Mercury Records Collection: MG-20600: Jazz Is A Kick

MG-20600: Jazz Is A Kick / Bob Brookmeyer

Label Type :	black Mercury type B (large oval)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 60600A MS2 FF
	SIDE-B	MG 60600B MS1 FF

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60600 (stereo).

Inside The Groove

a very impressive modern Jazz session by Mr. Valve-trombonist.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

This album by Bob Brookmeyer, very famous as a valve-trombone player, includes well organized and arranged, but hot sessions. With full of impressive trombone ensemble, recorded in the east-coast, but the sound presented here is like in a west-coast style: their aim might resemble to that of Art Farmer - Benny Golson Jazztet.

Anyway, the ensemble is very impressive indeed. Backing-up members like Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Hank Jones, Wynton Kelly, Charlie Persip hit hard, while a fine blend of Brookmeyer & Fuller's trombone ensemble is so rich. Definitely my favourite.

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	19911 (PB3250)	Air Conditioned (Bob Brookmeyer)	4:53
A-2	19913 (PB3252)	Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields)	4:39
A-3	19912 (PB3251)	This Can't Be Love (Lorenz Hart & Richard Rodgers)	3:23
A-4	19917 (PB3256)	Green Stamps (Bob Brookmeyer)	4:36
SIDE-B
B-1	19914 (PB3253)	The Things I Love (Harold Barlow & Lew Harris)	4:38
B-2	19915 (PB3254)	Only When You're Near (C. Darwin & P. Girard)	3:30
B-3	19918 (PB3257)	You're My Everything (Mort Dixon, Joe Young & Harry Warren)	3:17
B-4	19919 (PB3258)	Cooperation (Ford Knox)	7:30

Personnel

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

A-1, A-2, A-3, B-1, B-2:
Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Curtis Fuller (tb),
Thad Jones (tp), Joe Newman (tp),
Hank Jones (p), Ed Jones (b), Charlie Persip (ds).
Recorded in New York City on May 9, 1960.

A-4, B-3, B-4:
Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Curtis Fuller (tb),
Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b), Paul Motian (ds).
Recorded in New York City on May 16, 1960.

Recording Director, Chuck Darwin.
Engineer, Johnnie Cue.