EDMOND HALL: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS (PETITE FLEUR / RUMPUS ON RAMPART STREET / TEDDY BUCKNER AND THE ALL-STARS / JAZZ AT THE SAVOY) (2CD) AVID

AVID Jazz here presents four classic Edmond Hall albums as leader and sideman, plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
“Petite Fleur”, “Rumpus On Rampart Street”, “ Teddy Buckner and the All Stars” and “ Jazz at the Savoy” plus selections from “Jazz at Storyville” “Edmond Hall in Buenos Aires”.
Edmond Hall was born into a musical family in Reserve, Louisiana in 1901, his father played the clarinet and all his brothers were fine musicians. Hall paid his dues during the 1920’s and ‘30’s playing with among others Billie Holiday, Joe Sullivan, Red Allen, Teddy Wilson, Eddie Condon and finally the great Louis Armstrong from 1950 – 1955. With a few short spells running his own band along the way, the late 1950’s finally saw Hall go freelance and form his own band. He was considered one of the great clarinettist in the New Orleans tradition. According to great supporter Nat Hentoff in his liner notes for “Rumpus On Rampart Street”, “he is playing the hottest clarinet in contemporary jazz”. A gentle and polite individual off stage he became a deeply swinging and intensely emotional improviser once he had his clarinet in his hands! A long time sideman, Hall was happiest as his own leader where his love of improvisation could take full flight. Lets leave the final words to Nat Hentoff from his notes on “Petite Fleur” commenting that this album represents “ what Edmond has to say more fully and vigorously than any other collection of his work”………..Praise indeed!
All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!

CD1
1-8: ‘Petite Fleur’
1. Petite Fleur
2. Ellington Medley: Prelude To A Kiss / Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me / Solitude / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / Mood Indigo / Take The “A” Train
3. Clarinet Marmalade
4. Edmond Hall Blues
5. Good Cook
6. Off The Road
7. Adam And Evie
8. Don’t Give Me Sympathy
9-18: ‘Rumpus On Rampart Street’
9. Rampart Street
10. Neighbors
11. Rose In Her Window
12. Flyin’ High
13. American Tempo
14. Swingin’
15. Hallelujah!
16. Dawn On The Desert
17. Lover
18. African Fu-Fu
19. Sweet Georgia Brown from Edmond Hall In Buenos Aires
20. ‘S Wonderful from Edmond Hall In Buenos Aires

CD2
1-10: ‘Teddy Buckner And The All-Stars’
1. Jazz Me Blues
2. You Made Me Love You
3. Alexander’s Ragtime Band
4. Mahogany Hall Stomp
5. Indiana
6. Bugle Call Rag
7. Careless Love
8. St. Louis Blues
9. Margie
10. Tiger Rag
11-14: ‘Jazz At The Savoy’
11. Careless Love
12. Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
13. Bugle Call Rag
14. Medley: Black And Blue / When A Woman Loves A Man / You Made Me Love You / My Ideal / Limehouse Blues
15. ‘S Wonderful from Jazz At Storyville
16. Sister Kate from Jazz At Storyville
17. Ad Lib Blues from Jazz At Storyville
18. Sting On The Wings from Edmond Hall In Buenos Aires