Stan Hasselgard & Benny Goodman - At Click

Styles: Clarinet Jazz
Year: 1948
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:16
Size: 177,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:12)  1. Cookin One Up
(3:43)  2. Swedish Pastry
(2:49)  3. All The Things You Are
(4:20)  4. Mary's Idea
(3:37)  5. Swedish Pastry
(2:48)  6. After You've Gone
(3:54)  7. Bye Bye Pretty Baby
(4:22)  8. Mary's Idea
(5:45)  9. Mel's Idea
(3:54) 10. Bye Bye Pretty Baby
(5:35) 11. Mel's Idea
(2:00) 12. Indiana
(4:10) 13. Bye Bye Blues
(4:47) 14. Limehouse Blues
(2:25) 15. Donna Lee
(3:47) 16. Bye Bye Blues
(4:17) 17. Mel's Idea
(2:21) 18. Donna Lee
(4:25) 19. Swedish Pastry
(4:03) 20. Lullaby in Rhythm

Were it not for his tragic death in a car accident late in 1948, Stan Hasselgard might be remembered as one of jazz's top clarinetists. He had impressed Benny Goodman to the point that Goodman used him as part of his septet for a few weeks in 1948. Although no commercial recordings resulted due to a recording strike, the group (which also featured tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray and pianist Teddy Wilson) was broadcast regularly from the Click in Philadelphia.

Virtually all of the existing joint Goodman-Hasselgård airchecks are included on this Dragon CD, which adds a few more performances to the original program of the LP of the same name. The boppish music is often fascinating and Benny Goodman ("The King of Swing") fits quite well into the advanced arrangements. The recording quality is generally decent and, due to the historic nature of these timeless (and rather unique) performances, very acceptable. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-click-1948-mw0000614514

Personnel: Stan Hasselgård (clarinet); Billy Bauer (guitar); Benny Goodman (clarinet); Teddy Wilson (piano); Mel Zelnick (drums).

At Click

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Stan Hasselgard - California Sessions

Styles: Vocal And Clarinet Jazz

Year: 2010

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 76:46

Size: 176,8 MB

Art: Front

(2:53)  1. Gotta Have More Money

(3:13)  2. Hortense

(2:35)  3. Flying Foam

(2:34)  4. Gone After You

(3:02)  5. Swedish Pastry

(2:46)  6. Sweet And Hop Mop

(2:51)  7. Who Sleeps

(2:58)  8. I'll Never Be The Same

(4:26)  9. Indiana

(2:42) 10. Swedish Pastry

(1:07) 11. Greetings To Sweden

(0:55) 12. One O'clock Jump

(4:14) 13. C Jam Blues

(2:33) 14. I Never Loved Anyone

(3:37) 15. What Is This Thing Called Love

(6:16) 16. Jam Session At Jubilee

(1:35) 17. Who's Sorry Now

(1:30) 18. One O'clock Jump

(5:11) 19. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

(3:07) 20. Jelly

(5:42) 21. Blues For Billy

(4:54) 22. Just You, Just Me

(2:40) 23. Sweet And Hot Mop

(3:14) 24. I'll Never Be The Same

Greatly influenced by Benny Goodman, Stan Hasselgård was an ill-fated Swedish clarinetist who focused on swing in the late '30s and '40s, but started exploring bebop toward the end of his life. In fact, he was among the first musicians to play bop on the clarinet. The jazzman was born Ake Hasselgård in Sundsvall, Sweden, but grew up in the small town of Bollnas. Hasselgård was given a clarinet for his 16th birthday. At 19, while he was attending the University of Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden, he joined a small group called the Royal Swingers. Hasselgård joined bassist Arthur Osterwall's quintet in 1945, which was also the year in which he helped form a new Royal Swingers lineup. By the mid-'40s, the clarinetist had become well-known in Swedish jazz circles, and 1946-1947 found him being featured prominently on recordings by the Swingers, as well as the sextet of bassist Simon Brehm.

By July 1947, Hasselgård was living in New York, where he sat in with Jack Teagarden at the Famous Door on the legendary 52nd Street not long after his arrival. Then in 1948, Hasselgård got a chance to play and record with his idol, Benny Goodman, who employed the Swede in a two-clarinet septet that also included Mary Lou Williams and Wardell Gray. It was also in 1948 that Hasselgård employed American musicians on some small-group recordings of his own and headlined the 52nd Street club called the Three Deuces, where he had a quintet that boasted Max Roach on drums. On the opening night of his Deuces engagement in October 1948, he was billed as "the Bebop King of Sweden" and found that none other than Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were in the audience. Hasselgård's last recording sessions came on November 18, 1948. Four days later, on November 22, he was killed in an auto accident in Decatur, IL, at the age of 26. ~ Alex Henderson http://www.allmusic.com/artist/stan-hasselg%C3%A5rd-mn0000743950/biography

Personnel: Stan Hasselgard - clarinet & vocal #1;  Johnny White - vibraphone & piano;  Red Norvo - Vibraphone;   Arnold Ross, Jimmie Rowles Dodo Marmarosa - piano;   Wardell Gray - tenor sax;  Guy Scalisi, Barney Kessel, Al Hendrickson - guitar;   Rollo Garberg, Harry Babasin, Billy Hadnott - bass; Frank Bode, Jackie Mills, Don Lamond - drums; Frances Wayne & Billy Eckstine - vocal.

California Sessions

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