Vol. 3-Complete Recordings [Import]

Charlie Shavers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Lonehill Jazz Spain
• ASIN: B0008GIXGY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #408,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Best Things in Life Are Free

2. Taking a Chance on Love

3. In a Little Spanish Town

4. You're My Everything

5. My Old Kentucky Home

6. Carioca

7. In the Still of the Night

8. Soon

9. I'm a Fool to Love You

10. Blues for Choo Loos

11. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

12. Don't Be Late

13. It Might as Well Be Spring

14. Jada

15. But Beautiful

16. Fly Me to the Moon

17. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

18. Period of Adjustment

19. Bossa Nova Petite

20. I Kid You Not

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

3-on-1 CD set. Lone Hill Jazz. 2005.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plenty of horn, January 30, 2010

By 

Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vol. 3-Complete Recordings (Audio CD)

If you like mainstream jazz, or jazz trumpet, Charlie Shavers is your kinda guy and this CD contains some hot mainstream tracks as well as some subdued ones.

His tone is bright, rich and resonating, but also flexible; if you've never heard Charlie play, you could say he was a combination of Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton if you will, with a touch of Satchmo. But he was first and foremost a very distinctive player, capable of fiery explosions and of subtle balladeering, as you can clearly hear from this beautiful compilation.

Now, for the informative section: the CD contains albums "Like Charlie" and "Excitement Unlimited", plus 5 track from "Charlie Shavers at Le Crazy Horse saloon in Paris", with unknown accompaniment (tracks 13-17). Charlie also takes a quite likable vocal on "It don't mean a thing there"
Tracks 1-12 boast Ray Bryant on piano, Tommy Bryant on bass, Oliver Jackson on drums;
tracks 18-29 present Charlie's Orchestra - Billy Byers (tb), Jerome Richardson (as), Budd Johnson (ts), Bruce Martin (p), George Barnes (g), T. Bryant (b), O. Jackson (dm). There is also a touch of flute there, probably by Richardson, quite an accomplished flute player.

There are quite a lot of standards here (including "Night in Tunisia), but also some fine Shavers' originals (including "Minor Blues", "Period of Adjustment", "Don't be late" and, yes, "Undecided") the line-up varies between two halves of the CD, so there's quite enough variety here,
although I would lie if I said I liked all the tracks equally: some are too concise (quite a few tracks last around 2 minutes, some are even shorter).

And, the song listed as "Porgy" (McHugh-Fields) is actually
"I Loves You Porgy" form Gershwin-Heyward's "Porgy and Bess"