Percussion Music - The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble

 

Ostinato Pianissimo

Percussion Music

Works by Varese, Colgrass, Cowell, Saperstein, Oak

The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble

Raymond DesRoches - Director

Engineering & Musical Supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanne Nickrenz (Elite Recording, Inc.)

Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig (Sterling Sound, Inc.)

Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

Cover Art: Don Brautigam

Cover Design: Paula Bisacca

Nonsuch Records H-71291

1974

The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble

Raymond DesRoaches - Conductor

Joseph Brice

Gary Van Dyke

Eddie Fay

Vincent Graziano

Richard Hess

Doreen Holmes

Kenneth Hosley

Martin Martini

Eugene McBride

Louis Oddo

Angelo Olivieri 

Joseph Passaro

Matthew Patuto

Vincent Potuto, Jr.

Dean Poulsen

James Pugliese

Mark Schipper

From the back cover: Raymond DesRoches (b. 1934) studied with Paul Price at the Manhattan School of Music, where he received his Master of Arts degree. He had been active as a member of the Group of Contemporary Music, the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, and numerous other organizations devoted to the presentation of new music. In 1968, DesRoches formed the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, consisting of  students from William Patterson College, Rutgers University, and Jersey City State College. In its first season, the Ensemble was invited to perform Varése's Ionisation in one of the regular programs of the Group for Contemporary Music. Following this highly acclaimed debut, the Ensemble has given full concerts, and on tour. Since 1972, the Ensemble has been in residence at William Paterson College, Wayne, N.J., where Mr. DesRoches is on the music faculty. The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble also appears on Nonesuch H-71263, performing Charles Wuorinen's Ringing Changes.

Edgard Varése - Ionisation

Michael Colgrass - Fantasy-Varitations

Henry Cowell - Ostinato Pianissimo

David Saperstein - Antiphonies For Percussion

Kil-Sung Oak - Amorphosis (Danielle Moss, Soprano)

Mother Goose - Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff

 

Mother Goose

Mother Goose

Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff

Directed by Howard O. Sackler

Music by Hershy Kay

Caedmon TC 1091

1958

The Rock-Jazz Incident - Marty Paich

 

Summertime

The Sound Of Now

The Rock-Jazz Incident

By The Orchestra of Marty Paich

Conceived and Arranged by Marty Paich

Produced by Jimmy Bowen

Art Direction and Photography: Ed thrasher

Reprise 6206

1966

Promise Her Anything

Gotta Go

It's Not Unusual 

Watermelon Man

The Proud Camel

Summertime

The Cat

What Now My Love

The Thing

Yesterday

Call Me

The End On Bongos - Jack Burger

 

Noche En Descalvado

The End On Bongos

Jack Burger

Hi Fi Record R-804

1957

Jack Burger - Bongos, Drums & Effects

Buddy Collette - Flute & Saxophone

Bobby Gil - Piano

Ray Blagof - Trumpet

Don Tosti - Electric Bass

Tito Rivera - Congo & Drums

Elmer Schmidt - Marimba, Piano Tumba & Llamado

From the back cover: This album was first recorded stereophonically, using a specially built Ampex 3-track magnetic tape recorder. This recorder takes one-half inch with "Scotch" 111A magnetic recording tape by using a modified transport mechanism, the tape passing over a "stacked" 3-track recording head, which simultaneously records 2 separate 100 mil width sound tracks, a total of 300 mils recorded width, making possible even less distortion than the conventional 250 mil recorded width on full track recorders using one-quarter inch tape. Thus a 3 dimensional feeling in sound is captured and later "mixed" into a single channel feeding a Westrex B series magnetic recording head used to cut the master disc on a Scully automatically variable pitch lathe. Frequency range in this disc is 16,000 to 20,000 cycles per second. Painstaking care with only the best equipment and materials used in every step of this recording, from the original tape to the final 100% pure vinyl disc, makes possible an unusually good signal to noise ration of about 62.

