Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.Benny Golson discography accessed June 26, 2012 Record producer Tom Wilson was involved in the sessions and wrote the album's liner notes.discogs.com accessed July 25, 2021 The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.Fresh Sound Record website accessed June 26, 2012 The related jazz tunes are contrafacts or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure.
The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue on the Jazz Beat label. The recording of "Walkin'" is the last released recording of the famed rhythm section of Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb.
Track listing Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 4:14 "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 4:16 Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:14 "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 4:39 Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) – 2:44 Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) – 3:52 "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:20 Left Channel: "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) – 3:43 "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:00 Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:39
Personnel Benny Golson – arranger, conductor Bill Evans – piano Ron Carter (tracks 1–9), Paul Chambers (track 10) – bass Charlie Persip (tracks 1–9), Jimmy Cobb (track 10) – drums Jazz Band – Right Channel Freddie Hubbard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Bill Hardman (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) – trumpet Curtis Fuller (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Grachan Moncur III (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) – trombone Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) Wayne Shorter (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) – tenor saxophone Pop Orchestra – Left Channel Ray Alonge, Bob Northern – French horn Jerome Richardson – flute Danny Bank – flute, baritone saxophone Lou Cranston – tenor saxophone Julius Held, Harry Lookofsky, George Ockner, Gene Orloff – violin Harold Goletta – viola Charles McCracken – cello
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