Jazz Ultimate/Coast Concert

Artist: Bobby Hackett
Label: Collector's Choice
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 617742016529
EAN: 0617742016529
ASIN: B000059LF8

Release Date: 2001-03-13

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Tracks:

I Want A Big Butter And Egg Man
New Orleans
That's A Plenty
Basin Street Blues
Muskrat Rumble
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
Royal Garden Blues
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Fidgety Feet
Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
Oh Baby
It's Wonderful
I've Found A New Baby
Sunday
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)
Mama's Gone, Goodbye
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
55th And Broadway
'S Wonderful

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Customer Reviews:

Coast Concert: Jazz Ultimate - Bobby Hackett.......2005-08-14

Twenty years ago, I recorded one of the tunes off of a radio broadcast. The Name of the tune was Royal Garden Blues.It was, in my estimation, the best jazz band I ever heard. All the information I could get from the announcer was, Bobby Hackett and the All Stars. Just as I was about to give up all hope of ever finding that record, I was able to find it on Amazon.com. I ordered it and a few days later, I received my most treasured collection of jazz. Thanks a million

There's Not Much Additional That Can Be Said..............2002-07-22

but when I found this had been reissued, I bought it despite the fact that I had already burned a cd of my own from my old vinyl. I think enough of this music to want it "fresh" from the studio recording once more, minus the surface noise and minor scratches accumulated over 40+ years.

Read the reviews written earlier and you will reach the only conclusion possible that this is an essential to your collection.

To hear the great Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden together in their prime, not to mention the great cast of supporting musicians, is well worth the price. I don't have very much New Orleans or Chicago style jazz in my collection but this is one of the exceptions, simply because it is the BEST!

JAZZ ULTIMATE, For Real.......2002-06-01

This CD reissues two great Chicago-style dixieland albums from the mid-1950s. JAZZ ULTIMATE emphasizes Chicago-style, while COAST CONCERT - not a live recording, despite its title - emphasizes dixieland. This music is among the best of its genre, on a par with Muggsy Spanier's GREAT SIXTEEN and the Decca CHICAGO JAZZ album.

Bobby Hackett was a superb melodist on cornet and trumpet, generally playing in the middle range of his horn. He was the lyrical link between Bix Beiderbecke and Miles Davis. Jack Teagarden was the greatest jazz trombonist. Like fine brandy, he mellowed with age. These two stars are aided by Abe Lincoln (trombone), Matty Matlock (clarinet), Peanuts Hucko (clarinet and tenor sax), and Ernie Caceres (baritone sax and clarinet).

This is music of uniform high quality. Hackett and Teagraden excelled on slow ballads, "New Orleans," for example, and "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans" and "It's Wonderful." Hackett would typically paraphrase the melody, while Teagarden would improvise around it. This was laid-back playing, before anyone knew what laid-back was. On the slow blues, "55th And Broadway," Teagarden opens with a chorus that is instantly identifiable as his playing. He is followed by Hackett playing half-valve, in the manner of Rex Stewart. "Basin Street Blues" was a Teagraden set piece, but it is as fresh as ever. "That's A Plenty" illustrates the more extrovert side of these players.

The nine selections of COAST CONCERT come before the eleven numbers of JAZZ ULTIMATE on the CD, although the cover listing has it the other way around. The only liner notes are facsimile reproductions of the original album back covers. These weren't very informative in the first place, and are reduced to an unreadable size to fit the CD format. But, it is the music that counts.

Hackett & Teagarden never sounded better!.......2002-05-15

by the mid-50's, Bobby Hackett & Jack Teagarden were in peak condition, having aged gracefully, like fine wine.. this hi-fidelity combo of 2 vinyl LP's --the Jazz Ultimate and the Coast Concert--features 20 hot tunes (just one vocal-Basin Street Blues).. btw: for years, you had to order these disks (elsewhere) as part of a limited edition collector's set.. if you're reading this, see how fortunate you are? you can get, from Amazon, the best work EVER done by Jack Teagarden without missing a mortgage payment in the process..!
anyway: we have several standards here: New Orleans, Indiana, Big Butter n Egg Man & Royal Garden Blues. some of the tunes are performed in the classic New Orleans style, with the tuba rather than a string bass.. then, there's the upbeat: I've Found a New Baby, EveryBody Loves My Baby, and the hottest version of Baby Won't You Please Come Home I have ever heard.. toss in the bluesy "I Guess I'll Have to Change my Plans".. several of these traks are featured on my own webcast over at live365.com.
Hackett's cornet sings like Ella.. Jack's tram is rich and lyrical.. tell you what: double your expectations and you'll still be amazed at what you hear when you get this one home..
- do me a favour: if my house is burnin' down, save *me*.. but go back and get this CD, will ya? it's right next to my PC at the top of the rack -- always.. (--:
- just a final note: the CD covers-and trak samples on the Web- sometimes list the "Coast Concert" traks as # 12 to 20 - they're actually traks # 1 to 9.. that might clear up a bit of confusion for you if you're previewing the samples..
-- M Gull the canuckteach (--:

MUSIC MILESTONE.......2002-01-15

If you are a Hackett-Teagarden fan or for that matter a Jazz fan pick-up this milestone CD. Save up the funds if you don't have any at the moment and buy this CD. There is no more important Jazz recording in your collection !

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