Artist: Red Norvo
Album: Jivin' the Jeep
Genre: Swing
Label: Hep Records
Released: 1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- It All Begins and Ends with You (3:06)
- A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid (3:19)
- I Know That You Know (2:58)
- Picture Me Without You (3:21)
- It Can Happen to You (3:11)
- Now That Summer Has Gone (2:57)
- It's Love I'm After (3:03)
- Peter Piper (3:10)
- When Is a Kiss Not a Kiss (3:22)
- A Thousand Dreams of You (3:04)
- Smoke Dreams (3:10)
- Slumming on Park Avenue (2:44)
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (3:00)
- Remember (3:20)
- Liza (2:48)
- I Would Do Anything for You (3:01)
- Jivin' the Jeep (3:10)
- Everyone's Wrong But Me (3:01)
- Posin' (2:30)
- The Morning After (3:20)
- Do You Ever Think of Me (2:53)
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All of the music on this Hep LP (except for the final two of the 16 performances) has since been reissued in the Hep CD Dance of the Octopus which also includes the xylophonist's earlier recordings. However, this LP is perfectly done, tracing Norvo's career in complete fashion during a seven-month period in 1936. He leads an octet that also includes trumpeter Stew Pletcher, Herbie Haymer on tenor and the mellophone of Eddie Sauter (who provided all of the arrangements). The final two numbers were Norvo's first recordings at the head of a big band. Not every selection is essential (particularly not the two vocals by the voice of Betty Boop, Mae Questal) but in general, these chamber swing performances are quite unique and memorable.
Review by Scott Yanow