Jive at Five is an album by trumpeter Joe Newman featuring tracks recorded with members of the Count Basie Orchestra in 1960 and originally released on the Swingville label.Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Swingville Label Discography, accessed December 8, 2015Prestige Records Catalog: Swingville 2000, 4000 series, accessed December 8, 2015
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Newman and his friends swing their way through four vintage standards and a couple of the leader's original blues in typical fashion".
John A Tynan gave the release 4 stars in his DownBeat review. Tynan called the album "an object lesson in relaxed and intelligent blowing. All the elements fit—compatible musicians, familiar material, assertedly congenial atmosphere — and are doweled together into a deceptively simple and always swinging whole . . . This get-together grooves all the way, coming in and going out swinging".
Track listing All compositions by Joe Newman except where noted "Wednesday's Blues" - 9:05 "Jive at Five" (Count Basie, Harry Edison) - 5:35 "More Than You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose) - 3:59 "Cuein' the Blues" - 4:33 "Taps Miller" (Basie, Luis Russell) - 8:18 "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) - 4:39
Personnel Joe Newman - trumpet Frank Wess - tenor saxophone, flute Tommy Flanagan - piano Eddie Jones - bass Oliver Jackson - drums
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