king ubu Posted August 11, 2003 Report Posted August 11, 2003 Anyone can help me with some of the following? - It's a Blue World: date(s) of recording? Any info available concerning personnel? - At the Crescendo/Songs for any Taste: were they both recorded on one and the same evening? Then "Songs of NY" (Atlantic): anyone knows the year or date of recording? And personnel? thanks for any help! ubu Quote
P.D. Posted August 11, 2003 Report Posted August 11, 2003 It's a Blue World Torme with unknown large orchestra Al Pelligrini director Al Hendrickson guitar NY Aug 28,29,30 1955 Songs for My Taste Howard McGhee tpt, Ralph Sharon pno, Max Bennett bs, Stan Levey drms Pat Moran Quartet vcls Russ Garcia arranger Crescendo Hollywood May 8 1956 At the Crescendo Don Fagerquist tpt, Larry Bunker vs, accordion. bgo, Marty Paich pno. Max Bennett bs, Mel Lewis drms Hollywood Feb 22 1957 New York Unknown personel arrangers Dick Hazard, John Williams, Shorty Rogers Los Angeles Dec 2, 4, 7 1963 all via Tom Lord Quote
king ubu Posted August 12, 2003 Author Report Posted August 12, 2003 thanks, PD - but you you haven't been there? However: Songs for my (any?) taste: the personnel you give is just for one selection - which is taken from the Bethlehem "Porgy & Bess" recordings. All other tracks have the same personnel as "At the Crescendo", and in the new liners (of the Avenue/Bethlehem reissue) of one of the two, it says they stem from the same gig. So my question: same night or not? Thanks a lot! ubu Quote
brownie Posted August 12, 2003 Report Posted August 12, 2003 Ubu, P.D. gave you the details for the 'Songs for Any Taste' Bethlehem album which was recorded at the Crescendo in LA on May 8, 1956. The title 'I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' from this album was also included in the 'Porgy and Bess' Bethlehem box. The other Mel Torme album 'Mel Torme at the Crescendo' (the one with Don Fagerquist on trumpet) was recorded on February 22, 1957 at the Crescendo. Torme made another album at the Crescendo: 'Gene Norman' presents Mel Torme 'Live' at the Crescendo'. This one was made for Coral and recorded on December 15, 1954. One tune from that Coral album 'Mountain Greenery' turned out to be a hit for Torme. He was signed by Bethlehem shortly after. Quote
king ubu Posted August 13, 2003 Author Report Posted August 13, 2003 thanks for clarifying, brownie! sorry, PDEE! the strange thing is: in the new liners of the Avenue/Rhino reissue of "Songs For Any Taste", it's stated that During an engagement at the Crescendo in February of 1957, Bethlehem captured enough live material to fill out two separate albums. The first release was entitled simply "Live at the Crescendo". The follow-up, gathering the remaining tracks, was "Songs For Any Taste", the collection you are holding now. But as those (otherwise very nice) Avenue/Rhino reissues of Bethlehem stuff do not have any recording dates included, this seem to be wrong, I guess! The personnel, however is: Don Fagerquist, t; Marty Paich, p; Max Bennett, b; Larry Bunker, acc/vib/bgo; Mel Lewis, d. I do have the CD reissue (with quite a lot of additional material) of the Gene Norman album, too. Thanks again. Quote
P.D. Posted August 13, 2003 Report Posted August 13, 2003 thanks for clarifying, brownie! sorry, PDEE! O.K. but swallow that tongue or more correctly Quote
king ubu Posted August 14, 2003 Author Report Posted August 14, 2003 thanks for clarifying, brownie! sorry, PDEE! O.K. but swallow that tongue or more correctly No problem, if you take that one: ubu Quote
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