Mercury Records Collection: SRE-66008: Swingin' Stuff

SRE-66008: Swingin' Stuff / The Stuff Smith Quartet

Label Type :	brown EmArcy type E
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR 66008-A-E 1 RR
	SIDE-B	SR 66008-B-E 1 RR

Comments

Inside The Groove

US 1st issue of original Storyville recording.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Here is an unique Stuff Smith playin' with Kenny Drew Trio, live at the Montmartre Jazz Club. With the help of Kenny Drew, Niels Henning Orsted Petersen and Alex Riel, he plays swingy, dirty, eccentric, and "beautiful" violin. He is definitely the master of jazz violin!

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

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-37299	Bungle Blues (Smith)	3:08
A-2	2-37300	Only Time Will Tell (Smith)	3:50
A-3	2-37301	Old Stinkin' Blues (Smith)	4:25
A-4	2-37302	Mack The Kniffe (Weill)	4:50
A-5	2-37303	C-Jam Blues (D. Ellington)	5:10
SIDE-B
B-1	2-37304	One O'Clock Jump (C. Basie - O.L. Gaines)	5:45
B-2	2-37305	My Blue Heaven (W. Donaldson - G. Whiting)	3:44
B-3	2-37306	Blues For Timme (Smith)	5:07
B-4	2-37307	Take The “A” Train (B. Strayhorn)	5:05

Personnel

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

Stuff Smith (violin), Kenny Drew (p), Niels Henning Örsted Petersen (b), Alex Riel (ds).
Recorded at "Jazzhus Montmartre", Copenhagen, Denmark, in March 23, 1965.