Ralph Sutton And Dick Cary - Rendezvous At Sunnie's 1969

Styles: Piano And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:33
Size: 123,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:58) 1. I Can´t Believe
(6:14) 2. S`Wonderful
(6:38) 3. Everything Happens To Me
(4:53) 4. Save It, Pretty Mama
(4:23) 5. Honky Tonk Train
(6:45) 6. Someday Sweetheart
(6:20) 7. I`ve Found A New Baby
(6:18) 8. Louisiana
(6:01) 9. A Hundred Years From Today
(3:40) 10. Echo Of Spring
(5:09) 11. In A Sentimental Mood
(7:48) 12. Undecided
(5:21) 13. Sweet Georgia Brown

The seventh volume in the Arbors label's Historical Series is a delightful live set from 1969, recorded at Sunnie's Rendezvous in Aspen, CO. Aspen was pianist Ralph Sutton's home turf, and trumpeter Dick Cary was driven 2,000 miles to the club by a pair of California-based jazz enthusiasts who intended to record the pair's musical summit meeting. It took more than 25 years for the resulting tapes to finally see commercial release, but they've been worth the wait. Cary and Sutton are a match made in heaven, two men of spectacular musical erudition, gentle musical wit, and uncompromising swing who are equally capable of spinning out sweet and elegant variations on "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" and charging energetically through the barrelhouse boogie-woogie of "Honky Tonk Train".

" Sutton's soft but urgent introduction on "I've Found a New Baby" generates tremendous energy that only continues to build through his solos; listen carefully to his left-hand work and you'll hear a summary of the whole history of jazz piano. Cary has similar stylistic range, wailing and growling Louis Armstrong-style one moment and sighing lyrically the next -- his work on the rarely played alto horn is especially interesting and enjoyable. The producers apparently took special care with microphone placement on this live recording, resulting in unusually good sound quality. Highly recommended.~Rick Anderson https://www.allmusic.com/album/rendezvous-at-sunnies-1969-mw0000255438

Personnel: Piano – Ralph Sutton; Trumpet, Alto Horn – Dick Cary; Bass – Al Hall; Drums – Cliff Leeman

Rendezvous At Sunnie's 1969

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Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends - Catching Up

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:26
Size: 158.9 MB
Styles: Swing, Bop, Big band
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[5:06] 1. Catching Up
[3:48] 2. Oofy
[3:35] 3. September Etude
[3:55] 4. The Albatross
[6:14] 5. Late Sunday
[3:18] 6. Gramercy Park
[4:07] 7. Shim-Me-Sha Wobble Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
[2:31] 8. Black And Blue
[4:31] 9. Between Prone And Supine
[5:34] 10. December Song
[4:52] 11. Rialto
[3:54] 12. Sea Of Cortez
[2:39] 13. B-E-T-T-Y O'-H-A-R-A
[4:44] 14. Recado
[3:45] 15. White April
[6:43] 16. Sgt. Pee Wee

Alto Saxophone – Dick Hamilton; Baritone Saxophone – Betty O'Hara, Fred Cooper, Randy Aldcroft, Tommy Newsome; Bass – Herb Mickman; Clarinet – Abe Most, John Bambridge, Tommy Newsome; Drums – Jerry White; Euphonium – Betty O'Hara; Guitar – Dave Koonse; Leader – Dick Hamilton; Piano – Dick Hamilton; Soprano Saxophone – Tommy Newsome; Tenor Saxophone – John Bambridge, Terry Harrington; Trombone – Betty O'Hara, Ernie Tack; Trumpet – Dick Hamilton, Jack Trott.

Dick Cary’s friends are keeping alive his astonishing output of undated, unclassifiable compositions and arrangements. Cary’s most visible musical roles were as pianist, trumpeter, mellophonist and alto horn operator in bands playing Dixieland. The term Dixieland rankled him but he was stuck with it because of his associations. In the early 1940s Cary was house pianist at Nick’s traditional jazz emporium in Greenwich Village. His highlights as a player came with Louis Armstrong’s original All-Stars and in a productive association with Bobby Hackett in the 1950s. Throughout his career he also worked as an arranger, for Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Hackett and his own bands, among others.

For his last couple of decades Cary, who died in 1994, held sessions once a week at his house which were populated by Los Angeles studio musicians eager to play his intriguing, unconventional charts. This album has some of those friends playing 16 of his pieces. The music is full of rich textures, unexpected rhythmic displacements, written lines that sound improvised, pungent 20th century classical harmonies, exuberance, wryness, subtlety and nothing that sounds like Dixieland. Most of the pieces are Cary’s, but when he tackled a standard like “Black and Blue” he transformed it. Cary’s arrangements inspire fine solos from the ensemblists, especially clarinetist Abe Most, tenor saxophonist Tommy Newsom and the late trombonist Betty O’Hara. Newsom, a focused and consistently interesting soloist, radiates the spirit of Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Dick Hamilton, who leads the group, is impressive on piano, trumpet and the alto horn he inherited from Cary. ~Doug Ramsey

Catching Up mc
Catching Up zippy

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Barbara Lea - Lea In Love

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 36:00

Size: 82.4 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz

Year: 1956/1990

Art: Front

[3:48] 1. Will I Find My Love Today

[2:03] 2. We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together

[3:21] 3. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

[2:02] 4. Am I In Love

[3:08] 5. The Very Thought Of You

[2:14] 6. I've Got My Eyes On You

[2:57] 7. True Love

[2:20] 8. Mountain Greenery

[4:40] 9. More Than You Know

[2:42] 10. Ain't Misbehavin'

[3:19] 11. Autumn Leaves

[3:21] 12. Sleep Peaceful, Mr. Used-To-Be

Bass – Al Hall; Drums – Osie Johnson; Guitar – Al Casamenti; Horn [Alto Horn] – Dick Cary; Piano – Dick Cary, Jimmy Lyons; Trumpet, Leader – Johnny Windhurst; Vocals – Barbara Lea.

