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Teddy Wilson

Solo Big Band

Solo Big Band

UPC: 717101860722

Format: CD & DVD (9 disc)

Release Date: Nov 09, 2010

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Liner Note Author: Brian Priestley.
Recording information: Basin Street Club, NY (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Café Society, NY (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Cameo Club, New York (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); CBS Studios, New York, NY (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Embers, NY (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); London House, Chicago, IL (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); New York (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Studio 39, Copenhagen (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (02/05/1956-07/12/1959); Basin Street Club, NY (05/21/1979); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (05/21/1979); Café Society, NY (05/21/1979); Cameo Club, New York (05/21/1979); CBS Studios, New York, NY (05/21/1979); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (05/21/1979); Embers, NY (05/21/1979); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (05/21/1979); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (05/21/1979); London House, Chicago, IL (05/21/1979); New York (05/21/1979); Studio 39, Copenhagen (05/21/1979); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (05/21/1979); Basin Street Club, NY (05/30/1983); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (05/30/1983); Café Society, NY (05/30/1983); Cameo Club, New York (05/30/1983); CBS Studios, New York, NY (05/30/1983); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (05/30/1983); Embers, NY (05/30/1983); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (05/30/1983); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (05/30/1983); London House, Chicago, IL (05/30/1983); New York (05/30/1983); Studio 39, Copenhagen (05/30/1983); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (05/30/1983); Basin Street Club, NY (06/16/1980); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (06/16/1980); Café Society, NY (06/16/1980); Cameo Club, New York (06/16/1980); CBS Studios, New York, NY (06/16/1980); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (06/16/1980); Embers, NY (06/16/1980); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (06/16/1980); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (06/16/1980); London House, Chicago, IL (06/16/1980); New York (06/16/1980); Studio 39, Copenhagen (06/16/1980); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (06/16/1980); Basin Street Club, NY (08/10/1939); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (08/10/1939); Café Society, NY (08/10/1939); Cameo Club, New York (08/10/1939); CBS Studios, New York, NY (08/10/1939); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (08/10/1939); Embers, NY (08/10/1939); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (08/10/1939); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (08/10/1939); London House, Chicago, IL (08/10/1939); New York (08/10/1939); Studio 39, Copenhagen (08/10/1939); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (08/10/1939); Basin Street Club, NY (12/06/1968); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (12/06/1968); Café Society, NY (12/06/1968); Cameo Club, New York (12/06/1968); CBS Studios, New York, NY (12/06/1968); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (12/06/1968); Embers, NY (12/06/1968); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (12/06/1968); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (12/06/1968); London House, Chicago, IL (12/06/1968); New York (12/06/1968); Studio 39, Copenhagen (12/06/1968); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (12/06/1968); Basin Street Club, NY (12/29/1956); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (12/29/1956); Café Society, NY (12/29/1956); Cameo Club, New York (12/29/1956); CBS Studios, New York, NY (12/29/1956); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (12/29/1956); Embers, NY (12/29/1956); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (12/29/1956); Jersie Forsamlingshus, Jersie (12/29/1956); London House, Chicago, IL (12/29/1956); New York (12/29/1956); Studio 39, Copenhagen (12/29/1956); Wolf Trap, Washington D.C. (12/29/1956); Basin Street Club, NY (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Benny Klein's Steakhouse, Ohio (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Café Society, NY (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Cameo Club, New York (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); CBS Studios, New York, NY (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Danish Radio, Copenhagen (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Embers, NY (12/31/1953-??/??/1954); Jazzhus Slukefter, Copenhagen (12/31/1953-??/??/1954).
Photographers: Duncan P. Schiedt; Gorm Valentin.
This massive box set collects a wide range of recordings by Teddy Wilson, from early radio transcriptions and broadcasts to sessions the pianist made late in his life for Storyville. Wilson, who left Benny Goodman in 1939 to launch his own ill-fated big band, never achieved commercial success with a large ensemble, though he produced plenty of enjoyable music. The band lacked the showmanship of its competition and Wilson was always a rather low-key leader on-stage, though he features trumpeter Shorty Baker and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster to good effect. The sextet session from 1944 includes most of his regular group at the time, with Emmett Berry, Bennie Morton, Edmond Hall, and Sid Catlett, plus Slam Stewart taking over on bass. Wilson is at his best in trio and solo sessions, though he was not one to give a lot of solo space to his sidemen. While Wilson's style didn't evolve significantly away from his brand of elegant swing, he was a consummate entertainer throughout his career, especially in the 1983 nightclub trio date, where he makes frequent remarks about the background of songs to his audience. An added bonus is a brief DVD of a 13-minute 1940s one-reeler, The Boogie Woogie Dream. Its theme centers around Lena Horne and boogie-woogie pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons cleaning a nightclub after Wilson's set, dreaming of becoming professional musicians. As a result, Wilson's role is rather minor compared to the others, and while the plot is dated and somewhat insulting, the music is enjoyable, especially the boogie-woogie duets featuring Johnson and Ammons. Even if Teddy Wilson fans have many of the individual discs that make up this set, they will find it to be an essential purchase. ~ Ken Dryden

Tracks:

