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CLASSIC CHU BERRY COLUMBIA AND VICTOR SESSIONS
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u.s.a., new york city, chicago, big band, vocal jazz, discographie de base, swing era - middle jazz

Ref. UB4430
MOSAIC RECORDS, 2007. Enregistrement 1933-1941.

BERRY, Leon "Chu" (1910-1941) saxophone ténor. Ayant débuté en 1929, Chu Berry arrive à New York l'année suivante et joue dans plusieurs orchestres avant de faire partie de quelques-unes des plus grandes formations de l'époque : Benny Carter et Charlie Johnson (1932-33), Teddy Hill (1933-35), Fletcher Henderson (1935-37) et Cab Calloway (de 1937 à sa mort due à un accident de voiture). Son expérience de soliste de big bands ne l'empêche pas de participer à de nombreuses séances en petites formations sous la direction de Red Allen, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton et autres. Si, comme tous les ténors, son style part de Coleman Hawkins, il développe un jeu souvent véhément, plus volubile, au vibrato serré, conduisant un discours nerveux, tendu, swinguant, constamment inspiré et équilibré avec une maîtrise parfaite de la sonorité. À côté d'Hawkins et de Lester Young, on considère Chu Berry comme le troisième très grand saxo ténor de l'avant-guerre...... [notes de pochette]. [Très bonne compilation]

« Étant donné la brièveté de la vie de Chu, et sa carrière de musicien qui n'a durée qu'une décennie, il est étonnant que son nom continue à peser autant dans les annales du jazz. S'il avait vécu davantage, il est certain qu'il serait installé au panthéon du jazz aux côtés de Coleman Hawkins et de Lester Young. Il était aussi doué. » [Dan Morgenstern, directeur de l'Institut d'études de jazz à l'université Rutgers (New Jersey)]

« Berry a reçu des musiciens ce surnom mal orthographié (Choo, Chew), parce qu'il mordillait son embouchure, - ou bien parcequ'il portait une moustache « à la Fu Manchu », ou peut-être les deux. » [Gary Giddins, critique de jazz au Village Voice]

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Interprètes

Pistes

Disque 1

1 Blue interlude
2 I never knew
3 I never knew
4 Once upon a time
5 Krazy kapers
6 Do your duty
7 I'm down in the dumps
8 Lookie, lookie, lookie here comes cookie
9 When the robin sings his songs again
10 Rosetta
11 I'll never say 'never again' again
12 Get rhythm in your feet
13 Chasing shadows
14 Chasing shadows
15 When I grow too old to dream
16 I'd love to take orders from you
17 I'd rather listen to your eyes
18 When day is done
19 Twenty four hours a day
20 Yankee doodle never went to town
21 Eeny meeny meiny mo
22 I hope gabriel likes my music
23 Mutiny in the parlor
24 I'm gonna clap my hands
25 Swing is here
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Disque 2

1 Christopher Columbus
2 Grand terrace swing
3 Blue Lou
4 Stealin' apples
5 Moonrise on the Lowlands
6 I'll always be in love with you
7 Jangled nerves
8 Mary had a little lamb
9 Too good to be true
10 Warmin' up
11 Blues in C sharp minor
12 Where there's you there's me
13 Do you or don't you love me
14 Mary had a little lamb
15 Shoe shine boy
16 Sing, Sing, Sing
17 Knock, knock who's There (alt. Take)?
18 Knock, Knock Who's there?
19 Jim Town Blues
20 You can depend on me
21 Slummin' On Park Avenue (-2)
22 Slummin' On Park Avenue (-1)
23 Rhythm of the tambourine
24 Backin your own backyard
25 Rose room
26 Great Caesar's ghost

