Teddy Wilson - The Complete Verve Recordings (1997) (5CD Box Set)

Label: Mosaic Records,PolyGram | 5CD | MP3 320 kbps | 798 MB
Genre: Jazz,Mainstream Jazz,Swing,Piano

By 1952, Teddy Wilson's flawless swing style had already been fully formed for at least 17 years, and it would not change at all during the remaining three decades of his life. Wilson's performances were predictably excellent, but predictable nonetheless. This limited-edition five-CD set has all of the pianist's Verve trio recordings, which includes six-and-a-half former LPs (the half was an appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival), a set only released previously in Japan, and a live date that had never come out before.

Wilson is teamed with bassists John Simmons, Aaron Bell, Arvell Shaw, Milt Hinton, Geme Ramey, and Al Lucas; and Buddy Rich, Denzil Best, J.C. Heard, Stick Evans, Jo Jones, Specs Powell, Roy Burnes, and Bert Dahlander in the drum slot. A version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" from the Newport Festival adds baritonist Gerry Mulligan. No real surprises occur, and the music, although quite pleasing, is best heard in small doses.

The 1930s were rife with jazz pianists of unprecedented and rarely surpassed originality, all the way from early stride masters James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith through Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Joe Sullivan, Jess Stacy, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie to the boogie woogie giants, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons. But no one in those years scaled the heights of popularity among both jazz cognoscenti and the public at large as quickly as did Teddy Wilson. The first black jazzman to be featured with a white swing band, indeed the best and most widely exposed of them all, Teddy soared to a position of national recognition and acclaim during his tenure with Benny Goodman, his incomparably polished, lyrical, and swinging contributions to the trio and quartet recordings, concerts, and broadcast appearances, as well as his own solos and series of dates with Billie Holiday, continually adding to his longstanding reputation among musicians. Tellingly, despite the commercial failure of his own highly musical 1939-40 orchestra, upon disbanding he once again struck gold with an all-star swing xxxtet that he maintained successfully through 1944. Widely recorded as a sideman during the mid-'40s, Wilson appeared on many Keynote dates with Coleman Hawkins and even participated in Red Norvo's historic "Swing To Bop" session on Comet with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Slam Stewart, and J.C. Heard....more

Tracklist:

Disc 1
01. The One I Love (Belongs To Someone Else)
02. Darn That Dream
03. Tea For Two
04. Lady Be Good
05. Emaline
06. Tenderly
07. Everything That Happens To Me
08. Liza
09. Nice Work If You Can Get It
10. Air Mail Special
11. Night And Day
12. Cheek To Cheek
13. East Of The Sun
14. Autumn In New York
15. Isn't It Romantic?
16. You Go To My Head
17. Unforgettable
18. Almost Like Being In Love
19. Lover
20. If Dreams Come True
21. Don't Be That Way
22. Stompin' At The Savoy
23. Love Is Here To Stay
24. Sweet And Lovely

Disc 2
01. Blues For The Oldest Profession
02. It Had To Be You
03. You Took Advantage Of Me
04. Three Little Words
05. If I Had You
06. Who's Sorry Now
07. The Birth Of The Blues
08. When Your Lover Has Gone
09. Moonlight On The Ganges
10. April In Paris
11. Hallelujah
12. Get Out Of Town
13. Stompin' At The Savoy
14. Say It Ain't So
15. All Of Me
16. Stars Fell On Alabama
17. I Got Rhythm
18. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
19. Sweet Georgia Brown
20. As Time Goes By
21. Smiles
22. When Your Lover Has Gone

Disc 3
01. Limehouse Blues
02. Blues For Daryl
03. You're Driving Me Crazy
04. I Want To Be Happy
05. Ain't Misbeshavin'
06. Honey****le Rose
07. Fine And Dandy
08. Sweet Lorraine
09. I Found A New Baby
10. It's The Talk Of The Town
11. Laura
12. Undecided
13. Time On My Hands
14. Who Cares?
15. Love Is Here To Stay
16. When You're Smiling
17. Imagination
18. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
19. I've Got The World On A String
20. Whispering

Disc 4
01. Poor Butterfly
02. Rosetta
03. Basin Street Blues
04. How Deep Is The Ocean
05. Just One Of Those Things
06. Have You Met Miss Jones
07. It Don't Mean A Thing
08. Avalon
09. The Little Things That Mean So Much
10. 'S Wonderful
11. Someone To Watch Over Me
12. Jeepers Creepers
13. If You Are But A Dream
14. Bye Bye Blues
15. Sunny Morning
16. Talking To The Moon
17. Dream House
18. Sometimes I'm Happy
19. That Old Feeling

Disc 5
01. Stompin' At The Savoy
02. Air Mail Special
03. Basin Street Blues
04. I Got Rhythm
05. Sweet Georgia Brown
06. Stompin' At The Savoy Stratford, Ontario Jazz Festival)
07. Tea For Two
08. Medley - Body And Soul - Sweet Lorraine - I've Got The World On A String
09. Runnin' Wild
10. How High The Moon
11. Air Mail Special (Stratford, Ontario Jazz Festival)

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