Pop + Jazz = Swing
Studio album by
Benny Golson
Released1962
RecordedApril 1962
New York City
GenreJazz
Length37:41
LabelAudio Fidelity
AFLP 1978
ProducerTom Wilson
Benny Golson chronology
Here and Now
(1962)		 Pop + Jazz = Swing
(1962)		 Another Git Together
(1962)
Just Jazz! Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.[2] Record producer Tom Wilson was involved in the sessions and wrote the album's liner notes.[3] The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.[4] The related jazz tunes are contrafacts or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure.

The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue on the Jazz Beat label. The recording of "Walkin'" is the last released recording of the famed rhythm section of Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb.[5]

Track listing

  1. Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) - 4:14
  2. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 4:16
  3. Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:14
  4. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) - 4:39
  5. Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 2:44
  6. Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) - 3:52
  7. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 4:20
  8. Left Channel: "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) - 3:43
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:00
  10. Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 3:39

Personnel

Jazz Band - Right Channel

Pop Orchestra - Left Channel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review accessed June 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Benny Golson discography accessed June 26, 2012
  3. ↑ discogs.com accessed July 25, 2021
  4. ↑ Fresh Sound Record website accessed June 26, 2012
  5. ↑ Pettinger, Peter (1998). Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings. Yale University Press.
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