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Jo Jones - The Essential Jo Jones

Jo Jones - The Essential Jo Jones

Musician: Jo Jones
Album title: The Essential Jo Jones
Style: Swing
Released: 1977
Country: US
Size MP3 version: 1975 mb
Size APE version: 1939 mb
Size WMA version: 1135 mb
Rating ✫: 4.7
Votes: 215
Format: APE MOD MPC AHX MMF MP1 VOC
Genre: Jazz

Jo Jones - The Essential Jo Jones


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A1 Shoe Shine Boy (First Take)
Written-By – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
5:51
A2 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Written-By – Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman, Roger Ramirez
6:28
A3 Georgia Mae
Written-By – Jo Jones
4:47
A4 Caravan
Written-By – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol
3:58
B1 Lincoln Heights
Written-By – Jo Jones, L. Thompson*
7:46
B2 Embraceable You
Written-By – George & Ira Gershwin
7:40
B3 Shoe Shine Boy (Second Take)
Written-By – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin
5:16
C1 Satin Doll
Written-By – Duke Ellington
5:51
C2 Little Susie
Written-By – Jo Jones, Ray Bryant, Tommy Bryant
5:19
C3 Spider Kelly's Blues
Written-By – Ray Bryant
4:45
C4 Cubano Chant
Written-By – Ray Bryant
4:00
D1 Splittin'
Written-By – Ray Bryant
4:52
D2 Sweet Lorraine
Written-By – Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish
4:38
D3 Bicycle For Two
Written-By – Tommy Bryant
2:37
D4 Old Man River
Written-By – Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
6:40
D5 Sometimes I'm Happy
Written-By – Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans
3:26

Credits

  • Bass – Tommy Bryant (tracks: C1 to D5), Walter Page (tracks: A1 to B3)
  • Clarinet – Rudy Powell (tracks: A4)
  • Drums – Jo Jones
  • Guitar – Freddie Green (tracks: A1 to B3)
  • Piano – Count Basie (tracks: A1, B3), Nat Pierce (tracks: A1 to B3), Ray Bryant (tracks: C1 to D5)
  • Producer – John Hammond
  • Tenor Saxophone – Lucky Thompson (tracks: A1 to B3)
  • Trombone – Benny Green* (tracks: A1 to B3), Lawrence Brown (tracks: A4)
  • Trumpet – Emmett Berry (tracks: A1 to B3)

Notes

Sides A and B originally issued as The Jo Jones Special (1955 Vanguard), recorded August 11, 1955 (except for A4, recorded August 16, 1955)

Sides C and D originally issued as Jo Jones Plus Two (1959 Vanguard), recorded April 30, 1958.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
VJD 542 Jo Jones The Essential Jo Jones ‎(2xLP, Comp) Jazz Vogue VJD 542 UK 1977
101/2-2 Jo Jones The Essential Jo Jones ‎(CD, Comp) Vanguard 101/2-2 US Unknown
VSD 101/02 Jo Jones The Essential Jo Jones ‎(2xLP, Comp) Vanguard VSD 101/02 France Unknown

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