Singer Barbara Lea often recalls her idol and friend Lee Wiley on this set of love songs. The backup is uniformly tasteful but changes from song to song with such impressive stylists as trumpeter Johnny Windhurst, baritonist Ernie Caceres, Garvin Bushell (on oboe and bassoon), Dick Cary (the arranger on piano and alto horn), guitarist Jimmy Raney and (on a beautiful version of "True Love") harpist Adele Girard making memorable appearances. Lea's straightforward and heartfelt delivery is heard at its best on such songs as "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," "Mountain Greenery," "More than You Know" and "Autumn Leaves" (which is partly taken in French). These interpretations are often touching. ~Scott Yanow

Lea in Love

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Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends - Got Swing?

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:55
Size: 157.8 MB
Styles: Bop, Swing
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[3:30] 1. My Inspiration
[3:54] 2. Warm For June
[4:24] 3. The Sleepwalkers
[4:39] 4. Halrem Speaks
[4:03] 5. Echoes Of Harlem
[3:09] 6. Clarinet Gumbo
[4:44] 7. Sweet And Lovely
[3:47] 8. Fifty Sax
[3:08] 9. Little Eddie's Song
[3:23] 10. Caravan
[3:02] 11. Tent Blues
[3:44] 12. It Don't Mean A Thing
[2:29] 13. I Didn't Know About You
[3:38] 14. Puttin' On The Ritz
[3:03] 15. Soft And Easy
[3:35] 16. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
[3:26] 17. A-La-Carney
[2:55] 18. Local Blues
[4:13] 19. Down South Camp Meeting

Dick Cary was a composer and arranger who gathered a rehearsal band in southern California, referred to as his Tuesday Night Friends. Although Cary died in 1994, this informal group lived on, continuing to explore gems from the huge stockpile of compositions and arrangements which the pianist and baritone horn player left behind. Trumpeter Dick Hamilton, who also doubles on piano and alto horn, has taken over as the leader of these sessions; the supporting cast isn't made up of recognizable stars, but musicians who have played important roles in various big bands and backing popular singers. The music covers a wide range of jazz, ranging from classic jazz and swing to cool and bop, all of which will be sure to put a smile on the listener's face. Kudos to Arbors for making a strong effort to share the music of Dick Cary with a wider audience. ~Ken Dryden

Got Swing?

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Dick Cary & His Tuesday Night Friends - Playing Dick Cary Originals

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:40
Size: 141.2 MB
Styles: Swing, Dixieland
Year: 1996/2006
Art: Front

[3:51] 1. Ding
[2:22] 2. Henry
[3:27] 3. Kreik
[5:39] 4. Bud
[4:00] 5. Fugue
[4:11] 6. Black Shadow
[3:19] 7. Fritz
[3:37] 8. Another January
[6:25] 9. Vallen's Waltz
[5:06] 10. 8th Avenue Rag
[6:20] 11. Thursday Blues
[6:25] 12. Pong
[3:38] 13. Tuxford
[3:13] 14. M And M

Given multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger Dick Cary's long career as a sideman with Louis Armstrong, Bobby Hackett, Bud Freeman, and Eddie Condon, it is interesting to learn of his more recent activities as a rehearsal band leader. Beginning in the mid-1970s and continuing through 1994, the year of his death, Cary wrote some 1500 original compositions and arranged them specifically for a select group of Los Angeles' busiest jazz studio musicians, who would in turn gather at his home every Tuesday to run through the latest scores. Each one a new reading and blowing experience, the arrangements would be checked for accuracy of notation, rehearsed to a state of perfection, and then put aside to make room for the next batch. There was seemingly no limit to Cary's productivity.

In addition to writing all of the 14 swinging originals for the several 1993 recording dates that comprise this release, Cary also plays electric piano and section trumpet, leaving the solo spots to trumpeters Betty O'Hara, Bob Summers, and Dick Forrest, trombonist Dick Hamilton, clarinetist Abe Most, and saxmen Fred Cooper, Tommy Newsom, and Terry Harrington. Besides Cary, the always kicking rhythm section includes guitarist Dave Koonse, bassist Herb Mickman, and drummers Jerry McKenzie and the late Gene Estes. For the most part, Cary's charts leave generous space for improvisation, while the through-composed sections sometimes recall the harmonic and rhythmic signatures of Beiderbecke, Ellington, and Basie. Although not an experimentalist in terms of structure, meter, or harmony, Cary did have an excellent ear for voicing and a flawless grasp of swinging time notation. ~Jack Sohmer

Playing Dick Cary Originals

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