Pop + Jazz = Swing
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Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.[2] The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.[3] The related jazz tunes are contrafact's or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure. The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue.
Track listing
- Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) - 4:14
- "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 4:16
- Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillspie) - 3:14
- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) - 4:39
- Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 2:44
- Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) - 3:52
- "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 4:20
- Left Channel: "How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis" / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) - 3:43
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:00
- Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 3:39
Personnel
- Benny Golson - arranger, conductor
- Bill Evans - piano
- Ron Carter (tracks 1-9), Paul Chambers (track 10) - bass
- Charlie Persip (tracks 1-9), Jimmy Cobb (track 10) - drums
Jazz Band - Right Channel
- Freddie Hubbard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Bill Hardman (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) - trumpet
- Curtis Fuller (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Grachan Moncur III (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) - trombone
- Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9)
- Wayne Shorter (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) - tenor saxophone
Pop Orchestra - Left Channel
- Ray Alonge, Bob Northern - French horn
- Jerome Richardson - flute
- Danny Bank - flute, baritone saxophone
- Lou Cranston - tenor saxophone
- Julius Held, Hanry Lokofsky, George Ockner, Gene Orloff - violin
- Harold Goletta - viola
- Charles McCracken - cello
References
- ^ Allmusic Review accessed June 26, 2012
- ^ Benny Golson discography accessed June 26, 2012
- ^ Fresh Sound Record website accessed June 26, 2012