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UPCD2761 Carl Fontana - The Fifties
Carl Fontana - The Fifties

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Carl Fontana - The Fifties
Uptown Records Flashback Series
UPCD 27.61 2010 65:19
Includes 20 page CD Booklet

Carl Fontana - Vido Musso Quintet:
  • Stars Of Jazz TV program, Monday August 4, 1958, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Carl Fontana, tbn
  • Vido Musso, ts
  • Rudy Egan, pno
  • Bucky Jones, bass
  • Tony DiNicola, dr
  • Bobby Troup, MC

Tracks:

  • 1. Intro / Blues (Fontana - Musso)
  • 2. Lester Leaps In (Basie)
  • 3. Where’s Charlie Ventura
  • 4. Ballad Medley:
    If You Could See Me Now (Dameron) featuring Carl Fontana
    Come Back to Sorrento (deCurtis) featuring Vido Musso
  • 5. Intermission Riff (Wetzel)

A Unit From The Stan Kenton Band - Directed By Carl Fontana:
  • Club Des Amateurs Du Disque CAD 3003, Paris, May 4, 1956
  • Carl Fontana, tbn
  • Dick Mills, tpt
  • Don Rendell, ts
  • Henri Renaud, pno
  • Curtis Counce, bass
  • Wes Ilcken, dr

Tracks:

  • 6. Daniel’s Blues (Renaud)
  • 7. Scrapple From The Apple (Parker)
  • 8. Buhaina (Silver)
  • 9. Ballad Medley:
    These Foolish Things (Stachey - Maschwitz) Counce
    You Go To My Head (Coots - Gillespie) Mills
    Darn That Dream (Van Heusen - DeLange) Fontana
    I Cover The Waterfront (Green - Heyman) Rendell

Jimmy Cook Big Band:
  • Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 25, 1960
  • Carl Fontana, tbn
  • Jimmy Cook, ts
  • Al Porcino,Billy Hodges,Bobby Steed,Charlie Walp, tpt
  • Eddie Butterfied, tp,tl
  • Bob Enevoldsen, valve tbn,ts
  • Autie Goodman, Charlie McClean, as
  • Bob Lawson, bari
  • Eddie Weid, pno
  • Carson Smith, bass
  • Tom Montgomery, dr

Tracks:

  • 10. Polka Dots And Moonbeams arr: Bill Holman (Burke - Van Heusen)
  • 11. Soon arr: Bob Enevoldsen (Gershwin)

Stan Kenton Orchestra:
  • Berlin, West Germany, Wed. April 25, 1956
  • Carl Fontana, Bob Fitzpatrick, Kent Larsen, tbn
  • Stan Kenton, pno
  • Ed Leddy, Vinnie Tano, Sam Noto, Lee Katzman, Phil Gilbert, tpt
  • Lennie Niehaus, as
  • Bill Perkins, Don Rendell, ts
  • Harry Klein, bari
  • Don Kelly, bass tbn
  • Irving Rosenthal, Fred Fox, french horn
  • Jay McAllister, tuba
  • Ralph Blaze, gtr
  • Curtis Counce, bass
  • Mel Lewis, dr

Tracks:

  • 12. Polka Dots And Moonbeams arr: Bill Holman (Burke - Van Heusen)
  • 13. Carl arr: Bill Holman (Holman)


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