Frankie Newton - Frankie Newton Collection 1929-46 (CD)

Frankie Newton was a much-admired trumpeter whose recording career spanned two highly significant decades from the 1920s through to the 1940s during which time his adaptable, mellow swinging style made him a popular sideman in many different leaders' bands while he also led his own orchestras and small bands in sessions that produced some marvellously entertaining recordings. The fact that he somewhat lost interest in music in favour of other interests, resulting in him fading from the scene as bebop developed, meant that his influence and legacy has been sadly ignored over the years. This great-value 69-track 3-CD set comprises recordings from across his active career, and features recordings with a startling variety of top names, ranging from Bessie Smith in the 1920s, through the likes of Mezz Mezzrow, Teddy Wilson Willie "The Lion" Smith, Maxine Sullivan and Billie Holiday in the '30s, to Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, and Big Joe Turner in the '40s, as well as his own bands such as the Uptown Serenaders and Café Society Orchestra. It encompasses a highly entertaining range of jazz styles, showcasing him in a variety of different musical environments, both in the studio and 'live', as a powerful and inventive soloist and sensitive accompanist and ensemble player as well as a leader. It provides a substantial tribute to a musician who merits much more

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Lawd, Lawd
2. In A Corner
3. Springfield Stomp
4. Do Your Duty
5. Gimme A Pigfoot
6. Moon Over Miami
7. I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze
8. Suzannah
9. Lights Out
10. Lost
11. Mutiny In The Parlor
12. The Panic Is On
13. I'se A Muggin' (Pt 1)
14. Christopher Columbus (A Rhythm Cocktail)
15. At The Rug Cutters' Ball
16. Blue Rhythm Fantasy
17. Passionette
18. You Showed Me The Way
19. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
20. Who's Sorry Now '
21. The Harlem Twister (The New Sensation)
22. I've Found A New Baby
23. The Brittwood Stomp
24. There's No Two Ways About It
25. Cause My Baby Says It's So

Disc: 2

1. A Study In Brown
2. Easy Living
3. The Onyx Hop
4. Where Or When
5. Get Acquainted With Yourself
6. Peace, Brother, Peace
7. Emperor Jones
8. Loch Lomond
9. Honeymoonin' On A Dime
10. Dizzy Debutante
11. The Bed Song
12. An Old Flame Never Dies
13. Light Up
14. Rosetta
15. Minor Jive
16. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
17. Who '
18. The Blues My Baby Gave To Me
19. Rompin' [Romping At Victor]
20. Honeysuckle Rose
21. Daybreak Blues
22. Port Of Harlem Blues
23. Mighty Blues

Disc: 3

1. Tab's Blues
2. Rockin' The Blues
3. Jitters
4. Frankie's Jump
5. Jam Fever
6. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
7. After Hour Blues
8. Blues For Tommy Ladnier
9. Pounding Heart Blues
10. Vamp
11. Parallel Fifths
12. Lady Be Good
13. Lullaby Of The Leaves
14. Four O'Clock Groove
15. Twilight In Teheran
16. Swing Street
17. Gone At Dawn
18. Sugar
19. I Love My Man
20. S.K. Blues (Pt 1)
21. Jazz Me Blues