Illinois Jacquet - Swing's the Thing

1956 and Jacquet is making a great case for why Swing should get more respect. Just a whole lot of energetic fun, and when the tempo slows down, some beautiful ballad playing.

With Jacquet (tenor), Roy Eldridge (trumpet), Jimmy Jones (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Jo Jones—no, not Philly Joe Jones—on drums.

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Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label - Wikipedia

Bink Figgins On Allmusic:

If you're putting on a Johnny Hodges record, you likely know what you're hoping to hear; that Johnny Hodges sound; the cry and the wail and the strut. And here, he is in full command, effortlessly swinging in a laid-back, whiskey-soaked haze, surrounded by giants like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Billy Strayhorn and Jimmy Woode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruKEckwR_4&list=PLkP5lX8SHpvBKYkU6f3qBadefkK-9c96k&index=1

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Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruKEckwR_4&list=PLkP5lX8SHpvBKYkU6f3qBadefkK-9c96k&index=1

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Only the Blues is a 1957 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by Roy Eldridge and Oscar Peterson.

Drew Fields wrote for Allmusic:

While the material is basically set up to let Stitt and Roy Eldridge trade off improvisations, when it is these two the result is energetic and totally worthwhile. Eldridge adds a great deal to the date, taking the music back (in feeling) a little bit to an earlier era. He also seems to push Stitt to keep his game at a high level, which he sometimes needed. Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown are their usual first-rate selves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYGtwevQ_pY&list=PLkP5lX8SHpvCu1327asl4DIAdWX24anXh&index=1

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#JATP - Stuttgart, le 28 mai 1958 ( #ColemanHawkins, #DizzyGillespie, Gus Johnson, Herb Ellis, Joe Turner, Lou Levy, Max Bennett, Pete Johnson, #RayBrown, #RoyEldridge, #SonnyStitt, #StanGetz )

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1952 - Jazz at the Philharmonic - Miami Beach

Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Flip Phillips, Charlie Shavers, Hank Jones, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson

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