Echoes of Joy + Big Band Swing (2 LP on 1 CD)
  • Caravan LP 15611
    Caravan LP 15611
  • Epic BN-588
    Epic BN-588

Kent Harian & Ted McNabb

Echoes of Joy + Big Band Swing (2 LP on 1 CD)

Fresh Sound Records

Personnel:
Kent Harian (lead), Nick Travis, Al Maiorca, Billy Butterfield (tp), Sonny Russo, Rex Peer, Ollie Wilson (tb), Tommy Mitchell (b-tb), Andy Fitzgerald (cl, fl), Harvey Estrin (fl, as), Hal McKusick (as), Al Cohn, Eddie Wasserman (ts), Charlie O’Kane (bs), Buddy Neal (p, cel), Jerry Bruno (b), Joe Venuto (d), Jim Timmens, Bill Finegan, Gil Evans (arr), Marion Evans (arr, lead), Bernie Glow, Burt Collins, Doc Severinsen, John Bello (tp), Urbie Green, Sy Berger, Frank Rehak (tb), Dick Hixon (b-tb), Dick Meldonian, Gene Quill, Herb Geller (as), Zoot Sims (ts), Sol Schlinger (bs), Nat Pierce (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton, John Drew (b), Osie Johnson, Don Lamond (d)

Reference: FSRCD 967

Bar code: 8427328609678

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EAST COAST SERIES · Jazz & Swing Orchestras
Rare & Collectible Albums by Unsung Bandleaders

When the dust from the collapse of the Swing Era settled, there were few big bands left that had survived. Yet, because they loved the swinging drive of a full-on jazz orchestra, a series of adventurous and unsung bandleaders optimistically organized some fine, but short-lived big and medium-sized orchestras that were packed with jazz and studio musicians, holding the flag of Swing high.

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In 1956, a newcomer named Kent Harian assembled a blowing group; he handed them some clean arrangements, and produced a swinging dance record called Echoes of Joy. Jim Timmens did most of the arranging, with two contributions by luminaries Bill Finegan and Gil Evans. Harian’s studio band was an exuberantly flagwaving outfit—and a joy to hear at that, playing this collection of unpretentious and swinging scores with plenty of solos spotted throughout.

Although Big Band Swing by the Ted McNabb & Co. is one of the most ebullient, crisply swinging and superbly performed big band albums of the 50s, it is also one of the rarest and most obscure despite its dream personnel. What’s more: Ted McNabb was just the guy who raised the money. He paid for the charts by arranger Marion Evans, the musicians, and the studio. For him it was a dream come true; a big band in the Swing Era style, clean, precise and stomping, like the old Basie and Goodman bands, playing some standards that hadn’t been overdone at the time.


Tracklist

Sample this album
Total time: 70:57 min.


01. Carioca (Vincent Youmans) 2:49
02. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Cole Porter) 2:46
03. Bernie's Tune (Bernie Miller) 2:57
04. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) (Ellington-Webster) 2:59
05. Nice Work If You Can Get It (G. & I. Gershwin) 2:32
06. Handy Andy (Jim Timmens) 3:07
07. Crazy Rhythm (Meyer-Kahn-Caesar) 2:31
08. April in Paris (Duke-Harburg) 3:03
09. Take the 'A' Train (Billy Strayhorn) 3:13
10. Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin) 3:06
11. Fascinating Rhythm (G. & I. Gershwin) 2:10
12. Jeepers Creepers (Warren-Mercer) 4:02
13. Miss Brown to You (Robin-Whiting-Rainger) 2:50
14. Mountain Greenery (Rodgers-Hart) 2:52
15. I’ll Never Say 'Never Again' Again (H.Woods) 2:40
16. Blue Moon (Rodgers-Hart) 2:06
17. Margie (Davis-Conrad-Robinson) 2:24
18. That Old Feeling (Brown-Fain) 2:38
19. Have You Met Miss Jones (Rodgers-Hart) 2:46
20. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) 2:19
21. You're My Thrill (Claire-Gorney) 3:20
22. It Had to Be You (Kahn-Jones) 2:33
23. Three Little Words (Kalmar-Ruby) 2:38
24. Spring Is Here (Rodgers-Hart) 3:30
25. Close As Pages in a Book (Fields-Romberg) 2:45

