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Overlooking Bear Family's comprehensive nine-disc box, this double-CD set is the best reissue ever on Louis Jordan, and the first truly comprehensive domestic release on Jordan's work to feature state-of-the-art sound. There are holes -- only a relative handful of the tracks that Jordan & His Tympany Five recorded in 1939 and 1940 are included, although those that are here represent most of the best of them -- but not huge ones, and every major Jordan track from 15 years of work is present. The quality of the digital transfers is as alluring as the selections, the mastering so clean that it sounds 20 years newer than one could ever expect based on the songs' actual ages. The 1941 vintage "Pan Pan" and "Saxa-Woogie" place the band practically in the listener's lap, with solos on clarinet, tenor sax, etc., that have smooth, rippling textures and barely a trace of the noise one should expect from early-'40s tracks bumped to digital -- and the fidelity of these, and "Boogie Woogie Came to Town," "Rusty Dusty Blues," etc., all run circles around any earlier reissues. Similarly, the drums, hi-hat, trumpet, sax, and ensemble singing on "Five Guys Named Moe" are crisp enough to pass for modern re-recordings, except they're not. Indeed, until you get to "Ration Blues," from 1943, there aren't many overt hints of the compression inherent in masters of this vintage, and that's the exception -- "G.I. Jive" and "Caldonia," cut one and two years later, have the kind of sound textures one more expects out of audiophile releases. Disc two opens with "Ain't That Just Like a Woman," a perfect blueprint in style and execution (check out Carl Hogan's guitar intro) for the sound that Chuck Berry popularized ten years later. Of the later material, only "Run Joe" sounds a little less distinct than the rest. "Life Is So Peculiar" features Louis Armstrong, as vocalist with Jordan, in a beguilingly funny duet from 1951. By that time, Jordan's formula for success was past its prime, and he and Decca Records were looking for new approaches -- "Teardrops from My Eyes" wasn't it, adding an obtrusive organ played by Wild Bill Davis to the mix. The later incarnation of Jordan's band on these tracks is a more restrained and sophisticated big-band unit, without much of the wild jump blues feel of the '40s Tympany 5 -- a 19-year-old Oliver Nelson can be heard on alto sax, incidentally -- but occasionally they capture the feel of the old band, as on "Fat Sam from Birmingham." This version of Jordan and his band and the way they're recorded are still superior to the incarnations of Jordan's group that turn up on his later recordings for Aladdin and Mercury.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Carson J. Robison, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, MainArtist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Frank Luther, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1938 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1939 UMG Recordings, Inc.
J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Russell, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - William Campbell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1939 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Andy Razaf, ComposerLyricist - Fats Waller, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1939 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mack David, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Vee Lawnhurst, ComposerLyricist - Edward Lane, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Jerry Daniels, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Walter Bishop, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roy Jordan, ComposerLyricist - J. Mayo Williams, Producer - William Weldon, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Casey Bill Weldon, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1941 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Busby Meyers, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1942 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1942 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jerry Bresler, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Jerome Jerry Bresler, ComposerLyricist - Larry Wynn, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1942 Geffen Records
Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Collenane Clark, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Antonio Cosey, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1943 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, Composer - Billy Austin, Author - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1944 UMG Recordings, Inc.
J. Mayo Williams, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Claude Demetrius, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1944 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1944 Geffen Records
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Danny Baxter, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1945 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1945 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - William Tennyson Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1945 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan, MainArtist - William Davis, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Stewart, ComposerLyricist - Duke Groaner, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1945 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Wild Bill Davis, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, FeaturedArtist - Frederick Hendricks, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1946 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Wild Bill Davis, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Morry Lasco, ComposerLyricist - Dick Adams, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Denver Darling, ComposerLyricist - Wild Bill Davis, Piano, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Gabler, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Boyd, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Vaughn Horton, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Josh Jackson, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Hogan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jesse Simpkins, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Aaron Izenhall, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Claude De Metrius, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Joan Whitney, ComposerLyricist - Wild Bill Davis, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Kramer, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Wild Bill Davis, Piano, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Sam Theard, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Josh Jackson, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Carl Hogan, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Aaron Izenhall, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jess "Po" Simpkins, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Byrd, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1946 Geffen Records
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Jack Wolf Fine, ComposerLyricist - Joseph E. Hirsch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1946 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Wild Bill Davis, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Richard Dick Miles, Composer - Walter Bishop, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1948 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barry Mason, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Dusty Fletcher, ComposerLyricist - Dan Howell, ComposerLyricist - Jack McVea, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1947 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Joseph Bushkin, ComposerLyricist - John De Vries, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1947 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Joe Willoughby, ComposerLyricist - Walter Merrick, ComposerLyricist - The Calypso Boys, MainArtist
℗ 1947 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fleecy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Fred Clark, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1949 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Ellis Walsh, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1949 Geffen Records
Jessie Mae Robinson, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1950 UMG Recordings, Inc.
