The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Reveling in my space during this time of temporary seclusion, I am with my music and having lit a few candles, a couple of sticks of incense burning I prepare myself for the talented alto saxophonist and composer Benny Carter. As I drop the needle on his self-produced Aspects album, I kick back, stretch out and enjoy. Recorded in late summer of 1958 in Los Angeles, California it was released the following year on United Artists.
Track List | 46:42Except where noted, all compositions by Benny Carter
- June in January (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) ~ 3:12
- February Fiesta (Hal Schaefer) ~ 1:54
- March Wind ~ 3:16
- I’ll Remember April (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) ~ 3:21
- One Morning in May (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) ~ 2:49
- June Is Bustin’ Out All Over (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:59
- Sleigh Ride in July (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) ~ 2:50
- August Moon ~ 3:39
- September Song (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) ~ 2:39
- Something for October ~ 2:52
- Swingin’ in November ~ 3:02
- Roses in December (Ben Oakland, Herb Magidson, George Jessel) ~ 2:36
- Benny Carter – alto saxophone, arranger
- Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey, Shorty Sherock – trumpet
- Herbie Harper, Tommy Pederson, George Roberts – trombone
- Buddy Collette, Chuck Gentry, Justin Gordon, Bill Green – saxophone
- Arnold Ross – piano
- Larry Bunker – vibraphone
- Bobby Gibbons – guitar
- Joe Comfort – bass
- Shelly Manne – drums
- Joe Gordon, Al Porcino, Ray Triscari, Stu Williamson – trumpet
- Russ Brown, Tommy Pederson, Frank Rosolino – trombone
- Buddy Collette, Jewell Grant, Bill Green, Plas Johnson – saxophone
- Gerald Wiggins – piano
- Barney Kessel – guitar
- Joe Comfort – bass
- Shelly Manne – drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ray Perry was born on February 25, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts to a musical family and began playing the violin at a young age, and didn’t pick up the alto saxophone till he was twenty. He organized his first band, the Arabian Knights, in 1932.
Working the bread and butter gigs, he performed with the best in the business from 1935 to 1943, among numerous others, Dean Earl in the Little Harlem Orchestra, Clarence “Chick” Carter Orchestra with Gerald Wilson, then with Joe Nevils band when it masqueraded as the Blanche Calloway Orchestra, before joining the Lionel Hampton band. In the mid-thirties Ray developed a technique of simultaneously singing an octave below his playing as he bowed his violin. Hearing him, bassist Slam Stewart adopted the same technique, except he sang an octave above his playing.
Poor health forced him to return to Boston in late 1942, where he found work with Sherman Freeman, Sabby Lewis, and his fraternal band, the Perry Brothers Orchestra with Joe on tenor saxophonoe and Bey on drums, Performing more frequently on alto saxophone, despite his short career, Perry worked with Shadow Wilson, Illinois Jacquet Vernon Alley, J. C. Heard, Joe Newman, Fred Beckett, Sabby Lewis, Sir Charles Thompson, and Irving Ashby.
Health problems continued to dog him for almost a decade leading to the passing away of violinist and alto saxophonist Ray Perry from kidney disease at age 35 in November 1950 in New York City. However, his final record date was with Illinois Jacquet earlier that year. Some of his best surviving violin work was recorded with a Hampton septet in late 1940.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Richard Bently Boone was born on February 24, 1930 in Little Rock, Arkansas and began singing in a Baptist church choir as a boy. By age twwelve he was playing the trombone. He went on to serve in the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1953 where he played trombone in a military band. Following his discharge from the Army, he returned to Little Rock to study music at Philander Smith College.
In 1956 Boone moved to Los Angeles, California where he played with Dolo Coker, Sonny Criss, and Dexter Gordon. Working in the backup band for Della Reese between 1962 and 1966, he then became a member of the Count Basie band. A few years later he left Basie and emigrated to Copenhagen, Denmark and mking it his home, performed with the Ernie Wilkins Big Band.
Trombonist and scat singer Richard Boone passed away in Copenhagen on February 8, 1999.
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Three Wishes
The inquiry of three wishes came from the Baroness to Paul Bley who told her:
- “To never hear another chord!”
- “To be driven home to Fourteenth Street and Eighth Avenue. Thank you very much! I’ll tell you my other wish next time I see you.”
- “To have God on your side.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Sterling Belmont “Bozo” Bose was born on September 23, 1906 in Florence, Alabama and his style was heavily influenced by Bix Beiderbecke and changed little over the course of his life.
His early experience came with Dixieland jazz bands in his native Alabama before moving to St. Louis, Missouri in 1923. He played with the Crescent City Jazzers, the Arcadian Serenaders, and the Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra in 1927-28 after the departure of Beiderbecke. Following this he worked in the house band at radio station WGN in Chicago, Illinois before joining Ben Pollack from 1930 to 1933. He also worked with Eddie Sheasby in Chicago.
Moving to New York City in 1933, Bose had many gigs in the city during the 1930s to the mid 1940s, including time with Joe Haymes, Tommy Dorsey, Ray Noble, Benny Goodman, Lana Webster, Glenn Miller, Bob Crosby, Bobby Hackett, Bob Zurke, Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, George Brunies, Bobby Sherwood, Miff Mole, Art Hodes, Horace Heidt, and ending with Tiny Hill in 1946.
Following this period he did some further freelancing for the next two years in Chicago and New York, and finally moved to Florida in 1948, setting up his own bands there. Suffering from an extended period of illness in the 1950s, trumpeter and cornetist Sterling Bose, whose nickname was Bozo, eventually committed suicide in June of 1958. in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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