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Five Steps to Dankworth/Journey Into Jazz

~ Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (25 Feb 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Vocalion
  • ASIN: B0014I6GW8
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 180,038 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Export blues (Dankworth)
2. Somerset morn (Dankworth)
3. Just a sittin' and a rockin' (Ellington; Strayhorn arr Lindup)
4. One for Janet (Hawdon)
5. Somebody loves me (Gershwin arr Lindup)
6. Hullabaloo (Dankworth)
7. Horoscope (Dankworth)
8. Stompin' at the Savoy (Sampson; Goodman)
9. Magenta midget (Hawdon)
10. Limehouse blues (Braham; Furber arr Dankworth) Bonus tracks
11. Firth of Fourths (Dankworth)
12. Coquette (Green; Lombardo) `Journey into Jazz'
13. Adios (Madriguera; Woods)
14. Jersey bounce (Plater; Bradshaw; Johnson; Wright)
15. Take the `A' train (Strayhorn) Itinerary of an orchestra (Dankworth)
16. Speech: Johnny Dankworth's introduction
17. First section (1st theme)
18. Second section (2nd & 3rd themes)
19. Third section (inc. slow movement)
20. Fourth section (finale)

Product Description

Album Description
The orchestra of British jazz icon John Dankworth was formed in 1953, following the disbandment of the popular and hugely successful Johnny Dankworth Seven. The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra featured in its ranks many of Britain's leading jazz musicians of the '50s including drummer Kenny Clare, trumpeter Dickie Hawdon, tenor saxophonist Danny Moss and trombonist Laurie Monk. 5 Steps to Dankworth showcases this wonderful big band powering its way through up-tempo swingers including Export Blues and Limehouse Blues and, in contrast, easing gracefully through numbers such as Ellington's and Strayhorn's Just a Sittin' and a Rockin'. Journey into Jazz was the Dankworth orchestra's first full-length album recording, made in front of an invited audience at London's Abbey Road Studios. Alongside swinging big band staples such as Take the `A' Train and Jersey Bounce, it contains the Johnny Dankworth-David Lindup collaboration Itinerary of an Orchestra. A lengthy suite conceived as the jazz equivalent of Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, it contains some excellent examples of tight-knit ensemble playing, an exciting Kenny Clare drum solo, and a helping of the Dankworth brand of up-tempo jazz. Bonus tracks are included, taken from the Dankworth orchestra's various 45-rpm single releases.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The first LPs by Britain's Top Jazz Big Band of the 1950s ....., 15 Jun 2008
These two albums were the first LPs of John(ny) Dankworth's music - recorded under the supervision of George Martin, in 1956 and 1957. "Journey into Jazz" took advantage of the LP medium to use a whole 10 inch LP side for "Itinerary of an Orchestra"- an extended work composed by John Dankworth and David Lindup. The other side of the album has straight ahead swinging big band jazz with Kenny Clare, Laurie Monk and Dankworth soloing impressively. U.S West Coast bandleader Shorty Rogers said at the time ' I had no idea that there is a band in Europe playing this kind of material'.
Five Steps to Dankworth, which includes Danny Moss, Dickie Hawdon and David Lee among the soloists, is the 'Seven plus Brass' version of the Orchestra, which went to the Newport Jazz Festival and playing some of the music featured there. Two tracks are by the Laurie Monk Quartet - a piano-less foursome including Dankworth, bass and drums, and two more by Dickie Hawdon's Quintet, playing attractive small group originals.
This is impressive music, comparing well with US jazz offerings of the time and deserving a CD release at last.
Many of those who attended Dankworth one-night -stands at the time will especially appreciate the 7 minute version of 'A Train' with which the band always ended the night ...
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