Hoagy Sings Carmichael

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Hoagy Sings Carmichael
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Studio album by Hoagy Carmichael with the Pacific Jazzmen
Released 1957
Recorded September 10, 11 & 13, 1956
Forum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length38:41
Label Pacific Jazz PJ-1223
Producer Richard Bock

Hoagy Sings Carmichael (subtitled With the Pacific Jazzmen Arranged and Conducted by Johnny Mandel) is an album by composer and vocalist Hoagy Carmichael recorded in 1956 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. [1] [2] The album features Carmichael's last significant recordings.

Hoagy Carmichael American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. American composer and author Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great craftsmen" of pop songs in the first half of the twentieth century. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies, such as television and the use of electronic microphones and sound recordings.

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer Richard Bock (1927–1988) and drummer Roy Harte (1924–2003). Harte, in 1954, also co-founded Nocturne Records with jazz bassist Harry Babasin (1921–1988).

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "What is unusual is that he is accompanied by an 11-piece all-star jazz group and that his voice takes its turn with trumpeters Harry "Sweets" Edison and Don Fagerquist, altoist Art Pepper, and pianist Jimmy Rowles. The match up works quite well, for Hoagy's songs have long been viable devices for jazz improvising". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Hoagy Carmichael except as indicated

  1. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 3:58
  2. "Winter Moon" - 4:12
  3. "New Orleans" - 3:55
  4. "Memphis in June" (Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster) - 3:48
  5. "Skylark" (Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) - 4:03
  6. "Two Sleepy People" (Carmichael, Frank Loesser) - 4:35
  7. "Baltimore Oriole" (Carmichael, Webster) - 3:54
  8. "Rockin' Chair" - 2:34
  9. "Ballad in Blue" (Carmichael, Irving Kahal) - 3:07
  10. "Lazy River" (Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) - 2:48
  11. "Georgia on My Mind" (Carmichael, Gorrell) - 1:47 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Harry Edison American trumpeter

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

Conrad J. Gozzo (1922–1964) was an American trumpet player born in New Britain, Connecticut on February 6, 1922. Gozzo was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra at the time of his death on October 8, 1964. He died at the age of 42 of a heart attack.

Donald Alton Fagerquist was a small group, big band, and studio jazz trumpet player from the West Coast of the United States.

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References

  1. ↑ Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed January 11, 2016
  2. ↑ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Pacific Jazz/Pacifica Album Discography accessed January 11, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Hoagy Sings Carmichael – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 11, 2016.
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