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The Sound Of Jazz 180g LP (Mono)

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Limited Edition 180 Gram Vinyl from Pure Pleasure Records! Audiophile Re-Mastering! Starring Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Henry "Red" Allen, The Jimmy Giuffre Trio, Jimmy Rushing, Mal Waldron & Featuring Many More!

"The Sound of Jazz" is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programs featuring jazz to air on American network television.

The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957 over CBS Television between 5 and 6 in the afternoon. The show was hosted by New York Herald-Tribune media critic John Crosby, directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were the primary music consultants.

The Sound of Jazz brought together 28 leading musicians from the swing era including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry "Red" Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger 'modernist' musicians such as Jimmy Giuffre. These players played separately with their compatriots (see the song list below), but also joined to combine various styles in one group, such as Mal Waldron's group and the group backing Billie Holiday on "Fine and Mellow".

The show's performance of "Fine and Mellow" reunited Billie Holiday with her estranged long-time friend Lester Young for the final time. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff, who was involved in the show, recalled that during rehearsals, they kept to opposite sides of the room. Young was very weak, and Hentoff told him to skip the big band section of the show and that he could sit while performing in the group with Holiday.

During the performance of "Fine and Mellow", Webster played the first solo. Hentoff remembered:

"Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard, and [he and Holiday] were looking at each other, their eyes were sort of interlocked, and she was sort of nodding and half–smiling. It was as if they were both remembering what had been — whatever that was. And in the control room we were all crying. When the show was over, they went their separate ways."

Within three years, both Young and Holiday had died.

Features:
• 180 Gram Vinyl
• Limited Edition
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Audiophile Re-Mastering
• Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

Musicians:
Ben Webster, tenor sax (Mal Waldron All-Star)
Billie Holiday, vocals
Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star), (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Count Basie All-Star)
Count Basie, piano (Count Basie All-Star)
Danny Barker, guitar (Mal Waldron All-Star)
Dickie Wells, trombone (Count Basie All-Star)
Doc Cheatham, trumpet (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Count Basie All-Star)
Earl Warren, saxophone (Count Basie All-Star)
Eddie Jones, bass (Count Basie All-Star)
Emmet Berry, trumpet (Count Basie All-Star)
Frank Rehak, trombone (Count Basie All-Star)
Freddy Green, guitar (Count Basie All-Star)
Harry Carney, saxophone (Count Basie All-Star)
Henry "Red" Allen, vocals, trumpet
Jim Atlas, bass (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Jimmy Giuffre Trio)
Jim Hall, guitar (Jimmy Giuffre Trio)
Jimmy Giuffre, baritone, clarinet, tenor sax
Jimmy Rushing, vocals (Count Basie All-Star)
Jo Jones, drums (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star), (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Count Basie All-Star)
Joe Newman, trumpet (Count Basie All-Star)
Lester Young, tenor sax (Mal Waldron All-Star)
Mal Waldron, piano, piano soloist
Milt Hinton, bass (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star)
Nat Pierce, piano, piano soloist (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star)
Pee Wee Russell, clarinet (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star)
Rex Stewart, trumpet (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star)
Roy Eldridge, trumpet (Count Basie All-Star)
Vic Dickenson, trombone (Henry "Red" Allen All-Star), (Mal Waldron All-Star), (Count Basie All-Star)

Selections:
Side I:
1. Wild Man Blues - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
2. Rosetta - Henry "Red" Allen All-Stars
3. Fine and mellow - Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron All-Stars
4. Blues - Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Giuffre, Danny Barker, Jo Jones
Side II:
1. I Left My Baby - Count Basie All-Stars
2. The Train and The River – The Jimmy Giuffre Trio
3. Nervous - Mal Waldron
4. Dickie’s Dream - Count Basie All-Stars

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