From Billboard - November 25, 1957: "Hi-Fi," in the real sense of the word, best defines the basic appeal of this set. Variety of percussion sound, which dominate and ring true, should be strongly appealing to hi-fi addicts. All of the material treated is in Latin vein and is compelling for its authenticity, often for its danceability. Combination of appeals – to hi-fi buyer and Latin buyer – could make this an excellent seller.

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

China Nights Mambo

Miserlou

Jordu

Noche En Descalvado

Mambo Burger

A Yiddisha Mambo

Negre Setin

Conversar En La Noche

Blue Prelude

Chiu Chiu

Straight Ahead - Junior Mance

 

The J.A.M.F.

Straight Ahead

Junior Mance

Arrangements by Bob Bain and David Cavanaugh

Musical Directions by Bob Bain

Produced by David Cavanaugh

Recorded September 14, 15 and 16, 1964, in Capitol's Studio B, Hollywood, California

Engineer: John Kraus 

Capitol Records ST 2218

From the back cover: Critics early pointed to Junior as one of the most swinging of contemporary band pianists. And since he set out on his own in 1961, he's won ever wider fame as a star of rare distinction and finesse. His first Capitol album, "Get Ready, Set, Jump!!!," received high praise from reviewers, musicians and the listening public.

Now in "Straight Ahead" the piano artistry of Mance is complemented by an all-star brass section of trumpets and trombones, plus Shelly Manne on drums and Monty Budwig on bass, with a few guitar chords from Bob Bain on "Li'l Darlin'." The trumpets are Don Fagerquist, John Audino, Pete Candoli, Ray Triscari and Al Porcino. The trombones are Lew McCreay, Milt Bernhart and Vern Friley, with George Roberts and Kenny Shroyer on bass trombone. These are some of the most acclaimed musicians in the field – proven talents who can well afford to shun pretentiousness and aimless virtuosity, and concentrate on forging music to a standard of relaxed perfection and elegance.

In A Mellow Tone

Hannah Strikes Again

Li'l Darlin'

Diane

Happy Time

The Late, Late Show

Fine Brown Frame

Senor Mance

Stompin' At The Savoy

Trouble In Mind

The J.A.M.F.

Can-Can - Terry Gibbs

 

It's All Right With Me

Music From Cole Porter's

Can-Can

Terry Gibbs and His Quintet

Cover: Paula Powers

Art Direction: Merle Shore

Verve Records MGB 2136

1960

Piano - Frank Strazzieri

Guitarist - Herb Ellis

Bass - Al McKibbon

Drums - Frank Capp

From the back cover: Since the night he won a Major Bowes contest at the age of 12, Terry Gibbs has been living and breathing the vibraharp and jazz. One of the real giants on the instrument, Gibbs brought to the age of Bebop what Lionel Hampton brought to the age of Swing – tremendous vitality and fluent invention.

Born Julius Gubenko in Brooklyn, New York, October 13, 1924, Gibbs got his professional start on drums with the Judy Kayne band. After three years in the U.S. Army he returned to immediate activity in and around New York and to a revitalized jazz scene that vibrated to the new music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and other pioneers of the new era. After a brief term with the Tommy Dorsey band, he toured Sweden with a group led by the extroverted Chubby Jackson in December of 1947, then was featured with the ill-fated Buddy Rich band until September the following year. When the Rich band folded, Gibbs joined Woody Herman's second Herd and won the international recognition that was so long overdue. During he year with Herman, Terry solidified a reputation for hard-swinging, unrelenting drive on vibes that enable him to launch his own small groups in the years that followed. Since 1951 he has been one of the top jazz attractions in the country.

In 1957 Gibbs settled in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills. He immediately laid plans for the realization of a long-held dream – to lead his own big band. His efforts paid off and today he swings out in front of one of the roarin'est bands ever to assemble.

