Storyville Masters of Jazz

by Clark Terry

Overview

Founded in the early 1950s in Denmark by Karl Emil Knudsen, Storyville Records developed into Europe's prestige jazz and blues label, building an impressive catalog through licensing of vintage sides and arranging recording sessions with American jazz and blues artists who were on tour in Europe. Although this Storyville set by trumpeter Clark Terry has a nice flow to it, it is somewhat of a miscellaneous affair, consisting of three tracks recorded at a 1959 Paris session with fellow Duke Ellington Orchestra alums Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Woode, and Sam Woodyard, two tracks recorded at a club in Copenhagen in 1975 with Ernie Wilkins and Horace Parlan, and tracks from a gig in Atlanta, GA from 1981. Always a versatile player, Terry's ability to play bop while still retaining some swing sensibility is on display here, and the whole sequence feels more unified than it probably has a right to be, given the gaps between recording dates. Highlights include Terry's own "Serenade to a Bus Seat," a version of Thelonious Monk's "Pannonica" from the Paris session, and the ambitious take on Miles Davis' "The Theme" that closes things out. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	07/11/2006
Label:	Storyville
UPC:	0717101850525
Rank:	151624

Tracks

1. Serenade to a Bus Seat
2. Pea-Eyes
3. Pannonica
4. Daniel's Blues
5. Ow
6. Just an Old Manuscript
7. Mack the Knife
8. Take the 'A' Train
9. Straight No Chaser
10. God Bless the Child
11. Did You Call Her Today
12. The Theme

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Clark Terry   Primary Artist,Trumpet
Johnny O'Neal   Piano
Jimmy Woode   Bass
Ernie Wilkins   Sax (Tenor)
Mads Vinding   Bass
Sam Woodyard   Drums
Jesper Thilo   Sax (Tenor)
Raymond Fol   Piano
Horace Parlan   Piano
Svend-Erik Norregaard   Drums
James Martin   Drums
Bjarne Rostvold   Drums
Jesper Lundgaard   Bass
Dewey Sampson   Bass

Technical Credits

Don Redman   Composer
Jan Persson   Photography
Pearce Marchbank   Design
Chris Albertson   Liner Notes
Clark Terry   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Billy Strayhorn   Composer
Miles Davis   Composer
Thelonious Monk   Composer
Hans Nielsen   Engineer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Anders Stefansen   Producer
Ben Webster   Composer