Joe Newman - The Complete Swingville Sessions / 2CD set

2011 CD collection.

These Joe Newman Swingville sessions, an object lesson in relaxed and intelligent blowing, are among the happiest recorded by the trumpeter. All the elements fit compatible musicians, familiar material, congenial atmosphere dovetailed into a deceptively simple and always swinging whole.

The potential of a two-horn front line has rarely been exploited as brilliantly as it is here by Newman with Wess or Foster. The three Basie-ites are in top form, playing with more imagination and vitality than in most similar dates. Tommy Flanagan, present in all tracks, is a constant delight, sensitive, forceful when necessary, always sympathetic to the soloist, an essential part of the ideal rhythm sections employed. And the quartet session is a model of complete relaxation and how to assimilate individual expression into a collective whole in itself an ideal summation of what Joe Newman achieved on these dates.

CD 1
01. Taps Miller (Basie-Russell) 8:18
02. Jive at Five (Edison-Basie) 5:35
03. Wednesdays Blues (Newman) 9:05
04. More Than You Know (Youmans-Rose-Eliscu) 3:59
05. Dont Worry Bout Me (Bloom-Koehler) 4:39
06. Cuein the Blues (Newman) 4:33
07. A.M. Romp (Newman) 6:51
08. Loop-D-Loop (Newman) 6:50
09. Lil Darlin (Hefti) 5:42

CD2
01. To Rigmor (Newman) 5:10
02. Mo-Lasses (Newman) 6:26
03. Just Squeeze Me (Gaines-Ellington) 7:01
04. Oh Gee (Gee) 4:11
05. Dacquiri (Newman) 5:00
06. The Very Thought of You (Noble) 6:38
07. Strike Up the Band (G.& I. Gershwin) 3:01
08. The Continental (Magidson-Conrad) 3:20
09. Blues for Slim (Newman) 6:40
10. For You (Dublin-Burke) 8:11