The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

It’s All Over But The Swingin’ is a studio album by Sammy Davis, Jr. that was recorded on July1~2 and 9~10, 1957 and released the same year on the Decca Record label. The music was arranged by Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens and the session was produced by Lee Gillette.

1. Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) ~ 4:43
2. But Not for Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) ~ 3:24
3. Where’s That Rainbow? (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) ~ 3:27
4. I Cover the Waterfront (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) ~ 3:19
5. Don’t Blame Me (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) ~ 2:52
6. Better Luck Next Time (Irving Berlin) ~ 2:43
7. Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Gal (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) ~ 4:53
8. It Never Entered My Mind (Hart, Rodgers) ~ 4:05
9. Someone to Watch over Me (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) ~ 3:23
10. I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) ~ 2:47
11.      Spring Is Here” (Hart, Rodgers) ~ 4:03
12. I Can’t Get Started” (Vernon Duke, I. Gershwin) ~ 3:29

• Sammy Davis, Jr. – vocal
• Dan Lube, M. Sosson – violin
• Al Dinkin, Paul Robyn – viola
• Eleanor Slatkin – cello
• Harry Klee – flute
• Harry Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Virgil Evans, Mannie Klein – trumpet
• Milt Bernhart, Frank Howard, George Roberts – trombone
• Harry Klein, Ronnie Lang – alto saxophone
• Babe Russin, Don Raffell – tenor saxophone
• Bob Lawson – baritone saxophone
• Roger Renner – piano
• Tony Rizzi, Bob Bain – guitar
• Mort Cobb, Joe Comfort – double bass
• Irving Cottler, Alvin Stoller – drums

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Ade Monsbourgh was born on Febrauary 17, 1917 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He studied piano first before taking up reeds, valve trombone, trumpet and even recorder. He met pianist Graeme Bell early on and was part of his band regularly during 1944 to 1952. During his tenure with the band he recorded several times with Bell’s freewheeling band and toured Europe and Czechoslovakia.

He had occasional opportunities to lead his own dates, in addition to playing with groups led by Roger Bell, Dave Dallwitz, Len Barnard and Frank Traynor. His band, the  Late Hour Boys, recorded prolifically for Swaggie through 1971.

During the 1992 Australia Day Honours, Monsbourgh was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to music, particularly jazz as a performer and composer.

Retiring from fulltime playing in the 1970’s, clarinetist Ade Monsbourgh, known as Lazy Ade or Father Ade, and who also played alto and tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone and recorder, passed away on July 19, 2006 in Nathalia, Victoria, Australia.

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William Ballard Doggett was born February 16, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the 1930s and early 1940s he worked for Lucky Millinder, Frank Fairfax and arranger Jimmy Mundy. In 1942 he was hired as the Ink Spots’ pianist and arranger.

By 1951 Doggett had organized his own trio and began recording for King Records. He also arranged for many bandleaders and performers, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lionel Hampton. He also recorded with Fitzgerald, as well as Coleman Hawkins, Helen Humes, Willis Jackson, Illinois Jacquet, Louis Jordan, Lucky Millinder, Paul Quinichette, Buddy Tate, Lucky Thompson

Crossing over to rhythm & blues his best known recording is Honky Tonk, a rhythm and blues hit of 1956, which sold four million copies (reaching No. 1 R&B and No. 2 Pop), and which he co-wrote with Billy Butler. The track topped the US Billboard R&B chart for over two months. He also worked with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, and Wynonie Harris.

Pianist and organist Bill Doggett continued to play and arrange until passing away of a heart attack on November 13, 1996 in New York City. He was 80.

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Nathan Tate Davis ws born February 15, 1937 in Kansas City, Kansas. He apprenticed in the Jay McShann band before heading off to college to receive his degree in Music Education. After being discharged from military service post World War II, he traveled extensively around Europe before settling in Paris, France in 1962.

Moving back to the States he went on to attain a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and was a professor of music and director of jazz studies at the University of Pittsburgh from 1969, an academic program that he helped initiate. During his tenure he was founder and director of the University of Pittsburgh Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert, the first academic jazz event of its kind in the United States.

Nathan helped to found the university’s William Robinson Recording Studio as well as establish the International Academy of Jazz Hall of Fame located in the school’s William Pitt Union and the University of Pittsburgh-Sonny Rollins International Jazz Archives.

Retiring as director of the Jazz Studies Program at Pitt in 2013, Davis also served as the editor of the International Jazz Archives Journal. One of Davis’ best known musical associations was heading the Paris Reunion Band from 1985 to 1989, which at different times included Nat Adderley, Kenny Drew, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Joe Henderson, Idris Muhammad, Dizzy Reece, Woody Shaw, and Jimmy Woode.

Over the course of his career he worked with Eric Dolphy, Kenny Clarke, Ray Charles, Slide Hampton, Kenny “Klook” Clarke and Art Blakey. He toured and recorded with the post-bop ensemble leading Roots which he formed in 1991. As a composer, Nathan created various pieces, including a 2004 opera entitled Just Above My Head.

Tenor and soprano saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flutist Nathan Davis, who recorded eighteen albums as a leader, passed away on April 8, 2018 in Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of 81.

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Jack Lesberg was born February 14, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. He had the misfortune of playing in that city’s Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire. His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus.

Jack performed in the New York City Symphony under Leonard Bernstein in the 1940s. Lesberg continued to tour in the 1980s and performed in Menlo Park, California in 1984. Jack played with Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Coleman Hawkins, Sarah Vaughan, Urbie Green, George Barnes, Ruth Brown, Tony Bennett, Johnny Hodges and Benny Goodman among others, He went on several international tours.

Double-bassist Jack Lesberg, who co~led two sessions and twenty-one as a sideman, passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease in Englewood, California at the age of 85 on September 17, 2005.

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