Artist: Rex Stewart
Album: 1948-1949
Genre: Swing
Label: Classics
Released: 2001
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Vernon's Story (2:33)
- Jug Blues (2:45)
- Blue Jay (2:17)
- Fine and Dandy (2:11)
- Blue Lou (2:53)
- Muskrat Ramble (3:15)
- Air Lift Stomp (3:22)
- Bei dir war es immer so schon (2:45)
- Linden Blues (3:32)
- Old Woman Blues (2:34)
- Morning Glory (2:51)
- Without a Song (2:51)
- Main Stem (2:41)
- Weary Weird (2:36)
- Stompy Jones (2:44)
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be (2:52)
- Quand vous saurez (2:44)
- Foolish Boy (2:40)
- Truckin' Down the Sinclair Trail (3:07)
- Bootsie Wootsie (2:53)
- Fable of a Fool (3:52)
- Blue Bundles (2:25)
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During 1947-49, the former Duke Ellington cornetist Rex Stewart spent time overseas, playing in Europe and Australia. The music on this CD is quite obscure, featuring Stewart as a leader on dates recorded in Basel, Berlin, Paris, and London. Most of the performances are swing oriented, although there are hints of bebop here, and there and bits of Dixieland. Stewart is in fine form in a quartet with tenor saxophonist Vernon Story, with the Hot Club of Berlin, showcased in an 9-11 piece group organized by pianist/arranger Claude Bolling, and as the only horn in a quintet. Lots of rarities are heard from on this CD, part of the Classics label's complete Rex Stewart series.
Review by Scott Yanow