Flip Phillips - The Clef Years: Classic Albums 1952-56 (CD)

Flip Phillips - The Clef Years: Classic Albums 1952-56 / It's a great showcase for Flip Phillips at probably the zenith of his career. Flip Phillips was a tenor saxophonist who came to the fore in the post-war era playing with the bands of Woody Herman, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman and Frankie Newton, and was perhaps most famously associated with Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts in the late '40s and into the 1950s. In the early 1950s he recorded a string of sessions for Norman Granz, leading groups that comprised many different line-ups, with most of the titles coming out a succession of albums on Granz' Clef label during this era, and being mixed and matched on different LP releases during that time. This great-value 58-track 3-CD collection comprises most of the titles he recorded for Granz at these sessions, mostly presented in the order and format they were released on the albums "Flip Phillips Quartet", "Flip Phillips Collates Vols. 1 & 2", "Jumping Moods", "Flip Phillips & Buddy Rich Trio", "Flip Phillips Quintet (Rock With Flip)", and the re-issue packages "Flip Wails", "Swingin' With Flip Phillips" and "Flip". It features performances with some of the great names of the era - Oscar Peterson, Charlie Shavers, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, Howard McGhee, Alvin Stoller, Buddy Rich, Hank Jones, Herb Ellis, Freddie Green, Max Roach and more - and as a bonus includes a 'live' jam session version of "Stompin' At The Savoy Pt. 1". It's a great showcase for Flip Phillips at probably the zenith of his career.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Lover
2. Don't Take Your Love From Me
3. Lover Come Back To Me
4. The Blue Room
5. Flip's Boogie
6. Feelin' The Blues
7. Cake
8. Cool
9. Znarg Blues
10. My Old Flame
11. This Can't Be Love
12. Cheek To Cheek
13. By The Lazy River
14. Cookie
15. Broadway
16. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
17. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
18. Be Be
19. Apple Honey
20. Drowsy
21. But Beautiful
22. Vortex

Disc: 2

1. Cottontail
2. Blues For The Midgets
3. If I Had You
4. What Is This Thing Called Love
5. Singing In The Rain
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
8. Gina
9. Funky Blues
10. Indiana
11. Stardust
12. Goodbye
13. Salute To Pres
14. Swedish Pastry
15. The Carioca
16. Three Little Words
17. Bugle Call Rag
18. Sleepyhead
19. Take The 'A' Train
20. Didn't Know What Time It Was
21. Trio Boogie
22. Almost Like Being In Love

Disc: 3

1. Singing The Blues
2. All Of Me
3. I'll Never Be The Same
4. Lemon Aid 21
5. Birth Of The Blues
6. I've Got The World On A String
7. Lady's In Love With You
8. Bright Blues
9. Sojoro
10. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
11. Long Island Boogie
12. Swingin' For Julie And Brownie
13. Milano
14. Stompin' At The Savoy Pt. 1