Jimmy Rushing - The Scene: Live in New York

[JSngry]

1 Deed I Do

2 Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You?

3 I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me

4 I Want a Little Girl

5 The Red Door [instrumental]

6 Goin' to Chicago Basie, Rushing

7 I Cried for You Arnheim, Freed, Lyman

8 Everyday I Have the Blues Chatman

9 It's Noteworthy [instrumental]

10 Good Morning Blues

Color me interested!

[BeBop]

I don't have my LPs in front of me, but this looks a lot like one of two I have. One was on Montage, but there was also a bootleg of some sort, with a mimeographed cover. The sound on the latter was pretty hollow, but still a fun listen.

[BeBop]

Further thought: at least one of my LPs must be different (if I recall correctly) because it has Richie Kamuca. Wish I had them things with me.

[JSngry]

This looks like it might be from around the same time as The You And Me That Ued To Be, which I really didn't care for all that much, but this is a club date w/o the particular "thematic" conceit of that album, so hey...

[fasstrack]

Great picture. John Beal's a great player, we've worked together a fair amount. I'd love to hear this. Y'all should check out Who was it Sang that Song by Rushing, too. excellent recording.

[AllenLowe]

The You and Me that Used to Be is the Victor date produced by Don Schlitten, and though Jim and I never disagree (???????) I think it is the best thing Rushing ever recorded - includes Ray Nance!

[JSngry]

I just don't think the repertoire brings out the Rushingness of Rushing, not a whole albums worth. That and it sounds like it was recorded in a padded room with no air.

As far as best-ever, you gotta go a long way to beat Rushing Lullabies, imo.

[Tom Storer]

Listening to "The Scene" as I type. Sounds good so far! It's on eMusic.

[paul secor]

This appears to be the same material as the Montage LP, except there are one or two tracks by Richie Kamuca on the Montage. Haven't played it in a long while but, as I remember, the Montage stuff was good - not great - Rushing. I'll have to listen again and report back.

[paul secor]

Listened to a side of the Montage. Good Rushing & the added attraction is some nice blowing by Al & Zoot. Sound on the Montage is below average, but listenable - the High Note may have a better source.

[gmonahan]

The You and Me that Used to Be is the Victor date produced by Don Schlitten, and though Jim and I never disagree (???????) I think it is the best thing Rushing ever recorded - includes Ray Nance!

I'm with Allen on this one. I just love this album--not that I don't love all the others too. I never miss a chance to pick up something recorded by Mr. Five by Five. (What a *great* singer he was!) Zoot does some nice work on this one as well.

greg mo

[BeBop]

This appears to be the same material as the Montage LP, except there are one or two tracks by Richie Kamuca on the Montage. Haven't played it in a long while but, as I remember, the Montage stuff was good - not great - Rushing. I'll have to listen again and report back.

Thanks. I feel a little better about my fading memory (re: Kamuca)

[paul secor]

This appears to be the same material as the Montage LP, except there are one or two tracks by Richie Kamuca on the Montage. Haven't played it in a long while but, as I remember, the Montage stuff was good - not great - Rushing. I'll have to listen again and report back.

Thanks. I feel a little better about my fading memory (re: Kamuca)

My memory faded too. For some reason I remembered a Richie Kamuca track or two on this, but the final two tracks are Ellington piano solos. (I think that Montage was a Boris Rose label & he just filled out the LP with a couple of extra Ellington tracks he had laying around.) Richie Kamuca was evidently sitting in with Al & Zoot, tho the notes make little mention of anything about the music on the LP. Thought I detected him on "I Can't Believe...", but I'll have to listen more. Perhaps the notes on the High Note will clear some of this up, including the date of recording - the Montage notes do say mid sixties.

Anyway, some very good Rushing - he sounded better to me the more I listened - and the band's blowing makes a very nice addition to the vocals.

[fasstrack]

I guess everyone's heard the recording with Brubeck/Paul Desmond. Can't remember the name, and it's morphing in my decaying memory into The Jazz Ambassadors with Pops, Carmen McCrae, and Brubeck, who also wrote the music. I know it's a whole different animal, so someone please straighten me out. I was amazed when I first heard about this, couldn't imagine it, those guys together, how it would work and lay. It's terrific, though, as I remember. They all sound great together.

Edited April 10, 2009 by fasstrack

[Enterprise Server]

Looks interesting but I love the sessions with Basie......

[Hot Ptah]

The You and Me that Used to Be is the Victor date produced by Don Schlitten, and though Jim and I never disagree (???????) I think it is the best thing Rushing ever recorded - includes Ray Nance!

I think that Rushing was losing something in his voice by the time of that album, but that it has a unique charm. "All God's Children Got Rhythm" is a particularly rousing track, sung in a way that no one else could hope to duplicate, in my opinion.