Disc 1:
1 - Little Things That Mean So Much
2 - I Know That You Know
3 - Stairway to the Stars
4 - Exactly Like You
5 - Man I Love
6 - Booly-Ja-Ja
7 - Back to Back
8 - Body and Soul
9 - Lonesome Road
10 - Dear Old Southland
11 - Little Things That Mean So Much
12 - Ghost of a Chance
13 - Sunday
14 - More Than You Know
15 - Summer's End
16 - Goin' Home Blues
17 - Minute Steak
18 - Sugar
19 - At Sundown
20 - Tuesday Jump
21 - Moon Is Low
22 - Afternoon Blues
23 - Little Things That Mean So Much
24 - You're My Favorite Memory
25 - Rhythmatics
26 - Almost Blues
27 - Tempo Positioned
28 - Out of Nowhere
29 - Night and Day
30 - Oh! Lady Be Good
31 - Jumpin' Off
Disc 2:
1 - You Will Be Sorry
2 - Chinatown, My Chinatown
3 - Twilight Blue
4 - Love Is the Sweetest Thing
5 - Rose Room
6 - Why Shouldn't I
7 - Flying Home
8 - Indiana
9 - Embraceable You
10 - Touch of Boogie Woogie
11 - B-Flat Swing
12 - Don't Be That Way
13 - Honeysuckle Rose
14 - Mop Mop
15 - I've Got Rhythm
16 - Rose Room
17 - Oh! Lady Be Good
18 - Way You Look Tonight
19 - Stompin' at the Savoy
20 - You're My Favorite Memory
21 - Sheik of Araby
Disc 3:
1 - Love
2 - Strollin'
3 - Flying Home
4 - King Porter Stomp
5 - Serenata/When Your Lover Has Gone/Avalon
6 - Summertime
7 - You Can Depend on Me
8 - I Ain't Got Nobody
9 - All of Me
10 - Liza
11 - Sweet Lorraine/Body and Soul/I've Got the World on a String/April in Paris
12 - Runnin' Wild
13 - Basin Street Blues
14 - Flying Home
Disc 4:
1 - Sweet Georgia Brown
2 - Dinah
3 - Body and Soul
4 - I Know That You Know
5 - I'm Confessin'
6 - Whispering
7 - It's the Talk of the Town
8 - Speculation
9 - China Boy
10 - Theme: Sunny Morning
11 - Bye, Bye Blues
12 - My Man [Take 1]
13 - Lover Come Back to Me [Take 2]
14 - How High the Moon/Theme: Sunny Morning [Takes 1 and 2]
15 - Theme: Sunny Morning
16 - Nobody's Sweetheart
17 - Blues for Trombone [Take 1]
18 - I Would Do Most Anything for You [Take 2]
19 - Runnin' Wild
20 - I Never Knew/Theme: Sunny Morning [Takes 1 and 2]
21 - Theme/Theme: Sunny Morning/Runnin' Wild
22 - Tenderly
23 - Just One of Those Things
24 - Moon Glow
25 - Autumn in New York
26 - All of Me
27 - Tea for Two/Theme
Disc 5:
1 - After You've Gone
2 - Memories of You
3 - China Boy
4 - Whispering
5 - Body and Soul
6 - One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
7 - Poor Butterfly
8 - Runnin' Wild
9 - Flying Home
10 - I've Got the World on a String
11 - Just One of Those Things
12 - Stomping at the Savoy
13 - Air Mail Special
14 - Basin Street Blues
15 - I've Got Rhythm
16 - Liza
17 - It Had to Be You
18 - Someone to Watch Over Me
19 - Three Little Words
20 - Tea for Two
21 - Avalon
22 - You're Driving Me Crazy
Disc 6:
1 - Honeysuckle Rose
2 - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
3 - I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling/Ain't Misbehavin'
4 - St. Louis Blues
5 - In a Sentimental Mood/Mood Indigo
6 - Perdido
7 - Satin Doll
8 - Take the "A" Train
9 - Body and Soul
10 - Basin Street Blues
11 - Avalon
12 - Moon Glow
13 - I'll Remember April
14 - Who Cares
15 - Someone to Watch Over Me
16 - S'Wonderful
Disc 7:
1 - S'Wonderful
2 - Someday Sweetheart
3 - Sheik of Araby
4 - More Than You Know
5 - Nobody's Sweetheart
6 - Rose Room
7 - China Boy
8 - Sweet Sue
9 - Moon Glow
10 - Exactly Like You
11 - Sweet Lorraine
12 - Whispering
13 - How High the Moon
14 - Keeping Out of Mischief Now
15 - Don't Be That Way
16 - Somebody Loves Me
17 - St. Louis Blues
18 - I'll Remember April
Disc 8:
1 - Shiny Stockings
2 - Undecided
3 - Like Someone in Love
4 - Imagination
5 - I Hadn't Anyone 'Till You
6 - Fools Rush In
7 - Tea for Two/Wilson Talks
8 - Body and Soul/Wilson Talks
9 - After You've Gone
10 - I Can't Get Started/Moon Glow
11 - Sweet Georgia Brown/Wilson Talks
12 - Shiny Stockings
13 - Li'l Darling
14 - One O'Clock Jump/Wilson Talks
15 - It Ain't Necessarily So/Bess, You Is My Woman Now/Summertime
16 - But Not for Me/Wilson Talks
17 - Sophisticated Lady
18 - Duke Ellington Medley: In a Sentimental Mood/It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
19 - Billy Strayhorn Medley/Wilson Talks: Lush Life/Take the "A" Train
Disc 9:
1 - [Untitled]
2 - My New Gown
3 - Boogie Woogie Dream
4 - Unlucky Woman
5 - Friday Dream