Artist: Various
Album: The Savory Collection 1935-1940
Genre: Swing
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2018
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul - 5:54
- Coleman Hawkins - Basin Street Blues - 5:53
- Coleman Hawkins - Lazy Butterfly - 1:05
- Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tiskit, A-Tasket - 2:25
- Ella Fitzgerald - (I've Been) Saving Myself For You - 2:53
- Fats Waller - Yacht Club Swing (Theme & Intro)/Hold My Hand - 3:42
- Fats Waller - I Haven't Changed A Thing - 3:58
- Fats Waller - Summer Souvenirs/Who Blew Out The Flame? - 5:41
- Fats Waller - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby/Sixty Seconds Got Together - 3:47
- Fats Waller - I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams - 2:29
- Fats Waller - When I Go A-Dreaming - 2:53
- Fats Waller - Alligator Crawl - 1:42
- Fats Waller - The Spider And The Fly - 2:43
- Lionel Hampton - Dinah - 7:03
- Lionel Hampton - Star Dust - 3:01
- Lionel Hampton - Chinatown, My Chinatown - 2:27
- Lionel Hampton - Blues - 9:54
- Lionel Hampton - Rosetta - 4:09
- Carl Kress & Dick Mcdonough - Heat Wave - 2:22
- Emilio Caceres Trio - China Boy - 2:29
- CD 2:
- Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie Stomp - 3:06
- Roy Eldridge - Body And Soul - 4:27
- Roy Eldridge & Chick Webb - Liza - 2:06
- Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose - 6:34
- Fats Waller - China Boy - 5:56
- Fats Waller - I'm Comin' Virginia - 4:38
- Fats Waller - Blues - 5:26
- Fats Waller - I Got Rhythm - 2:09
- John Kirby - From A Flat To C - 2:41
- John Kirby - Blues Petite - 3:45
- John Kirby - Front And Center - 2:53
- John Kirby - Effervescent Blues - 2:46
- John Kirby - Minnie The Moocher's Wedding - 2:26
- John Kirby - Echoes Of Harlem - 3:38
- John Kirby - Boogie Woogie - 2:59
- John Kirby - Milumbu - 3:25
- John Kirby - Rehearsin' For A Nervous Breakdown - 3:29
- John Kirby - Honeysuckle Rose - 1:09
- Benny Carter - More Than You Know - 4:29
- Benny Carter - Honeysuckle Rose - 1:25
- Joe Sullivan - China Boy - 1:31
- CD 3:
- Joe Marsala - Jazz Me Blues - 5:29
- Joe Marsala - California, Here I Come - 6:56
- Joe Marsala - When Did You Leave Heaven? - 7:24
- Joe Marsala - The Sheik Of Araby - 4:45
- Bobby Hackett - Body And Soul - 2:15
- Bobby Hackett - Embraceable You - 2:51
- Bobby Hackett - Muskrat Ramble - 2:12
- Jack Teagarden - Honeysuckle Rose - 5:07
- Jack Teagarden - Jeepers Creepers - 6:13
- Mildred Bailey - My Melancholy Baby - 3:43
- Mildred Bailey - Truckin' - 2:44
- Mildred Bailey - Rockin' Chair - 4:16
- Mildred Bailey - The Day I Let You Get Away - 2:10
- Stuff Smith - Crescendo In Drums - 4:00
- Stuff Smith - I'se A-Muggin' - 2:31
- CD 4:
- Teddy Wilson - Cocoanut Groove - 2:20
- Teddy Wilson - Jitterbug Jump - 4:31
- Teddy Wilson - Sweet Lorraine - 3:50
- Glenn Miller - By The Waters Of The Minnetonka - 4:45
- Glenn Miller - Tuxedo Junction - 4:23
- Glenn Miller - In The Mood - 3:19
- Joe Sullivan - Gin Mill Blues - 3:10
- Joe Sullivan - Just Strollin' - 1:36
- Joe Sullivan - Little Rock Getaway - 2:18
- Joe Sullivan - Improvisation #1 - 10:03
- Joe Sullivan - Improvisation #2 - 7:13
- Joe Sullivan - Improvisation #3 - 2:30
- Joe Sullivan - Improvisation #4 - 5:15
- CD 5:
- Count Basie - One O'clock Jump - 4:40
- Count Basie - Every Tub - 3:10
- Count Basie - Boogie Woogie - 2:02
- Count Basie - Farewell Blues/Moten Swing (Closing Theme) - 3:37
- Count Basie - I Ain't Got Nobody - 3:12
- Count Basie - Every Tub - 2:50
- Count Basie - Honeysuckle Rose - 4:09
- Count Basie - Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush - 4:04
- Count Basie - Roseland Shuffle - 2:19
- Count Basie - Texas Shuffle - 4:50
- Count Basie - Alexander's Ragtime Band - 2:02
- Count Basie - St. Louis Blues - 4:21
- Count Basie - Rosetta - 3:33
- Count Basie - Blue And Sentimental - 3:28
- Count Basie - He Ain't Got Rhythm - 2:43
