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trio and

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on drums. Two different versions of the same material, one recorded in

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and one recorded in

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by the same musicians, were released by Verve under the same title. One recording was

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and the other was stereo.

Multiple releases and misidentified recording dates / locations

The original album liner notes apparently misidentified which recording came from which location on which date but later CD re-issue liner notes claim to have the corrected information. :"Note: The liner notes to the compact disc reissue of these titles…(Verve 831-272-2), by jazz historian Phil Schaap corrects the date and location information of this concert recording as listed in the Jespen, Bruyninckx, and Fini discographies".''The Musical World of J.J. Johnson'' by Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois III. Page 355 According to the later CD liner notes, the stereo recording was made at the

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in Chicago on September 29, 1957 and the mono recording was made at the

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in Los Angeles on October 7, 1957.

Track listing

Verve MGV 8265 / V 8490 (mono)

LP Side A # " Billie's Bounce" (

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) – 7:57 # " My Funny Valentine" ( Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:28 LP Side B # "

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" (

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, Joseph Meyer,

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) – 7:47 # " Yesterdays" (

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) – 3:42 # "

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" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:52 # "Blues In the Closet" (

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) – 6:18

Verve MGVS 6027 / V6 8490 (stereo)

LP Side A # "Billie's Bounce" (Parker) – 10:15 # "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 7:40 LP Side B # "Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar, Meyer, Wolfe Kahn) – 7:36 # "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:46 # "Blues In the Closet" (Pettiford) – 6:08
'' CD re-issues have included all or most tracks from both concerts on a single disc''

Personnel

* Stan Getz –

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(except "Yesterdays") *

J.J. Johnson J.J. Johnson (January 22, 1924 – February 4, 2001), born James Louis Johnson and also known as Jay Jay Johnson, was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. Johnson was one of the earliest trombonists to embrace bebop. Biography ...

–

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(except "It Never Entered My Mind") *

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Herb Ellis –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Ray Brown –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

– drums

References

Stan Getz live albums J. J. Johnson live albums Albums produced by Norman Granz 1957 live albums Verve Records live albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub