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Joe Newman - Soft Swinging Jazz (CD)

Soft Swinging Jazz
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Album Details: Soft Swinging Jazz

Release Date:08/20/2008
Label:Lonehill Jazz Spain
UPC:8436019582138

Track List: Soft Swinging Jazz

  1. Three Little Words
  2. Scotty
  3. There's a Small Hotel
  4. Too Marvelous for Words
  5. Save Your Love for Me
  6. Happy Cats
  7. Later for the Happenings
  1. Buttercup
  2. Robbin's Nest
  3. They Can't Take That Away from Me
  4. Feather's Nest
  5. Joe's Tune
  6. I Never Knew

Pro Reviews: Soft Swinging Jazz

  • All Music Guide

    Thetitlesaysitall Soft Swingin' Jazz pairs Joe Newman with organist Shirley Scott, bassist Eddie Jones and Charlie Persip for a mellow, lovely session unique within the trumpeter's catalog. For starters, Newman assumes vocal duties on a handful of cuts, proving himself a fine croonermoreover, the spacious, nuanced arrangements afford him the room to summon some of his most intimate but impassioned solos. Not to mention that Scott's an uncommonly sympathetic collaborator, shaping and underlining the melodies to create rolling, contoured grooves with the texture of velvet. (Reissued in 2007 on the Lonehill label alongside the subsequent The Happy Cats.)

    - Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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Joe Newman

Joe Newman, one of the very few musicians (other than Freddie Green) to play for long periods with Count Basie's orchestras of both the 1940s and '50s, had an unclassifiable trumpet style. Influenced early on by Louis Armstrong and more prominently by Harry "Sweets" Edison, Newman was a mainstream player who was versatile enough to hold his own with Count Basie's younge... Read more