120665bk Teddy2 23/1/03 4:47 pm Page 2 1. Sweet Lorraine 3:02 8. Too Good To Be True 3:06 16. Where Or When 3:23 19. Just A Mood (Blue Mood) 6:42 (Cliff Burwell–Mitchell Parish) (Clay Boland) (Richard Rodgers–Lorenz Hart) (Teddy Wilson) Brunswick 7520, mx B 17916-1 Brunswick 7663, mx C 1377-2 Benny Goodman Trio Teddy Wilson Quartet Recorded 31 July 1935, New York Recorded 14 May 1936, Chicago Victor 25725, mx BS 015575-1 Brunswick 7973, mx LA 1429-A, 1430-A 2. Body And Soul 3:30 9. Warmin’ Up 3:11 Recorded 29 October 1937, New York Recorded 5 September 1937, Los Angeles (Johnny Green–Edward Heyman–Robert (Teddy Wilson) 17. Coquette 2:43 20. I’ve Found A New Baby 2:40 Sour–Frank Eyton) Brunswick 7684, mx C 1378-1 (Johnny Green–Gus Kahn–Carmen (Jack Palmer–Spencer Williams) Benny Goodman Trio Recorded 14 May 1936, Chicago Lombardo) Brunswick 7926, mx B 21220-1 Victor 25115, mx BS 92705-1 10. Why Do I Lie To Myself About You 3:04 Brunswick 7943, mx LA 1383-A Recorded 1 June 1937, New York Recorded 13 July 1935, New York (Benny Davis–J. Fred Coots) Recorded 30 July 1937, Los Angeles Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra except: 3. Life Begins When You’re In Love 3:03 Brunswick 7699, mx B 19496-2 18. The Hour Of Parting 3:12 Benny Goodman Trio (tracks 2 &16) and (Lew Brown–Victor Schertzinger–Harry Recorded 30 June 1936, New York (Gus Kahn–Mischa Spoliansky) Teddy Wilson Quartet (track 19) Richman) 11. Guess Who 3:09 With Boots Castle, vocal With Billie Holiday, vocal (Ralph Freed–Burton Lane) Brunswick 7947, mx LA 1382-1 Transfers & Production: David Lennick Brunswick 7612, mx B 18612-1 With Billie Holiday, vocal Recorded 30 July 1937, Los Angeles Digital Noise Reduction: Graham Newton Recorded 30 January 1936, New York Brunswick 7702, mx B 19499-2 4. (If I Had) Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes Recorded 30 June 1936, New York Original monochrome photo of Teddy Wilson from Michael Ochs Archive/Redferns. 3:00 12. He Ain’t Got Rhythm 2:49 The Naxos Historical labels aim to make available the greatest recordings of the history of recorded (Sammy Cahn–Don Raye–Jimmie Lunceford– (Irving Berlin) music, in the best and truest sound that contemporary technology can provide. To achieve this aim, Saul Chaplin) With Billie Holiday, vocal Naxos has engaged a number of respected restorers who have the dedication, skill and experience to Brunswick 7612, mx B 18613-1 Brunswick 7824, mx B 20568-1 produce restorations that have set new standards in the field of historical recordings. Recorded 30 January 1936, New York Recorded 25 January 1937, New York 5. My Melancholy Baby 2:59 13. I’ll See You In My Dreams 2:39 Also available in the Naxos Jazz Legends series ... (George Norton–Eddie Burnett) (Isham Jones–Gus Kahn) Ella Fitzgerald, vocal Brunswick 7816, mx B 20413-1 Brunswick 7729, mx B 18830-1 Recorded 16 December 1936, New York Recorded 17 March 1936, New York 14. Carelessly 3:06 6. Blues In C Sharp Minor 3:16 (Nick & Charles Kenny–N. Ellis) (Teddy Wilson) With Billie Holiday, vocal Brunswick 7684, mx C 1379-1 Brunswick 7867, mx B 20911-3 Recorded 14 May 1936, Chicago Recorded 31 March 1937, New York 7. Mary Had A Little Lamb 2:52 15. I’ll Never Be The Same 3:00 (Matty Malneck–Marty Symes) (Matty Malneck–Frank Signorelli–Gus Kahn) Roy Eldridge, vocal With Billie Holiday, vocal Brunswick 7663, mx C 1376-1 Brunswick 7926, mx B 21219-1 Recorded 14 May 1936, Chicago Recorded 1 June 1937, New York 8.120538 8.120583 8.120605* 5 8.120665 6 8.120665 120665bk Teddy2 23/1/03 4:47 pm Page 1 TEDDY WILSON with the full orchestra, on records his fluent, (once catapulted to stardom with Wilson, 1950s and from the 1960s to the mid-1980s in 1962), he appeared at the Newport Festival Vol.2 pulsating piano lent structure and rhythm to the among her numerous titles were Life Begins this revered elder statesman of swing could still in 1973 and gave a Carnegie Hall concert in Original 1935-1937 Recordings Trios and Quartets. When You’re In Love, Guess Who, He Ain’t be heard regularly in collaboration with Benny 1982. Teddy Wilson died in New Britain, Got Rhythm, I’ll Never Be The Same and the Carter, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison and other Connecticut, on 31 July 1986. As Hampton recalled (in Hamp, his 1989 In Teddy Wilson elegance and understatement worked variously with Louis Armstrong, Erskine April 1937 US No.1 hit Carelessly). Other notables of his generation. Frequently reunited autobiography) ‘There were good reasons why Peter Dempsey, 2003 combined with rhythmic strength and accuracy Tate, Jimmie Noone and Art Tatum) and in names were soon added to the list of worthies, with Goodman (together they toured the USSR to make him one of the greatest of the jazz 1933 he was heard on radio in a broadcast with Benny couldn’t put Teddy and me in the including Mildred Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald (heard piano impressionists. Technically immaculate, the William Moore band by promoter and orchestra. I don’t know why it hadn’t occurred