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OSCAR PETERSON / BILLY TAYLOR / SHELLY MANNE

MY FAIR LADY IN JAZZ (2CD)
Label ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS
Catalog EJC55710
Format CD
Discs 2
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-01-28
Description
3 Complete Lps + 7 Extra Tracks. 24 bit Digitally Remastered. 24-page booklet. Memorabilia. Updated & New Liner Notes. This release presents some of the fi nest jazz versions of music from the play, and contains three complete albums: Shelly Manne & His Friends’ Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady (Contemporary S7527), Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady (Verve MGV2119), and My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (ABC Paramount ABC177/ Impulse AS-72) – the latter showcasing Billy Taylor with an All-Star orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones featuring Gerry Mulligan. Also included here are the four songs from My Fair Lady recorded by Chet Baker on his Lerner & Loewe album, as well as interpretations of tunes from the play by Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and the Coleman Hawkins Quartet with Tommy Flanagan.

CD1, 1-8: Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady
SHELLY MANNE, drums & tambourine; ANDRÉ PREVIN, piano; LEROY VINNEGAR, bass. Contemporary’s Studio, Los Angeles, August 17, 1956.
CD1, 9-15: Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady
OSCAR PETERSON, piano; RAY BROWN, bass; GENE GAMMAGE, drums. Universal Studios, Chicago, November 20 & 21, 1958.
CD2, 1-8: My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
BILLY TAYLOR, piano; EARL MAY, bass; ED THIGPEN, drums;
Orchestra conducted & arranged by QUINCY JONES featuring GERRY MULLIGAN, baritone sax. New York, January-February, 1957.
CD2, 9-12:
CHET BAKER, trumpet; HERBIE MANN, fl ute; ZOOT SIMS, tenor & alto sax; PEPPER ADAMS, baritone sax; BOB CORWIN, piano [on 9 & 11]; BILL EVANS, piano [on 10 & 12]; EARL MAY, bass; CLIFFORD JARVIS, drums. New York, July 21-22, 1959.
CD2, 13-14:
BILL HARDMAN, trumpet; JOHNNY GRIFFIN, tenor sax; SAM DOCKERY, piano; SPANKY DeBREST, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums. Webster Hall, New York, March 13, 1957.
CD2, 15:
COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax; TOMMY FLANAGAN, piano; MAJOR HOLLEY, bass; EDDIE LOCKE, drums. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, August 16, 1962.
tracklisting
CD 1:
1. GET ME TO THE CHURCH ON TIME
2. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
3. I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE
4. WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY?
5. ASCOT GAVOTTE
6. SHOW ME
7. WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK
8. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
9. I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE
10. GET ME TO THE CHURCH ON TIME
11. SHOW ME
12. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
13. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
14. WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY
15. THE RAIN IN SPAIN

CD 2:
1. SHOW ME
2. I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE
3. WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK
4. THE RAIN IN SPAIN
5. GET ME TO THE CHURCH ON TIME
6. WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY?
7. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
8. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
9. I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE
10. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
11. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
12. SHOW ME
13. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
14. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
15. WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY?
 

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