Jo Jones

The Jo Jones Special

Fresh Sound 1600 Series

Personnel:
Emmett Berry (tp), Bennie Green, Lawrence Brown (tb), Lucky Thompson (ts), Rudy Powell (cl, as), Freddie Green (g), Nat Pierce, Pete Johnson, Count Basie (p), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (d)

Reference: FSRCD 1635

Bar code: 8427328616355

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This was the first album the man who plays like the wind did as a leader. On four of the numbers he fronted a septet with Nat Pierce on piano. Soloists Benny Green and Emmett Berry are excellent, but if one hornman especially excels here is tenor Lucky Thompson, one of the most unjustly neglected artists in jazz. On the two magnificently robust takes of Shoe Shine Boy, the guest pianist is Count Basie, thereby reuniting, for the first time in eight years, what was the greatest rhythm section in jazz. On Caravan, there were some changes on the line-up of the septet, but throughout all the sides, the uniting personality is Jo, a master of flowingly musical jazz drumming.



01. Shoe Shine Boy [First Take] (Chaplin-Cahn) 5:53
02. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 6:30
03. Georgia Mae (Jones) 4:47
04. Caravan (Ellington-Tizol-Mills) 3:59
05. Lincoln Heights (Jones-Thompson) 7:45
06. Embraceable You (G. & I. Gershwin) 6:41
07. Shoe Shine Boy [Second Take] (Chaplin-Cahn) 5:18

Album details

Originally issued as Vanguard VRS-8503

Personnel:
Emmett Berry (tp); Bennie Green; Lawrence Brown (tb); Lucky Thompson (ts); Rudy Powell (cl; as); Freddie Green (g); Nat Pierce; Pete Johnson (p); Walter Page (b); Jo Jones (d). Guest star: Count Basie (p on #1 & 7).
Recorded in New York City, August 11 [#1-3 & 5-7] & 16 [#4], 1955

Liner notes by John Hammond
Reissue produced by Jordi Pujol

24-Bit / 96kHz · Digitally Remastered
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9,95 €  (tax incl.)

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