Duets, Vol. 1

by Ruby Braff

Overview

This brings together a dozen tracks originally issued on three different long players in 1956: Two By Two: Music of Rodgers and Hart, and volumes one and two of Two part Inventions in Jazz. Braff's cornet is excellently recorded; every nuance in his playing, from bright to reflective, is audible. Larkins' piano style is a full keyboard stride that, like Braff's cornet work, hearkens back to earlier players like Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, James P. Johnson, Mel Powell, and Jess Stacey. The pairing of these two makes for some of the best jazz in the duo format that you're likely to run across. Strong versions of "Where or When," "In a Mountain Greenery," "Love for Sale," "Blue Moon," and "I Married an Angel" make this one a must-have for the collection.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/26/2000
Label:	Vanguard Imports
UPC:	0090204916726
catalogNumber:	0491672
Rank:	87643

Tracks

1. Thou Swell
2. Where Or When
3. In A Mountain Greenery
4. I Married An Angel
5. Blues For Ruby
6. Blue Moon
7. Love for Sale
8. What Is There to Say?
9. Please
10. Skylark
11. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
12. My Romance

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ruby Braff   Primary Artist,Cornet
Ellis Larkins   Piano

Technical Credits

Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
John Hammond   Producer
Vernon Duke   Composer
Samuel Charters   Liner Notes
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Ralph Rainger   Composer
Leo Robin   Composer
Carmen Lombardo   Composer
John Jacob Loeb   Composer