Bill Doggett: In Session 1939-1962 / Various

Artista: Bill Doggett: In Session 1939-1962 / Various

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: JSMR

Catalogo: 8833232

Faixas: 1.1 Sunday Special – Jimmy Mundy and His Orchestra
1.2 Big Fat Mama – Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
1.3 Once Too Often – Ella Fitzgerald
1.4 Peek-A-Boo – Karl George Octet
1.5 Bottoms Up – Illinois Jacquet and His All Stars
1.6 Be-Baba-Leba – Helen Humes with Bill Doggett Octet
1.7 Why Not – Lucky Thompson All Stars
1.8 My Baby’s Business – Jimmy Rushing with Johnny Otis His Drums ; His Orchestra
1.9 She’s Funny That Way – Illinois Jacquet and His All Stars
1.10 Minor Romp – Emmett Berry’s Hot Six
1.11 Mr. Blues Jumped the Rabbit – Wynonie “MR. Blues” Harris and His All Stars
1.12 Six-Foot-Two Blues – Jimmy Witherspoon / Buddy Tate ; Orchestra
1.13 My Blue Heaven – Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis
1.14 Lemonade – Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
1.15 (I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead) You Rascal You – Louis Armstrong with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
1.16 Bad Luck Child – Joey Thomas Orchestra
1.17 Prevue – Paul Quinichette Quintet
1.18 Air Mail Special – Ella Fitzgerald
1.19 At the End of the Day – Bill Kenny
1.20 Carioca – Coleman Hawkins (Vincent Youmans, Gus Kahn, Edward Eliscu)
1.21 I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire – Morris Lane
1.22 I Tin Whistle at You – Hot Lips Page with Randy Hall’s Tin Fluters and Bill Doggert
1.23 School of Love – Arthur Prysock
1.24 Lion’s Den – Vic Dickenson
1.25 The Horn with Two Mouthpieces – the Three Baritones with Eddie Wilcox Orch
1.26 Suffering with the Blues – Little Willie John
1.27 Open the Door, Richard! – Bill Doggett and His Combo
1.28 Rough Ridin – Ella Fitzgerald

In Session: Bill Doggett shines a long-overdue spotlight on one of the great unsung architects of postwar American music. Before his own smash hit “Honky Tonk” made him a household name, Bill Doggett was the go-to pianist, organist, and arranger for an astonishing roll call of talent. This collection captures Doggett in his natural habitat – the studio – lending swing, grit, and gospel-drenched groove to recordings by artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Illinois Jacquet, Coleman Hawkins and Little Willie John. Spanning the 1940s through 1962, In Session moves effortlessly from big band swing to jump blues, early R&B, and proto-rock ‘n’ roll. This selection proves Doggett was a master of feel and finesse. His playing is never intrusive, always essential – the glue that binds the horns, the engine under the vocals, the pulse that makes the music move. These recordings document Bill Doggett not as the star attraction but as the musician other musicians relied on. The result is a vibrant portrait of a craftsman at work during a pivotal era in American music, heard here exactly where he belonged: in the studio and in the groove.