Bob Dorough - Devil May Care

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1956
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:06
Size: 110,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:19)  1. Old Devil Moon
(2:55)  2. It Could Happen To You
(2:40)  3. I Had The Craziest Dream
(4:20)  4. You're The Dangerous Type
(4:07)  5. Owl
(3:25)  6. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
(4:56)  7. Yardbird Suite
(3:00)  8. Baltimore Oriole
(2:55)  9. I Don't Mind
(2:52) 10. Devil May Care
(4:02) 11. Midnight Sun
(3:16) 12. Johnny One Note
(5:14) 13. Yardbird Suite (alt. take)

Vocalist-pianist-lyricist Bob Dorough's first record as a leader is a pretty definitive set . Assisted by his longtime bassist Bill Takas, drummer Jerry Segal and sometimes trumpeter Warren Fitzgerald and vibraphonist Jack Hitchcock, Dorough performs near-classic renditions of such songs as "Old Devil Moon," "Yardbird Suite," "Baltimore Oriole," "Devil May Care" and "Johnny One Note." Recommended. [Originally released in 1956, Devil May Care was reissued on CD on 2005 and contains bonus tracks.] ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/devil-may-care-mw0000192982

Personnel: Bob Dorough (vocals, piano); Warren Fitzgerald (trumpet); Jack Hitchcock (vibraphone); Bill Takus (bass); Jerry Segal (drums).

Devil May Care

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Hal Stein, Warren Fitzgerald - Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:27
Size: 179.6 MB
Styles: Bop, Modern Creative
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:30] 1. Bee Dee's Blues
[5:33] 2. Zounds
[4:45] 3. Have You Heard (The Latest Blues In Town)
[7:08] 4. Medley You Go To My Head
[4:59] 5. The Sarong Is New
[6:23] 6. Nan De Mo Nai
[5:22] 7. Choice Derby
[7:45] 8. This Love Of Mine
[5:16] 9. Do You Really Care
[4:59] 10. Twonky
[5:23] 11. Fitz' Tune
[5:47] 12. Cattin'
[5:44] 13. Just Friends
[4:47] 14. Bee Dee's Blues (Alternate Take)

Warren Fitzgerald (tp), Hal Stein (as, ts), Bob Dorough (p), Al Cotton (b), Paul Motian (d) Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, July 19 (#1-7 & 14), 20 (#8-12), and August 31 (#13), 1955.

When he made his recording debut in 1955 - with an album that was destined to become a cult classic in Japan - Hal Stein was a 27-year-old alto and tenor saxophonist with a solid, big band background. Both he and his co-leader, trumpet player Warren Fitzgerald, another young musician, had just signed for the recently reactivated jazz label, Progressive Records, under the control of Joe Maggio, with Gus Grant in charge of a&r and as session supervisor.

The album revealed Stein as a competent, vigorous soloist, a Bird-molded altoist and a hard-school tenor out of Byas-Hawkins school, and Fitzgerald as a percussive trumpeter with a sharp-toned, rough-edged conception, though not a markedly individual soloist. But the most impressive contributors to the session were also to become the most widely known. Pianist Bob Dorough,later also celebrated as a singer and composer, delivered fluent, inventive solos and offered fine support in a rhythm section notable for the presence of the soon-to-be great and influential drummer, Paul Motian, with Al Cotton on bass.

Stein was to amass an impressive CV during his career, working with players as disparate and notable as Artie Shaw, Charles Mingus, Claude Thornhill and Phil Woods, and remained active until his death on April 28, 2008 in his home in Oakland, California, at the age of 79.

Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet

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