The complete Verve Stuff Smith sessions.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Smith, Stuff, performer.

Contributor:

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993, performer.

Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007, performer.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1951-1960.

Jazz.

Jazz--1961-1970.

Violin music (Jazz).

Genre:

Violin music (Jazz)

Sound recordings.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Stamford, Conn. : Mosaic Records, [1999]

Language Note:

Vocal selections sung in English.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Disc 1. Hillcrest (3:38)

The blues I know (5:28)

Skip it (4:01)

Uh ruh (3:29)

My thoughts (3:42)

Live and you'll learn (4:48)

Night falls again (5:32)

Minuet in swing (2:59)

Midway (3:58)

I lost my heart by the river (5:44)

Won't you take a lesson in love? (4:10)

What I say (4:34)

It's wonderful (3:59)

Coming through the rye (2:40)

Ja-da (4:00).

Disc 2. Indiana (3:22)

Blow blow blow (5:26)

Calypso (5:28)

I wrote my song (3:16)

Oh, but it is (4:15)

Stop-look (3:21)

Would you object? (2:27)

Crazy rhythm (2:22)

Rio Pakistan (11:27)

It's only a paper moon (8:27)

Purple sounds (10:07)

Russian lullaby (7:55)

Oh, lady be good (4:10).

Disc 3. Desert sands (8:12)

Soft winds (6:09)

Time and again, aka, Don't you think? (7:01)

It don't mean a thing (4:25)

In a mellotone (9:50)

I know that you know (9:34)

Heat wave (7:26)

Things ain't what they used to be (6:17)

Body and soul (10:26).

Disc 4. 'S wonderful (3:42)

A foggy day (3:16)

I loves you, Porgy (3:17)

Somebody loves me (3:39)

Strike up the band (2:52)

Oh, lady be good (2:17)

Fascinating rhythm (2:46)

The man I love (3:42)

They can't take that away from me (5:06)

Love is here to stay (3:44)

Nice work if you can get it (4:02)

Whatcha gonna do, when you dance past 42? (Whatcha gonna do, baby, with my lovin'?) (2:11)

Blue violin (3:02)

Undecided (2:36)

Nice and warm (3:13)

Take the A train (4:10)

Up jumps Sally (2:26 ; 2:48)

Miracles (2:48)

Play, aka, Timme's blues (3:49).

Participant:

Stuff Smith, violin, vocals (all selections), with, variously: Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet ; Dudley Brooks, Jimmy Jones, Carl Perkins, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Paul Smith, Jimmy Jones, piano ; Jess Simpkins, Red Callendar, Curtis Counce, Ray Brown, Paul West, Lewis Packer, Red Mitchell, Milt Hinton, double bass ; Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, guitar ; Frank Butler, Oscar Bradley, Alvin Stoller, J.C. Heard, Harry Saunders, Sid Bulkin, Osie Johnson, drums ; The Gordon Family, vocals ; Shirley Horn,

piano, vocals ; Ray Nance, violin.

Notes:

Mosaic Records: MD4-186 (additional no. on discs: DPSM-5317).

Jazz.

"This set contains all of the sessions that Stuff Smith made for Verve as a leader"--Notes, p. 11.

Some selections previously released on Verve MGV 8206 (Stuff Smith), MGV 8214 (Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith), MGV 8339 (Cat on a hot fiddle), MGV 8282 (Have violin, will swing), and 314 521 676-2 (Stuff Smith, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson).

Recorded in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, D.C. between Oct. 25, 1956 and Mar. 23, 1964.

Compact discs.

Program notes by Anthony Barnett with discography (12 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.) laid in outer container.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

OCLC:

41332890

Publisher Number:

MD4-186 Mosaic Records

DPSM-5317 Mosaic Records

MGV 8206 Verve

MGV 8214 Verve

MGV 8339 Verve

MGV 8282 Verve

314 521 676-2 Verve