Jive at Five

Jive at Five
Studio album by The Joe Newman Quintet Featuring Frank Wess
Released	1960
Recorded	May 4, 1960
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:09
Label	Swingville SVLP 2011
Producer	The Sound of America
Joe Newman chronology
Counting Five in Sweden (1958) Jive at Five (1960) Good 'n' Groovy (1961)

Jive at Five is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman featuring tracks recorded with members of the Count Basie Orchestra in 1960 and originally released on the Swingville label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
DownBeat	[5]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Newman and his friends swing their way through four vintage standards and a couple of the leader's original blues in typical fashion". ^[3]

John A Tynan gave the release 4 stars in his DownBeat review. ^[5] Tynan called the album "an object lesson in relaxed and intelligent blowing. All the elements fit—compatible musicians, familiar material, assertedly congenial atmosphere — and are doweled together into a deceptively simple and always swinging whole . . . This get-together grooves all the way, coming in and going out swinging". ^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Newman except where noted

1. "Wednesday's Blues" - 9:05
2. "Jive at Five" (Count Basie, Harry Edison) - 5:35
3. "More Than You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose) - 3:59
4. "Cuein' the Blues" - 4:33
5. "Taps Miller" (Basie, Luis Russell) - 8:18
6. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) - 4:39

Personnel

• Joe Newman - trumpet
• Frank Wess - tenor saxophone, flute
• Tommy Flanagan - piano
• Eddie Jones - bass
• Oliver Jackson - drums

References

1. Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Swingville Label Discography, accessed December 8, 2015
2. Prestige Records Catalog: Swingville 2000, 4000 series, accessed December 8, 2015
3. Yanow, Scott. Jive at Five – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 8, 2015.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1075. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Tynan, John A (February 2, 1961). "Jive at Five". DownBeat . 28 (3): 38.