Move!

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Move!
Studio album by Red Norvo

Publication
(s)

1956

Label (s) Discovery Records / Comet / Savoy

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

12/41

occupation

production

Dick Bock, Albert Marx (Discovery), Orrin Keepnews (Reissue)

Studio (s)

Hollywood, Chicago

chronology
- Move! The Red Norvo Trios
(1954)
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The Red Norvo Trio - Move! is a jazz album by Red Norvo , recorded in three recording sessions in 1950 and 1951 in Hollywood and Chicago for the Discovery label and first released in LP format on Savoy Records around 1956 .

The album

From 1950 to 1951, vibraphonist Red Norvo led a trio with guitarist Tal Farlow and bassist Charles Mingus . Its development began in the late 1940s when Norvo heard the guitarist in a New York club, hired him and took him to the West Coast to build a trio, for which he had an engagement at Haig in Los Angeles for several months . The original bassist Red Kelly was soon replaced by Charles Mingus, who lived in Los Angeles, had played with Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton and was doing his best as a postman at the post office at the time.

With this trio, Red Norvo played a significant part in a development that led to cool jazz and forms of chamber music jazz such as the Modern Jazz Quartet . “Just as Art Tatum is remembered through his work in the trio, Norvo is remembered today because of the extraordinary trio that he founded. … The Norvo Trio will be remembered as one of the best combos in jazz history ”, said Gunther Schuller . The success of the unusual line-up of vibraphone, guitar and bass at this time promoted the careers of Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus, who a few years later successfully recorded records under their own names and led their own bands. It was the first jazz group in which the bass no longer only had a supporting function, but had become an instrument of equal standing.

The combo toured several times, appeared on television and also went to the record studio several times. For the short-lived Discovery label , they recorded 20 tracks in three sessions (as well as numerous alternate takes ), most of which - also in 78 and 45 record formats - were initially released on Discovery : This label was founded by the young jazz enthusiast Albert Marx to to document the then new West Coast jazz . The master tapes were then taken over in 1954 by the record label Savoy Records ; around 1956 twelve of the pieces appeared under the title The Red Norvo Trio - Move! .

The specialty of the trio, according to Gary Burton in the liner notes for the new edition, were the arrangements of the material, which largely consisted of jazz standards such as common Cole Porter numbers " Cheek to Cheek ", " Night and Day ", " I Got a Kick Out of." You ”or Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart's title“ This Can't Be Love ”. In order to achieve enough variation in the arrangements of the small band, all possibilities were exhausted, like a bass played with a bow in Duke Ellington's “ Mood Indigo ”, a rumba beat in “Time and Tide”, and an exotic-looking arrangement in the Porter -Classic “I've Got You Under My Skin”, interspersed with George Shearing elements and phrases with block chords . On Mood Indigo , Farlow plays the walking bass on guitar while Mingus performs a solo . Similar to his teammates, Norvo used the most varied ways of playing his instrument, such as rolling and doubling some melodies in octave form instead of single note playing ; He also worked with variations of the vibrato effect and the selection of mallets , from soft to hard-sounding ones. In an interview, Norvo later said of these sessions that the arrangements were never written down, but worked out directly during rehearsals; In Gary Burton's opinion, the precision with which the unison passages in Denzil Best's title “Move” were executed is surprising .

Rating of the album

Shortly after their release, the trio's recordings in down-beat poll were among the most important records of 1950. Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album Move the highest rating in the second edition of their The Penguin Guide to Jazz . Even Brian Priestley pays tribute album Move! in the Rough Guide Jazz as an outstanding achievement in the vibraphonist's record work.

The Mingus biographers Horst Weber and Gerd Filtgen, on the other hand, paint a more nuanced picture: “You can enjoy the compositions Swedish Pastry , God Child , Move and, above all, Time and Tide , which are characterized by powerful bass statements.” In these titles, too Norvos' play is less romantic than usual, his improvisations succeed "more consistently and more appropriately for jazz." Actually, however, many interpretations on the trio's other recordings for the Queen Disc label are more recommendable. Mingus biographer Brian Priestley agrees that some of the Head arrangements are turning too much in the direction of "melodrama", but emphasizes that they are far more creative than other jazz that came from the west coast in the early 1950s.

Orrin Keepnews , the producer of the re-release of the complete sessions evaluated in the liner notes Red Norvos record in 1945 his Selected Sextet with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and the three trio sessions with Farlow and Mingus as essentially what the modern Red Norvo making up .

Editorial notes

Some titles from the first Discovery session - such as " 'Deed I Do ", " Prelude to a Kiss ", " Mood Indigo " - were never released by Discovery . Some longer versions of the tracks were also recorded, presumably to take advantage of the possibilities of the long-playing record. Most of the Masters titles appeared under Red Norvo Trio Vol. 1 (1951) and Red Norvo Trio Vol. 2 (1952) on Discovery .

After the end of the Savoy label, the trio sessions were edited in the 1970s by Arista Records under the title The Red Norvo Trio with Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus: The Savoy Sessions in the form of a double LP Savoy (SIL 2212). The 2-CD edition entitled The Modern Red Norvo , published by Orrin Keepnews in 2002, contains essentially all of the material from the three trio sessions and the June 1945 session of Red Norvo and his Selected Sextet with Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , Flip Phillips , Teddy Wilson , Slam Stewart , JC Heard and Specs Powell , which first appeared on the short-lived Comet label and was then taken over by Dial Records .

