Swing's The Thing

Illinois Jacquet

The Illinois Jacquet Project: The Complete 1956-1966 Recordings
Volume #1

Contains The Complete Albums:
Clef’s October 1956 LP Swing’s The Thing
Verve’s April 21, 1958 The Cool Rage Session

The first CD of this collection of five includes Jacquet’s complete October 16, 1956 album Swing’s The Thing, with Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Jones, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Jo Jones as well as all of the tracks recorded on April 21, 1958, that were later released on the album The Cool Rage featuring Wild Bill Davis, Kenny Burrell and Johnny Williams. This CD also includes a version of Robbin’s Nest, recorded on August 11, 1959, as the only alternate take of the session Illinois Jacquet Flies Again, which we’ve included on this edition due to a lack of disc space on the collection’s second CD.

Tracklisting:

1. Las Vegas Blues
2. Harlem Nocturne
3. Can’t we be friends
4. Achtung
5. Have you met Miss Jones?
6. Lullaby of the leaves
7. No sweat
8. Flying home
9. The fluke
10. Nite out
11. Robbin’s Nest (alt take)

Personnel:

#1-6: Illinois Jacquet (ts), Roy Eldridge (tp), Jimmy Jones (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Jo Jones (d).
Los Angeles, October 16, 1956.

#7-10: Illinois Jacquet (ts), Kenny Burrell (g), Wild Bill Davis (org), Johnny Williams (d).
NYC, April 21, 1958.