Mercury Records Collection: EmArcy SR-80015: Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble

SR-80015: Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble / Max Roach

Label Type :	blue Mercury/EmArcy type D (large oval)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR80015A FR 1 A1 I
	SIDE-B	SR80015B FR 1 A1 I

Comments

Equivalent release: EmArcy MG-36144 (mono).

Later reissued as Mercury MG-20529 (mono) and Mercury SR-60206 (stereo).

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

An awesome banquet of percussions - by Max Roach and great percussionists.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Actually nothing but awesome... It's not a jazz recording. Not a classical music either. A truely thrilling momemnt of rhythms. It's not a kind of modest and well-organized things. It just swings, rocks, and rolls. A great work. I love this music, although most “Jazz” fans don't like this kind of sound much.

Another notable thing for this album is its true high-fidelity: As the matrix number says (see the prefix FR, and the pressing plant indicator I), it's a same pressing as legendary “Living Presence” series, pressed with RCA Victor's high quality plant. The sound is really great, with few scratches, bumps and surface noise. This disc is in rather excellent condition.

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

10 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	Variations On A Familiar Theme (Farberman)
	JB254 (17926)	Bach	0:39
	JB255 (17927)	Beethoven	1:08
	JB256 (17928)	Debussy	1:32
	JB257 (17929)	Stravinsky	1:03
	JB253 (17925)	Max's Variation	2:20
A-2	Evolution (Farberman)
	JB259 (17950)	First Movement	4:56
	JB258 (17930)	Second Movement	8:26
	JB260 (17951)	Third Movement	4:43
SIDE-B
B-1	The Music Inn Suite (Farberman)
	JB261 (17952)	The Music Inn	0:45
	JB262 (17953)	The Poodle Tower	2:51
	JB263 (17954)	Soliloquy #1 (Guest A, Female)	0:34
	JB264 (17955)	Potting Shed Passacaglia	3:28
	JB265 (17956)	Soliloquy #2 (Guest B, Male)	1:10
	JB266 (17957)	Stephanie B.	2:16
	JB267 (17958)	Duo Concertante (Guest A and Guest B)	2:16
	JB268 (17959)	The Music Inn	1:10

Personnel

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

Ruppli only mentions the recorded date as August 1958, but the liner-notes on the back cover says August 17, 1958.

Max Roach (ds) with:
Corinne Curry (soprano), Al Portch (French horn), Everette Firth (perc), Charles Smith (perc), Arthur Press(perc),
Harold Thompson (perc), Walter Tokarczyk (perc), Lloyd McCausland (perc), Irving Farberman (perc).

Directed and Conducted by Harold Faberman.
Supervised by Jack Tracy.

Recorded in Music Barn of the Music Inn, Lenox, Mass. on Aug. 17, 1958.

The Artist Also Appears on...

Max Roach (ds, ldr) :

EmArcy MG-26043 10-inch : Clifford Brown & Max Roach
EmArcy MG-36008 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach Incorporated
EmArcy MG-36036 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach
EmArcy MG-36037 : Study In Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach
EmArcy MG-36070 : Clifford Brown & Max Roach At Basin Street
EmArcy MG-36098 : Max Roach Plus Four
EmArcy MG-36108 / SR-80002 : Jazz In Three-Quarter Time
EmArcy MG-36127 / SR-80019 : Max Roach Plus Four Plays Charlie Parker
EmArcy MG-36132 : Max Roach Plus Four On The Chicago Scene
EmArcy MG-36140 / SR-80010 : Max Roach Plus Four At Newport
EmArcy MG-36144 / SR-80015 : Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble
Mercury MG-20448 / SR-60133 : Rich Versus Roach / Buddy Rich & Max Roach
Mercury MG-20491 / SR-60170 : Quiet As It's Kept
Mercury MG-20524 / SR-60201 : Max Roach Plus Four At Newport (reissue of MG-36140 / SR-80010)
Mercury MG-20529 / SR-60206 : Max Roach With The Boston Percussion Ensemble (reissue of MG-36144 / SR-80015)
Mercury MG-20532 / SR-60209 : Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (reissue of MG-36127 / SR-80019)
Mercury MG-20538 / SR-60193 : Jazz In Three-Quartet Time (reissue of MG-36108 / SR-80002)
Mercury MG-20539 / SR-60215 : Moon Faced And Starry Eyed
Mercury MG-20559 / SR-60128 : Max Roach Plus Four On The Chicago Scene (reissue of MG-36132)
Mercury MG-20760 / SR-60760 : Parisian Sketches
Mercury MG-20911 / SR-60911 : The Many Sides Of Max

EmArcy MG-36000 : Dinah Jams Featuring Dinah Washington
EmArcy MG-36002 : Jam Session / Various Artists
EmArcy MG-36003 : Clifford Brown With Strings
EmArcy MG-36009 : Jam Session Featuring Maynard Ferguson
EmArcy MG-36039 : Best Coast Jazz / Various Artists
EmArcy MG-36043 : Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
EmArcy MG-36066 : Introducing Jimmy Cleveland and his All-Stars
EmArcy MG-36102 : Caravan / Clifford Brown All-Stars
EmArcy MG-36141 / SR-80019 : Newport '58 / Various Artists
Mercury MG-35012 / MG C-102 / MG C-502 10-inch : Piano Solos / Bud Powell
Mercury MG C-109 10-inch : Flip Phillips Collates
Mercury MG C-507 10-inch : Piano Solos, No.2 / Bud Powell
Mercury MG C-512 10-inch : Bird & Diz / Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Mercury MG C-513 10-inch : Charlie Parker Plays South Of The Border
Mercury MG-20523 / SR-60200 : Newport '58 / Various Artists (reissue of MG-36141 / SR-80009)