Artist: Chu Berry | Album: Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions | Released: 2007 | Genre: Jazz
This seven-disc set is both a summary of tenor saxophonist Chu Berry’s tragically short life and an important contribution to jazz history. It is a “warts and all collection due to some of contexts in which Berry is heard, but in an odd way such contexts actually serve to accentuate his progressive vision and greatness; what we have here in bulk is the work of a highly individual improviser.
Before the late 1930s Coleman Hawkins, the man who practically invented the idea of jazz saxophone, had little in the way of serious competition. But Berry was a man who fashioned an entirely different approach to playing the instrument in a jazz setting. This, allied with his extraordinary ability seemingly never to repeat himself, made for a musician who, had he not been killed in a road accident in October 1941, aged only 31, might have gone on to be one of the key figures in the development of the music.
To say that Berry had everything might only be hyperbole. He played the tenor saxophone with the big tone that was very much the order of his day, but his highly idiosyncratic rhythmic sense marked him out as a singular stylist. This, allied with his individual harmonic sense, was what separated him from the pack.
Tracklisting:
1-1 Blue Interlude 3:25
1-2 I Never New (Alt Tk) 3:03
1-3 I Never Knew 3:03
1-4 Once Upon A Time 3:24
1-5 Krazy Kapers 3:28
1-6 Do Your Duty 3:25
1-7 I’m Down In The Dumps 3:10
1-8 (Lookie, Lookie, Lookie) Here Comes Cookie 3:00
1-9 When The Robin Sings His Songs 2:53
1-10 Rosetta 3:07
1-11 I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again 2:57
1-12 Get Rhythm In Your Feet 2:44
1-13 Chasing Shadows (-2) 2:33
1-14 Chasing Shadows (-1) 2:35
1-15 When I Grow Too Old To Dream 2:38
1-16 I’d Love To Take Orders From You 2:40
1-17 I’d Rather Listen To Your Eyes 3:06
1-18 When Day Is Done 3:27
1-19 Twenty Four Hours A Day 2:59
1-20 Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town 2:41
1-21 Eeny Meeny Meiny Mo 3:10
1-22 I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music 3:02
1-23 Mutiny In The Parlor 3:00
1-24 I’m Gonna Clap My Hands 2:56
1-25 Swing Is Here 2:53
2-1 Christopher Columbus 3:02
2-2 Grand Terrace Swing 2:56
2-3 Blue Lou 3:06
2-4 Stealin’ Apples 2:55
2-5 Moonrise On The Lowlands 2:40
2-6 I’ll Always be In Love With You 3:01
2-7 Jangled Nerves 2:32
2-8 Mary Had A little Lamb 2:54
2-9 Too Good To Be True 3:08
2-10 Warmin’ Up 3:14
2-11 Blues In C Sharp Minor 3:20
2-12 Where There’s You There’s Me 2:256
2-13 Do You Or Don’t You Love Me 2:59
2-14 Mary Had A little Lamb 2:47
2-15 Shoe Shine Boy 3:30
2-16 Sing, Sing, Sing 2:31
2-17 Knock, Knock Who’s There? (Alt Tk) 2:53
2-18 Knock, Knock Who’s There? 2:53
2-19 Jim Town Blues 2:42
2-20 You Can Depend On Me 3:27
2-21 Slummin’ On Park Avenue (-2) 2:32
2-22 Slummin’ On Park Avenue (-1) 2:25
2-23 Rhythm Of The Tambourine 2:37
2-24 Back In Your Own Backyard 2:31
2-25 Rose Room 2:59
2-26 Great Ceasar’s Ghost 2:19
3-1 Now You’re Talking My Language 2:49
3-2 Back Home Again In Indiana 2:45
3-3 Back Home Again In Indiana (Alt Tk) 2:49
3-4 Too Marvelous For Words (Alt Tk) 2:53
3-5 Too Marvelous For Words 2:52
3-6 Limehouse Blues (Alt Tk) 2:48
3-7 Limehouse Blues 2:51
3-8 All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm 2:38
3-9 Chris And His Gang 3:00
3-10 I’m Always In The Mood For You 2:52
3-11 She’s Tall, She’s Tan, She’s Terrific 2:30
3-12 Go South, Young Man 2:07
3-13 Mama, I Want To Make Rhythm 2:59
3-14 Queen Isabella 2:42
3-15 Savage Rhythm 2:31
3-16 Chuberry Jam 2:16
3-17 Maelstrom (Alt Tk) 2:46
