Five Pennies

構成数 : 1
合計収録時間 : 00:38:30
Personnel includes: Monte Ballou, Bob Short, Don Kinch, George Bruns, Bob Gilbert, Freddie Crews, Homer Welch. Recorded in April 1959. Personnel: Monte Ballou (vocals, banjo); Bob Glibert (clarinet); Don Kinch (trumpet); George Bruns (trombone); Bob Short (tuba); Freddie Crews (piano); Homer Welch (drums). Liner Note Author: Lester Koenig. Recording information: Contemporary Records, Los Angeles, CA (04/12/1959/04/13/1959). The film version of cornetist Red Nichols' life was a Hollywood success, and one of the very few movies to resist the stereotypical image of jazz musicians as drunken, drug-addled losers. Here, the Famous Castle Jazz Band (who didn't play on the original soundtrack) reinterpret songs from that film in a delightful session that brings fire to the cornier production numbers written by Sylvia Fine and authenticity to standards like "That's A Plenty," "After You've Gone" (with a jaunty vocal from Monte Ballou), "Ja-Da," "My Blue Heaven," and the inevitable "When the Saints Go Marching In," given a rousing closing treatment here. Not the soundtrack, but in many ways a whole lot better. ~ Cub Koda
録音 : モノラル／ステレオ (Studio)