Description
Release Date: 2020
Label: Enlightenment
Track List
Disc 1
- 1 East of the Sun
- 2 When Your Lover Has Gone
- 3 Bugle Call Rag
- 4 Remember
- 5 Blue Moon
- 6 Beyond the Blue Horizon
- 7 ‘Cause You’re My Lover
- 8 Melody of Love
- 9 Cocktails for Two
- 10 I’ll String Along with You
- 11 I Love You Truly
- 12 Dream
- 13 Harlem Nocturne
- 14 Where or When
- 15 Sweet Lorraine
- 16 Poeme
- 17 You Go to My Head
- 18 Off Shore
- 19 The Moon Is Low
- 20 Ain’t Misbehavin’
- 21 The Sheikh of Araby
- 22 I Hear a Rhapsody
- 23 Roses of Picardy
- 24 Melancholy Serenade
Disc 2
- 1 Lover Come Back to Me
- 2 The Merry Widow Waltz
- 3 Cracked Ice
- 4 Song of the Islands
- 5 Danube Waves
- 6 Wrap It Up
- 7 Blue Skies
- 8 Ubangi Stomp
- 9 Cherry Bean
- 10 Earl’s Imagination
- 11 My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice
- 12 Lieberstraum
- 13 Temptation
- 14 Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time
- 15 September Song
- 16 She’s Funny That Way
- 17 Just Too Shy
- 18 Exercise
- 19 Josephine
- 20 Away
- 21 A Gay Day
- 22 Make Believe
- 23 Vienna, City of My Dreams
- 24 Answer Me
Disc 3
- 1 Southern Fried
- 2 Jersey Bounce
- 3 Jumpin’ at the Woodside
- 4 Tuxedo Junction
- 5 720 in the Books
- 6 Air Mail Special
- 7 Pompton Turnpike
- 8 Woodchopper’s Ball
- 9 Night Train
- 10 Stompin’ at the Savoy
- 11 Honeysuckle Rose
- 12 No Name Jive
- 13 Lester Leaps in
- 14 920 Special
- 15 Special Delivery Stomp
- 16 Anvil Chorus
- 17 Two O’Clock Jump
- 18 Back Beat
- 19 John’s Idea
- 20 Royal Garden Blues
- 21 Indian Boogie Woogie
- 22 Fur Trapper’s Ball
- 23 Lunceford Special
- 24 Back Bay Shuffle
Disc 4
- 1 Twilight Time
- 2 Stairway to the Stars
- 3 Rockin’ with Richard
- 4 Be My Love
- 5 Pinkie
- 6 Goodnight Sweetheart
- 7 Over the Waves Rock
- 8 Jer-On-Imo
- 9 C Jam Blues
- 10 Wee-Gee Board
- 11 The Wrecking Rock
- 12 Sweet Home Rock
- 13 Don’t Do It Please
- 14 Ten Out
- 15 Telstar Drive
- 16 Taste of Fresh Air
- 17 Hunt and Peck
- 18 Fast Track
- 19 Apple Cake
Notes
American jazz alto saxophonist and pioneer of the post-war American rhythm and blues style, Earl Bostic was an enormous influence in the development of jazz since he emerged as a maverick musician within the genre, in the early 1940s. He would go on to inform major and unique players as diverse as John Coltrane (on whom he was a profound influence), Gerry Mulligan, Hank Mobley and numerous other sax-men. Bostic had a number of popular hits such as ‘Flamingo’, ‘Harlem Nocturne’, ‘Temptation’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Special Delivery Stomp’ and ‘Where or When’, all of which showed off his characteristic ‘growl’ on his instrument. The multi-disc collection features what are almost certainly the finest albums Earl Bostic ever recorded. Released between 1953 and 1963 – the great man’s ultimate heyday – these records, featured here in beautiful re-mastered quality, illustrate clearly the musical prowess of Earl Bostic, and the huge contribution he made to jazz music throughout his life.
