Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy SR-80006: Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz!

SR-80006: Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz!

Label Type :	blue Mercury/EmArcy type D (large oval)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR_80006_A FR1 A1 I
	SIDE-B	SR_80006_B FR1 A1 I

Comments

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

FR pressing - although this recording was originally made by Swedish Metronome label, the sound itself is very nice to listen to, like other Mercury's early stereo recordings.

Inside The Groove

What more can I say? Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! (from original Swedish Metronome recording)

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Here on this album, we can listen to a good blend of swinging Harry Arnold orchestra (with many talented Swedish jazz players) and young American composer-arranger Quincy Jones. Quincy, who was just 25 years old when this LP was recorded, had learned a lot in music, as a trumpeter, arranger and composer, by interexchanging with many American jazz artists. Later, Quincy himself formed his own big band which was highly acclaimed, but this LP already shows how his compositions and arrangements are very modern and “conservative” (in a good sense of course) by learning and researching past Swing/Bop/West-Coast big bands' sounds.

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	PB1012 (17465)	Quincy's Home Again (Arnold)	2:28
A-2	PB1013 (17466)	The Midnight Sun Never Sets (Jones - Salvador)	4:07
A-3	PB1019 (17472)	Cherokee (Noble)	3:14
A-4	PB1014 (17467)	Count 'Em (Jones - Cleveland)	5:30
A-5	PB1020 (17473)	Brief Encounter (Arnold)	3:04
SIDE-B
B-1	PB1015 (17468)	Room 608 (Silver)	3:14
B-2	PB1018 (17471)	Kinda Blues (Arnold)	6:00
B-3	PB1016 (17469)	Meet Benny Bailey (Jones)	3:50
B-4	PB1017 (17470)	Doodlin' (Silver)	5:13

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-4, B-1:
Sixten Eriksson (tp), Weine Renliden (tp), Bengt-Arne Wallin (tp), Arnold Johansson (tp),
Åke Persson (tb), Andreas Skjold (tb), George Vernon (tb), Gordon Ohlsson (tb),
Arne Domnerus (as), Rolf Bäckman (as), Rolf Blomqvist (ts, fl), Bjarne Nerem (ts), Rune Falk (bs),
Bengt Hallberg (p), Lars Pettersson (b), Egil Johansen (ds),
Quincy Jones (arr), Harry Arnold (dir).
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on April 29, 1958.

B-3, B-4:
same personnel/date/place as A-1, except:
add Benny Bailey (tp).

B-2:
same personnel as A-1, except:
Carl-Henrik Norin (ts) replaces Rolf Blomqvist,
Johnny Ekh (bs) replaces Rune Falk,
Simon Brehm (b) replaces Lars Pettersson,
add Beng Högsberg (g).
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on February 14, 1958.

A-3, A-5:
same personnel as B-2.
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on March 19, 1958.

Jackets

Front	Back

Labels

Side A	Side B

Inner Sleeve

Front	Back