LEO PARKER 1947-1950 (2001)(FULL ALBUM)

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00:00 1 Leo Parker All Stars– El Sino
03:15 2 Leo Parker All Stars– Ineta
06:10 3 Leo Parker All Stars– Wild Leo
09:09 4 Leo Parker All Stars– Leaping Leo
12:15 5 Leo Parker All Stars– Wee Dot
15:00 6 Leo Parker All Stars– Solitude
17:54 7 Leo Parker All Stars– Lion Roars
20:47 8 Leo Parker All Stars– Mad Lad Boogie
23:33 9 Leo Parker Quintette– On The House
26:36 10 Leo Parker Quintette– Dinky
29:05 11 Leo Parker Quintette– Senor Leo
31:45 12 Leo Parker Quintette– Chase N' The Lion
34:34 13 Leo Parker Sextette– Leo's Bells
37:01 14 Leo Parker Sextette– Sweet Talkin' Leo
39:28 15 Leo Parker Sextette– Swinging For Love
42:00 16 Leo Parker Sextette– The New Look
44:28 17 Leo Parker And His Quartet– Mona Lisa
47:46 18 Leo Parker And His Quartet– Who's Mad
50:55 19 Leo Parker And His Quartet– Darn That Dream
53:59 20 Leo Parker And His Quartet– I Cross My Fingers
56:39 21 Leo Parker And His Quartet– Mad Lad Returns
59:30 22 Leo Parker And His Mad Lads– Woody
01:02:21 23 Leo Parker And His Mad Lads– Rolling With Parker
01:05:02 24 Leo Parker And His Mad Lads– Leo Leaps In (On The House)
01:07:15 25 Leo Parker And His Mad Lads– Solitude

Alto Saxophone – Leo Parker (tracks: 17 to 21)
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon (tracks: 5 to 8)
Baritone Saxophone – Leo Parker
Bass – Al Lucas (tracks: 9 to 16), Curly Russell (tracks: 5 to 8, 22 to 25), Gene Wright (tracks: 1 to 4), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 17 to 21)
Drums – Charles Williams (tracks: 1 to 4), Eddie Bourne (tracks: 22 to 25), Jack "The Bear" Parker (tracks: 9 to 16, 18, 21), Max Roach (tracks: 17, 19, 20), Shadow Wilson (tracks: 5 to 8)
Liner Notes [July 2001] – Anatol Schenker
Piano – Al Haig (tracks: 17 to 21), Hank Jones (tracks: 5 to 8), James Craig (tracks: 1 to 4), Kenny Drew (tracks: 22 to 25), Sir Charles Thompson (tracks: 9 to 16)
Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse (tracks: 13 to 16), Gene Ammons (tracks: 1 to 4), Henri Durant (tracks: 22 to 25)
Trombone – J.J. Johnson (tracks: 5 to 8)
Trumpet – Howard McGhee (tracks: 1 to 4), James Robertson (6) (tracks: 22 to 25), Joe Newman (tracks: 5 to 16)

Label: Classics – CLASSICS1203
Series: The Classics Chronological Series – 1203
Country: France
Released: 2001
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop

1947-1950 Review by arwulf arwulf
There's something about the purling, snarling and booting of a baritone sax that can create pleasant disturbances in the listener's spine and rib cage. Leo Parker came up during the simultaneous explosions of bebop and rhythm & blues. Everything he touched turned into a groove. Recording for Savoy in Detroit during the autumn of 1947, Leo was flanked by Howard McGhee and Gene Ammons, who at this point seems to have been operating under the influence of Lester Young. Leo does his own share of Prez-like one-note vamping, bringing to mind some of Lester's Aladdin recordings made during this same time period. Leo's Savoys originally appeared on 78 rpm platters, then on 10" long-playing records. Anyone who has ever heard one of these relics played on period equipment can testify to the sensation of hearing an old-fashioned phonograph wrestling with the extra fidelity contained in the voice of that king-sized sax. The next session happened in New York two months later. J.J. Johnson was on hand to supervise a smart recording of his own soon-to-be-famous "Wee Dot." Dexter Gordon is in fine form and it's nice to hear Joe Newman blowing so much gutsy bebop through his trumpet. Everything smoothes out for a gorgeous rendition of Duke Ellington's "Solitude," a lush feature for the baritone. The rhythm section of Curly Russell, Hank Jones and Shadow Wilson makes this particular session even more solid than usual. Leading his "Quintette" in Detroit on March 23rd, 1948, Leo races into "Dinky" with a run straight out of Herschel Evans' "Doggin' Around." Sir Charles Thompson tosses off some of his most fragmented playing, splattering the walls with abrupt block chords and tiny whirlpools of truncated riffs. "Señor Leo" cruises at a very cool, almost subterranean Latin tempo, a mood that brings to mind Bud Powell's hypnotic opus "Comin' Up." You get to hear the voices of Parker and Thompson at the beginning of "Chase 'n' the Lion," a fine bit of updated boogie-woogie. Apparently, Sir Charles was also known at that time as "Chase." A second session recorded on the same day adds Charlie Rouse to an already steaming band. Leo gnaws his way through four tunes of his own devising. Nothing brilliant here, just good hot jamming. The people at Prestige Records were smart enough to line up a date with the Leo Parker Quartet in July of 1950, resulting in what has got to be the hippest version of "Mona Lisa" ever put on record. The quartet hatched two other handsome ballads and a pair of kickers.

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