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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Eddie Jefferson |
| Record Label: |
Evidence |
| Genre: |
Jazz Vocal |
| Subgenre: |
Bop Vocals |
| Release Date: |
October 20, 1993 |
| Album Duration: |
53m:42s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. So What
2. Moody's Mood For Love
3. Sister Sadie
4. Lester's Trip to the Moon (Paper Moon)
5. T.D.'s Boogie Woogie
6. Now's the Time
7. Body and Soul
8. Workshop
9. Sherry
10. Baby Girl (These Foolish Things)
11. Memphis
12. Honeysuckle Rose
13. Crazy Romance, A (The Preacher)
14. Night Train
15. Njr (I'm Gone)
16. I've Got the Blues (Lester Leaps in)
17. Silly Little Cynthia
18. Red's New Dream |
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Personnel includes: Eddie Jefferson (vocals), Sahib Shihab (alto saxophone), James Moody (tenor saxophone), Musa Kaleem (tenor & baritone saxophones), Bill Graham (baritone saxophone), Howard McGee, Johnny Coles, Frank Galbreath, John McFarland (trumpet), Tom Mcintosh, Matthew Gee (trombone), Louisiana Red (guitar), Tommy Tucker, Gene Kee, Johnny Acea (piano), John Latham, Peck Morrison (bass), Clarence Johnson, Osie Johnson (drums), Babs Gonzales, Ned Gravely, Honi Gordon (background vocals). Reissue producer: Jerry Gordon. Recorded in New York between 1959 and 1965. Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather. Before Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and long before the Manhattan Transfer, there was Eddie Jefferson, a pioneer of vocalese--the practice of putting words to melodies based on instrumentalists' recorded jazz solos. THE JAZZ SINGER, reissued here by Evidence, is a classic slice of Jefferson's art, including some of his most memorable interpretations. Among them are his renditions of Miles Davis's "So... |
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