Jimmy Raney Quintet - Complete Recordings 1954-1956

These recordings established Jimmy Raney (1927-1995) as a leading modern jazz guitarist, and introduced two potentially major young jazz talents: trumpeter John Wilson, and altoist Phil Woods.

Raney was both a maturely thoughtful and emotionally honest mind. As a result, he avoids effects as an end in themselves, and whatever he played in a jazz session, he felt. Thereby he communicated directly to the listener whether his communicative materials were complex or simple. He was a man of calmly exciting conception.

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Jimmy Raney Quintet

Complete Recordings

1954-1956

Tracks

1 Stella by Starlight (Young, Washington) 5:13

2 Five (Raney) 4:14

3 Joanne (Woods) 4:40

4 Back and Blow (Woods) 5:54

5 Spring is Here (Rodgers, Hart) 2:52

6 One More for the Mode (Raney) 3:47

7 What's New (Haggart, Burke) 2:43

8 Tomorrow, Fairly Cloudy (Raney) 3:27

9 A foggy Day (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:04

10 Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:12

11 Cross your Heart (Gensler, DeSylva, Schwab) 3:53

12 You Don't Know What Love is (Raye, DePaul) 3:39

13 Two Dreams of Soma (Raney) 3:45

14 Scholar's Mate (Raney) 3:53

15 Gone With the Wind (Wrubel, Magisdon) 3:25

16 Yesterdays (Kern, Harbach) 4:25

Personnel

 [# 1-4] from "Jimmy Raney Ensemble introducing Phil Woods and John Wilson" 1954 (New Jazz, LP 1103)

John Wilson - tp
Phil Woods - as
Jimmy Raney - g
Bill Crow - b
Joe Morello - dr

Recorded at the Van Gelder Sudios, Hackensack, New Jersey ; August 11, 1954

[# 5-12] from "Jimmy Raney 1955" (Prestige LP-199)

John Wilson - tp
Jimmy Raney - g
Hal Overton - p
Teddy Kotick - b
Nick Stabulas - dr

Recorded at the Van Gelder Sudios, Hackensack, New Jersey ; February 18 & March 8 [# 9-12], 1955

[# 13-16] from "Fourmost Guitars" 1956 (ABC Paramount, ABC-109)

Same personnel as above. 

Recorded at the Van Gelder Sudios, Hackensack, New Jersey ; May 4, 1956