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Stuff Smith Swing Bop 2002
Stuff Smith - 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast Concert & Apartment Performances flac album
  • Performer Stuff Smith
  • Title 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast Concert & Apartment Performances
  • Date of release 2002
  • Style Swing, Bop
  • Other formats ADX RA AU VQF WMA AHX MIDI
  • Genre Jazz
  • Size MP3 1134 mb
  • Size FLAC 1267 mb
  • Rating: 4.3
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1944-46: Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances.

Stuff Smith: 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert, & Apartment Performances (ABCD2-007/8). New CD series spotlights jazz violin greats. IN VARIOUS NOOKS AND CRANNIES OF THE MUSIC WORLD, there reside dedicated enthusiasts (fanatics?) who do amazing work preserving, conserving, and promulgating great works of art from the past, and helping to establish their proper historical context. The real treasure in this group of recordings is a two-disc set called Stuff Smith 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert, & Apartment Performances. No one has done more than Barnett to bring to light Smith's revolutionary, wildly swinging genius, and there is no better place to capture a glimpse of this wild man at the peak of his powers than on these two newly released discs.

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For more Stuff Smith check out the following CDs: 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances 2 CD Set, Stuff Smith with Ella Fitzgerlad,.

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1944-46: Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances. The Stuff Smith Memorial Album. The Stuff Smith Trio: 1943.

Chapter · January 2008 with 3 Reads. Stuff Smith: 1944–1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances August 2003.

Violinist Stuff Smith's third Classics CD (which wraps up his dates as a leader prior to the mid-'50s) starts off with 16 numbers from 1944-1946, many of which are rarities. Smith is heard leading various trios (sidemen include pianists Jimmy Jones and Billy Taylor) on music recorded for the Savoy (with Billy Daniels and Rosalie Young having vocals), Baronet, Selmer, Musicraft, and Town & Country labels; Sarah Vaughan sings on "Time and Again

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was a jazz violinist. He is known well for the song "If You're a Viper". 1944-46: Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances.

