For "Quartet" recorded between 1956 and 1958 Bud is featured on alto sax and flute with his regular band at the time, Claude Williamson on piano, Don Prell on bass and Chuck Flores on drums. Recorded in 1957 "Plays Tenor" sees Bud once again joined by Claude Williamson, Don Prell and Chuck Flores. As the title suggests Bud drops the alto in favour of the tenor giving him a little more depth and soul in a set of comfortable and easy on the ears standards. "I’ll Take Romance" recorded April 1958 in Milano, Italy, finds Bud playing alto and flute again with regular Don Prell on bass and Jimmy Pratt on drums. On this fine album of standards with strings Bud is also joined by Italian musicians, arrangers Ezio Leoni (known as Len Mercer in Italy) and Guilio Libano. Such was the Italian musicians joy at the sessions that at the end of one piece the members of the orchestra burst into loud cheers at Buds performance! Also recorded in 1958, "Swings To TV" is basically an early TV Themes soundtrack album…………but in a decidedly jazz style……..courtesy of Bud Shank on alto and flute and Bob Cooper on oboe and tenor sax! Oh and also accompanied by Strings and full rhythm section! Cooper and Shank make a great team with Coopers original arrangements being complimented by the work of Shank and the instrumentalists. As the original liner notes attest the two………… " have taken these familiar melodies and made of them something altogether fresh, exciting and wondrous". Continuing………… "The net result is modern American music that has frequently filled millions of American homes…….but told in a delightfully refreshing and unusual way".All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered. (AVID Entertainment) 


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For our second excursion into "Shank-land" we kick off with the excellent "Blowin’ Country" (which has nothing to do with country music so "don’t panic!). This fine album sees another collaboration between two ex- Stan Kentonites, Bud Shank and Bob Cooper who both can be heard trading licks across tenor and alto sax, flute, oboe and bass clarinet. Joined by familiar "Shankites", Claude Williamson on piano, Don Prell on bass and Chuck Flores on drums. Our second release is an album of two sides……….on the first Bud is joined by another long term collaborator, the alto and tenor saxophonist Bill Perkins alongside Hampton Hawes on piano; Red Mitchell on bass and Mel Lewis on drums. The second side features Bud with the writer, arranger and musician Shorty Rogers accompanied by Jimmy Rowles on piano; Harry Babasin on bass and Roy Harte on drums. Shorty wrote all the selections and plays flugle horn throughout the set. CD2 kicks off with "Bud Shank And Three Trombones" which as they say in the ads, does just what it says on the tin……..or in this case cover! It links Bud on alto with the three valve trombones of Bob Enevoldsen, Maynard Ferguson and Stu Williamson (brother of Claude). The object being as it states on the original liner notes……"to place Shank’s alto in juxtoposition to a full section of valve trombones to enable him to play the role of a complete reed section against a three man brass team……………..instrumentation almost unique in jazz". The rest of the band is made up of long term associate Claude Williamson on piano, Joe Mondragon on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. We conclude with "Jazz At Cal Tech" recorded live in 1956 at the California Institute of Technology to an appreciative audience of science and engineering students. Shank is again joined by Bob Cooper on tenor and oboe, Claude Willamson on piano, Don Prell on bass and Chuck Flores on drums. All four albums are plus have been digitally re-mastered. Some are also currently hard to find or expensive, so Avid are pleased to be able to make them available once again. (AVID Entertainment) 


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180g Vinyl Pressing. 


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Audiophile grade 180g vinyl. 


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