Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (album)

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Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
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Studio album by Harry Edison
Released 1958
Recorded March 5 & 30, 1957
Studio Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length41:42
Label Verve
MG V-8211
Producer Norman Granz
Harry Edison chronology
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Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You is an album by trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison which was recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label. [1] [2]

Harry Edison American trumpeter

Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra.

Verve Records American record label

Verve Records, also known as The Verve Music Group, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier labels, Clef Records, founded in 1946, Norgran Records, founded in 1953, and material previously licensed to Mercury Records.

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Track listing

All compositions by Harry Edison except where noted.

  1. "Blues for Piney Brown" – 7:33
  2. "Blues for the Blues" – 4:48
  3. "Blues for Bill Basie" – 9:27
  4. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Don Redman, Andy Razaf) – 3:28
  5. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 6:49
  6. "Taste on the Place" – 6:55
  7. "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:52

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Ben Webster American saxophonist

Benjamin Francis Webster was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He is considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute" or "Frog", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps, yet on ballads he played with warmth and sentiment. He was indebted to alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, who, he said, taught him to play his instrument.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Verve Label Discography, accessed June 28, 2017
  2. ↑ Verve Records Catalog, accessed June 28, 2017
  3. ↑ Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
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