Jo Jones & His Orchestra - Vamp Til Ready (Digitally remastered)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 36:06
Size: 82.6 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 1960/2009
Art: Front

[3:13] 1. Vamp 'til Ready
[2:26] 2. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[2:43] 3. Should I
[2:51] 4. Thou Swell
[3:32] 5. Show Time
[3:28] 6. Sandy's Body
[2:37] 7. Liza
[3:02] 8. But Not For Me
[3:12] 9. Royal Garden Blues
[2:58] 10. Mozelle's Alley
[3:23] 11. Sox Trot
[2:36] 12. In The Forrest

Personnel are identified in the Amazon listing for the vinyl version, and they're the upside. Jo Jones, best known for his work with the Old Testament (1930s-40s) Basie orchestra and one of the great figures in the history of jazz drumming, generally runs the rhythm, emerging on "Mozelle's Alley," "Royal Garden Blues," and "In the Forrest" to demonstrate his unsurpassed (and Basie-like) ability to create maximal drive with minimal fuss. Jones was vastly admired by musicians in this swing-mainstream idiom and beyond, and could pick his associates. Bennie Green (trombone) was a younger Basieite, also featured on Jones' celebrated and somewhat similar Vanguard date. Harry "Sweets" Edison was a teammate from the old Basie band, a master sometimes downgraded because of his tendency to anthologize his favorite licks, he's at his best here, open-horn and muted, and not into recycling. Jimmy Forrest (tenor sax), Basie veteran and popularizer of "Night Train," is powerful. The pianist, Tommy Flanagan, was younger and associated with more newer styles, but fit in brilliantly with his elders (as on the great Prestige date with Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton). The uncredited bassist is Tommy Potter, well recorded and agile.

This is great stuff by great, wonderfully compatible musicians, making it all sound easy. For these guys, it was. ~Martin Berger/amazon

Vamp Til Ready

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