Long known fro his superlative small groups, however, Gibbs maintains the quartet and quintet format that enables him to play without the restriction of big band arrangements. One of these combos is heard in this selection of songs from Cole Porter's Can-Can.

From Billboard - April 25, 1960: From the album, "Music From Cole Porter's Can-Can," this is a bright-sound reading of the standard.

Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)

I Love Paris

C'est Magnifique

You Do Something To Me

Just One Of Those Things

Live and Let Live

It's All Right With Me

Montmart'

Can-Can

Come Along With Me

Love Story - Sy Shaffer

 

Soft Lights And Sweet Music

Love Story

Sy Shaffer and His Orchestra

Westminster Records WST 15023

1958

From the back cover: Sy Shaffer, virtuoso trombonist who has been playing on Arthur Godfrey's Radio and Television Shows for the past thirteen years, has collaborated with some of America's greatest band leaders – Carmen Cavallaro, Benny Goodman, Vincent Lopez and Frankie Masters. In 1943 he joined the Musical Staff at CBS, where he played with Raymond Scott, Andre Kostelanetz, Ray Bloch and the CBS symphony, and made a great many recordings with almost every big name in the popular music field. His association with the Arthur Godfrey programs began in 1945, and he has participated in many Godfrey recordings, including the comic voice part in Too Fat Polka. In the classical field by Sy Shaffer, who studied conducting with Pierre Monteux, in Musical Director and Conductor of the Nassau Orchestral Society, and has appeared as trombone soloist with many symphony orchestras.

From Billboard - November 10, 1958: Ballads like "Love Letters," "That Old Feeling" and "Please Be Kind" get warm readings, with Shaffer on trombone. Ork sounds lush in stereo. Lovely beach photo cover.

How About You

Soft Lights And Sweet Music

Love Letters

Please Be Kind

Everything I Have Is Yours

Can't We Be Friends?

Everything Happens To Me

When Your Lover Has Gone

I'll Never Be The Same

Just One More Chance

That Old Feeling

Love Is Here To Stay

Modern Square Dances - With Calls By Earl Bateman

 

Virginia Blues

Modern Square Dances

With Calls by Earl Bateman

Smokey Warren's Square Dancers

Diplomat Records D-2609

Daisy Mae Round

Shakerag

Opry Hoedown

Flatrock Fiddler

Fox Run-A-Round

Good Ole' Country Music

Virginia Blues

Square Dance Tonight

Old Hen Square (Spanish Cavalier)

Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

Honky-Tonk Favorites - Ace O'Donnell

 

Kitten On The Keys

Honky-Tonk Favorites

Ace O'Donnell

Tops L1566

1957

Mother Pin A Rose On Me

Hello Ma Baby

Comrades: Two Little Girls In Blue; Little Annie Rooney

How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm

When You're Smiling

Kitten On The Keys

Oh, Marie

For Me And My Gal

Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody

She's More To Be Pitied Than Censured; She May Have Seen Better Days; My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon

Nola

Girl Of My Dreams

Chinatown My Chinatown

Chet Atkins' Workshop

 

Bonita

Chet Akins' Workshop

Produced by Chet Akins

Recorded in Nashville

Recording Engineer: Bill Porter

RCA Victor LSP-2232

1961

From the back cover: The workshop itself resembles a small scale Cape Canaveral. In it is approximately $8,000 worth of electronic and electrical equipment, much of it built by Atkins himself: a small maze of mixing panels, a three-channel stereo tape recorder, a one-channel recorder, a jack panel, a voltmeter, an audio generator, a distortion meter.

This is the lonely man's room and and Atkins when he's working is a lonely man. "I can take my time here," he said. "Can't take my time at the studio. We're making money there and when you're making money you can't really take the time." Here he can retire for days on end to be handed an occasional sandwich through the door by his wife Leona, but here to stay, with his guitar and his sound.

"The sound," I said, "how about the sound?"

