ARTIE SHAW - THE LAST RECORDINGS

Six CDs in three volumes. Scans included. Interesting liner notes.

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Volumes 1 & 2 are entirely small group sessions recorded in 1954 with the following lineups...

Arie Shaw - clarinet
Hank Jones - piano
Tommy Potter -bass
Tal Farlow - guitar
Joe Roland - vibraphone
Irv Kluger - drums

and

Artie Shaw, clarinet
Hank Jones - piano
Tommy Potter - bass
Joe Puma - guitar
Irv Kluger - drums

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Volume 3, CD 1 is called "Mixed Bag" and contains various recordings for the Musicraft label made in 1945-46 with various lineups that I lack the motivation to type out.

Volume 3, CD 2 is called "The Big Band, 1949". It has also been reissued as "So Easy"...

Artie Shaw (cl), Don Palladino, Don Fagerquist, Dale Pierce, Vie Ford (tp), Sonny Russo Fred Zito, Angie Callea, Porky Cohen (tb), Herb Steward, Frank Socolow (as), Al Cohn, Zoot Sims (ts), Danny Bank (bs), Gil Barrios (p), Jimmy Raney (g), Dick Niveson (b), Irv Kluger (d)