MG-20294: Jumpin' Trumpet / Ralph Marterie

	Label Type :	black Mercury type B
	Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG-20294A-1    MS1    M    E
		SIDE-B	MG-20294B-1    MSIV    M1    A

Comments

Stereo issue of this MG-20294 is SR-60035, but both are different edits each other (contains different tunes from different sessions). Furthermore, later edition of MG-20294 (mono) is the same as SR-60035 (stereo).

Inside The Groove

Mister Dance Band's nice danceable ensemble.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The band ensemble is very swingy, agressive, and powerful (it's not a very series modern big band jazz kind, though). This album, recorded in 1956, is full of very swingy Big-Band taste (they were probably arranged by Matt Alagna). Especially A-1 thru A-4, B-4 and B-5, all from earlier session, sounds very swingy and great.

A-5, A-6, B-1, B-2, B-3 and B-6 are from the same session as SR-60035, but based on actual listening, at least A-5 are different take, and B-2 are different overdub mix (there may be several others). Such differences were made because of the way they recorded in Mercury's earliest stereo session: instead of simply mixing down to monaural tape from stereo mix, mono and stereo were recorded simultaneously with completely different mixing. So even the same tune of the same take may sound much different between stereo version and monaural version,

Anyway, totally MG-20294 is much better than SR-60035 :)

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

8 out of 10

Track Listing

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Ruppli's book says 14536 (mono) = PB31 (stereo), but upon actual listening, they are different mixes each other (at least overdubbed whistles are completely different).
Furthermore, 14541 (mono) and PB36 (stereo) are completely different takes each other, while Ruppli didn't mention about it.

A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, B-5, B-6:
Ralph Marterie (tp) and his Orchestra.
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in September 1956.

A-5, A-6, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-6:
Ralph Marterie (tp) and his Orchestra, with Larry Regan (vo on B-1).
Recorded at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, IL in October 1956.

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