Dance Time - Earl Bostic

Sweet Lorraine

Dance Time
Earl Bostic And His Alto Sax
King 525
1958

From the back cover: Jazz enthusiast everywhere have, for years, hailed the originality for Earl Bostic. As arranger, conductor and performer, Earl's work shows the polish and finesse that is achieved only through years of constant dedication to the profession of Jazz music.

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Earl Bostic moved, via the showplaces of New Orleans, to New York. Sidewalk with such greats as Don Redman, Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton schooled Earl in the art of Jazz and deeply enriched his outlook towards the music world. In 1939, eager to front his own group, Earl was booked into Small's Paradise in Harlem – an engagement which was so successful that it lasted for four years. Stints with the late Hot Lips Page and Lionel Hampton followed before he fronted another group.

1945 was the turning point in Earl's career, for it was early in this year that he and his new aggregation swung out with such greats as "845 Stomp" and "That's The Groovy Thing" which established him as a top-flight instrumentalist. Other musicians chancing his writing ability – Few forgot Gene Krupa with "Let Me Off Uptown," or Louis Prima and "Brooklyn Boogie," or Alvino Ray's waxing of "The Major And The Minor."

Throughout the years, Earl Bostic's popularity has been unquestioned. He and his group have been booked in almost every major club in the country and they do a yearly two-week engagement in Alaska, which is evidence of his personal appearance appeal, and his record sales show that the admiration for one Earl Bostic is every growing.

From Billboard - February 23, 1957 (review of King 395-525): Actually, this one is hard to categorize, and there should be sales to R&B, jazz and pop customers, not to mention teen-age rock and rollers. It's Bostic's fourth LP, and most of the 12 sides, if not all, have been cut as singles. Some reflect the alto-man's recent tendency to choke and growl in the best R&R commercial tradition. "Harlem Nocturne," the teen dance fave, gets a polished rundown the deejay's will like. Also includes "Off Shore," "Melancholy Serenade," etc. For all shops.

Harlem Nocturne
Where Or When
Sweet Lorraine
Poeme
You Go To My Head
Off Shore
The Moon Is Low
Ain't Misbehavin'
The Sheik Of Araby
I Hear A Rhapsody
Roses Of Picardy
Melancholy Serenade