All About Urbie Green

Urbie Green His Quintet & Big Band

This CD presents Urbie Green, one of the most versatile of all top-ranking trombonists in two facets. On the first quintet recordings we hear him playing relaxed, modern mainstream jazz with strong roots in the blues. His tone is full, his ideas personal and imaginative, and his beat equal to that of his gassing rhythm section.

Urbie’s role on the remaining tracks is that of the leader of a big band. He had often expressed a desire to front a large dance band of his own before he had this opportunity. His choice of Johnny Carisi as chief arranger and unofficial musical director was made because of a rather mutual agreement between the two about the purposes of a band of this kind and the methods of achieving them. Johnny was among the group of writers—like Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Tiny Kahn, et al.—who were setting new stepping-stones in band and small-group arranging. Carisi’s writing in this set is clean and functional— achieving the prime purposes of providing a good jazz and dance-band style and setting a foundation upon which Urbie can project himself as leader-soloist.


Tracklisting:

1. Reminiscent Blues 3:17
2. Thou Swell 3:19
3. You Are Too Beautiful 4:19
4. Paradise 3:00
5. Warm Valley 2:45
6. Frankie And Johnny 1.49
7. One For Dee 2:45
8. Limehouse Blues 2:03
9. Am I Blue? 3:03
10. Dirty Dan 2:44
11. Too Late Now 3:10
12. Sleep 2:52
13. Soft Winds 6:29
14. With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair 3:10
15. I Ain’t Got Nobody 3:31
16. Stella By Starlight 3:04
17. Little John 3:06
18. Home 3:21
19. Cherokee 2:36
20. 'Round Midnight 3:21
21. Springsville 3:16
22. Plain Bill From Bluesville 4:11


Personnel:

Urbie Green Quintet:
Track 1-11: Urbie Green (tb, vtb); Jimmy Raney (g); Dave McKenna (p); Percy Heath (b); Kenny Clark (d).

Note: tracks 5 & 8 are piano solo by Dave McKenna.
New York, October 12, 1955.


Urbie Green Big Band:
Tracks 12-18: Joe wilder, Nick Traavis, Johnny Carisi (tp); Urbie Green, Chauncey Welsh, Jack Satterfield (tb); Bill Barber (tuba), Al cohn, Ray Beckenstein (ts); Sol Schlinger (bs); Dave Mckenna (p); Jack Lesberg (b); Osie Johnson (d).

New York City, July, 31, 1956.


Tracks 15-18: Same band, except Jack Green replaces Jack Satterfield.
New York City, August, 3, 1956.

Tracks: 19-22: Phil Sunkel, Doc Severinsen, Johnny Carisi (tp); Urbie Green, Lou McGarity, Rex Peer (tb); Don Butterfield (tuba); Hal McKusick (as); Al Cohn, Ray Beckenstein (ts); Danny Bank (bs); Dave McKenna (p); Vinnie Burke (b); Osie johnson (d).

New York City, August, 23, 1956.

Related Products

74321 43392 2 Let's Face The Music And Dance Urbie Green and His Orchestra

FSRCD 451 Septet & Octet Urbie Green