Artist: The Joe Newman Septet
Album: The Midgets
Genre: Bop, Cool, Mainstream Jazz
Label: RCA / BMG Music
Released: 1956/1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- No Moon At All (2:50)
- Valerie (2:57)
- My Dog Friday (3:31)
- Scooter (2:57)
- The Late Late Show (3:01)
- Indeed The Blues (3:42)
- The Midgets (6:09)
- One Lamper (3:04)
- Living Dangerously (2:52)
- Really? Healy! (2:52)
- She Has Red Hair (3:26)
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- Personnel:
- Joe Newman - tp
- Frank Wess - fl
- Hank Jones - p, org (on #3)
- Barry Galbraith - el-g
- Freddie Green - rhyt-g
- Eddie Jones - b
- Osie Johnson - d
- Ernie Wilkins - arr
The Midgets is an album by jazz trumpeter Joe Newman's Septet recorded in 1956 for the RCA Records subsidiary Vik label. Glossy Cover, Arranged by Ernie Wilkins, conducted by Joe Newman, Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, July, 1956. Joe Newman on trumpet, Frank Wess on flute, Barry Galbraith on electric guitar, Freddie Green on rhythm guitar, Hank Jones on piano and organ, Eddie Jones on bass, and Osie Johnson on drums.
IN THOSE days we all wore white underpants. Consequently I was shocked when I entered the Count Basie band's dressing- room in Blackpool with Basie's trombonist Benny Powell to see a huddle of large men wearing underpants bedecked with goldfish, rainbows and loud check. These were The Giants.
They were looking down benignly upon an altercation between two much smaller men, Joe Newman and Frank Wess, who were also wearing what might be described as exotic underpants. Newman and Wess were The Midgets. In the Swing Era it was fashionable to have band publicity photographs taken with the men arranged in order of height. You couldn't have done that with this Basie band. After Eddie Jones, Charlie Fowlkes and the other Giants, there was a sudden cliff down to the smaller but musically potent Midgets. Frank wrote a feature for his flute and Joe's trumpet which became a jazz hit under the title of 'The Midgets'.