The Red Norvo TrioFeaturing: Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow
The Savoy Sessions (2LP)
LabelSavoy RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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1950 and 1951, and one of the most quietly radical small groups of its era. Red Norvo put together a trio with no drums at all: vibraphone, Tal Farlow's guitar and a very young Charles Mingus on bass, playing at breakneck tempos with a transparency and precision that nothing else in jazz sounded like. The absence of a drummer forces all three to carry the time, and the result is a chamber-music clarity applied to bop material. Mingus was in his twenties and already had the enormous sound and the harmonic imagination; Farlow was rewriting what a guitar could do at speed.
Savoy double LP. Essential listening, and the best possible argument that Mingus could have had an entirely different career.
Release notes
A1, A3, C2, C3, D6 were recorded in Los Angeles, May 3, 1950 A2, A4, B1, B3, B6, C1, D3, D5, D7 recorded in Chicago, October 31, 1950 A6, B2, B4, B5, C6, D1 recorded in Los Angeles, April 13, 1951 A5, C4, C5, D2, D4 - date and location unknown A1, A5, A6, B2, B4, C5, C6, D2, D7 previously issued on 12" LP. All others issued on Savoy 12088 and 12093. ℗&© 1976 Arista Records Inc., 6 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. A Subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. Catalog# on spine:…
| A1 | Swedish Pastry - Take 1 | 2:21 | |
| A2 | I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me | 2:50 | |
| A3 | Time And Tide | 2:32 | |
| A4 | Little White Lies | 3:43 | |
| A5 | Prelude To A Kiss | 4:01 | |
| A6 | Godchild - Take 2 | 4:39 | |
| B1 | Move | 2:35 | |
| B2 | Godchild - Take 1 | 4:46 | |
| B3 | September Song | 3:26 | |
| B4 | This Can't Be Love - Take 1 | 2:37 | |
| B5 | I'm Yours | 4:01 | |
| B6 | I Get A Kick Out Of You | 2:24 | |
| C1 | Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart | 3:25 | |
| C2 | Cheek To Cheek | 2:40 | |
| C3 | Night And Day | 4:01 | |
| C4 | Godchild - Master | 4:02 | |
| C5 | Mood Indigo | 3:28 | |
| C6 | This Can't Be Love - Take 2 | 2:21 | |
| D1 | If I Had You | 4:05 | |
| D2 | Deed I Do | 1:50 | |
| D3 | I'll Remember April | 3:18 | |
| D4 | This Can't Be Love - Master | 2:24 | |
| D5 | I've Got You Under My Skin | 2:21 | |
| D6 | Swedish Pastry - Master | 2:26 | |
| D7 | Have You Met Miss Jones | 2:58 |
- Charles Mingus
- Bass
- Steve Backer
- Executive-Producer
- Tal Farlow
- Guitar
- Burt Korall
- Liner Notes
- Al Brown
- Mastered By
- Bob Porter
- Reissue Producer
- Jack Towers
- Transferred By [Transfers], Edited By [Editing]
- Jerry Valburn
- Transferred By [Transfers], Edited By [Editing]
- Red Norvo
- Vibraphone [Vibes]
