Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-26045: Herb Geller Plays

MG-26045: Herb Geller Plays

Label Type :	blue EmArcy type A
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	YMG26045A M B
	SIDE-B	YMG26045B M B

Comments

A-1 and A-2 previously released on EmArcy 16016 (78rpm) and 16016x45 (45rpm).

All tunes also available on EP-1-6078 and EP-1-6079.

About one years later this 10-inch was reissued as MG-36045 with 4 additional tracks.

Inside The Groove

Herb Geller's first leader session on EmArcy - refreshing and smoothful alto!

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Herb Geller is definitely one of the greatest Alto players in the West-Coast era: He left gems of leader sessions on EmArcy and Jubilee labels in the 1950s. Of course he continued to play and recorded many of fine plays after he left to Europe (and after his wife / a piano player Lorraine Geller's death), but many may agree that he climbed to the artistic peak in his 1950s.

This album, his very first first leader session on EmArcy, presents us his smooth, imaginative and beautiful alto play backed up with a piano trio. A-1, althouth too famous popular tune, he re-arranged into an agressive and speedy bop tune with a modulation to another... Great!

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

10 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	10882	Sledge Ride	-
A-2	10883	Silver Rain	-
A-3	10884	Alone Together	-
A-4	10873	Happy Go Lucky	-
SIDE-B
B-1	10876	Breaking Through The Sound Barrier	-
B-2	10875	Kahagon	-
B-3	10874	You Stepped Out Of A Dream	-
B-4	10881	A Room With A View	-

Personnel

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

Herb Geller (as), Lorraine Geller (p), Curtis Counce (b), Lawrence Marable (ds).
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, August 6 (A-4, B-1, B-2, B-3) and August 9 (A-1, A-2, A-3, B-4), 1954.