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.

Pop + Jazz = Swing
Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedApril 1962
New York City
GenreJazz
Length37:41
LabelAudio Fidelity
AFLP 1978
ProducerTom Wilson
Benny Golson chronology
Here and Now
(1962)
Pop + Jazz = Swing
(1962)
Another Git Together
(1962)
Just Jazz! Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

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

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  1. Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 4:14
  2. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 4:16
  3. Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:14
  4. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 4:39
  5. Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) – 2:44
  6. Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) – 3:52
  7. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:20
  8. Left Channel: "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) – 3:43
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:00
  10. Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:39

Personnel

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Jazz Band – Right Channel

Pop Orchestra – Left Channel

References

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  1. ^ Allmusic Review accessed June 26, 2012
  2. ^ Benny Golson discography accessed June 26, 2012
  3. ^ discogs.com accessed July 25, 2021
  4. ^ Fresh Sound Record website accessed June 26, 2012
  5. ^ Pettinger, Peter (1998). Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings. Yale University Press.