"It isn't bad," he said.  – David Halberstam - Mr. Halberstam of The Nashville Tennessean is a frequent contributor to The Reporter Magazine

Lambeth Walk

Theme from "A Summer Place"

Whispering 

In A Little Spanish Ton ('Twas On A Night Like This)

Sleep

Marie

Hot Mocking Bird

Lullaby Of Birdland

Tammy

Goofus

Bonita

Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Será, Será)

Dance Along Piccadilly With Love From Jack Hansen

 

Come Closer To Me

Dance Along Piccadilly

With Love From Jack Hansen

Recorded at De Lane Lea Music Centre, London

Recording Engineer: John Richards

Dance Along Records DAL-S1326

1973

From the back cover: "Dance Along Piccadilly" to the exciting rhythms of Maestro Jack Hansen and his Orchestra – all recorded especially for this album with a very great deal of love mixed in for the frosting!

Maestro Hansen has been playing for dance competitions and dance events all across the United States for many years. He and his orchestra have played for all the United States National Ballroom Championships since their inception.

One of the biggest thrills of Jack Hansen's life occurred in March, 1973, when he and his orchestra were chosen to play for the Dance News Royal Manhattan Festival in New York City. He played the music for the entire Festival which included all the Modern and Latin Competitions and the World Amateur Latin Formation Championship. This was the very first time any orchestra in the United States had played for Formation Championships. His versatile music was an outstanding success which is quite a tribute to Jack Hansen's complete understanding of the needs of the dancer.

All I Do Is Dream Of You

Tenderly

Mack The Knife (The Threepenny Opera)

Last Tango In Paris

Vine Street Police Station Quickstep

Chelsea Cha

Come Closer To Me

Copacabana

Piccadilly Live

Spanish Gipsy Dance (Espana Cani

Dick Powell Presents Four Star Television Productions

 

Nervous

Dick Powell Presents

Themes From The Original Sound Track Of Four Star Television Productions

(Exactly As Played On Television)

Conducted by Herschel Burke Gilbert

Dot Records DLP 25421

1963

From the back cover: Success through quality is Dick Powell's business. As a pop singer, as a dramatic actor, as a producer-director and, finally, as President of Four Star Television, he was determined to give the best, and he expected it to get him to the top. It did.

Thoroughly versed in all facets of music and picture making, Powell was always keenly aware of the dramatic entertainment value of picture music, that peculiar medium which can enhance or distract, delight or distress, and subtly up-or down-grade a show by its own quality.

Looking for the man to whom to give the responsibility for the musical quality of Four Star Television series, Powell's attention fastened on Herschel Burke Gilbert who, after some thirty motion picture scores and three Academy Award nominations, attained an unusually enthusiastic audience response with his unique music treatment of "The Rifleman" series. Thomas J. McDermott, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Four Star Television, to whom Powell entrusted the destiny of the Company, agreed and Gilbert accepted the position of Executive Music Director, bringing with him his long-time associate, Alfred Perry, to help him supervise and manage the quickly expanding program of Four Star Television.

This album presents some of the themes created under Gilbert's music directorship by an ever-increasing number of motion picture composers. In line with studio policy, the roster of companies includes the recognized masters of their craft, as well as new talents, who were discovered and developed by Gilbert.

Soon the two music publishing companies which Gilbert runs for Four Star Television – BNP Music Publishing Co., ASCAP, named after Charles Boyer, David Niven and Dick Powell; and Four Star Television Music Co., Inc., BMI – will make available to the record buyer other suites, songs and dance tunes created for and first presented in Four Star Television series. – Herschel Burke Gilbert - Executive Music Director

Nervous - Teaser Theme from The Dick Powell Show

Dick Powell Theme from The Dick Powell Show

Target - Theme from Target: The Corruptors

Alma Mater and Fight Song - Themes from The Gertrude Berg Show

The Rifleman Theme from The Rifleman

The Detectives Theme from Robert Taylor's Detectives

Theme from The Law And Mr. Jones

Black Saddle Theme from Black Saddle

The Plainsman Theme from Law Of The Plainsman

Wanted Dead Or Alive Theme from Wanted Dead Or Alive

Theme from The June Allyson Show

Theme from Michael Shayne

Theme from The Tom Ewell Show

Theme from The Zane Grey Theatre

Billy The Kid / Rodeo - Morton Gould

 