The titles

The Red Norvo Trio - Move! (Original LP)

  • The Red Norvo Trio - Move! (Savoy MG 12088 - Original LP edition)
  1. Move (Denzil Best) 2:36
  2. I Can't Believe You're in Love with Me ( Jimmy McHugh / Clarence Gaskill ) 2:52
  3. I'll Remember April (Raye / DePaul) 3:25
  4. September Song ( Kurt Weill ) 3:32
  5. Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (James F. Hanley) 3:26
  6. I've Got You Under My Skin ( Cole Porter ) 2:22
  7. I Get a Kick out of You (Porter) 2:25
  8. Godchild ( George Wallington )
  9. If I Had You (Shapiro / Campbell) 4:06
  10. This Can't Be Love (Rodgers) 2:25
  11. Cheek to Cheek ( Irving Berlin ) 2:40
  12. Swedish Pastry ( Barney Kessel ) 2:25

The Modern Red Norvo (CD Edition)

The Modern Red Norvo (2 CD Edition; SLG SVY 17113)

  • Red Norvo and his Selected Sextet ; WOR Studios Now York City, June 6, 1945
  1. Congo Blues (Red Norvo) (take C - original master) 3:53
  2. Congo Blues (take B - alternate) 3:55
  3. Hallelujah (Clifford Gray / Leo Robin / Vincent Youmans ) (take F - original master) 4:00
  4. Hallelujah (take E - alternate) 4:03
  5. Slam Slam Blues (Red Norvo) (take B - original master) 4:30
  6. Slam Slam Blues (take A - alternate) 5:06
  7. Get Happy ( Ted Koehler / Harold Arlen ) (take D - original master) 3:42
  8. Get Happy (Take D - alternate) 4:03
  • Red Norvo Trio . Radio Recorders, Hollywood, May 3, 1950
  1. Swedish Pastry ( Barney Kessel ) (take 2) 2:26
  2. Swedish Pastry (take 1) take 1) 2.22
  3. Cheek to Cheek ( Irving Berlin ) 2:38
  4. Cheek to Cheek (alternate) 2:40
  5. Cheek to Cheek (take 5) 2:50
  6. Night and Day ( Cole Porter ) (Master) 3:22
  7. Night and Day (alternate) 4:06
  8. Time and Tide ( Robert Pictures ) 2:32
  9. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington / Irving Gordin / Irving Mills ) 4:02
  10. 'Deed I Do ( Fred Rose / Walter Hirsch ) 1:50
  11. Mood Indigo (Ellington / Barney Bigard / Irving Mills) 3:29
  12. Mood Indigo 3:28
  • Red Norvo Trio . United Broadcasting, Studio A, Chicago, October 31, 1950
  1. September Song ( Kurt Weill ) (take 2 - master) 3:32
  2. Move ( Denzil Best ) (take 1 - master) 2:36
  3. I've Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter) (master) 2:22
  4. I'll Remember April ( Don Raye / Gene De Paul / Patricia Johnston) (take 2) 4:29
  5. I'll Remember April (take 3) 3:19
  6. I Get a Kick out of You (Porter) (take 5 - master) 2:25
  7. I Can't believe You're in Love with Me ( Jimmy McHugh / Clarence Gaskill ) (take 5) 2:51
  8. Little White Lies ( Walter Donaldson ) (take 1) 3:44
  9. Have you met Miss Jones? ( Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart ) (take 6) 3:01
  10. Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (James F. Hanley) (take 3 - master) 3:26
  • Red Norvo Trio . Radio Recorders, Hollywood, April 13, 1951
  1. If I Had You ( Ted Shapiro / James Campbell / Reginald Conolly ) (take 4) 3:21
  2. If I Had You (take 2) 4:06
  3. This Can't Be Love (Rodgers / Hart) (take 3 - master) 2:25
  4. This Can't Be Love (take 1) 2:28
  5. This Can't Be Love (take 2) 2:24
  6. Godchild ( George Wallington ) (take 5) 3:15
  7. Godchild (take 1 - master) 4:09
  8. Godchild (take 2) 4:47
  9. Godchild (take 3) 4:40
  10. I'm Yours ( Johnny Green / EY Harburg ) (take 4) 3:19
  11. I'm Yours (take 2) 4:02

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ cf. B. Priestley Mingus , p. 53
  2. ↑ cf. Cook / Morton, 1994, p. 986.
  3. ↑ "Just as Art Tatum is remembered mostly for his Trio work, so too Norvo is today remembered for the outstanding trio he formed .... The Norvo Trio remains in memory as one of the finest small groups in jazz history." . n. Red Norvo Biography )
  4. ^ Priestley Mingus , p. 53
  5. ↑ that is played with unusual speed
  6. ^ B. Priestley Mingus , p. 54
  7. ↑ "Although the two records Queen Disc 061 and 063 can only be endured by hardened collectors because of their adventurous sound quality, many pieces that overlap with the Savoy Sessions come out looser." H. Weber / G. Filtgen, Mingus, p. 83
  8. ^ B. Priestley Mingus , p. 54
  9. ↑ Red Norvo and his Selected Sextet (June 6, 1945) with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips , Teddy Wilson , Slam Stewart , JC Heard / Specs Powell ; Congo Blues, Hallelujah, Slam Slam Blues & Get Happy (2 takes each)
  10. ↑ 4 titles whose tapes were not taken over by Savoy, but only on singles on Discovery , were supplemented by the German record collector Uwe Weiler; see. Keepnews.