- Count Basie - Moten Swing - 3:09
- Count Basie - Harlem Shout - 3:10
- Count Basie - Oh, Lady Be Good - 2:31
- CD 6:
- Count Basie - Limehouse Blues - 2:35
- Count Basie - Texas Shuffle - 4:25
- Count Basie - Russian Lullaby - 2:27
- Count Basie - Shout And Feel It - 2:20
- Count Basie - Good Morning Blues - 3:08
- Count Basie - Limehouse Blues - 2:28
- Count Basie - I Never Knew - 2:25
- Count Basie - One O'clock Jump - 2:52
- Count Basie - Sent For You Yesterday - 3:27
- Count Basie - Swingin' The Blues - 3:46
- Count Basie - Every Tub - 3:10
- Count Basie - Jumpin' At The Woodside - 4:16
- Count Basie - Pound Cake - 2:47
- Count Basie - Roseland Shuffle - 1:41
- Count Basie - Boogie Woogie - 3:04
- Count Basie - Pannasie Stomp - 4:35
- Count Basie - Oh, Lady Be Good - 2:53
- Count Basie - The Apple Jump - 2:44
- Count Basie - The Apple Jump - 3:05
- Count Basie - I Never Knew - 3:30
- Count Basie - Bugle Call Rag - 2:45
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Certain collections of music are so rich and deep that it feels like a listener could almost swim in them. This six-disc, 108-track set feels bottomless. It also represents one of the greatest provenance accounts in all of jazz. Someone ought to write a short story about it.
Bill Savory was a reticent New York recording engineer in the 1930s and 1940s who had a cool nocturnal habit: While transcribing radio broadcasts for foreign distribution, he liked to multitask, flipping on his recorders and capturing what was going out over the airwaves from live jazz-club performances that were only meant to be heard once. That is, if there had been no Bill Savory.
We could order a lot of beers and have a lot of passionate talks about what’s best and most valuable here. Here’s a whistle-wetter: a version of Coleman Hawkins’ “Body and Soul” cut seven months after its jazz epoch-shaping studio counterpart, and frankly better. At the earlier date, Hawkins had hit upon something, but now what was hit upon has been refined, sacrificing none of its immediacy as it extends its domain, roots plunging deeper into soil.
Given where jazz was played and where Savory was at, most of the recordings come from NYC, but there are others from the nightclub temples of Boston and Chicago. Fats Waller blazes at the charmingly billed The Yacht Club, as if a regatta were simultaneously unwinding outside. He had no idea this was being recorded, he’s playing only for the patrons of the evening, but his set selections underscore an epiphany central to the artistry of these men and women: The workaday gig is also the all-timer gig, the next entry in a progression of them. Nothing is throwaway, all can last. That is some doozy art.
Speaking of which: A WNEW jam session features Basie tenor sax stud Herschel Evans a mere month before his death, and when you hear the power coming through his horn, you wonder how the Reaper got up the balls to approach him. Rival/partner Lester Young, meanwhile, blows a blues so pure on “Lady Be Good” with the Basie band that you just about giggle that these two cats were somehow in the same unit. These players always belong to their moment entirely even as they transcend it, with Savory acting as recording scribe for a kind of jazz Bible.
Swing is the ostensible core of the collection, but what we’re hearing is jazz morphing, nightly. Drummer Chick Webb’s case as a sticksman and prime mover par excellence is furthered, Ella Fitzgerald is moving swing singing into an era of vocal Modernism, and if you don’t think the John Kirby sextet could hold its own in a battle of the bands versus Coltrane’s quartet or either Miles quintet, well, let’s line up these recordings with theirs and have everyone throw down. Thank you, Mr. Savory, for your hobby. You have provided a plunge into a lost sea of history. And you have done every corner of our human condition a massive solid.
Review by Colin Fleming