Billy The Kid / Rodeo

Copland

Billy The Kid / Rodeo

Morton Gould and His Orchestra

RCA Victor LM-2195

1958

From Billboard - May 19, 1958: Altho there is formidable competition on "Billy The Kid," Gould packs sufficient name power to make him version a potent sales item. His verveful interpretations of both the lively "Rodeo" and "Billy" should attract both classical and pop fans. A strong coupling.

Billy The Kid

Billy The Kid Waltz

Buckaroo Holiday

Corral Nocturne

Honky Tonk Interlude and Saturday Night Waltz

Hoe-Down

Classic Country - Felix Slatkin

 

Maiden's Prayer

Classic Country

The Fantastic Fiddles Of Felix Slatkin

United Artist UAS-6818

1972

Devil's Dream

Turkey In The Straw

Back Up And Push

Maiden's Prayer

Golden Slippers

Fire In The Mountain

Arkansas Travler

Orange Blossom Special 

Listen To The Mocking Bird

Faded Love

Fisher's Horn Pipe

Chicken Reel

You Act Scenes Opposite Fernando Lamas

Scene 1

Co ★ Star

The Record Acting Game

You Act Scenes Opposite

Fernando Lamas

In Scenes from the Motion Picture The King And The Chorus Girl

Produced by Hugo and Luigi

Co-Star is a product of Co-Star Recordings, Inc. a subsidiary of Roulette Records, Inc.

Co-Star CS-102

Moonlight Becomes You - Bobby Hackett

Flamingo

Moonlight Becomes You

Bobby Hackett

With Strings

Pickwick SPC 3012

1965

From the back cover: A combination of Bobby Hackett and a full-sized string section results in one of those intensely pleasurable sensations that occur so rarely in music or life. But when they do occur, as in this album, there's no doubt about those tremors of delight running up and down our spine.

Bobby Hackett plays the cornet with a style that stays as fresh as a moon-lit night in spring. His musical ancestry has been traced directly to the clean, melodic attack of the legendary Bix Beiderbecke, but Hackett has added his own soaring lyricism to this tradition. The cornet has never been in better hands.

Actually, Hackett's first instrument was the violin which he started playing as a youngster in Providence where he was born in 1915. However, he soon dropped the fiddle for the guitar and cornet which became the keys to his entry into the big band scene. He played with Glenn Miller and Horace Hiedt and then located in New York where he became the top network studio musician in the big town. For a time, he also served as a conductor for the ABC network, but his inner tie was not to the baton but to the cornet.

Hackett has made some of the mellowest mood music on record with the help of glistening violin's backgrounds. This album is a selection of Hackett's most tenderly romantic performances. He weaves pure enchantment around "Mood Indigo," "Flamingo," "Serenade In Blue" and the other melodies in this set. So sit back, breathe easy and dream away. – Herman Schoenfeld, Music Editor Of Variety

Moonlight Becomes You

Serenade In Blue

Up A Lazy River

Mood Indigo

Flamingo

Moonlight Serenade

Wonderful One

Autumn Serenade

A Handful Of Stars

Street Of Dreams

Sincerely - Brenda Lee

 

It's The Talk Of The Town

Sincerely

Brenda Lee

Chorus and Orchestra Directly by Owen Bradley

Arrangements by Bill McElhiney

Decca Records DL 4216

1962

You Always Hurt The One You Love

Lazy River

You've Got Me Crying Again

It's The Talk Of The Town

Send Me Some Lovin'

How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky)

I'll Always Be In Love With You

I Miss You So

Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)

Only You (And Only Me)

Hold Me

I'll Be Seeing You