Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.[2] Record producer Tom Wilson was involved in the sessions and wrote the album's liner notes.[3] The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.[4] The related jazz tunes are contrafacts or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure.
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| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | April, 1962 New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 37:41 | |||
| Label | Audio Fidelity AFLP 1978 | |||
| Producer | Tom Wilson | |||
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The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue on the Jazz Beat label. The recording of "Walkin'" is the last released recording of the famed rhythm section of Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb.[5]
Track listing
- Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) - 4:14
- "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 4:16
- Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:14
- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) - 4:39
- Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 2:44
- Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) - 3:52
- "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 4:20
- Left Channel: "How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis" / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) - 3:43
- "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:00
- Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 3:39
Personnel
- Benny Golson - arranger, conductor
- Bill Evans - piano
- Ron Carter (tracks 1-9), Paul Chambers (track 10) - bass
- Charlie Persip (tracks 1-9), Jimmy Cobb (track 10) - drums
Jazz Band - Right Channel
- Freddie Hubbard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Bill Hardman (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) - trumpet
- Curtis Fuller (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Grachan Moncur III (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) - trombone
- Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9)
- Wayne Shorter (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) - tenor saxophone
Pop Orchestra - Left Channel
- Ray Alonge, Bob Northern - French horn
- Jerome Richardson - flute
- Danny Bank - flute, baritone saxophone
- Lou Cranston - tenor saxophone
- Julius Held, Hanry Lokofsky, George Ockner, Gene Orloff - violin
- Harold Goletta - viola
- Charles McCracken - cello
References
- ^ Allmusic Review accessed June 26, 2012
- ^ Benny Golson discography accessed June 26, 2012
- ^ discogs.com accessed July 25, 2021
- ^ Fresh Sound Record website accessed June 26, 2012
- ^ Pettinger, Peter (1998). Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings. Yale University Press.