are. . . well its Pops and Pres---and good examples.