Johnny Sparrow - Sparrow's Flight

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:55
Size: 96.0 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1990/2006
Art: Front

[3:00] 1. Boudoir Boogie
[2:57] 2. When Your Lover Has Gone
[2:21] 3. Paradise Rock
[3:00] 4. What's New
[3:10] 5. Serenade To Satchmo
[3:22] 6. Always
[2:12] 7. Indiana
[2:44] 8. Jump Steady
[2:52] 9. Sparrow's Flight No. 2
[3:21] 10. Sparrow In The Barrel
[2:45] 11. I'll See You In My Dreams
[4:18] 12. Yesterdays
[2:46] 13. Am I Blue
[3:00] 14. What's New (Previously Unreleased Take)

Johnny Sparrow's sides for the Gotham label, including six previously unreleased numbers and six previously unissued outtakes. "Sparrow's Flight" isn't here, although "Sparrow's Flight No. 2" is on hand. "Sparrow In the Barrel," which he'd originally cut for National and turned up as the B-side of his Gotham debut "When Your Lover Has Gone," features a strikingly dark solo from Sparrow. "Sparrow's Flight No. 2" soars effortlessly. "Boudoir Blues" shows Sparrow doing a distinctly '40s brand of jump blues, which comes off extremely well -- with superbly aggressive playing on his part -- but could hardly have been commercially appealing at the time. And "Serenade to Satchmo" is a loving tribute to Sparrow's ex-boss, with both flute and tenor sax solos. ~ Bruce Eder

After playing with Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton's bands in the mid-'40s, sax player Johnny Sparrow formed his own band, Johnny Sparrow and His Bows and Arrows. The group was based in Philly in the early 1950s, and signed to Gotham Records in 1952. This selection features the best of his Philly years, when the band was enhanced with a trombone, flute, baritone sax, and vibraphone.

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