Shelly Manne Trio, Oscar Peterson Trio, Billy Taylor Trio & Chet Baker Septet
Release Date: 07 April 2014
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436559462082
Description
Premiered in 1956, the perennial Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" was based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story is about Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The play was so successful that it soon became a movie, and its score was recorded by all kinds of artists, including numerous jazz musicians who adapted the best songs to the genre.
This release presents some of the finest jazz versions of music from the play, and contains three complete albums: "Shelly Manne & His Friends' Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady" (Contemporary S7527), "Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady" (Verve MGV2119), and "My Fair Lady Loves Jazz" (ABC Paramount ABC177/ Impulse AS-72) - the latter showcasing Billy Taylor with an All-Star orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones featuring Gerry Mulligan. Also included here are the four songs from "My Fair Lady" recorded by Chet Baker on his Lerner & Loewe album, as well as interpretations of tunes from the play by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and the Coleman Hawkins Quartet with Tommy Flanagan.
Tracklisting
Tina Brooks Quintet
Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Aderley & George Shearing
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Thom Rotella
JD Allen
Thelonious Monk
George Coleman
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
