Metronome All-Stars 1956
1956 studio album by Metronome All-Stars
Metronome All-Stars 1956 Metronome All-Stars , a loose amalgamation of musicians representing winners of Metronome [ 1] Count Basie and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald .[ 2] [ 3] Clef label in 1956.[ 4] [ 5]
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 6]
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "This would be the final recording by The Metronome All-Stars (a series that started in the late '30s) and the music on this LP still sounds exciting and joyful".[ 6]
Track listing
"Billie's Bounce " (Charlie Parker ) – 20:30
"April in Paris " (Vernon Duke , Yip Harburg ) – 4:43
"Every Day I Have the Blues " (Peter Chatman , William York) – 5:11
"Party Blues" (Count Basie, Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald) – 3:59
"Basie's Back in Town" (Ernie Wilkins ) – 3:16
"Lady Fair" (George Wallington) – 2:55 Recorded at Fine Sound in New York City on June 18 (tracks 1 & 6), June 25 (tracks 2–4) and June 27 (track 5), 1956
Personnel
Ella Fitzgerald (tracks 2, 3 & 4), Joe Williams (tracks 3 & 4) – vocalsCount Basie (tracks 2–5), Billy Taylor (track 1), George Wallington (track 6) – pianoWendell Culley (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Reunald Jones (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Thad Jones (tracks 1–5), Joe Newman (tracks 2–5) – trumpetEddie Bert (track 1), Henry Coker (tracks 2–5), Bill Hughes (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Benny Powell (tracks 2, 3 & 5) – tromboneMarshall Royal – alto saxophone , clarinet (tracks 2, 3 & 5)Tony Scott – clarinet (track 1)Bill Graham (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Lee Konitz (track 1) – alto saxophoneFrank Wess – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone , flute (tracks 2–5)Al Cohn (track 1), Frank Foster (tracks 2, 3 & 5), Zoot Sims (track 1) – tenor saxophoneSerge Chaloff (track 1), Charlie Fowlkes (tracks 2, 3 & 5) – baritone saxophone Teddy Charles – vibraphone (track 1)Tal Farlow (track 1), Freddie Green (tracks 2–5) – guitarEddie Jones (tracks 2–5), Charles Mingus (track 1) – bass Art Blakey (track 1), Sonny Payne (tracks 2–5) – drumsRalph Burns (tracks 2 & 3), Wild Bill Davis (track 2), Ernie Wilkins (track 5) – arranger
References
^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Artist Biography: Metronome Allstars , accessed November 20, 2015
^ Kitora, R., Count Basie Discography , accessed November 20, 2015
^ Big Band Paradise Archived November 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine , accessed November 20, 2015^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Clef Label Discography , accessed November 20, 2015
^ Clef Records Catalog: 700, JATP, 1000, 4000, 2000 series , accessed November 20, 2015^ a b Yanow, Scott. Metronome All-Stars 1956 – ReviewAllMusic . Retrieved November 20, 2015.
Members 1951–1960
Dance Session (1952–54, Clef)Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings Joe Williams ) (1955, Clef)April in Paris The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards Joe Williams ) (1956, Verve)Basie in London One O'Clock Jump Joe Williams and Ella Fitzgerald ) (1957, Verve)Count Basie at Newport E = MC² Basie Plays Hefti No Count Sarah Sarah Vaughan ) (1958, EmArcy)Breakfast Dance and Barbecue Welcome to the Club Nat King Cole ) (1959, Capitol)In Person! Tony Bennett ) (1959, Columbia)Chairman of the Board Strike Up the Band Tony Bennett ) (1959, Roulette)Basie/Eckstine Incorporated Billy Eckstine ) (1959, Roulette)Everyday I Have the Blues Joe Williams ) (1959, Roulette)The Count Basie Story I Gotta Right to Swing Sammy Davis Jr. ) (1960, Decca) 1961–1970
First Time! The Count Meets the Duke Duke Ellington ) (1961, Columbia)The Legend (1961, Roulette)Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan ) (1961, Roulette)Basie at Birdland Easin' It Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First Frank Sinatra ) (1962, Reprise)On My Way & Shoutin' Again! Li'l Ol' Groovemaker...Basie! This Time by Basie! Ella and Basie! Ella Fitzgerald ) (1963, Verve)Basie Land It Might as Well Be Swing Frank Sinatra ) (1964, Reprise)Basie Picks the Winners Our Shining Hour Sammy Davis Jr. ) (1965, Verve)Arthur Prysock and Count Basie Arthur Prysock ) (1965, Verve)Basie's Beatle Bag Broadway Basie's...Way Basie Meets Bond Hollywood...Basie's Way Sinatra at the Sands Frank Sinatra ) (1966, Reprise)Basie's Beat Half a Sixpence The Board of Directors The Mills Brothers ) (1968, Dot)The Board of Directors Annual Report The Mills Brothers ) (1968, Dot)Basie Straight Ahead Standing Ovation Afrique Basie on the Beatles Happy Tiger ) 1971–1980
