Ernie Wilkins - The Everest Years

Styles: Jazz, Swing
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:45
Size: 157,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:35)  1. Broadway
(2:49)  2. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
(3:13)  3. Falling In Love With Love
(2:26)  4. The Continental
(2:35)  5. Makin' Whoopee!
(3:09)  6. Stompin' At The Savoy
(3:14)  7. You're Driving Me Crazy
(2:17)  8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
(2:34)  9. Somebody Loves Me
(2:25) 10. All Of You
(2:38) 11. Gone With The Wind
(1:55) 12. It Don't Mean A Thing
(3:33) 13. Ernie's Blues
(3:28) 14. Satin Doll
(1:56) 15. Fascinating Rhythm
(2:28) 16. Canadian Sunset
(2:29) 17. Very Much In Love
(2:45) 18. Undecided
(3:30) 19. Fresh Flute
(3:07) 20. I'll Get By
(3:50) 21. A Swinging Serenade
(3:31) 22. Lover Man
(1:58) 23. Everything's Coming Up Roses
(3:10) 24. Speak Low

Arranger Ernie Wilkins' two Everest LPs, Here Comes the Swingin' Mr. Wilkins and The Big New Band of the '60s, are reissued in full on this single CD. Recording during 1959-1960, Wilkins used an overlapping personnel of Count Basie members (both past and of the time), some of the top jazz-oriented studio players, and various miscellaneous jazz musicians. There is no way that this could have been a full-time big band, not with such soloists as Duke Ellington's tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, trumpeters Clark Terry and Thad Jones, and the Basie players, but Wilkins' swinging arrangements gave his short-lived orchestra its own sound. The weak point to the program is that all of the selections clock in around three minutes apiece, which was unnecessary by the late '50s, resulting in all of the solos being very brief. However, the music is easily enjoyable, making this set recommended to fans of swinging big bands. 

~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-everest-years-mw0000704087

The Everest Years: Ernie Wilkins

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