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Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
Teddy Wilson: Solo / Big Band
by David Rickert
Teddy WilsonSolo / Big BandStoryville Records2010 Teddy Wilson will always be primarily known for his work with the Benny Goodman band and the reliable piano accompaniment he provided for it on many classic records. After the big band era, although he teamed up with Goodman again from ...
Quest: Searching for the New Sound of Be-Bop
by John Kelman
QuestSearching for the New Sound of Be-BopStoryville Records2010 There are groups that become legends in their own time and others that only gain momentum after that time has come and gone. Quest was by no means unsuccessful during its ten-year run beginning with its self-titled, Japan-only, 1981 debut, ...
Papa Bue: 80 at 80
by Chris Mosey
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was an age of duffle coats, beards, sandals and sunglasses. It was the age of Trad. It was how European youth discovered jazz. Britain had Chris Barber, Ken Colyer and, a little further down the line--by which time newspaper headlines were referring to ...
Lester Young: 100 Years - Forever Young
by Chris Mosey
In October 1944, Lester Young, one of the most influential saxophonists in jazz, was inducted into the US army. In the 15 months that followed he was subjected to blatant racial prejudice then court martialed for possession of marijuana and alcohol and sentenced to a year in a detention barracks. He returned to civilian life severely ...
Stuff Smith: Five Fine Violins Celebrating 100 Years
by Chris Mosey
Featured here in his twilight years, violinist Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff" Smith was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1909. Before he died in Denmark in 1967, he became one of the jazz world's most colorful characters, performing on occasion with a parrot on his shoulder and playing with everyone from Alphonso Trent's minstrel band to Dizzy ...
Two Not One
By Warne Marsh
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1: Background Music; You Don't Know What Love Is; April; Kary's Trance; Subconscious Lee; Back Home; Blues By Lester; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; Lennie Bird. CD2: Just Friends; Little Willie Leaps; Old Folks; Au Privave; Wow; Kary's Trance; Foolin' Myself; Sound-Lee; Chi-Chi; Two Part Invention No.1, Allegro; Two Not One; Darn That Dream. CD3: 317 East 32nd Street; Two Part Invention No.13, Allegro Tranquillo; April; Everything Happens To Me; Blues In G Flat; After You've Gone; The Song Is You; Lennie Bird; It's You Or No One; God Bless The Child; The Way You Look Tonight; Without A Song; Be My Love. CD4: You Don't Know What Love Is; Lennie Bird; Confirmation; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Without A Song; Just One Of Those Things; All The Things You Are; I Should Care; The More I See You; When You're Smiling; Taking A Chance On Love; Little Willie Leaps; Everytime We Say Goodbye; I Want To Be Happy.
Ben Webster: The Brute & The Beautiful
By Ben Webster
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: In A Mellotone; In A Mellotone; Blues in Bb; Cottontail; Nasty Attitude; Dancing On the Ceiling; Indiana; The Man I Love; Sometimes I'm Happy; Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Sweet Georgia Brown; Better Go; The Theme.
Stardust; My Romance; Over the Rainbow; Old Folks; Come Sunday; Bye Bye Blackbird; Tenderly; Embraceable You; Ad Lib Blues; Sophisticated Lady; Danny Boy; Goin' Home; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; The Theme.
In Copenhagen
By Ralph Sutton
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Thou Swell; You're Driving Me Crazy; You Can Depend On Me; At Sundown; Undecided; In The Dark; Jeepers Creepers; Gone With The Wind; I Want To Be Happy; If I Could Be With You; St. Louis Blues; Worrying The Life Out Of Me; Old Fashioned Love; Everybody Loves My Baby; Blue Room; Shine; Running Wild; Exactly Like You.
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