Clark Terry / Bob Wi - Blowin The Blues Away: Legendary Small Group [New CD]

This release presents the most important among the very few recordings trumpeter Clark Terry and reedman Bob Wilber made together. Apart from the sessions compiled here, they would only collaborate on a Sonny Truitt Octet “Music Minus One” LP (an album planned for jazz students in which blank spaces were left for some instrumental solos), and on a couple of big band LPs in the mid-1990s.

This set consists of the complete 1960 Bob Wilber LP Blowin’ the Blues Away (Classic Jazz CJ-9), plus a couple of Billy Strayhorn small group dates featuring both horns.

PERSONNEL:

• CLARK TERRY, trumpet & flugelhorn
• BOB WILBER, clarinet, tenor sax & soprano sax
• On all tracks, plus:

• [1-9]: BLOWIN’ THE BLUES AWAY (Classic Jazz CJ-9)
• DICK WELLSTOOD, piano
• GEORGE DUVIVIER, bass
• PANAMA FRANCIS, drums

• [10-18]: BILLY STRAYHORN, piano except track 11
• DUKE ELLINGTON, piano on track 11
• WENDELL MARSHALL, bass
• DAVE BAILEY, drums
• WILLIE RUFF, flugelhorn on tracks 14-18 only
• OZZIE BAILEY, vocal on track 18 only

TRACKS:

• 01 After Midnight
• 02 Please Blues Go On Away From Here
• 03 Soulful Serenade
• 04 Basie Eyes
• 05 The Maryland Farmer
• 06 Baptist Blues
• 07 Where Will I Go
• 08 La Valse Bleue (The Blues Waltz)
• 09 Blue Rhumba
• 10 Ummg
• 11 Smada
• 12 Passion Flower
• 13 Take The “A” Train
• 14 Raincheck
• 15 Chelsea Bridge
• 16 Pick Side
• 17 Oink
• 18 Multicolored Blue

• TOTAL TIME: 74:43 Min