George Wettling - Jazz Trios

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop
Year: 1956/2000
File: MP3@128K/s
Time: 38:15
Size: 37,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:59) 1. Rose Room
(2:27) 2. Louise
(3:41) 3. Soon
(2:18) 4. Save It Pretty Mama
(3:51) 5. Old Folks
(3:17) 6. Pennies From Heaven
(3:24) 7. Please Be Kind
(2:53) 8. I Would Do Anything For You
(2:50) 9. The Lady's In Love With Me
(2:43) 10. Shine
(3:55) 11. I'm In The Market For You
(3:51) 12. Bye And Bye

George Wettling (November 28, 1907 - June 6, 1968) was an American jazz drummer.

He was one of the young white Chicagoans who fell in love with jazz as a result of hearing King Oliver's band (with Louis Armstrong on second cornet) at the Lincoln Gardens in Chicago in the early 1920s. Oliver's drummer, Baby Dodds, made a particular and lasting impression upon Wettling.

Wettling went on to work with the big bands of Artie Shaw, Bunny Berigan, Red Norvo, Paul Whiteman, and even Harpo Marx: but he was at his best (and will be best remembered) for his work in small 'hot' bands led by Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, and himself. In these small bands, Wettling was able to demonstrate the arts of dynamics and responding to a particular soloist that he had learned from Baby Dodds.

Towards the end of his life, Wettling (like his friend the clarinetist Pee Wee Russell) took up painting, and was much influenced by the American cubist Stuart Davis. He has been quoted as remarking that "jazz drumming and abstract painting seemed different from him only from the point of view of craftsmanship: in both fields he felt rhythm to be decisive".

However, good as Wettling's painting was he will be best remembered for his rattling, cavernous sound at the drums -especially with Eddie Condon's bands. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/george-wettling

Personnel: Drums – George Wettling; Clarinet – Pee Wee Russell; Cornet – "Wild Bill" Funaro; Piano – Gene Schroeder; Trombone – Lou McGarity; trumpet - Wild Bill Davison

Jazz Trios

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Billy Butterfield - Soft Strut

Styles: Trumpet Jazz 
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:20
Size: 83,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:23)  1. Ti-Pi-Tin
(3:16)  2. Soft Strut
(2:13)  3. Says My Heart
(6:15)  4. I've Got The World On String
(5:49)  5. I'm An Old Cowhand
(3:29)  6. All Right, Be That Way
(2:47)  7. I Would Do Anything For You
(3:11)  8. He's A Devil In Own Home Town
(2:53)  9. Somewhere Along The Way

A versatile pre-bop trumpeter with a beautiful tone, Billy Butterfield could play pretty ballads and heated Dixieland with equal skill. After early experience in the mid-'30s with the bands of Austin Wylie and Andy Anderson, Butterfield became famous while playing with Bob Crosby's Orchestra (1937-1940), taking the main solo on the original version of "What's New," and making numerous records with both the big band and the Bobcats. In 1940, he was with Artie Shaw, participating in the famed Gramercy Five sessions and taking a classic solo on Shaw's rendition of "Star Dust"; in addition, Butterfield can be seen and heard playing "Concerto for Clarinet" with Shaw in the film Second Chorus. After stints with Benny Goodman (1941) and Les Brown, Butterfield spent time in the military, and then led a lyrical (but commercially unsuccessful) big band (1945-1947). He worked mostly in the studios during the 1950s and '60s, occasionally emerging for Dixieland dates with Eddie Condon, and was a key member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1972). In later years, he continued popping up in Dixieland settings both for records and concerts. ~ Scott Yanow https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soft-strut/396023346

Personnel:  Billy Butterfield (trumpet); Hal McKusick (alto saxophone); Lou McGarity (trombone); Milt Hinton (bass).

Soft Strut

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Lou McGarity - No Limits

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:42
Size: 145.8 MB
Styles: Dixieland
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[2:27] 1. Blue Turning Grey Over You
[3:26] 2. Stairway To The Stars
[2:35] 3. Blue Moon
[2:39] 4. Runnin' Wild
[2:34] 5. Blue Prelude
[2:18] 6. By The Beautiful Sea
[2:56] 7. Some Like It Hot
[3:11] 8. Down Among The Sheltering Palms
[3:54] 9. Born To Be Blue
[1:46] 10. Sweet Sue, Just You
[2:05] 11. Blue (And Brokenhearted)
[1:41] 12. La Cumparsita
[2:54] 13. Blue Champagne
[2:34] 14. Sweet Georgia Brown
[2:07] 15. I Got The Blues When It Rains
[3:45] 16. Blue Again
[1:52] 17. I Wanna Be Loved By You
[2:43] 18. Sugar Blues
[2:33] 19. Blue Skies
[3:54] 20. I'm Thru With Love
[2:50] 21. Blue Lou
[2:28] 22. Under A Blanket Of Blue
[0:57] 23. Some Like It Hotter
[3:20] 24. Black And Blue

A very talented trombone soloist influenced by Jack Teagarden but possessing his own brassier sound, Lou McGarity was a strong asset to many bands and jam sessions. He started out playing violin when he was seven, not switching to trombone until he was 17. McGarity studied at the University of Georgia from 1934-36, gigged locally in the South (including with Kirk DeVore and Nye Mayhew), and toured with Ben Bernie from 1938-40 before hitting the big time with Benny Goodman from 1940-42. McGarity not only played with Benny Goodman's big band but with his smaller groups -- the first trombonist to do so. McGarity, who through the years often teamed up with his friend and fellow trombonist Cutty Cutshall (including with Goodman), worked with Raymond Scott's Orchestra at CBS from 1942-44, spent time in the military and then rejoined Benny Goodman for a time in 1946. Starting in 1947, he worked as a busy studio musician in New York, often appearing nightly with Dixieland-oriented musicians, including the Lawson/Haggart band, and with the many groups of Eddie Condon. He worked with Bob Crosby in the mid-'60s and was a key member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band from 1968-70 before bad health shortened his life. McGarity recorded as a leader for MGM (four selections in 1955), Jubilee in 1959, Argo in 1959 and Fat Cat's Jazz in 1970. ~bio by Scott Yanow

No Limits

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