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ORIGINAL BUD SHANK QUARTET
"Pacific Jazz Years"
GSCR 028
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Alto sax star Bud Shank is one of the few surviving modern jazz musicians who truly justifies legendary status. One of the pioneers of 50’s West Coast Jazz, California based Shanks’ career trajectory had him initially winning his spurs within the ranks of the big bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kenton’s historic “Innovations Orchestra”. With his buzz cut coiffeur, Hawaiian shirts, chinos and open top sports car, the ubiquitous Bud Shank epitomised West Coast cool.
Aware of Charlie Parker, it was Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, and to a lesser extent Benny Carter who caught Bud’s ear, and his tenure as lead alto sax in Stan Kenton’s Orchestra, with Art Pepper on his left, kept Shanks permanently sharp. His regular fixture with The Lighthouse All Stars broadened his fan base, which inevitably gave him the confidence to cut loose and front his own regular quartet. Therefore, it came as no big surprise when in 1954, Down Beat Magazine’s Annual Critics Poll nominated Shank as New Star Alto Sax.
When he left the Lighthouse on New Years Eve 1955, Shank took along with him his former Barnet bandmate and the All Stars piano player Claude Williamson. They were joined by bass player Don Prell and former Woody Herman drummer Chuck Flores, and it was this foursome who made their public debut on January 1 1956 at Hollywood hot spot The Haig – a converted bungalow on Wilshire Boulevard where, like the Gerry Mulligan Quartet before them, they proved to be a runaway success.
January was a busy month for Bud Shank’s quartet. After The Haig opening, the next major date in the band’s diary was the morning of Thursday January 19 1956. At the unearthly hour of 11.00am, the quartet plus fellow Lighthouse sidekick, tenor sax Bob Cooper, performed before students at the California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena. Six days later the quartet minus Cooper were booked into The Capitol Tower on Hollywood and Vine to cut their debut studio album. A second studio album was recorded six months later. This popular quartet remained together until 1959.
The quartet’s first three albums comprise this new release from Giant Steps.
Track Listing CD1:
1. WHEN THE LIGHTS ARE LOW
2. OLE DEVIL MOON
3. THE NEARNESS OF YOU
4. HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON
5. LULLABY OF BIRDLAND
6. SOMEBODY LOVES ME
7. MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
8. THE KING
9. BAGS OF BLUES
10. NATURE BOY
11. ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO
12. JUBILATION
Track Listing CD2:
1. DO NOTHIN’ TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME
2. NOCTURNE FOR FLUTE
3. WALKIN’
4. CARIOCA
5. A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
6. TERTIA
7. ALL OF YOU
8. THEME
9. JIVE AT FIVE
10. SOFTLY AS A MORNING SUNRISE
11. POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS
12. PAVANE – THE LAMP IS LOW
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