Complete Hidden Treasure Sessions

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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
The Complete Hidden Treasure Sessions of Cladys "Jabbo" Smith were reintroduced on the digital format by Lone Hill Jazz in 2008. The source material was a small stash of rehearsal tapes recorded informally in an empty auditorium at the University of Illinois in June and October, 1961 by a group put together by guitarist Marty Grosz that included clarinetist Frank Chace. After languishing in the private collection of producer John Steiner for 22 years, the recordings were made available to the public by Lorraine Gordon (wife of Village Vanguard proprietor Max Gordon) as "Hidden Treasure" on the Jazz Art Productions record label. Prior to this, Jabbo Smith's main body of ...
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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
The Complete Hidden Treasure Sessions of Cladys "Jabbo" Smith were reintroduced on the digital format by Lone Hill Jazz in 2008. The source material was a small stash of rehearsal tapes recorded informally in an empty auditorium at the University of Illinois in June and October, 1961 by a group put together by guitarist Marty Grosz that included clarinetist Frank Chace. After languishing in the private collection of producer John Steiner for 22 years, the recordings were made available to the public by Lorraine Gordon (wife of Village Vanguard proprietor Max Gordon) as "Hidden Treasure" on the Jazz Art Productions record label. Prior to this, Jabbo Smith's main body of recorded work consisted of 19 exceptionally solid sides cut in 1929 with a protean little group billed as his Rhythm Aces. Other great moments were captured on record when he sat in with Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and Claude Hopkins, but his career faltered during the Great Depression when he resisted any kind of managerial influence and insisted upon basing himself in Milwaukee while many of his fellow jazz musicians either hunkered down in Chicago or gravitated to New York City. As good as he was in his prime, this trumpeter's career unraveled steadily over the years, so much so that by the late '50s he was mainly working for the Avis automobile rental agency, and had given up blowing the horn entirely after his teeth went to hell. Amazingly, Smith sounded great when he popped up at a traditional jazz workshop led by Grosz, whose remarkable fortitude and buoyancy resulted in numerous collaborations with pianists Dick Wellstood and Ralph Sutton. Like an exercise in cinema veritè, everything is included here. There are multiple takes, often incomplete, including four passes at "These Foolish Things" and three at "Rosetta." Only snobs and fussbudgets could object to the way this feisty veteran sounded at these sessions; he expresses himself wonderfully and Lorraine Gordon's use of the phrase "Hidden Treasure" seems entirely appropriate. Yet Smith would not enjoy anything resembling a real comeback until the late '70s and early '80s, when as an increasingly frail old man he enjoyed belated popularity on the East Coast and in Europe, even collaborating with creative modern trumpeter and multi-instrumental world music scholar Don Cherry. When considered in that light, Jabbo's brief emergence from obscurity and inactivity in 1961 seems like a heartwarming sequel to past glories laced with premonitions of later developments.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 11/25/2008
  • Label: Lonehill Jazz Spain
  • EAN: 8436019583524
  • Catalog Number: 10352
  • Sales rank: 171,705

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Jabbo Smith Primary Artist
Marty Grosz Bass, Guitar
Whitey Mitchell Drums
John Dengler Bass Saxophone
Bob Saltmarsh Drums
Art Gronwall Piano
Technical Credits
Earl Hines Composer
Claude Hopkins Composer
Fats Waller Composer
Jimmy McHugh Composer
Andy Razaf Composer
Clark Terry Author
Chester Cohn Composer
Walter Donaldson Composer
Dorothy Fields Composer
Alexander Hill Composer
Gus Kahn Composer
Benny Krueger Composer
Eddie Miller Composer
Billy Moll Composer
Gunther Schuller Liner Notes
Jule Styne Composer
Clarence Williams Composer
Spencer Williams Composer
Bernie Hanighen Composer
Bobby Williams Composer
Whitney Balliett Liner Notes
Maceo Pinkard Composer
Kenneth Casey Composer
Jack Strachey Composer
Clarence Gaskill Composer
Murray Mencher Composer
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