 |
Arbors All Stars: The All Stars at Bob Haggart´s 80th Birthday Party
Ruby Braff, Yank Lawson, Randy Sandke, Joe Wilder (tp,cor) Kenny Davern, Rick Fay, Jerry Jerome, Walt Levinsky, Ken Peplowski, Flip Phillips, Bob Wilber, Allan Vache (reeds) Dan Barrett, George Masso (tb) Howard Alden, Bucky Pizzarelli, George Van Eps (g) Dick Hyman, Derek Smith, Ralph Sutton (p) Bob Haggart, Milt Hinton, Jack Lesberg (b) Jake Hanna, Bobby Rosengarden, Jackie Williams (dr)
Oh / Lady / Be Good! / Symphony / It Had To Be You / Nobody´s Sweetheart / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Love / Come Back To Me / Yesterdays / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Muskrat Ramble / Limehouse Blues / Old Man Time / Oh,Baby / The Mooche / Lullaby of Birdland / Lover / Three Little Words / Wolverine Blues / Air Mail Special / Bill Bailey / Won´t You Please Come Home
1994 fand zum ersten Mal das "March of Jazz-Festival" zu Ehren führender Jazzmusiker statt und es konnte keine bessere Wahl zur Eröffnung geben als Bob Haggart. Allgemein als Bassist und Arrangeur der ersten Garde respektiert und äußerst bewundert als ein Mensch, über den niemand, der das Vergnügen hatte, ihn zu kennen, jemals etwas Böses sagen konnte. Die herzlichen Gefühle seiner Kollegen für ihn fließen in die feinen Sounds ein, die hier anläßlich seines 80. Geburtstages eingefangen wurden.
Arbors Records /rec 1994 /Mainstream /CDs: 2
|
|
|
|
"The 1994 March of Jazz was a first in more ways than one. It kicked off what has become one of the foremost annual jazz events, combining the best elements of the festival and party genres, and it was the first in a series of birthday tributes to senior jazz greats. There could hardly have been a better choice than Bob Haggart for first celebrant. Universally respected as a bassist and arranger of the first rank and greatly admired as a man by all who had the pleasure of knowing him, he was indeed someone about whom not a bad word was ever spoken. And the warm feelings his colleagues had for him infuse the fine sounds captured herin." From the album notes by Dan Morgenstern, Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.
|
|
