Classics 1422
Red Norvo
1950-1951
Release Date: 2006
Rating: A
Other notable musicians in this CD: Charles Mingus, Tal Farlow.
label(s): Savoy, Discovery
Number of sessions: 3
Unissued materials: None
Track Highlights: I've Got You Under My Skin, I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me, Move, Godchild.
Other issue or reissues:
The Red Norvo Trio (Savoy SJL 2212)
Red Norvo Trio, Vol. 2 (Discovery DL 3018)
Red Norvo - Move! (Savoy MG 12088)
I also hold a copy of a LP in my collection called Rare Transcription which includes 29 tracks from the same period.
About the period: Throughout the '40s and well into the '50s, Norvo seemed willing and eager to grow with the brisk and somewhat challenging patterns of the new music. Some of these rapid-fire bop lines might evoke the unprecedented velocities attainable on newly constructed highways, or maybe even convey a taste of Benzedrine.
music from almost the same period, 1950-52
