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Ray Brown - The Early Albums Complete [New CD] Artist: Ray Brown Title: The Early Albums Complete Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2022 Label: Enlightenment UPC: 823564036045 Genre: Jazz Album Tracks DISC 1: 1. Ool-Ya-Koo 2. Love That Boy 3. Mr. Paganini 4. It's Too Soon to Know 5. I Never Knew 6. How High the Moon 7. Heat Wave 8. Old Mother Hubbard 9. Bop Goes the Weasel 10. Ool-Ya-Koo 11. Flying Home 12. Blues for Sylvia 13. All of You 14. Everything I Have Is Yours 15. Will You Still Be Mine? 16. Little Toe 17. Alone Together 18. Solo for Unaccompanied Bass 19. My Foolish Heart 20. Blues for Lorraine DISC 2: 1. Bric-A-Brac 2. Upstairs Blues 3. (Back Home Again in) Indiana 4. The Nearness of You 5. Take the 'A' Train 6. Cool Walk 7. Jim 8. Tangerine 9. Almost Like Being in Love 10. That Old Feeling 11. Ain't Misbehavin' 12. Alice Blue Gown 13. Rosalie 14. But Beautiful 15. Poor Butterfly 16. Memories of You 17. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby DISC 3: 1. Work Song 2. It Happened in Monterey 3. My One and Only Love 4. Tricrotism 5. Thumbstring 6. Cannon Bilt 7. Two for the Blues 8. Day in, Day Out 9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads 10. Much in Common 11. When the Saints Go Marching in 12. I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song 13. Gravy Blues 14. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 15. What Kind of Fool Am I? 16. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 17. Just for a Thrill 18. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 19. Give Me That Old Religion DISC 4: 1. Lined with a Groove 2. For Someone I Love (What's Your Story) 3. Dew and Mud 4. I Just Can't Fool Myself 5. Lazy Theme 6. Now Hear My Meaning 7. In a Crowd 8. Monterey Mist 9. Jordu 10. Satin Doll 11. It Could Happen to You 12. Mean to Me 13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me 14. On Green Dolphin Street 15. You Go to My Head 16. Minor Mood 17. Nagasaki Born October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ray Matthew Brown took piano lessons from the age of eight, but after noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one. With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took on the upright bass. As a young man Brown became increasingly well known in the Pittsburgh jazz scene, with his first experiences playing in bands with the Jimmy Hinsley Sextet and the Snookum Russell band. After graduating high school, having heard stories about the burgeoning jazz scene on 52nd Street, he bought a one-way ticket to New York. He arrived in the city at the age of 20, met up with Hank Jones, with whom he had previously worked, and was introduced to Dizzy Gillespie, who was looking for a bass player. Gillespie hired Brown on the spot, and he soon played with such established musicians as Art Tatum and Charlie Parker. Between 1956 and 1965, Ray Brown released a number of albums on which he performed as leader or co-leader. He made four records alongside Barney Kessel and Shelley Manne between '57 and '60, performing as The Poll Winners, and in the early sixties made two with his old buddy Milt Jackson. Brown was later adopted by the rock and pop fraternity and has appeared on albums by Steely Dan, Linda Ronstadt, Barry Manilow, Maria Maldaur, Elton John, Lionel Ritchie, Stephen Bishop, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello. While never reaching the status of many of his contemporaries, Ray Brown's legacy is virtually unparalleled in the history of jazz, having appeared on literally hundreds of albums during his lengthy career, and remaining a name to drop in all the right circles. This delightful 4CD set features many of Brown's finest early albums, up to the mid-1960s, and includes recordings he made alongside Ella Fitzgerald, Milt Jackson, The Pollwinners, and of course all the records from this era on which he performed as leader. Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