J. Leslie McFarland, ComposerLyricist - Billy Moore, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1950 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Johnny Burke, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1950 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rudolph Toombs, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1950 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jimmy Shirl, ComposerLyricist - Ervin Drake, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, MainArtist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, MainArtist - Bernard Zaritsky, ComposerLyricist - Walter Whippo, ComposerLyricist - Libby Zaritsky, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, MainArtist - George Williams, ComposerLyricist - Robert E. Dade, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, MainArtist - Vaughn Horton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Royston, ComposerLyricist - Russell Roystar, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bill Doggett, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1951 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist - Robert Shad, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1952 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jon Hendricks, ComposerLyricist - Milt Gabler, Producer - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, MainArtist
℗ 1953 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Overlooking Bear Family's comprehensive nine-disc box, this double-CD set is the best reissue ever on Louis Jordan, and the first truly comprehensive domestic release on Jordan's work to feature state-of-the-art sound. There are holes -- only a relative handful of the tracks that Jordan & His Tympany Five recorded in 1939 and 1940 are included, although those that are here represent most of the best of them -- but not huge ones, and every major Jordan track from 15 years of work is present. The quality of the digital transfers is as alluring as the selections, the mastering so clean that it sounds 20 years newer than one could ever expect based on the songs' actual ages. The 1941 vintage "Pan Pan" and "Saxa-Woogie" place the band practically in the listener's lap, with solos on clarinet, tenor sax, etc., that have smooth, rippling textures and barely a trace of the noise one should expect from early-'40s tracks bumped to digital -- and the fidelity of these, and "Boogie Woogie Came to Town," "Rusty Dusty Blues," etc., all run circles around any earlier reissues. Similarly, the drums, hi-hat, trumpet, sax, and ensemble singing on "Five Guys Named Moe" are crisp enough to pass for modern re-recordings, except they're not. Indeed, until you get to "Ration Blues," from 1943, there aren't many overt hints of the compression inherent in masters of this vintage, and that's the exception -- "G.I. Jive" and "Caldonia," cut one and two years later, have the kind of sound textures one more expects out of audiophile releases. Disc two opens with "Ain't That Just Like a Woman," a perfect blueprint in style and execution (check out Carl Hogan's guitar intro) for the sound that Chuck Berry popularized ten years later. Of the later material, only "Run Joe" sounds a little less distinct than the rest. "Life Is So Peculiar" features Louis Armstrong, as vocalist with Jordan, in a beguilingly funny duet from 1951. By that time, Jordan's formula for success was past its prime, and he and Decca Records were looking for new approaches -- "Teardrops from My Eyes" wasn't it, adding an obtrusive organ played by Wild Bill Davis to the mix. The later incarnation of Jordan's band on these tracks is a more restrained and sophisticated big-band unit, without much of the wild jump blues feel of the '40s Tympany 5 -- a 19-year-old Oliver Nelson can be heard on alto sax, incidentally -- but occasionally they capture the feel of the old band, as on "Fat Sam from Birmingham." This version of Jordan and his band and the way they're recorded are still superior to the incarnations of Jordan's group that turn up on his later recordings for Aladdin and Mercury.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 46 track(s)
- Total length: 02:15:42
- Main artists: Louis Jordan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Jazz
© 1999 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1999 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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