Jump For Joy! The Columbia Years 1937-1950

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Personnel includes: Hot Lips Page (vocals, trumpet); Billie Holiday, Joe Turner, Pearl Bailey (vocals); Tab Smith (alto saxophone); Chu Berry, BUddy Tate (tenor saxophone); Buster Bailey, Pee Wee Russell (clarinet); Teddy Wilson, Horace Henderson, Pete Johnson (piano); Lawrence Lucie, Tony Mottola (guitar); Cozy Cole, Specs Powell (drums). Recorded between 1937 & 1950. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Hot Lips Page (vocals, trumpet); Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday (vocals); Lawrence Lucie, Allan Reuss, Tony Mottola, Jimmy McLin (guitar); Joe Evans & Arthur McClain (clarinet, alto saxophone); Pee Wee Russell, Buster Bailey (clarinet); Tab Smith (alto saxophone); Stanley Payne, Kenneth Hollon, George Nicholas , Ray Abrams, Buddy Tate (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Buxton, George Matthews (trombone); Ken Kersey, Bill Spencer, Ray Tunia, Skip Hall, Horace Henderson, Joe Knight , Pete Johnson , Teddy Wilson (piano); Cozy Cole, Eddie Dougherty, Sticks Evans, Specs Powell, Herb Lovelle, Charlie Smith (drums). Recording information: 03/23/1937-02/01/1950. Because this is a mix of solo sessions from one era (the late '40s and early '50s) and Hot Lips Page's work in the bands of Pete Johnson, Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson, and Billie Holiday from another era (the late '30s), it's too scattered to function as an overview or as a detailed snapshot of a particular aspect of Page's career. There's still some material here for Page fans to enjoy, particularly as some of the tracks were previously unreleased. On the solo sides, he comes off as similar but inferior to Louis Armstrong, though enjoyable on his own terms if comparisons with that behemoth are avoided; the interpretation of Ravel's "La Danse" is a highlight. A young Pearl Bailey duets with him on "Baby It's Cold Outside" and a previously unreleased alternate take of "The Hucklebuck." A young Joe Turner is the vocalist on the Johnson sides, and here the main collector attraction is the previously unreleased "Jump for Joy." More such goodies include a previously unreleased alternate take of "Limehouse Blues" (as part of Berry's band); two previously unissued performances as a member of Wilson's orchestra; and, finally, previously unavailable alternate takes of "Got an Uncle in Harlem" and "Jeety-Boad Joad" (both from 1949) and the hitherto unissued "Blow, Champ, Blow" (from 1950). ~ Richie Unterberger
録音 : モノラル (Studio)