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Ella Swings Lightly is an album released in 1958 by Ella Fitzgerald for Verve Records. Recorded on November 23rd and 24th with the Marty Paich Dek-tette, the 58:34 minute long session was produced by Norman Granz. Sheldon Marks created the cover design with photography by Phil Stern..

Comprised of sixteen jazz and musical standards of the day Side 1 featured Little White Lies, You Hit The Spot, What’s Your Story Morning Glory, Just You Just Me, As Long As I Live, Teardrops From My Eyes, Gotta Be This Or That and Moonlight On The Ganges. The first track on Side 2 is My Kind Of Lover, followed by Blues In The Night, If I Were A Bell, You’re An Old Smoothie, Little Jazz, You Brought A New kind Of Love To Me, Knock Me A Kiss and 720 In The Books.

Verve offered four bonus tracks on the CD reissue which are Oh What A Night To Love, Little Jazz (Alternate Take), Dreams Are Made For Children (Previously Unreleased) and Oh What A Night For Love (45 rpm 7” Single Version)

The Dek-tette brought in Bud Shank (alto sax), Bill Holman (tenor sax),Med Flory (baritone sax), Lou Levy (piano), Joe Mondragon (bass), Mel Lewis (drums), Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino (trumpet), Bob Enevoldsen (valve trombone, tenor sax) and Vincent DeRosa (French horn).

The album won Ella the 1960 Grammy award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo.

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The Blues Book was released in 1964 on the Prestige record label. As one of his series of Books, Booker Ervin and his quintet, trumpeter Carmell Jones, pianist Gildo Mahones, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Alan Dawson perform four very different blues. They open with the minor-toned Eerie Dearie, the speedy One for Mort, followed by a low-down No Booze Blooze, and close with the modal True Blue.

The four tunes ran a total of 41.18 and was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on June 30, 1964 at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The producer, cover design and photography were by Don Schlitten and Ira Gitler wrote the liner notes.

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The first release of the album Afro-Cuban dates back to 1955 on 10″ Vinyl, featuring only four tracks by trumpeter Kenny Dorham. However, some time later, Blue Note decided to add three tracks, issuing what they felt was a more complete LP by the end of May 1957.

The original four tracks totalled 18 minutes and 53 seconds, with the first three composed by Dorham, the fourth a Gigi Gryce composition and were ordered as Afrodisia, Lotus Flower, Minor’s Holiday and Basheer’s Dream.

The musicians on the session were Kenny Dorham – trumpet, J. J. Johnson – trombone, Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone, Cecil Payne – baritone saxophone, Horace Silver – piano, Oscar Pettiford – bass, Art Blakey – drums, Carlos “Patato” Valdes – conga and Richie Goldberg – cowbell.

Gil Melle designed the cover and the photo was taken by Francis Wolff.

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In Town is the 1965 release by Romanian-German pianist and vocalist Eugen Cicero. Recorded for the MPS label, the cover design was by Grafisches Atelier C. Revellio and the photograph was taken by Sepp Werkmeister.

Three songs made up Side A: It’s De-Lovely, Autumn Leaves and Und Bach?. Side B has Hello Dolly, Little Niles and Por Favor. The album is 29:36 long and gives a great representation of his talent.

The trio was comprised of Eugen Cicero on piano, Peter Witte on bass and drummer Charly Antolini. The session was produced by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer.

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Chet Baker & Strings is an album recorded In Los Angeles, California by trumpeter Chet Baker in late December 30 & 31, 1953 and February 20, 1954 and released on the Columbia label. This quintet setting was augmented with a nine-piece string section and the easygoing strings support the cool bop giving it a light, airy though sometimes a melancholy film noir feel.

The 15 original track listing includes You Don’t Know What Love Is, I’m Thru With Love, Love Walked In, You Better Go Now, I Married An Angel, Love, I Love You, What a Diff’rence a Day Made, Why Shouldn’t I?, A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet, The Wind, Trickleydidlier, You Don’t Know What Love Is, You Better Go Now. A bonus track, an alternate take of A Little Duet for Zoot and Chet was reissued on the compact disc.

Joining the sessions were Bud Shank on alto saxophone and flute, Zoot Sims on tenor saxophone, pianist Russ Freeman, bassist Joe Mondragon, Shelly Manne on drums, Sam Cytron, Jack Gasselin, George Kast, Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure and Felix Slatkin playing violin, Lou Kievman and Paul Robyn on viola and Victor Gottlieb on cello.

The four arrangers for the sessions were Jack Montrose, Johnny Mandel, Marty Paich and Shorty Rogers.

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