Strictly Jive, Chick Webb, Music CD

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Strictly Jive


1	Down Home Rag 2:53
2	Facts and Figures 2:32
3	Go Harlem 2:20
4	Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance) 2:33
5	Gee! But You're Swell 2:36
6	Rusty Hinge 3:05
7	Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie 2:29
8	That Naughty Waltz 2:59
9	Strictly Jive 3:16
10	Squeeze Me 3:06
11	If Dreams Came True 2:34
12	Harlem Congo 3:11
13	I Want to Be Happy 4:18
14	MidNight in a Madhouse 2:29
15	Azure 3:06
16	Spinnin' the Webb 3:00
17	Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) 2:44
18	McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing) 3:05
19	Ella 2:45
20	Who Ya Hunchin'? 2:49
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Strictly Jive is the Hep label's 25-track salute to Chick Webb, a formidable percussionist who led one of the toughest big bands of the 1930s. Strictly Jive concentrates upon the years 1935-1940, a period of time that represents the second half of the ten-year Webb dynasty. The Chick Webb orchestra was a jazz incubator from which emerged seasoned instrumentalists like Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Garvin Bushell, Hilton Jefferson, and Eddie Barefield, as well as future bandleaders John Kirby and Louis Jordan, and renowned composer and arranger Edgar Sampson. Saxophonist Wayman Carver, one of the few flutists in jazz during the 1930s, was a featured soloist with Chick Webb and may be heard piping away in front of the band on Wilbur Sweatman's "Down Home Rag." Most people who have heard of Webb associate him with his star vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, a dynamic woman who assumed leadership of the band after 30-year-old Chick Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis on June 16, 1939 in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide All Music Guide

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Strictly Jive


1	Down Home Rag 2:53
2	Facts and Figures 2:32
3	Go Harlem 2:20
4	Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance) 2:33
5	Gee! But You're Swell 2:36
6	Rusty Hinge 3:05
7	Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie 2:29
8	That Naughty Waltz 2:59
9	Strictly Jive 3:16
10	Squeeze Me 3:06
11	If Dreams Came True 2:34
12	Harlem Congo 3:11
13	I Want to Be Happy 4:18
14	MidNight in a Madhouse 2:29
15	Azure 3:06
16	Spinnin' the Webb 3:00
17	Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) 2:44
18	McPherson Is Rehearsin' (To Swing) 3:05
19	Ella 2:45
20	Who Ya Hunchin'? 2:49
21	'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) 2:58
22	In the Groove at the Grove 2:38
23	Lindy Hopper's Delight 2:45
24	Take It from the Top 2:52
25	Jubilee Swing 3:12
26	Stompin' at the Savoy 2:50

All Music Guide

Strictly Jive is the Hep label's 25-track salute to Chick Webb, a formidable percussionist who led one of the toughest big bands of the 1930s. Strictly Jive concentrates upon the years 1935-1940, a period of time that represents the second half of the ten-year Webb dynasty. The Chick Webb orchestra was a jazz incubator from which emerged seasoned instrumentalists like Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Garvin Bushell, Hilton Jefferson, and Eddie Barefield, as well as future bandleaders John Kirby and Louis Jordan, and renowned composer and arranger Edgar Sampson. Saxophonist Wayman Carver, one of the few flutists in jazz during the 1930s, was a featured soloist with Chick Webb and may be heard piping away in front of the band on Wilbur Sweatman's "Down Home Rag." Most people who have heard of Webb associate him with his star vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, a dynamic woman who assumed leadership of the band after 30-year-old Chick Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis on June 16, 1939 in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide

Product Details

Format: CD
Release Date: 08/10/1999
Label: HEP RECORDS
Catalog No.: 1063
UPC: 603366106326
Sales Rank: 99,869

Album Credits
Performance Credits
Chick Webb		Primary Artist, Drums
Ella Fitzgerald		Vocals
Louis Jordan		Alto Saxophone, Vocals
John Kirby		Bass
Eddie Barefield		Alto Saxophone
Taft Jordan		Trumpet
Edgar Sampson		Alto Saxophone
Mario Bauz�		Trumpet
Bill Beason		Drums
Garvin Bushell		Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Wayman Carver		Flute, Tenor Saxophone
Pete Clarke		Alto Saxophone
Tommy Fulford		Piano
Chauncey Haughton		Guitar
Hilton Jefferson		Alto Saxophone
Claude Jones		Trombone
Teddy McRae		Tenor Saxophone
Beverly Peer		Bass
Irving "Mouse" Randolph		Trumpet
Bill Thomas		Bass
Sam Simmons		Tenor Saxophone
Nat Story		Trombone
John Trueheart		Guitar
Dick Vance		Trumpet
Elmer Williams		Tenor Saxophone
Sandy Williams		Trombone
George Mathews		Trombone
Bobby Stark		Trumpet
Bobby Johnson		Guitar
Don Kirkatrick		Piano

Technical Credits
Chick Webb		Director
Charlie Dixon		Arranger
Goodman		Arranger
Mundy		Arranger
John R.T. Davies		Producer, Remastering
Alastair Robertson		Producer
Campbell Burnap		Liner Notes