Disque 3

1 Now you're talking my language
2 Back home again in Indiana
3 Back home again in Indiana (alt take)
4 Too marvelous for words (alt take)
5 Too marvelous for words
6 Limehouse blues (alt take)
7 Limehouse blues
8 All god's chillun got rhythm
9 Chris and his gang
10 I'm always in the mood for you
11 She's tall, she's tan, she's terrific
12 Go South, young man
13 Mama, I want to make rhythm
14 Queen Isabella
15 Savage rhythm
16 Chuberry jam
17 Maelstrom (alt take)
18 Maelstrom
19 My secret love Afffair
20 Ebb tide
21 A minor breakdown (-1)
22 A Minor Breakdown (-2)
23 Bugle blues
24 My first impression of you
25 With a smile and a song (-1)
26 With a smile and a song (-2)

Disque 4

1 When you're smiling
2 I can't believe that you're in love
3 Thank for the memory (alt take)
4 Thank for the memory
5 Lover come back to me (alt take)
6 Lover come back to me
7 Annie Laurie
8 Loch Lomond
9 My mariussia take a steamboat
10 In the land of Yamo Yamo
11 Rustle of swing
12 Three swings and out
13 I'm a real kinda papa
14 I like music (with a swing like that)
15 Penguin swing
16 Peck-a-doodle-do
17 At the Clambake carnival
18 Hoy-hoy
19 Miss Hallelujah Brown
20 Shout, shout, shout
21 Jive (page 1 of the hepster's dictionary
22 Do you wanna jump, children?
23 Blue interlude
24 Fdr Jones
25 That's all I ask of you (alt take)
26 That's all I ask of you

Disque 5

1 Floogie walk
2 I can give you love
3 High society
4 Johnny get your horn
5 Sweethearts on parade
6 Shufflin' at the Hollywood (alt take)
7 Shufflin' at the Hollywood
8 Denison swing
9 Wizzin' the wizz (alt take)
10 Wizzin' the wizz
11 Downright disgusted blues
12 Corrine Corrini
13 I'm a real kinda papa
14 Jumpy nerves
15 Boogie woogie
16 Ain't cha comin' home ?
17 Royal garden blues
18 In the barrel
19 Farewell blues
20 Fare thee, my baby, fare-thee-well
21 Limehouse blues
22 Trylon swing
23 Utt-da-zay
24 Crescendo in drums
25 The jumpin' jive

Disque 6

1 Pluckin' the bass (alt take)
2 Pluckin' the bass
3 I ain't getting nowhere fast
4 Blue lou
5 When the saints go marching in
6 My honey's lovin' arms
7 When my sugar walks down the street
8 Hot mallets
9 A bee gezindt
10 Give, baby, give
11 Do it again
12 Calling All bars (alt take)
13 Calling all bars
14 Do I care? No, no (alt take)
15 Do I care? No, no
16 The lone arranger (-2)
17 The lone arranger (-1)
18 Hard times
19 Who's Yehoodi? (alt take)
20 Who's Yehoodi?
21 Come on with the 'come on'
22 A ghost of a chance (alt take)
23 A ghost of a chance
24 Bye bye blues (alt take)
25 Bye bye blues

Disque 7

1 Papa's in bed with his britches on(alt take -3)
2 Papa's in bed with his britches on(alt take -2)
3 Papa's in bed with his britches on
4 Boo-wah boo-wah (alt take)
5 Boo-wah boo-wah
6 Cupid's nightmare
7 Are you hep to the jive
8 Hot air
9 Lonesome nights (alt take)
10 Lonesome nights
11 A chicken ain't nothin' but a bird(alt tk)
12 A chicken ain't nothin' but a bird(breakdown)
13 A chicken ain't nothin' but a bird
14 The worker's train
15 The worker's train (breakdown)
16 Run, little rabbit (alt take)
17 Run, little rabbit
18 Are you all reet? (alt take)
19 Are you all reet?
20 Special delivery (alt take -3)
21 Special delivery (alt take.-2)
22 Special delivery
23 Take the 'A' train
24 Hey Doc!
25 My coo-coo bird (could swing)

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