Album details

Track-by-track soloists detailed in the booklet

Sources:
Tracks #1-13, from the album “Echoes of Joy” (Caravan LP 15611)
Tracks #14-25, from the album “Big Band Swing” (Epic BN-588)

Personnel on “Echoes of Joy”: KENT HARIAN and His Orchestra
Kent Harian, leader & conductor; Nick Travis, Al Maiorca, Billy Butterfield, trumpets; Sonny Russo, Rex Peer, Ollie Wilson, trombone; Tommy Mitchell, bass trombone; Andy Fitzgerald, clarinet & flute; Harvey Estrin, flute & alto sax; Hal McKusick, alto sax; Al Cohn, Eddie Wasserman, tenor saxes; Charlie O’Kane, baritone sax; Buddy Neal, piano & celeste; Jerry Bruno, bass; Joe Venuto, drums. Arrangements by Jim Timmens, Bill Finegan (#8), and Gil Evans (#13).
Recorded in New York City, December 1956

Personnel on “Big Band Swing”: TED McNABB & Co.
Bernie Glow, Burt Collins, Doc Severinsen, John Bello, John Frosk, Al deRisi, trumpets; Urbie Green, Sy Berger, Frank Rehak, trombones; Dick Hixon, bass trombone; Dick Meldonian, Gene Quill, Herb Geller, alto saxes; Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, tenor saxes; Sol Schlinger, baritone sax; Nat Pierce, piano; Barry Galbraith, guitar; Milt Hinton, John Drew, bass; Osie Johnson, Don Lamond, drums.
Recorded in New York City, November 19, 23 & 25 1959

Original recordings produced by Laurence Gould and Ted McNabb
Epic photos by Don Hunstein
Liner notes: Jordi Pujol

This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol

Mono / Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas S.L.

Press reviews

"Fresh Sound Records continues to find wonderfully obscure recordings from the 50s and 60s by unsung jazz artists. They’ve recently started a series of West and East Coast CD sets that focus on studio orchestras that were filled with guys that had successful careers in the Swing Era, and were now finding work playing for TV shows and movies.

The second of the East Coast Series set has Kent Harian’s Echoes of Joy and Ted McNabb’s Big Band Swing, both from the late 1950s. Harian’s band has charts from Jim Timmens, Bill Finega and een Gil Evans, with the NYC musicians including all stars Al Cohn/ts, Hal McKusick/as and Billy Butterfield/tp. The band has a gas of a time with an exciting “Carioca,” and Al Cohn’s tenor is hip on “Cheek to Cheek” and on “take the A Train” along with Nick Travis’ trumpet. “ McKusick shintes on “I Got It Bad” and Sonny Russo’s trombone teams with Cohn and Andy Fitgerald’s clarinet for a sweet “Miss Brown to You.” Ted McNabb’s Big Band is arranged and conducted by Marion Evans, boasting of a hot band that includes Doc Severinsen/tp, Urbie Green/tb, Gene Quill/as, Al Cohn/ts, Zoot Sims/ts, Milt Hinton/b, Osie Johnson/dr and Nat Pierce/p. They flex their muscles on a strong “Mountain Greenery” and punch like Sonny Liston with Sims tearing apart “I’ll Never Say ‘Never Again’ Again” while sounding coy on “Three Little Words.” Guitarist Barry Galbraith sweetly glows on “Blue Moon” and Green is buttery during “Close As Pages in a Book.” Great stuff!"

George W. Harris (August 13, 2018)
http://www.jazzweekly.com/

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