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A formidable percussionist who led one of the toughest swing bands of the 1930s, Chick Webb achieved great posthumous fame as the man who discovered Ella Fitzgerald. With all due respect to the First Lady of Song, the Chick Webb Orchestra's accomplishments have always been overshadowed by Ella's reputation. Spinnin' the Webb, GRP/Decca's 20-track sampler of recordings made during the final decade of Webb's short lifespan, earned justifiably high marks when it appeared in 1994, and it still stands as one of the very best Chick Webb anthologies ever released in any format, even though it contains no vocals by Ella Fitzgerald. This edition opens with two Brunswick recordings dating from June 1929: "Dog Bottom," featuring a scat vocal by trumpeter Ward Pinkett, and "Jungle Mamma." Both pieces were composed by Webb and are infused with the vividness that characterizes so much of the jazz of the late '20s. "Heebie Jeebies" and "Blues in My Heart" (with a vocal by trumpeter Louis Bacon) date from the spring of 1931. By that time Benny Carter was fortifying the reed section and writing arrangements for the band. And by 1934 Webb had switched to Decca and would stick with that company until his death in 1939. The records made during that five-year period are marvels of power, finesse, and cohesive swing. Like his contemporaries Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Earl Hines, Webb attracted brilliant instrumentalists who helped him forge music that still sounds refreshingly vibrant, creative, and uncontrived. His key players were trumpeter Taft Jordan, a Louis Armstrong worshiper who could sing like his idol; trombonist Sandy Williams; master arranger and alto saxophonist Edgar Sampson, who composed "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Blue Lou," and "Don't Be That Way"; the great unsung Wayman Carver, a tenor saxophonist who introduced the flute into big-band jazz during the 1930s; reed men Garvin Bushell and Hilton Jefferson; alto saxophonist Louis Jordan, destined for terrific success during the 1940s in a newly created market known as rhythm & blues; and bassist John Kirby, who by the end of the '30s had formed a dynamic sextet that soon came to be known as "the Biggest Little Band in the Land." These are some of the men who helped to make the Chick Webb Orchestra a legend in its own time. GRP/Decca's Spinnin' the Webb is an extraordinarily high-quality collection, in keeping with other volumes in the series that feature vintage recordings by such stalwarts of swing as Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Barnet. Each edition is well worth the price of admission, and the Chick Webb disc occupies a shotgun seat at the head of the pack.
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Chick William Webb, ComposerLyricist - The Jungle Band, MainArtist
℗ 1929 GRP Records Inc.
Chick William Webb, ComposerLyricist - The Jungle Band, MainArtist
℗ 1929 GRP Records Inc.
Benny Carter, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, Musical Director, AssociatedPerformer - Don Kirkpatrick, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Boyd Atkins, ComposerLyricist - Hilton Jefferson, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Banjo, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Bacon, Trumpet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Shelton Hemphill, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Harrison, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer James, Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Haring, Producer - Louis Hunt, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1931 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Benny Carter, ComposerLyricist - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 1931 GRP Records Inc.
Mario Bauza, Composer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - John Kirby, Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Claude Jones, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Steele, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1934 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - John Kirby, Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Claude Jones, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Steele, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1934 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Mitchell Parish, ComposerLyricist - Benny Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - John Kirby, Tuba, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Claude Jones, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Steele, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1934 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Don Kirkpatrick, Composer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - John Kirby, Tuba, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Claude Jones, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Steele, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1934 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - John Kirby, Tuba, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Claude Jones, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Steele, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1934 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Andy Razaf, Composer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Thomas, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Don Kirkpatrick, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - James P. Johnson, Composer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1936 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Rose, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Mundy, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Trummy Young, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Joseph Meyer, ComposerLyricist - Omer Simeon, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - BALLARD MACDONALD, ComposerLyricist - Billy Kyle, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Walter Fuller, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Quinn Wilson, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Dick Palmer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Conductor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clark, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - John Trueheart, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Edwin Stanley, Composer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Solomon Levy, Composer
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chauncey Haughton, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Composer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb & The Little Chicks, MainArtist
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Chauncey Haughton, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Clarence Williams, Author - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Fats Waller, Composer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Chauncey Haughton, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Clarke, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Harry White, Composer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Elmer Williams, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Charlie Dixon, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Clinton, ComposerLyricist - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Garvin Bushell, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Turk Van Lake, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1937 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ella Fitzgerald, Composer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick William Webb, Composer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Matthews, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Garvin Bushell, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1938 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mario Bauza, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - Benny Carter, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Jordan, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Matthews, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Garvin Bushell, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1938 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dick Vance, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ella Fitzgerald, Composer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Chick William Webb, Composer - Chick Webb, Conductor, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Matthews, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Hilton Jefferson, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Garvin Bushell, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1938 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dick Vance, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Taft Jordan, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Chick William Webb, ComposerLyricist - Chick Webb, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Beverly Peer, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - George Matthews, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Chick Webb and His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bobby Johnson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sandy Williams, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Hilton Jefferson, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ted McRae, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Stark, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wayman Carver, Flute, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Garvin Bushell, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Tommy Fulford, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Story, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1939 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
A formidable percussionist who led one of the toughest swing bands of the 1930s, Chick Webb achieved great posthumous fame as the man who discovered Ella Fitzgerald. With all due respect to the First Lady of Song, the Chick Webb Orchestra's accomplishments have always been overshadowed by Ella's reputation. Spinnin' the Webb, GRP/Decca's 20-track sampler of recordings made during the final decade of Webb's short lifespan, earned justifiably high marks when it appeared in 1994, and it still stands as one of the very best Chick Webb anthologies ever released in any format, even though it contains no vocals by Ella Fitzgerald. This edition opens with two Brunswick recordings dating from June 1929: "Dog Bottom," featuring a scat vocal by trumpeter Ward Pinkett, and "Jungle Mamma." Both pieces were composed by Webb and are infused with the vividness that characterizes so much of the jazz of the late '20s. "Heebie Jeebies" and "Blues in My Heart" (with a vocal by trumpeter Louis Bacon) date from the spring of 1931. By that time Benny Carter was fortifying the reed section and writing arrangements for the band. And by 1934 Webb had switched to Decca and would stick with that company until his death in 1939. The records made during that five-year period are marvels of power, finesse, and cohesive swing. Like his contemporaries Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Earl Hines, Webb attracted brilliant instrumentalists who helped him forge music that still sounds refreshingly vibrant, creative, and uncontrived. His key players were trumpeter Taft Jordan, a Louis Armstrong worshiper who could sing like his idol; trombonist Sandy Williams; master arranger and alto saxophonist Edgar Sampson, who composed "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Blue Lou," and "Don't Be That Way"; the great unsung Wayman Carver, a tenor saxophonist who introduced the flute into big-band jazz during the 1930s; reed men Garvin Bushell and Hilton Jefferson; alto saxophonist Louis Jordan, destined for terrific success during the 1940s in a newly created market known as rhythm & blues; and bassist John Kirby, who by the end of the '30s had formed a dynamic sextet that soon came to be known as "the Biggest Little Band in the Land." These are some of the men who helped to make the Chick Webb Orchestra a legend in its own time. GRP/Decca's Spinnin' the Webb is an extraordinarily high-quality collection, in keeping with other volumes in the series that feature vintage recordings by such stalwarts of swing as Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Barnet. Each edition is well worth the price of admission, and the Chick Webb disc occupies a shotgun seat at the head of the pack.
© arwulf arwulf /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:29
- Main artists: Chick Webb And His Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: GRP
- Genre: Jazz
© 2005 GRP Records Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1994 GRP Records Inc.
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