Have A Nice Day Bing 'n' Basie Bing Crosby ) (1972, Daybreak)Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 The Bosses Big Joe Turner ) (1973, Pablo)Basie Big Band Fun Time I Told You So Prime Time Montreux '77 Live in Japan '78 On the Road Digital III at Montreux A Classy Pair Ella Fitzgerald ) (1979, Pablo)A Perfect Match Ella Fitzgerald ) (1979, Pablo)Kansas City Shout 1981–1990
Warm Breeze Send in the Clowns Sarah Vaughan ) (1981, Pablo)Farmer's Market Barbecue 88 Basie Street Me and You Fancy Pants Count Basie ) (1983, Pablo)Long Live the Chief (1987, Denon)Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra Diane Schuur ) (1987, GRP)The Legend, the Legacy (1990, Denon) 1991–2000
The George Benson Big Boss Band featuring The Count Basie Orchestra (1991, Warner Bros.)The Count Basie Orchestra Live at El Morocco (1992, Telarc)Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra (1993, Telarc)Live at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild: The Count Basie Orchestra (1997, Blue Jackel)At Long Last Rosemary Clooney ) (1998, Concord)Count Plays Duke (1998, MAMA)Swing Shift (1999, MAMA) 2001–present Small-group
Basie Jam For the First Time Basie & Zoot Zoot Sims ) (1975, Pablo)For the Second Time Basie Jam 2 Basie Jam 3 Kansas City 5 The Gifted Ones Dizzy Gillespie ) (1977, Pablo)Basie Jam: Montreux '77 Satch and Josh...Again Oscar Peterson ) (1977, Pablo)Night Rider Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – The Timekeepers Yessir, That's My Baby Kansas City 7 Kansas City 6 Mostly Blues...and Some Others
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As
The Brothers Stan Getz , 1949–52)Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims Tonite's Music Today Bob Brookmeyer , 1956)Whooeeee Zoot! Locking Horns Joe Newman , 1957)Stretching Out Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note Phil Woods , 1959)Down Home Two Jims and Zoot Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964)Inter-Action Sonny Stitt , 1965)Waiting Game The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World Nirvana Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974)Basie & Zoot Count Basie , 1975)The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975)Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975)Soprano Sax Hawthorne Nights If I'm Lucky Jimmy Rowles , 1977)For Lady Day Warm Tenor Jimmy Rowles , 1979)The Sweetest Sounds Rune Gustafsson , 1979)Just Friends Harry Edison , 1980)Art 'n' Zoot Art Pepper , 1981) RecordingsAl Cohn
From A to...Z The Sax Section Tenor Conclave Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957)The Four Brothers... Together Again! Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957)Al and Zoot Blues and Haikus Jack Kerouac , 1959)SteveIreneo! Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959)Son of Drum Suite You 'n' Me Either Way Jazz Mission to Moscow Body and Soul Motoring Along WithQuincy WithGerry With
Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus Encounter! Pepper Adams , 1968)Trigger Happy! East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956)Chet Baker & Strings Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe The Bosses "Big Joe" Turner , 1973)Louis Bellson Quintet The Genius of Ray Charles Jazz Is Universal Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961)Chris Connor The Book Cooks Booker Ervin , 1960)Loose Blues Bill Evans , 1962)The Aztec Suite Art Farmer , 1959)South American Cookin' Curtis Fuller , 1961)Creole Cookin' Bobby Hackett , 1967)The Hawk in Hi Fi Coleman Hawkins , 1956)Portraits on Standards Stan Kenton , 1953)The Kenton Era The Manhattan Transfer Profiles Gary McFarland , 1966)Something to Swing About Carmen McRae , 1959)Ms. Jazz Metronome All-Stars 1956 The Complete Town Hall Concert Charles Mingus , 1962)Arranged by Montrose Jack Montrose , 1954)Encyclopedia of Jazz Oliver Nelson , 1966)The Sound of Feeling Jazzhattan Suite All the Sad Young Men Anita O'Day , 1962)Transition Lionel Hampton , 1974)Shorty Rogers Courts the Count Samba Para Dos Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)Moonlight in Vermont Johnny Smith , 1952)Phoebe Snow Broadway Soul Sonny Stitt , 1965)Vaughan and Violins Sarah Vaughan , 1958)The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More The Jazz Guitarist At Newport '63 Joe Williams , 1963)
