The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
As the Delta variant continues to ravage the country in another wave of rising illness and once again full hospitals, for those of us remaining vigilant I offer you listeners a classic album Bud Powell in Paris. This studio album was produced by Duke Ellington and released in 1964 for Reprise Records.
On this album recorded in Paris, France in February 1963, Leonard Feather wrote the liner notes, the cover painting was done by Donald Leake and digital mastering was performed by Lee Herschberg.
Track List | 49:21- How High the Moon (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) ~ 3:54
- Dear Old Stockholm (Traditional) ~ 3:53
- Body and Soul (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) ~ 6:05
- Jor-Du” (Duke Jordan) ~ 4:18
- Reets and I (Benny Harris) ~ 3:43
- Satin Doll (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer) ~ 4:45
- Parisian Thoroughfare (Bud Powell) ~ 1:56
- I Can’t Get Started (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) ~ 5:40
- Little Benny (aka Bud’s Bubble) (Harris) ~ 3:31
Personnel
- Bud Powell ~ piano
- Gilbert Rovere ~ bass
- Kansas Fields ~ drums
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Phil Napoleon was born Filippo Napoli on September 2, 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts. He began with classical training and was performing publicly by age 5. In the 1910s, he was one of the first musicians in the northeastern United States to embrace the new jass style brought to that part of the country by musicians from New Orleans, Louisiana.
At 16 with pianist Frank Signorelli he formed the group The Original Memphis Five in 1917. He became one of the most sought after trumpeters of the 1920s and the group became one of the most prolific in New York City at the time. In 1922-1923 they made over a hundred recordings. Napoleon’s 1927 version of Clarinet Marmalade was a particular success. The group split up in 1928.
During the 1930s, Phil mainly worked as a session trumpeter, working in the RCA Radio Orchestra in the early 1930s, and in 1937 unsuccessfully tried to form his own orchestra. He recorded with the Cotton Pickers and the Charleston Chasers and also worked with blues singers Leona Williams and Alberta Hunter.
Napoleon joined Jimmy Dorsey’s then Los Angeles, California based group in the mid 1940s, and he appeared with the band in the film Four Jills in a Jeep. Parting with Dorsey in 1947, he moved back to New York City and worked as a studio musician at NBC until 1949-1950 when he reformed The Original Memphis Five. During the early 1950s the group became noted for their performances at Nick’s in New York City. He worked frequently with his nephew Marty Napoleon, a jazz pianist. In 1959, Napoleon and The Five performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, later released as an album.
In 1966 Phil opened up his own club named Napoleon’s Retreat in Miami, Florida and continued to perform Dixieland jazz in the club up until the 1980s. Trumpeter and bandleader Phil Napoleon passed away on October 1, 1990 in Miami.
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Bob Bates was born on September 1, 1923 in Pocatello, Idaho. His mother was an organist and his brothers Norman and Jim were also bassists. As a youth he played tuba, trumpet, and trombone. From 1944 to 1948 he studied classical bass and played with Sonny Dunham around 1946–47 and with Jack Fina in the late Forties.
The 1950s saw Bob playing in the Two Beaux & a Peep Trio before becoming the bassist in the Dave Brubeck Quartet between 1953 and 1955. In addition, he recorded with Paul Desmond in 1954, and Dave Pell in 1956. It was during this time that he stopped playing and performing. Bassist Bob Bates passed away on September 13, 1981 in San Francisco, California at the age of 58.
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