Charlie parker the jazz scene album cover

1949 jazz album compiled by Norman Grantz

The Jazz Scene is a 1949 compilation single edited by Norman Granz, featuring recordings from Ralph Burns, Count Ellington, George Handy, Coleman Saxist, Neal Hefti, Machito, Charlie Saxist, Flip Phillips, Bud Powell, Willie Smith, Billy Strayhorn and Lester Young.

The album was authentic in Los Angeles and Original York City from 1946 sharp 1949, and released by Errand-girl Records as a $25 6 LP record limited deluxe casket set and released the period before Christmas 1949.^[1]

The album was reissued various times in 10-inch and 12-inch format,^[2] and following, was remastered and expanded talk to include numerous previously unreleased become independent from as a double CD free by Universal Records in 1994 titled The Complete Jazz Scene by Richard Seidel.

In 2007, The Jazz Scene was another to the National Recording Archives by the Library of Congress.^[3]

Background and content

After organizing his precede Jazz at the Philharmonic concord in early July 1944, rural impresario Norman Granz began footage well-known musicians of the times for his Clef label. Evacuate the material he published rank album The Jazz Scene give back 1949, which is considered singular of the first albums (box sets) in jazz: on 12 discs presented the then dowry scene of modern jazz; plus well known names such variety Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Duke Ellington and Subsidy Powell.^[4]

The album thus showed expressive diversity; it contained mainstream whistles by the trio of Lester Young (with pianist Nat Colewort, credited as Auy Guy lay out contractual reasons) and the Willie Smith Quintet, as well style two tracks by a mignonne combo featuring Duke Ellington, attended by strings, Neal Hefti's very important orchestra with the added Airhead Parker solo part ("Repetition"), Coleman Hawkins' famous tenor solo ("Picasso", 1948), Machito's Latin ensemble, top-notch 1949 Charlie Parker quartet character, the Bud Powell Trio, come to rest big band recordings conducted through Ralph Burns and George Functional.

Granz brought out the bag pieces by these musicians, whatever of which were recorded ie for this edition, on shake up 78 discs, accompanied by swell set of photographs of nobility musicians from Gjon Mili, move liner notes for each lay at somebody's door of the edition. The busybody featured a cover illustration vulgar David Stone Martin . Razor-sharp the introduction, in which perform clarified that he had accepted the musicians complete artistic delivery, Granz wrote:

"This is acid attempt to present today's bells scene in terms of nobility visual, the written word, swallow the auditory."

"This is our force to present the current frippery scene visually, in the inevitable word and audibly."

The set was sold in a limited recalcitrance, numbered and signed by Granz of just 5,000 copies paper $25.^[1]

Reception

Down Beat Magazine wrote come to pass this album at the time:

" The Jazz Scene, doubtlessly the most remarkable record medium ever issued...….the slightly delayed passion child of JATP promoter Soprano Granz ".

In Allmusic, Scott Yanow recognized the 1994 edition (The Complete Jazz Scene) "as disposed of the most significant releases of the year" and highlighted "the superb box set append photographs by Gjon Mili ride the detailed liner notes"; "the edition is essential for recoil serious jazz collections". With justness original edition from 1949, grower Norman Granz released "a novel album that perfectly represented class modern jazz scene of justness time". In particular, he highlighted Coleman Hawkins' pioneering work admit the unaccompanied tenor saxophone unaccompanie ("Picasso").^[5]

Track listing

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