Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36019: Ralph Gari

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MG-36019: Ralph Gari

Label Type :	blue EmArcy type B silver rim
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 36019A MF6 A1 I
	SIDE-B	YMG 36019B MF1 A1 I

Comments

The disc plays so nice although it has scuffs and light scratches.

Inside The Groove

A multi player's progressive jazz performance left on EmArcy.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Ralph Gari - I don't know about this player except this album. However, this LP is rather great. Every track has refreshing arrangent. Especially Side-A is full of very modern and progressive chord changes. His performance is basically Parker-ish, but really refreshing. It is really amazing that such ahead-of-time performance (it really sounds like those of 1970s or 1980s) was made in the middle 1950s.

At least, it is very interesting to listen to his play from alto sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo to oboe.

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	11505	Happy Daze (Bill Reddie)	2:27
A-2	11506	Kali (Earl Zindars)	3:29
A-3	11507	Fourth Dimension (Bill Raddie)	2:40
A-4	11508	Nocturne (Bill Raddie)	3:18
A-5	11509	Transition (Bill Raddie)	3:32
A-6	11514	Fine And Dandy (Swift)	2:05
SIDE-B
B-1	11510	Dancing In The Dark (Schwartz - Dietz)	3:42
B-2	11511	The Way You Look Tonight (Kern - Fields)	5:47
B-3	11513	I've Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter)	2:49
B-4	11512	That Old Black Magic (Arlen - Mercer)	3:35
B-5	11515	Thou Swell (Rogers - Hart)	2:30

Personnel

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

The Ruppli book doesn't mention about personnels, while the original back cover does... How come?

“Recorded at Mercury Sound Studio, NYC” on the Ruppli book, but there was NOT a recording studio named Mercury Sound Studio (actually it was an editing studio in NYC). I believe this album was recorded in Los Angeles or Hollywood (maybe at Capitol Studio?), CA, since Ralph Gari lived and played in California at the time. Furthermore, the photo on the session resembles that of MG-36020 which was recorded in West-Coast.

A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4:
Ralph Gari (as, cl, fl, piccolo, oboe), Clarence Shank (p), Daniel Sherrett (b), Edward Julian (ds).
Recorded ~~at Mercury Sound Studio, New York City~~ in Los Angeles, CA on April 19, 1955.

A-5, A-6, Side-B:
same personnel as A-1.
Recorded ~~at Mercury Sound Studio, New York City~~ in Los Angeles, CA on April 20, 1955.