Slim Gaillard Rides Again [Original recording remastered, Limited Edition]

Slim Gaillard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 20, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Limited Edition
• Label: UMVD Labels
• ASIN: B00006FR6D
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,742 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Voutee-o-roonie-How High the Moon-Roonie mo!, April 14, 2003

By 

Joseph Lewis (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slim Gaillard Rides Again (Audio CD)

One of Slim's best, and great to have it on CD, as I've almost worn out the last vinyl reissue on MCA. Terrific guitar playing, and yes, he even played Count Basie piano with the backs of his hands...and wrote songs in about eight languages. I'd recommend buying the "Opera in Vout" compilation, as well as all the live "Hep" material as well. I met him in 1989, and reminded him of one of my favorite records of his. "Oh yeah...Yep Roc Heresy o-roonie," he said...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY!!!, March 15, 2003

By 

Artie Fisk "artiefisk" (New Paltz, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slim Gaillard Rides Again (Audio CD)

It's here!!! Finally, the least-hyped record in Slim's canon makes it to CD in a classy lp-style repackage. THIS IS THE RECORD with Slim's UNBELIEVABLE version of "How High the Moon," in which our hero abandons all pretense to the original lyrics by the 4th bar of the tune!

Slim's music is always swingin' and spot-on, and this record is no exception, but it's in the SINGING that this one takes the cake! Slim relies less on Vout (as the language that consists of suffixes like "o'rooney," "o'reenie-moe," "vounty," "vouty," and sundry others is known) here than he does on a whacked-out mind.

Slim's "How High The Moon" is a MASTERPIECE, and it does not seem outlandish to say that with few exceptions, very little of his previously-easily-available output can truly compare. His off-the-cuff lyrical improvisations are genuinely the product of a bent mind, especially on this tune, where Slim's surreal tour of the solar system predates Jimi Hendrix' "The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice" by 8 years!

Slim's vocal impression of Billy Eckstine on "Ghost of a Chance" is sublime.
Slim's imitation of the Basie piano style is evident on "Slim's Cee," as it is in the more readily available "Opera in Vout" on the Verve disc.

I had this on VINYL (if you can dig that) and have lamented for years it's unavailability on CD.
Now, I can die peacefully.

"To Slim Gaillard, the world was one big 'o'roonie.'"

--Jack Kerouac, On The Road

5.0 out of 5 stars A great romp, December 13, 2008

By 

D. Moore (NH) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Slim Gaillard Rides Again (Audio CD)

This man is truly funny and so real. His silly sense of humor with a little vout (jazz babble) produces great new versions of these classic song selections. (Where does a grown man get the balls to sing Chicken Rhythm??) He shines when he reaches way down for that startlingly smooth and velvety deep voice. Thunderbird, go, go, go!!!