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Illinois Jacquet
Bosses of the Ballad
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. I Love You
2. Get out of Town
3. So in Love
4. I Concentrate on You
5. You Do Something to Me
6. Every Time We Say Goodbye
7. Use Your Imagination
8. All Through the Night
9. Begin the Beguine
10. It's All Right with Me
11. Do I Love You
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Blues for Bunny - Illinois Jacquet, Bunn
14. Black Foot - Illinois Jacquet, Carethers
15. Big Music - Illinois Jacquet, Jacquet, Illinois
16. Blue Horizon - Illinois Jacquet, Stoute, E.
17. Goin' out of My Head - Illinois Jacquet, Randazzo
18. Spanish Boots - Illinois Jacquet, Menza
19. Elise - Illinois Jacquet, LeGrand, M.
20. I Remember Her So Well - Illinois Jacquet, Coburn
21. Now and Then - Illinois Jacquet, Newell

CD Details

All Artists: Illinois Jacquet
Title: Bosses of the Ballad
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lonehill Jazz Spain
Release Date: 3/27/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Swing Jazz, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 8436019582312, 758661477029

Synopsis

Album Description

The fourth Illinois Jacquet Project CD collection contains both the complete October 29 & 30, 1964, Bosses Of The Ballad Sessions featuring a 19 piece orchestra with arrangements by Tom McIntosh and Benny Golson. This edition also includes the complete April 29 & 30, 1965 Spectrum dates featuring Patti Bown, Billy Butler, Eric Gale, George Duviver, Grady Tate and Candido Camero. Lone Hill Jazz. 2006

CD Reviews

Jacquet in wraps here

Bomojaz | South Central PA, USA | 12/01/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is the fourth in a series of 5 issued by Lonehill dealing with all of Illinois Jacquet's recordings from 1956-66; it includes two complete albums, one for Argo (1964) and the other for Cadet (1965). The Cadet was obviously geared for the pop charts, with just about all the tunes being oversimplified and forgettable - there's even a tambourine added for that 60's r&r effect. Jacquet plays well, but there isn't much to get his teeth into and, besides, the jazz angle seems definitely restrained. Waste of a good talent here.

The Argo is a ballads-oriented affair, though the song selection at least has the advantage of being all Cole Porter tunes. Jacquet plays with a deep, lyrical tenor sound, and is usually "allowed" to improvise to his liking for a chorus or so on each tune. But a lush, 19-piece string orchestra backs him up and it can be overpowering at times. Case in point is on SO IN LOVE: Jacquet's theme statement is absolutely gorgeous, but then the orchestra comes in to almost push Jacquet off the stage; this happens again on BEGIN THE BEGUINE and IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH ME. EVERYTIME WE SAY GOODBY is taken way too slow, but Illinois plays the verse with just piano accompaniment on ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, which is a highlight of the CD. Also good are I LOVE YOU and I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN, both taken at medium tempo. I'm going to give this CD 4 stars because Jacquet's tone is so rich on the Argo, but few of these stars go toward the Cadet album.

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