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Disc 1: Desert Sands
WBBN aircheck, Down Beat Room, Garrick Lounge, Chicago, ?June 1944
1-1 –Stuff Smith Trio Blue Skies
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
1:59
1-2 –Stuff Smith Trio Rip
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
1:42
WABC CBS Playhouse 3, Music Till Midnight, New York, 1 September 1944
1-3 –Stuff Smith Trio Acc. Paul Baron Orchestra Bugle Call Rag (Bailey Show Dress Rehearsal)
Bass – John LevyOrchestra – Paul Baron OrchestraPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:02
1-4 –Stuff Smith Trio Acc. Paul Baron Orchestra Bugle Call Rag (Bailey Show)
Bass – John LevyOrchestra – Paul Baron OrchestraPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:12
78 Asch Album 353 & outtakes, Adventure In Feeling, New York, 8 September 1944
1-5 –Stuff Smith Trio Midway (Alt.)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:05
1-6 –Stuff Smith Trio Midway
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:10
1-7 –Stuff Smith Trio Look At Me
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:50
1-8 –Stuff Smith Trio Skip It (Alt.)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:48
1-9 –Stuff Smith Trio Skip It
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:23
1-10 –Stuff Smith Trio Stop-Look (Rehearsal)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:48
1-11 –Stuff Smith Trio Stop-Look (Alt.)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:00
1-12 –Stuff Smith Trio Stop-Look
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:56
1-13 –Stuff Smith Trio Don't You Think? [aka Time And Again]
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:50
1-14 –Stuff Smith Trio Desert Sands
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:41
WEAF NBC Radio City 8-H, V-Disc Presents: For The Record No. 7, New York, 11 September 1944
1-15 –Stuff Smith Trio Stop-Look (V-Disc)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:22
1-16 –Stuff Smith Trio Humoresque
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
2:44
CBS Radio Theater 4, AFRS Jubilee 101 & 102, New York, 16 October 1944
1-17 –Stuff Smith Trio Perdido
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:09
1-18 –Stuff Smith Trio Stop-Look (Jubilee)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
4:29
WABC CBS Playhouse 3, Music Till Midnight, New York, 3 November 1944
1-19 –Stuff Smith with members of Hep Hollow Boys drawn from Paul Baron Orchestra Humoresque (Bailey Show 5)
Bass – Al HallDrums – Specs PowellGuitar – Remo PalmieriPiano – Teddy WilsonXylophone – Red Norvo
 3:05
WABC Playhouse 3, Music Till Midnight, New York, 24 November 1944
1-20 –Stuff Smith with members of Hep Hollow Boys drawn from Paul Baron Orchestra Humoresque (Bailey Show 8)
Bass – Al HallDrums – Specs PowellGuitar – Remo PalmieriPiano – Mary Lou Williams
 3:27
Times Hall, View, The Modern Magazine, Presents The New Jazz, New York, 20 December 1944
1-21 –Stuff Smith Trio Perdido (Times Hall)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:25
1-22 –Stuff Smith Trio My Thoughts
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:38
1-23 –Stuff Smith Trio Our Waltz
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
4:35
1-24 –Stuff Smith Trio Bugle Call Rag (Times Hall)
Bass – John LevyPiano – Jimmy Jones
3:08
Disc 2: Up Jumped The Devil
2-1 –Stuff Smith & Robert Crum Fugue In Swing
Piano – Robert Crum
 6:37
2-2 –Stuff Smith & Robert Crum Waltz With Me
Piano – Robert Crum
 8:26
Rosenkrantz Apartment, New York, 26 December 1944
2-3 –All Stars Orchestra Toe Jam Blues
Drums – George WettlingPiano – Erroll GarnerTenor Saxophone – Gene SedricTrombone – Bobby Pratt
8:05
2-4 –All Stars Orchestra Test Pilots [Incl. Pre-Take]
Drums – George WettlingPiano – Erroll GarnerTenor Saxophone – Lucky Thompson
 9:04
WNEW Studio Aircheck, Saturday Afternoon Swing Club, New York, 1 February 1945
2-5 –Stuff Smith Quartet With Frank Froeba And His Back Room Boys* And Merle Pitt And The Swingsters Swing Test 2149
Bass – Dick KissingerDrums – Terry SnyderOther [Rotary Telephone] – Art FordPiano – Frank Froeba
 3:36
2-6 –Stuff Smith Septet With Frank Froeba And His Back Room Boys* And Merle Pitt And The Swingsters My Rhythm [Bugle Call Intro]
Bass – Dick KissingerClarinet – Nat Brown Drums – Terry SnyderGuitar – Al CaiolaPiano – Frank Froeba
 3:38
WABC CBS Playhouse 3, Music Till Midnight, New York, 2 February 1945
2-7 –Stuff Smith Acc. Paul Baron Orchestra La Cinquantaine
Orchestra – Paul Baron Orchestra
 2:56
10" LP Commodore FL20028, Town Hall, Town Hall Jazz Concert, New York, 9 June 1945
2-8 –Stuff Smith Trio Perdido (Town Hall)
Bass – Ted SturgisPiano – Billy Taylor
 7:04
2-9 –Stuff Smith Trio Bugle Call Rag (Town Hall)
Bass – Ted SturgisPiano – Billy Taylor
 4:12
2-10 –Stuff Smith Trio Desert Sands (Town Hall)
Bass – Ted SturgisPiano – Billy Taylor
 3:59
78 Musicraft 337, New York, 1 October 1945
2-11 –Stuff Smith Trio Time And Again [aka Don't You Think?] (Musicraft)
Bass – Pete GloverPiano – Freddy JeffersonVoice – Sarah Vaughn*
 3:16
2-12 –Stuff Smith Trio Is! Is! (Musicraft)
Bass – Pete GloverPiano – Freddy Jefferson
 3:05
78 Town & Country 505, St. Louis, December 1946
2-13 –Stuff Smith Quartet Night Falls Again
Bass – Wendell MarshallGuitar – Bill JenningsPiano – Charles Fox
2:56
2-14 –Stuff Smith Quartet Up Jumped The Devil
Bass – Wendell MarshallGuitar – Bill JenningsPiano – Charles Fox
2:42

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed By – NorthCountry Distributors
  • Manufactured By – Digital Oasis

Credits

  • Producer, Edited By – Anthony Barnett
  • Transferred By – Arnvid Meyer (tracks: 1-1 through 1-3, 1-6 through 1-9, 1-12 through 1-20, 2-7 through 2-14), Frank Büchmann-Møller (tracks: 1-4, 1-5, 1-10, 1-11, 1-21 through 1-24, 2-1 through 2-6)
  • Violin, Voice – Stuff Smith

Notes

Mould SID codes are difficult to make out. IFPI R282 is my best guess.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 786497493227
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 1 & 2): IFPI LR61
  • Mould SID Code (Disc 1 & 2): IFPI R282
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): ABCD 007 F071 DIGITAL OASIS 11/15/02
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): ABCD 008 F081 P102 DIGITAL OASIS 11/15/02
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