Red Norvo, Featuring Mildred Bailey

Red Norvo

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Red Norvo, Featuring Mildred Bailey Review

by Scott Yanow

This CD reissue by Columbia in their Legacy series is a bit of a hodgepodge, covering a 2 1/2 year period in the bandleading career of xylophonist Red Norvo. Unfortunately the music is not programmed in chronological order but since most of these largely enjoyable 18 titles (including two never previously released) have rarely been reissued, this sampler will have to do until a more "complete" session comes along. Norvo's band during this period not only featured the occasional vocals of his wife, Mildred Bailey, but fine solo work from the tenor of Herbie Haymer, clarinetist Hank D'Amico and trumpeter Stew Pletcher in addition to the leader. The biggest key in Norvo's orchestra achieving a sound of its own, however, were the distinctive and inventive arrangements of Eddie Sauter. This CD contains great music that deserves to be reissued more coherently.

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Remember Irving Berlin	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:13	Amazon
2	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:54	Amazon
3	Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie Ballard MacDonald / Joseph Meyer / Billy Rose	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:36	Amazon
4	Tea Time Red Norvo	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:54	Amazon
5	A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid James P. Johnson / Andy Razaf	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:12	Amazon
6	Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / Gus Kahn	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:42	Amazon
7	(I Would Do) Anything for You Alex Hill / Claude Hopkins / Bobby Williams	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:57	Amazon
8	Always and Always George Forrest / Edwin Ward / Robert Wright	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:36	Amazon
9	Jivin' the Jeep Red Norvo / Eddie Sauter	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:04	Amazon
10	Picture Me Without You Ted Koehler / Jimmy McHugh	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:14	Amazon
11	Just You, Just Me Jesse Greer / Raymond Klages	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:51	Amazon
12	Russian Lullaby Irving Berlin	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:58	Amazon
13	Smoke Dreams Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:04	Amazon
14	Do You Ever Think of Me? John Cooper / Jerome Kern / Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:56	Amazon
15	I Kiss Your Hand, Madame Ralph Erwin / Sam M. Lewis / Fritz Rotter / Joe Young	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	03:00	Amazon
16	I Go for That Frank Loesser / Matty Malneck	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:40	Amazon
17	Rehearsin' for a Nervous Breakdown Charlie Shavers	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:52	Amazon
18	A-Tisket, A-Tasket Van Alexander / Ella Fitzgerald	Red Norvo feat: Mildred Bailey	02:58	Amazon