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The Complete RCA Victor Recordings of Paul Desmond [Box]
(CD, 1997)
Primary Artist: Paul Desmond
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Format: CD
Aug 1997
5 Discs
Record Label: RCA Victor Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 090266868728 |
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Details
Track Listing
DISC 1: DESMOND BLUE:
1. My Funny Valentine
2. Desmond Blue
3. Then I'll Be Tired of You
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Late Lament
6. I Should Care
7. Like Someone in Love
8. Ill Wind
9. Body and Soul
10. Advise and Consent
11. Autumn Leaves
12. Imagination
DISC 2: TAKE TEN:
1. Take Ten
2. El Prince
3. Alone Together
4. Emarcadero
5. Theme From Black Orpheus, The
6. Nancy
7. Samba de Orfeu
8. One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
9. Out of Nowhere
10. Emarcadero - (alternate take)
11. El Prince - (alternate take)
DISC 3: GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY:
1. Glad to Be Unhappy
2. Poor Butterfly
3. Stranger in Town
4. Taste of Honey, A
5. Any Other Time
6. Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
7. Angel Eyes
8. By the River Saint Marie
9. All Across the City
10. All Through the Night
DISC 4: BOSSA ANTIGUA:
1. Bossa Antigua
2. Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The
3. O Gato
4. Samba Cantina
5. Curacao Doloroso
6. Ship Without a Sail
7. Alianca
8. Girl From East 9th Street, The
9. Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The - (alternate take)
10. Samba Cepeda
11. O Gato - (alternate take)
DISC 5: EASY LIVING:
1. When Joanna Loves Me
2. That Old Feeling
3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Easy Living
6. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
7. Bewitched
8. Blues For Fun
9. Rude Old Man
10. Polka Dots and Moonbeams - (alternate take)
11. Bewitched - (alternate take)
Album Notes
THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS includes the five solo albums Desmond released on RCA's Bluebird imprint in the early 1960s: DESMOND BLUE, TAKE TEN, GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY, BOSSA ANTIGUA and EASY LIVING.
Personnel includes: Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Jim Hall (guitar); Milt Hinton, Percy Heath (bass); Connie Kay (drums).
Reissue producer: John Snyder.
Between 1962 and 1964 Paul Desmond , Dave Brubeck's alto saxophonist (and composer of "Take Five"), recorded five remarkable albums for RCA with guitarist Jim Hall. (Listeners might recall that the inimitable Hall also recorded with Sonny Rollins for RCA during the same period.) Luckily, RCA has seen fit to reissue the Desmond-Hall sessions in an attractive 5-CD box. Of these, only the first session, DESMOND BLUE, was arranged for strings. Otherwise it's just Desmond and Hall, a few good bass players and the great MJQ drummer Connie Kay, whom Desmond long revered for his subtle touch.
Despite his long association with Brubeck, Desmond himself was never really a formalist, especially not in these sessions. He was an unsentimental lyric improviser--fleet and imaginative at all times, though he rarely strayed from a base of popular standards, old or new, such as "My Funny Valentine" or "Here's That Rainy Day." Like many jazz musicians in the '60s however, he did have a natural affinity for bossa nova, as the most "exotic" of these titles, BOSSA ANTIGUA, amply demonstrates.
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