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Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944

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Released
  
1995

Release date
  
1995

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
71:24

Label
  
Chronological Classics

Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb2

Recorded
  
May 7, 1941 April 1, 1942 January 4 & 6, 1944 August 22, 1944

Artists
  
Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams and His Orchestra

Jazz albums
  
Bud! The Amazing Bud Pow, The Scene Changes: The Ama, The Giants of Jazz, Criss‑Cross, Bud Powell Trio

Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 is a compilation album of recordings from 1941, 1942 and 1944 that jazz trumpeter Cootie Williams made with his orchestra and in smaller groups, released on Classics in 1995. The 1942–44 musicians' strike explains the lack of sessions from 1943.

Contents

History

Two firsts about this record concerning Thelonious Monk: one, the April 1, 1942 Chicago session is the first recording of "Epistrophy" (called "Fly Right" here) which Monk wrote with Kenny Clarke earlier the same year; and two, the August 22, 1944 session is the first recording of Monk's "'Round Midnight". Cootie Williams is often given a co-credit on both songs.

The January 4, 1944 session marks the recording debut of Bud Powell, aged 20 (Williams was his legal guardian at the time), while the January 6, 1944 session features two of Pearl Bailey's earliest recordings.

Track listing

All songs were written by Cootie Williams, except where noted.

  1. "West End Blues" (King Oliver, Clarence Williams) – 3:08
  2. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats Waller, Henry Brooks, Andy Razaf) – 2:38
  3. "Blues in My Condition" – 2:52
  4. "G-Men" – 2:41
  5. "Sleepy Valley" (unknown) – 2:54
  6. "Marcheta" (Victor Schertzinger) – 3:02
  7. "When My Baby Left Me" (Eddie Vinson, Williams) – 2:38
  8. "Fly Right" (aka "Epistrophy") (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 2:30
  9. "You Talk a Little Trash" – 2:59
  10. "Floogie Boo" (Vinson, Williams) – 2:36
  11. "I Don't Know" (Vinson, Williams) – 3:14
  12. "Do Some War Work, Baby" (aka "Gotta Do Some War Work") – 3:06
  13. "My Old Flame" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) – 3:16
  14. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:06
  15. "Echoes of Harlem" (Duke Ellington) – 3:05
  16. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Waller, Razaf) – 3:06
  17. "Now I Know" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:02
  18. "Tess's Torch Song" (aka "I Had a Man") (Arlen, Koehler) – 2:33
  19. "Cherry Red Blues" (Bob Haggart) – 3:08
  20. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 3:16
  21. "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?" (Louis Jordan, Billy Austin) – 2:46
  22. "Somebody's Gotta Go" (Haggart) – 3:19
  23. "'Round Midnight" (Monk) – 3:18
  24. "Blue Garden Blues" (aka "Royal Garden Blues") (Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams) – 3:13

Performance

May 7, 1941, New York. Tracks 1-4.

  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Lou McGarity – trombone
  • Les Robinson – alto sax
  • Skippy Martin – baritone sax
  • John Guarnieri – piano
  • Artie Bernstein – bass
  • Jo Jones – drums

    • April 1, 1942, Chicago. Tracks 5-8.

  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Milton Fraser – trumpet
  • Joe Guy – trumpet
  • Louis Bacon – trumpet, vocals (track 6)
  • Jonas Walker – trombone
  • Robert Horton – trombone
  • Sandy Williams – trombone
  • Charlie Holmes – alto sax
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – alto sax, vocals (track 7)
  • Bob Dorsey – tenor sax
  • Greely Walton – tenor sax
  • John Williams – baritone sax
  • Kenny Kersey – piano
  • Norman Keenan – bass
  • George "Butch" Ballard – drums

    • January 4, 1944, New York. Tracks 9-12. January 6, 1944, New York. Tracks 13-16.

  • Cootie Williams – trumpet, vocals (track 12)
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – alto sax
  • Eddie "Jockjaw" Davis – tenor sax
  • Bud Powell – piano
  • Norman Keenan – bass
  • Sylvester "Vess" Payne – drums

    • January 6, 1944, New York. Tracks 17-20.

  • Pearl Bailey – vocals (tracks 17-18)
  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Ermit V. Perry – trumpet
  • George Treadwell – trumpet
  • Harold "Money" Johnson – trumpet
  • Ed Burke – trombone
  • George Stevenson – trombone
  • Robert Horton – trombone
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – alto sax, vocals (tracks 19-20)
  • Charlie Holmes – alto sax
  • Eddie "Jockjaw" Davis – tenor sax
  • Lee Pope – tenor sax
  • Eddie de Verteuil – baritone sax
  • Bud Powell – piano
  • Norman Keenan – bass
  • Sylvester "Vess" Payne – drums

    • August 22, 1944, New York. Tracks 21-24.

  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Ermit V. Perry – trumpet
  • George Treadwell – trumpet
  • Lammar Wright – trumpet
  • Tommy Stevenson – trumpet
  • Ed Burke – trombone
  • Ed Glover – trombone
  • Robert Horton – trombone
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – alto sax, vocals (tracks 21-22)
  • Frank Powell – alto sax
  • Sam "The Man" Taylor – tenor sax
  • Lee Pope – tenor sax
  • Eddie de Verteuil – baritone sax
  • Bud Powell – piano
  • Leroy Kirkland – guitar
  • Carl Pruitt – bass
  • Sylvester "Vess" Payne – drums

    • Production

  • Anatol Schenker – liner notes

    • Songs

    1West End Blues3:12
    2Ain't Misbehavin'2:42
    3Blues in My Condition2:56

    References

    Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 Wikipedia
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