gerald wilson new cd reissue

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

anyone have a personel sheet for the bonus tracks as wlel as the main ones? there was a recent thread and i just did 5 searches and couldnt locate it!!

[Claude Schlouch]

Big Band Modern

Gerald WIlson

Featuring: Gerald Wilson (arr/cond, tp ), Ernie Royal, Walter Williams (tp), Melba Liston, Henry Coker, Robert Wagner, Trummy Young (tb), Sonny Criss (as), Gerald Wiggins (p) Red Callender (b), Lee Young (d). Guest stars: Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims & Stan Getz (ts)

REFERENCE: Jazz Factory(Sp)JFCD22880

Here is the very rare 1954 "Big Band Modern" LP (for the first time on CD) plus, as bonus, a splendid previously unissued stereo recording of a 1950 concert in San Francisco. Includes never before heard solos by tenor stars Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims and Stan Getz and one of a kind arrangements by Wilson.

Tracklisting:

1. Algerian fantasy

2. Bull fighter

3. Lotus land

4. Theme

5. Mambo mexicano

6. Black rose

7. Romance

8. Since we said goodbye

9. Hollywood freeway

10. Sea breeze

11. Nice work if you can get it

12. Indiana

13. It had to be you

14. Out of nowhere

15. Hollywood freeway

Tracks 1-8

Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra:

John Anderson, Louis Grey, Allen Smith, Clark Terry (tp), Isaac Bell, Atlee Chapman, John Ewing, Britt Woodman (tb), Jerry Dodgion (as), Teddy Edwards, Paul Gonsalves, Frank Haynes (ts), Bill Green (bar), Cedric Haywood (p), Addison Farmer (b), Gus Gustafson (d), Gerald Wilson (arr, cond)

Recorded in Los Angeles, 1954

All titles previously issued on Audiolab AL1538.

Tracks 9-15

Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra:

Gerald Wilson (arr/cond, tp ), Ernie Royal, Walter Williams (tp), Melba Liston, Henry Coker, Robert Wagner, Trummy Young (tb), Sonny Criss (as), Gerald Wiggins (p) Red Callender (b), Lee Young (d). Guest stars: Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims & Stan Getz (ts). Recorded live at San Francisco's Veterans Memorial, 1950

All titles previously unissued.

[bichos]

hello all,

does somebody know who the singer on the tiltle "since we said goodbye" (track 8) is? he is in the billy eckstine/earl coleman style. maybe it is earl coleman? and there is a lot of flute featured in the tracks. could it be buddy colette? he was often featured with gerald wilson´s recordings from the 60´s.

i don´t think that the date of the live stereo tracks (9 - 15) is 1950! hear the m.c. at the end. he is announcing the george shearing quintet with for the first time cal tjader, toots thielemans and another name i can´t understand. so the date must be around early 1953! and before the stan getz feature gerald wilson announced: "now a young man who has for the past 5 years won the top spots of metronome and down beat magazin awards". does anybody in what year stan getz won for the first time an award?

but nevertheless i think it´s great music by the great gerald wilson and a new entry in the too little wardell gray discography.

keep boppin´

marcel