3-18 Maelstrom 2:456
3-19 My Secret Love Affair 2:48
3-20 Ebb Tide 2:42
3-21 A Minor Brerakdown (-1) 2:21
3-22 A Minor Brerakdown (-2) 2:26
3-23 Bugle Blues 2:25
3-24 My First Impression Of You 2:48
3-25 With A Smile And A Song (-1) 3:05
3-26 With A Smile And A Song (-2) 2:55
4-1 When You’re Smiling 2:54
4-2 I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me 2:33
4-3 Thanks For The Memory (Alt Tk) 2:40
4-4 Thanks For The Memory 2:33
4-5 Lover Come Back To Me (Alt Tk) 3:07
4-6 Lover Come Back To Me 3:12
4-7 Annie Laurie 2:48
4-8 Loch Lommond 2:30
4-9 My Mariuccia Takes A Steamboat 2:32
4-10 In The Land Of Yamo Yamo
4-11 Rustle Of Swing (Alt Tk) 3:04
4-12 Rustle Of Swing 2:56
4-13 Three Swings And Out 2:12
4-14 I Like Music (with A Swing Like That) 2:33
4-15 Penguin Swing 3:28
4-16 Pack-A-Doodle-Do 2:47
4-17 At The Clambake Carnival 2:26
4-18 Hoy-Hoy 2:46
4-19 Miss Hallelujah Brown 2:20
4-20 Shout, Shout, Shout 2:33
4-21 Jive (Page “1” Of The Hepster’s Dictionary) 2:55
4-22 Do You Wanna Jump, Children? 2:21
4-23 Blue Interlude 2:34
4-24 FDR Jones 2:19
4-25 That’s All I Ask Of You (Alt Tk) 2:57
4-26 That’s All I Ask Of You 2:55
5-1 Floogie Walk 2:18
5-2 I Can Give You Love 2:45
5-3 High Society 3:11
5-4 Johnny Get Your Horn 3:08
5-5 Sweethearts On Parade 2:58
5-6 Shufflin’ At The Hollywood (Alt Tk) 3:07
5-7 Shufflin’ At The Hollywood 3:04
5-8 Denison Swing 3:13
5-9 Wizzin’ The Wizz (Alt Tk) 2:22
5-10 Wizzin# The Wizz 2:22
5-11 Downright Disgusted Blues 2:27
5-12 Corrine Corrini 2:12
5-13 I’m A Real Kinda Papa 2:48
5-14 Jumpy Nerves 2:46
5-15 Boogie Woogie 2:29
5-16 Ain’t Cha Comin’ Home? 3:16
5-17 Royal Garden Blues 2:33
5-18 In The Barrel 2:25
5-19 Farewell Blues 2:35
5-20 Fare Thee, My Baby, Fare-Thee-Well 2:33
5-21 Limehouse Blues 2:16
5-22 Trylon Swing 2:45
5-23 Utt-Da-Zay 2:54
5-24 Crescendo In Drums 2:44
5-25 The Jumpin’ Jive 2:48
6-1 Pluckin’ The Bass (Alt Tk) 2:40
6-2 Pluckin’ The Bass 2:40
6-3 I Ain’t Getting Nowhere Fast 2:44
6-4 Blue Lou 2:50
6-5 When The Saints Go Marching In 2:26
6-6 My Honeys Lovin’ Arms 2:44
6-7 Whe My Sugar Walks Down The Street 2:49
6-8 Hot Mallets 2:13
6-9 A Bee Gezindt 2:48
6-10 Give, Baby, Give 2:33
6-11 Do It Again 2:50
6-12 Calling All Bars (Alt Tk) 3:05
6-13 Calling All Bars 2:44
6-14 Do I Care? No, No (Alt Tk) 2:46
6-15 Do I Care? No, No 2:44
6-16 The Lone Arranger (-2) 2:40
6-17 The Lone Arranger (-1) 2:29
6-18 Hard Times 3:16
6-19 Who’s Yehoodi? (Alt Tk) 3:09
6-20 Who’s Yehoodi? 3:05
6-21 Come On With The “Come On” 2:53
6-22 A Ghost Of Chance (Alt Tk) 2:51
6-23 A Ghost Of Chance 2:57
6-24 Bye Bye Blues (Alt Tk) 2:49
6-25 Bye Bye Blues 2:51
7-1 Papa’s In Bed With The Bitches On (Alt Tk -3) 2:34
7-2 Papa’s In Bed With The Bitches On (Alt Tk -2) 2:31
7-3 Papa’s In Bed With The Bitches On 2:30
7-4 Boo-Wah Boo-Wah (Alt Tk) 3:02
7-5 Boo-Wah Boo-Wah 2:48
7-6 Cupid’s Nightmare 2:40
7-7 Are You Hep To The Jive? 2:47
7-8 Hot Air 2:52
7-9 Lonesome Nights (Alt Tk) 2:55
7-10 Lonesome Nights 2:56
7-11 A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bird (Alt Tk) 2:53
7-12 A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bird (Breakdown) 2:34
7-13 A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bird 2:51
7-14 The Worker’s Train 3:17
7-15 The Worker’s Train (Breakdown) 3:04
7-16 Run, Little Rabbit (Alt Tk) 4:25
7-17 Run, Little Rabbit 3:10
7-18 Are You All Reet? (Alt Tk) 3:04
7-19 Are You All Reet? 3:03
7-20 Special Delivery (Alt Tk -3) 2:58
7-21 Special Delivery (Alt Tk -2) 2:56
7-22 Special Delivery 2:55
7-23 Take The “A” Train 3:03
7-24 Hey Doc! 3:14
7-25 My Coo-Coo Bird (Could Swing) 2:44
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