Anyone Hep to this Urbie Green Christmas Album from 1954?

[Teasing the Korean]

 

[Rabshakeh]

7 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

 

It was featured on Jazz Wax a while back. Really love the cover. 

[rostasi]

Surprisingly good and fidelity is top-notch too.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

It was featured on Jazz Wax a while back. Really love the cover. 

1 hour ago, rostasi said:

Surprisingly good and fidelity is top-notch too.

Considering that I'm always looking for jazz Christmas stuff, I'm surprised that I just learned about this album today, although considering it's rarity, maybe I should not be surprised.

It is available as a lossless download from Qobuz.

[danasgoodstuff]

That's nice, especially the baritone sax.  I like the 10" he did for Blue Note, do they even still own that?

[Big Beat Steve]

Yes, that Yuletide record is very nice. Particularly at this time. (Though I am not sure I'd want to listen to ALL the 8 songs on Youtube in one go ).
I had not been aware of the existence of this record before either.  So thanks, TTK!

[Teasing the Korean]

5 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

...(Though I am not sure I'd want to listen to ALL the 8 songs on Youtube in one go )...

Well, as someone who listens to 8 hours of vintage department store Christmas muzak, I can handle 8 Urbie Green Christmas tunes! 🤣

[Big Beat Steve]

30 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Well, as someone who listens to 8 hours of vintage department store Christmas muzak, I can handle 8 Urbie Green Christmas tunes! 🤣

Which is exactly what came to my mind when I wrote my reply ...

But that 8-hours YT clip of department strore Xmas muzak had me wondering ... I've half a mind of downloading it for the upcoming season ... (my better half will be away for a couple of days, so ... )

[mikeweil]

17 hours ago, rostasi said:

Surprisingly good and fidelity is top-notch too.

"X" was a branch of RCA Victor and used the same recording facilities. All the mainstream jazz sessions from the mid-fifties on these label sound great, often recorded with only one mcrophone in front of the band. These guys knew how to balance their sound without amplification and mixing. 

Seems like the Urbie Green Xmas album (mono from 1954) was never reissued. Great playing of a true all star band.

Edited Sunday at 03:25 PM by mikeweil

[rostasi]

50 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

Which is exactly what came to my mind when I wrote my reply ...

But that 8-hours YT clip of department strore Xmas muzak had me wondering ... I've half a mind of downloading it for the upcoming season ... (my better half will be away for a couple of days, so ... )

Can't you get the 24/7 stream I posted?

[Big Beat Steve]

22 hours ago, rostasi said:

Can't you get the 24/7 stream I posted?

Thanks for the reminder. I just tried and got the sound to work 👍. But the problem is just this: The (desktop!) PC I would be able to play this from is not near my living room or music rom but one flight down in my office. Inconvenient ... (no, no "smart"phone here for this ...)

Edited Monday at 01:38 PM by Big Beat Steve

[Holy Ghost]

This on CD? If so, bought.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

This on CD? If so, bought.

So far, no, only downloads. $6.99 to download a ~22 minute long 10" LP of cool Christmas music at Amazon is a bit steep though.

[Big Beat Steve]

All 8 tracks are on Youtube. For the time being, that's good enough for me.

Considering that this LP apparently has never been reissued, my guess is we will have to wait for the Andorrans to do a CD reissue. They have reissued Urbie Green stuff before.

Edited Monday at 01:39 PM by Big Beat Steve

[Teasing the Korean]

You can download the tracks as Wav files from the InterTubes. 

That said, $8.49 for a rare 10" album in lossless format is a great deal. 

$6.99 for mp3 files is not necessarily a good deal. 

[Daniel A]

It's also on Spotify (and I would assume yet other streaming platforms).

[Big Beat Steve]

To round off this discussion, the below might be of interest. While perusing my Down Beats, I found the below review of that disc (by Nat Hentoff) in the Dec. 29, 1954 issue:

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So ... a Cool Yule and a New Year that's Way Out to everyone ...

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

To round off this discussion, the below might be of interest. While perusing my Down Beats, I found the below review of that disc (by Nat Hentoff) in the Dec. 29, 1954 issue:

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So ... a Cool Yule and a New Year that's Way Out to everyone ...

Who remembers Jimmy Boyd?

 

[Big Beat Steve]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Who remembers Jimmy Boyd?

 

Some fans of 50s Hillbilly music do. But his "Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" usually makes them cringe.
Below is a feature from the April 1953 issue of Country Song Roundup.

 

[JSngry]

 

[romualdo]

On 12/16/2024 at 11:46 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

You can download the tracks as Wav files from the InterTubes.

.....and create your own CDr (from WAV or AIFF files)

Edited 4 hours ago by romualdo