Berry Story [Import]

Chu Berry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 1996)
• Original Release Date: September 17, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Epm Musique
• ASIN: B000001N2S
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #484,000 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music

2. Now You're Talking My Language

3. (Back Home Again In) Indiana

4. Too Marvelous for Words

5. Limehouse Blues

6. Chuberry Jam

7. Maelstrom

8. My Secret Love Affair

9. Ebb Tide

10. Annie Laurie

11. Loch Lomond

12. In the Land of Yamo Yamo

13. Body and Soul

14. Sittin' In

15. Stardust

16. Forty Six, West Fifty Two

17. Downright Disgusted Blues

18. Corrine, Corrina

19. Jumpy Nerves

20. Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Chu Sampling, August 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Berry Story (Audio CD)

Sad that Leon "Chu" Berry's death at 33 in an auto wreck (on his way to a date with the Cab Calloway band in Canada) put him in a position to be eclipsed by Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, et al. Although these men are undisputed Giants, Chu unquestionably had what it took take his place alongside them. Even with the fragmentary recorded career, I'd say he belongs there. If you want to hear the ripe beauty of Chu's tone and his elegant, laidback phrasing, try this collection. Because it isn't a volume of a sequential discographical release series, they are free to hop around more to show you Chu in different periods and settings. I give this one a definite thumbs up for value and diversity of selection.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chu or Chew ?, October 4, 2000

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J.P. BADELLON (Versailles FRANCE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Berry Story (Audio CD)

Few people today have heard about Chu Berry. He died 60 years ago, when his style and way of playing were increasing every day. During Coleman Hawkins was in Europa, and Lester just begining, he was the tenor number one. He unfortunately disappeared before birth of a new kind of music, called be-bop. One can wonder how would have Chu play music if he was alive until the 60' or the 70'

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GONE BUT FORGOTTEN, August 8, 2000

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Raymond Leach (AUSTIN, TEXAS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Berry Story (Audio CD)

ONE OF THE BEST SAXMEN TO EVER PLAY WITH LOTS HIS BEST WORK. REALLY GREAT WHEN HE JAMS WITH "LITTLE JAZ" ROY ELDRIDGE. ALSO TUNES WITH WINGY MALONE, GENE KRUPPA,AND LIONEL HAMPTON. GOOD PRE-WAR SWING. JUST MAKES YOU WISH THAT HE HAD NOT DIED IN 41.