Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy MG-36118: I Swing For You

MG-36118: I Swing For You / Lennie Niehaus

Label Type :	blue EmArcy type C
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG-36118A-2 MSII M A
	SIDE-B	MG-36118B-1 MSI M B

Comments

Later reissued as Mercury MG-20555 (mono) and SR-60123 (stereo).

Inside The Groove

A very swingy West-Coast middle band session, all participants from the Stan Kenton band..

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Lennie Niehaus, another great player from the Kenton band, is very famous of his superior arrangements as well as very swingy improvised alto play. Although his Contemporary LPs are much famous as his leader sessions, this EmArcy session also sounds nice. Thrilling arrangements as well as nice improvisation by Kenton pals are all great.

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	15983 (JB98)	P & L	3:13
A-2	15984 (JB99)	I See Your Face Before Me	3:30
A-3	15985 (JB100)	Four Eleven West	7:12
A-4	15986 (JB101)	Soon	4:11
SIDE-B
B-1	15981 (JB96)	Little Girl Blues	4:10
B-2	15982 (JB97)	Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care To Know)	3:20
B-3	15987 (JB102)	He Ain't Got Rhythm	3:36
B-4	15980 (JB95)	Kiss Me And Kill Me With Love	3:44

Personnel

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

Lenny Niehaus (= Lennie Niehaus) (as, ldr) with:
Ed Leddy (tp), Kenny Shorter (tb, v-tb), Bill Perkins (ts), Steve Perlow (bs),
Lou Levy (p), Red Kelly (b) Jerry McKenzie (ds).
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA on October 1, 1957.

A-1 thru A-3, B-2 thru B-4 arranged by Lennie Niehaus.
A-4 and B-1 arranged by Bill Perkins.