Title: Savoy Jam Party: The Savoy Sessions Artist: Don Byas Release Date: 7/28/1944 Label: Savoy, Savoy Jazz Duration: 72:45 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 081757026826, 083074221311 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing Moods: Earnest, Passionate, Sophisticated, Amiable/Good-Natured, Energetic, Freewheeling, Reverent, Exuberant, Intimate Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Riffin' and Jivin'
2. Free and Easy
3. Worried and Blue
4. Don's Idea
5. Savoy Jam Party
6. 1944 Stomp
7. What Do You Want With My Heart
8. Sweet and Lovely
9. White Rose Kick
10. My Deep Blue Dream
11. Byas'd Opinion
12. Candy
13. How High the Moon
14. Donby
15. Byas a Drink
16. I Don't Know Why
17. Old Folks
18. Cherokee
19. September in the Rain
20. Living My Life
21. To Each His Own
22. They Say It's Wonderful
23. Cynthia's in Love
24. September Song
25. St. Louis Blues

Year Type Label Catalog # 1995 CD Savoy 268 1995 CD Savoy Jazz 268

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A former two-LP set with 32 tracks becomes a single CD consisting of the first 25 numbers. The packaging was shrunk to the point where the liner notes (which refer to all 32 songs) are nearly microscopic...But at least it is "an exact reproduction." Although this reissue from the Japanese Denon label could have been executed better, the music is excellent. Don Byas, one of the great tenors of the 1940s, is featured with groups ranging from a quartet to a sextet; the sideman include trumpeters Charlie Shavers, Emmett Berry and Benny Harris, altoist Rudy Williams, pianists Clyde Hart, Dave Rivera, Jimmy Jones, Teddy Brannon and Sanford Gold, bassists Slam Stewart and Milt Hinton and drummers J.C. Heard and Max Roach. Byas is in superior form on these late-period swing performances...it will interest those who can't find the original, better-packaged two-LP set (put out by Arista in the 1970s). ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Name Credits Al Brown Mastering Benny Harris Trumpet Bob Heimall Design, Art Direction Bob Porter Reissue Producer Buck Ram Producer Charlie Shavers Trumpet Clyde Hart Cello, Celeste, Piano Dan Morgenstern Liner Notes Dave Rivera Piano Don Byas Sax (Tenor), Main Performer Emmett Berry Trumpet Franklin Skeete Bass Fred Radcliffe Drums Herb Abrahmson Producer J.C. Heard Drums Jack Parker Drums Jack Towers Transfers, Editing Jerry Valburn Transfers, Editing Jimmy Jones Piano John Levy Bass Leonard Gaskin Bass Max Roach Drums Milt Hinton Bass Ray Ross Photography Rudy Williams Sax (Alto) Sanford Gold Piano Slam Stewart Bass Steve Backer Executive Producer, Producer Teddy Brannon Piano Teddy Reig Producer