NAT KING COLE
JUST JAZZ #75, #76 and #79
NAT KING COLE and WOODY HERMAN
Recorded at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, July 29, 1949.
WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA (THE SECOND HERD): Herman (cl, as, v directing): Ernie Royal, Al Porcino, Charlie Walp, Stan Fishelson, Shorty Rogers (t); Earl Swope, Bill Harris, Ollie Wilson, Bart Varselona (tp); Sam Marowitz (as), Gene Ammons, Buddy Savitt, Jimmy Giuffre (ts), Serge Chaloff (bars); Terry Gibbs (vib); Lou Levy (p); Joe Mondragon (b); Shelly Manne (d).
1. Early Autumn (tenor solo: Buddy Savitt)
2. Keen and Peachy (#1)
3. Pennies From Heaven (tenor solo: Gene Ammons)
4. Rhapsody in Wood (clarinet feature for Herman)
5. I've Got News For You vWH
6. I Ain't Gettin' Any Younger vWH
7. Everywhere (featuring Bill Harris, trombone)
8. Four Brothers
9. Lemon Drop vTrio (Herman, Rogers, Gibbs?)
KING COLE AND HIS TRIO: Nat King Cole (p, v); Irving Ashby (g); Joe Comfort (b); Jack Costanzo (bongos).
10. Top Hat Bop
11. Yes Sir, That's My Baby vNKC
12. Tiny's Excercise
13. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You vNKC
14. Body and Soul
15. Flo and Jo vNKC
16. Go Bongo
18. That's What vNKC
19. Blabber vNKC
20. Lush Life vNKC
21. Baby I Need You vNKC
22. Bop Kick
KING COLE TRIO with WOODY HERMAN (combined):
23. "How High the Moon" (one chorus played by King Cole Trio) into "More Moon" (played by full Herman Herd with Trio) Incomplete, but great! (With brief ending announcement by Gene Norman from JJ #79)
24. "bonus track": more ending announcements (from JJ #75), over Terry Gibbs and the Hermanites playing "What's New?"
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NAT KING COLE: Arie Crown Theatre, Chicago, 1963-'64
1. WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
2. BALLERINA
3. UNFORGETTABLE
4. THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT w/clavietta
5. Nat speaks, re "clavietta"
ballad medley
6. HI LILI, HI LO
7. THERE'S A LULL IN MY LIFE
8. THE SONG IS ENDED
9. HI LILI, HI LO (reprise)
piano segment
10. IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON (Reunald Jones t)
11. LAURA (instrumental, p feature)
12. TEA FOR TWO
13. Nat speaks, jokes re "grand piano"
14. I LOVE A PIANO (special lyrics)
15. DAY IN, DAY OUT
16. THAT SUNDAY, THAT SUMMER
w/Merry Young Souls (?) - NKC p?
17. Nat speaks re "milking the audience"
18. MONA LISA ("a Johnny Mathis song")
19. Nat speaks & tells two jokes
20. MR. COLE WON'T ROCK AND ROLL
21. Nat gets the audience to join him on
RAMBLING ROSE
22. bow music
TT 54:38
