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East Coast Jazz No. 4 is a 1955 album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded and released on the Bethlehem record label.. The photograph and cover design was created by Burt Goldblatt. This relatively short recording was only 25 minutes and 12 seconds long but was considered long playing for the time period.

Tracks:
1. Chicken Little
2. Cuban Love Song (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh Herbert Stothart)he 3. 3. Things We Did Last Summer (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
4. Deep Night (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée)
5. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
6. After Work
7. Moon Dreams (Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer)

Personnel:
Herbie Mann – flute
Joe Puma (tracks 2, 4, 7), Benny Weeks (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6) – guitar
Keith Hodgson (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6), Whitey Mitchell (tracks 2, 4, 7) – bass
Lee Rockey (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6), Herb Wasserman (tracks 2, 4, 7) – drums

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March 18, 1955 saw Lionel Hampton in a Paris, France studio recording the album Crazy Rhythm for the EmArcy record label. The swing/bop/hard bop session produced four songs with a total elapse time of forty minutes and fifty-four seconds.

Personnel:

Baritone Saxophone – William Boucaya; Bass – Guy Pederson; Clarinet & Tenor Saxophone – Maurice Meunier; Drums – MacKac; French Horn – Dave Amram; Guitar – Sacha Distel; Piano – Rene Urtreger; Trumpet – Benny Bailey, Bernard Hullin, Nat Adderley; Vibraphone – Lionel Hampton

Notes:

Crazy Rhythm was composed by Irving Caesar/Roger Wolfe Kahn/Joseph Meyer, Night & Day is a Cole Porter composition, Red Ribbon and A La French were composed by Lionel Hampton.

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In 1961 trombonist Bennie Green along with Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, Junior Mance on piano, bassists Paul Chambers (tracks 2, 3, 6 & 7) and Larry Gales (tracks 1, 4 & 5) alternating duties and drummer Ben Riley went into the studio and recorded 39 minutes and 31 seconds of jazz on March 9th  and 22nd that would be released as Glidin’ Along on the Jazzland label.

The sessions were produced by Orrin Keepnews with Chambers in the mix on the 9th and Gales on 22nd. The quintet came out of the studio with seven songs composed by two members of the group, Green and Griffin

1. African Dream – (Bennie Green)
2. Sweet Sucker – (Johnny Griffin)
3. Glidin’ Along – (Babs Gonzales)
4. Green’s Scene – (Gonzales, Green)
5. Milkshake – (Griffin)
6. Stardust” (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
7. Expubidence (Gonzales)

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Hollywood On 52nd Street

Guess Who I Saw Today is a popular jazz song composed by Murray Grand with lyrics by Elisse Boyd. The song was originally composed for Leonard Sillman’s Broadway musical revue New Faces of 1952 in which it was sung by June Carroll.

The revue opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on May 16, 1952 and ran for 365 performances. It was produced by Leonard Sillman, directed by John Murray Anderson and John Beal with choreography by Richard Barstow. The sketches were written by Ronny Graham and Brooks. The songs were composed by, among others, Harnick, Graham, Murray Grand and Arthur Siegel.

The cast featured Graham, Kitt, Clary, Virginia Bosler, June Carroll, Virginia De Luce, Alice Ghostley, Patricia Hammerlee, Carol Lawrence, Paul Lynde and Bill Milliken. De Luce and Graham won the 1952 Theatre World Award. The revue marked Kitt’s Broadway debut, singing a sultry rendition of “Monotonous”, about how boring a life of luxury was.

Two years later, the name was abridged to New Faces and was adapted into a motion picture filmed in Cinemascope and Eastmancolor and was released by 20th Century Fox on March 6, 1954. It helped jumpstart the Hollywood careers of several young performers including Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Carol Lawrence, Ronny Graham, performer/writer Mel Brooks (as Melvin Brooks), and lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

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The Phantom is the twelfth album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note label.

Two separate sessions recorded the six tunes for a little over a half hour of music totalling thirty-eight minutes and thirty-six seconds, considered your average length in those days. The compositions are The Phantom, Blues for Alvina, Bunda Amerela (Little Yellow Streetcar), Los Ojos Alegres (The Happy Eyes), Say You’re Mine and The Moana Surf.

All compositions were composed by Pearson except #2 by Willie Wilson and #6 by Jerry Dodgion. Track #3 was recorded on June 24, 1968 and on September 11, 1968 they laid down the other five tunes.

Along with Pearson on the sessions were Jerry Dodgion – flute, alto flute, Bobby Hutcherson – vibes, Sam Brown and Al Gafa – guitar, Bob Cranshaw – bass, Mickey Roker – drums, Victor Pantoja – congas and Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdés – conga, güiro.

The recording session was produced by Francis Wolff at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Wolff is credited for the cover photography as well and the design was by Florenza Venosa Associates.

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