Nachdem Hip-O-Select vor einiger Zeit schon die Master Takes von Clifford Browns eigenen Sessions und jenen mit Max Roach in einer 4CD-Box vorgelegt hat, gibt’s seit ein paar Monaten auch Vol. 2 mit den Sessions, die er mit Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan und Helen Merrill eingespielt hat:
Clifford Brown
The EmArcy Master Takes Vol. 2Price: $59.92
SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 9/21/2012
SITE SHIP DATE: 10/9/2012
LIMITED EDITION QUANTITY: 5000 CopiesDisc One – Dinah Washington
1. Introduction by Bob Shad
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
4. No More
5. Move
6. Darn That Dream
7. You Go To My HeadDisc Two – More Dinah Washington
1. Medley I
2. Lover Come Back To Me
3. Medley II
4. Crazy He Calls Me
5. There Is No Greater Love
6. I’ll Remember AprilDisc Three – Sarah Vaughan & Helen Merrill
1. Lullaby Of Birdland
2. April In Paris
3. He’s My Guy
4. Jim
5. You’re Not The Kind
6. Embraceable You
7. I’m Glad There Is You
8. September Song
9. It’s Crazy
10. Don’t Explain
11. You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
12. What’s New
13. Falling In Love With Love
14. Yesterdays
15. Born To Be Blue
16. ’S WonderfulLegendary trumpeter Clifford Brown was not only a master bandleader, soloist and composer, he was a supremely sensitive sideman – a welcome addition to any jazz session. The newly released 3-CD set, The Singers Sessions: The EmArcy Master Takes Vol. 2,collects the EmArcy label recordings in which “Brownie” is featured behind three of the greatest singers of his era: in an ensemble behind Dinah Washington during an informal, live-in the-studio jam session; a carefully arranged date with the incomparable Sarah Vaughan; and the stunning debut recording by Helen Merrill. All of the material, recorded in 1954-1955, previously issued across several compact disc projects in the past three decades – with the Dinah albums now out of print for years – has been newly remastered from the original master tapes.
The Dinah Washington recordings, some with vocals and others spotlighting the band that also included Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry and Junior Mance, were originally issued on two separate 12-inch LPs; in the 1980s some unreleased tracks were discovered and issued on a massive “complete” Washington box set, then included on a Clifford Brown box set a few years later. This is now the first time in years the tracks are available in full.
Sarah Vaughan’s self-titled album, her first in the then-new 12-inch LP format, was arranged by Count Basie veteran Ernie Wilkins and featured Brown perfectly complementing the singer. Brownie jumped right back in the studio four days later to record with Helen Merrill, on her first-ever LP. Arranged by none other than Quincy Jones, it remains a classic of cool vocal jazz.The Singers Sessions: The EmArcy Master Takes Vol. 2 follows the box set containing The EmArcy Takes: Vol. 1, fully encapsulating Clifford Brown’s brief but meteoric career on EmArcy Records, the jazz division of Mercury Records. This collection differs in its look: it is housed in the acclaimed Verve Select mini-album packaging, which features a hard-backed book with rare photographs, images of rare EP and LP jackets, and a Grammy®-worthy essay by author and editor Aaron Cohen.
Die Alben mit Merrill und Vaughan (sie erschienen auch in der Verve Master Edition wenn ich mich nicht irre, oder gab’s da nur das mit Vaughan?) sind essentiell, die Jams mit Washington etwas loser, unstrukturierter, aber auch gut. Der Preis ist hoch für dieses Set, vielleicht gibt’s mal irgendwo ein gutes Angebot (amazon.fr oder .it … eher da als bei .de).
Ich bleibe bei meinem geliebten 10CD-Set, auch wenn die neuen Ausgaben klanglich möglicherweise besser sind (die 4LP-Box mit den Roach/Brown Master Takes von Mosaic habe ich immer noch nicht ganz abgeschrieben, wenn es da auch die Alternate Takes gäbe, müsste ich das Ding auf jeden Fall haben, so bin ich etwas unentschlossen).
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