Mosaic Select: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper

Mosaic Select: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper

Mosaic Select: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper

ASIN: B000260ARK

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Valve in Head
2. Cool Fool
3. Little Girl Blue
4. Mobile
5. Wailing Vessel
6. Baby's Birthday Party
See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2
1. Low Life
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Out of This World
4. There's a Small Hotel
5. Rustic Hop
6. You Are Too Beautiful
See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3
1. Sweet Georgia Brown
2. Gypsy in My Soul
3. I Want to Be Happy
4. What'll I Do?
5. They Didn't Believe Me
6. In the Blue of the Evening
See all 14 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
10 Box Set

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Mosaic Select: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Bud & Coop and the West Coast scene
 Mosaic Select: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000260ARK
Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

  1. Valve in Head
  2. Cool Fool
  3. Little Girl Blue
  4. Mobile
  5. Wailing Vessel
  6. Baby's Birthday Party
  7. You Don't Know What Love Is
  8. Sing Something Simple
  9. Wailing Vessel [Alternate Take]
  10. When Lights Are Low [Live]
  11. Old Devil Moon [Live]
  12. Nearness of You [Live]
  13. Medley: How Long Has This Been Going On/Tea for Two [Live]
  14. Lullaby of Birdland [Live]
  15. Somebody Loves Me [Live]
  16. Moonlight in Vermont [Live]
  17. King [Live]

Tracks:

  1. Low Life
  2. When Your Lover Has Gone
  3. Out of This World
  4. There's a Small Hotel
  5. Rustic Hop
  6. You Are Too Beautiful
  7. With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair
  8. Low Life [Alternate Take]
  9. Dinah
  10. Mutual Admiration Society
  11. Steve Allen Theme
  12. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
  13. Blowin' Country
  14. Love Nest
  15. As Long as There's Music
  16. Just in Time
  17. Two Lost Souls
  18. Thanks for the Memory
  19. Romantic Guy

Tracks:

  1. Sweet Georgia Brown
  2. Gypsy in My Soul
  3. I Want to Be Happy
  4. What'll I Do?
  5. They Didn't Believe Me
  6. In the Blue of the Evening
  7. Tequila Time
  8. I Can't Get Started
  9. Blues for Delilah
  10. Sunset and Wine
  11. When You Wish Upon a Star
  12. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
  13. Tenderly
  14. Danny Boy (Londonberry Air)

Product Description

10 Box Set

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bud & Coop and the West Coast scene.......2005-12-29


This excellent 3-CD set collects two 10" albums by Shank and 4 12" albums co-led by Shank and Cooper, all for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific labels between 1954-58. The West Coast cool school was at its height at this time, and both Bud Shank and Bob Cooper were in the thick of it. The first disc gets off to a rousing start with the marvelously swinging VALVE IN HEAD from 1954, with Bud playing fluid alto sax. He's joined by three valve trombone players (Bob Enevoldsen, Stu Williamson, and the ringer Maynard Ferguson) on this tune and for the first half of the disc, an interesting concept. The second half finds him with Coop at Cal Tech in 1959. Count Basie's THE KING gets a rousing airing, and there's a nicely done ballad medley.

Disc 2 contains the other 10-incher, this time with Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone with a small string section. Taken in its totality, it's the best album in the set. The highlight is Brookmeyer's own RUSTIC HOP, a great tune swung wonderfully. But all the tunes from this date, mostly standards, are great (OUT OF THIS WORLD is taken as a samba - very tasty), and the string section is truly a compliment to the proceedings, never obtrusive. The rest of Disc 2 has the 1958 BLOWIN' COUNTRY album on it (unfortunately also recently re-issued on a Pacific Jazz CD, which might be out of print now), and features Bud and Coop on various reeds, including flutes and oboe. The title track is an up-tempo swinger with both men on tenor and is the best from that album.

Disc 3 has miscellaneous sides completing the BLOWING COUNTRY date and also the album FLUTE 'N OBOE from 1956. Also done with a string section in attendance, I found this to be the least satisfying of the sessions. There seems a conscious effort to make this a chamber-jazz album, and except for a few items (TEQUILA TIME and the blues BLUES FOR DELILAH) there's a general lack of swing.

The set, for the most part, is quite excellent and collects some hard-to-find albums from the '50s. West Coast jazz could be cerebral and even icy, but in the right hands (and Bud Shank and Bob Cooper have the right hands) it could also swing like mad and be most welcoming. This Mosaic Select is definitely worth checking out.

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  1. Move the Groove [Import]
  2. New Beginnings
  3. On The Road
  4. Orient/Blue Lake [Import]
  5. Ray Charles and Betty Carter
  6. Retrospective/Debut
  7. Rita Reys Meets Oliver Nelson [Import]
  8. Roots Revisited
  9. She Shall Have Music
  10. Snapshots 1.2 [Extra tracks]

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