here in a swing revival of the 1912 standard My Personnel his style derived in part from Earl Hines and, recording scout John Hammond. Hammond to me before that he was going to have a lot of Melancholy Baby, a US No.6 in September influenced by Art Tatum, he was a forerunner of brought Wilson to New York to join ‘The trouble booking his band into those big white 1936) and later Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne 13 July 1935 & 29 October 1937: Benny 16 December 1936: Irving Randolph, trumpet; bop and post-War cool. Born Theodore Shaw Chocolate Dandies’, a small studio band fronted places with two black musicians …That’s how it and Sarah Vaughan. Goodman, clarinet; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Vido Musso, clarinet; Ben Webster, tenor sax; Wilson in Austin, Texas, on 24 November 1912 by Benny Carter whose line-up included Chu was in those days – you didn’t have mixed Krupa, drums Teddy Wilson, piano; Allan Reuss, guitar; John In 1939, Teddy Wilson tried to launch a swing he was raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, where his Berry and Mezz Mezzrow and in October, with bands’. Wilson worked alongside the cordial 31 July 1935: Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Cecil Kirby, bass; Cozy Cole, drums big-band, an ensemble which lasted only a year, academic, middle-class parents were both this outfit, Teddy recorded his first four sides, Goodman, appearing regularly in small-group Scott, clarinet; Hilton Jefferson, alto sax; Ben 25 January 1937: Buck Clayton, trumpet; Benny teachers (his mother, who taught English, was for Decca. recording sessions until 1939 (when he fronted failing not only because, like Wilson himself, it Webster, tenor sax; Teddy Wilson, piano; Goodman, clarinet; Lester Young, tenor sax; the librarian at Tuskegee Institute where his was perhaps a little too genteel but also From 1934 until mid-1935 Wilson was pianist- his own short-lived big band) and was Lawrence Lucie, guitar; John Kirby, bass; Cozy Teddy Wilson, piano; Freddy Green, guitar; father was Head of History) and as a child he because, unlike other contemporary big-bands, arranger to a fourteen-piece led by Willie Bryant associated with the clarinet ace again in 1945 in Cole, drums Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums was nurtured, via records, on a diet which it failed to swing. Subsequently, he returned to (he recorded with this group first, for Victor, in commercial sessions and Seven Lively Arts. In 30 January 1936: Gordon Griffin, trumpet; 31 March 1937: Cootie Williams, trumpet; ranged from Caruso and McCormack to Bessie running smaller ensembles, notably, from 1944, January 1935). A brief informal stint with Benny mid-1935 Teddy cut his first sides with the Rudy Powell, clarinet; Ted McRae, tenor sax; Johnny Hodges, alto sax; Harry Carney, Smith. The youthful Teddy also received a a sextet which included trumpeter Hot Lips Page Goodman followed and, again initially through Goodman Trio (from this session Body And Teddy Wilson, piano; John Trueheart, guitar; clarinet, baritone sax; Teddy Wilson, piano; thorough grounding in ragtime and classical and trombonist Benny Morton and its successor Hammond’s influence (‘… man of destiny … Soul became their first definitive US popular Grachan Moncur, bass; Cozy Cole, drums Allan Reuss, guitar; John Kirby, bass; Cozy music, the latter applied to some extent against whose line-up, by 1946, included Charlie Wilson was perhaps the first man I met in jazz chart hit, at No.5, in September) and until 1942 17 March 1936: Frank Newton, trumpet; Benny Cole, drums the grain and while he studied oboe (and later Shavers, Red Norvo and Charlie Ventura, which whom I thought I could really help …’), Teddy he continued to record simultaneously, under Morton, trombone; Jerry Blake, clarinet, alto 1 June 1937: Buck Clayton, trumpet; Buster violin at Tuskegee and music theory at Talladega was heard regularly at New York’s Café Society was destined soon to be a participant in the his own personal contract, piano solos and sax; Ted McRae, tenor sax; Teddy Wilson, Bailey, clarinet; Lester Young, tenor sax; Teddy College), his first love was always the piano. in arrangements which emphasised Wilson’s birth of ‘chamber jazz’. As a founder-member items of his own creation as well as leading ad piano; John Trueheart, guitar; Lennie Stanfield, Wilson, piano; Freddy Green, guitar; Walter often florid piano style but which were, In 1928, in Chicago, he heard the Henderson of the Goodman Trio, the first integrated mini- hoc studio line-ups in jazz standards in which bass; Cozy Cole, drums Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums nonetheless, economical understatements with a Brothers, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers and King ensemble of the Swing Era, he played alongside Goodman and the other white players were 14 May 1936: Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Buster 30 July 1937: Harry James, trumpet; Benny forward-looking eye to bebop.