Joe Williams & Harry "Sweets" Edison
Release Date: 07 April 2014
Label: American Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559460248
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
This release presents four complete albums including all of the small group sessions recorded by the team of singer Joe Williams and trumpeter Harry Sweet Edison. Apart from these dates, their only recordings together consist of a big band album (included here as a bonus) and their participation on a couple of projects in 1971 and 1996. Included here are the long unavailable complete albums Together (Roulette SR52069), Have a Good Time with Joe Williams (Roulette SR52071), and A Swingin Night at Birdland (Roulette SR-52085). As a bonus, we have added a version of If I Could Be With You , which is the only song featuring both Williams and Edison on the Count Basie small group album Memories Ad-Lib, as well as the complete LP Joe Williams Sings About You! (Roulette SR52030), on which the singer is backed by a large orchestra conducted by Jimmy Jones, featuring Edison on trumpet and Ben Webster on tenor sax. Includes 20-page booklet.
Tracklisting
Thelonious Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
George Russell
Duke Ellington
Bill Evans
Amad Jamal
Howlin' Wolf
Alison Burns & Martin Taylor
Judith Owen
Kira Martini
Nina Simone
Nat King Cole
James Hudson
Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG
Tumi Mogorosi
