Let's Dance With Earl Bostic

 

Song Of The Island

Let's Dance With Earl Bostic

King Records 395-529

1957

From the back cover: Perhaps no one has helped more in bringing to the layman true jazz music that he can understand and dance to than Earl Bostic has done with his alto sax. Earl's style is familiar to all. His great execution and perfect tone are coupled with feeling that few musicians are able to accomplish in bridging this gap between jazz and polar dance music.

This volume is another collection of Earl's greatest hits that have never been on the market as single records. "Lover Come Back To Me", "Blue Skies", "Cherry Bean" and "Warp It Up" are among his great hit records and are musts for every music lover's library. No library is complete without a collection of recordings by this master of the alto sax. Born Earl Eugene Bostic, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Earl attended Creighton University in Omaha one year, and went to Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was graduated with an AB degree. It was while in Xavier University that Earl learned music. He picked up a few of the fundamentals while still in high school but a nun at the University taught him the musical knowledge that he now possesses. While attending the University in New Orleans he became a member of the ROTC band and at night played with the local jazz outfits around town. Things did not come easy for Earl as is true for most musicians. He made exactly 15¢ on his first job as a band leader.

After graduating from Xavier University, Earl migrated to New York and got work as a side man with Don Redmond, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton and others. It was in 1939 that Earl Bostic decided that he would like to became a band leader, so he formed a small group and got a job in Harlem's Small's Paradise and stayed there for four years. In 1943 Earl gave up the small band and joined the late Hot Lips Page and later joined the Lionel Hampton band. In 1945 Earl again formed his own small group and they hit the groove – he had such hit records as "845 Stomp", "The Groovy Thing", "Flamingo", "Temptation", as well as writing some other hot tuned like "Let Me Off Up Town" for Gene Krupa, "Brooklyn Boogie" for Louis Prima, and Alvino Rey's "The Major And The Minor" which became a musical background for a Hollywood movie of the same title. Earl has played most of the major clubs throughout the country. He is constantly on tour and is sought after from far away places like Alaska and Mexico City. A truly great artist, Earl Bostic herewith presents music for dancing.

Lover Come Back To Me

The Merry Widow Waltz

Cracked Ice

Song Of The Islands

Danube Waves

Wrap It Up

Blue Skies

Ubangi Stomp

Cherry Bean

Earl's Imagination

My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice

Liebestraum