EARL BOSTIC SAX “O” BOOGIE Label: Oldie Blues Recorded: 1947-1951 Format:[email protected]
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This LP from Martin Van Olderen’s Oldie Blues label brings together 16 of Earl Bostic’s early Gotham and King sides recorded between 1947 and early 1951. This is raw and raucous jump blues which is quite unlike the hit making arrangements adopted by Bostic after “Flamingo”. The album was mastered from original 78rpm discs so there is some surface noise.
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Earl Bostic, best known as an alto saxophonist, composer and arranger, but also an accomplished trumpeter and guitarist, was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 25, 1913. He played clarinet and alto saxophone in his high school and Boy Scout bands, then studied harmony, theory and various instruments at Xavier University in New Orleans before touring with Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Marion Sears, and Clyde Turpin.
After moving to New York City, Bostic played with Edgar Hayes, Don Redman, Leon Gross, "Hot Lips" Page and Cab Calloway. He arranged for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra as well as Louis Prima and the Ina Ray Hutton all-girls’ band. He played alto as well as trumpet and guitar, heading his own band in Harlem in 1941 at the Mimo Club. He joined Lionel Hampton’s band for two years before starting again on his own in 1945, recording first with a big band on the Majestic label, then with a smaller group for Gotham records.
Bostic achieved extraordinary success later on King records, but not in jazz. Instead, his big-toned, extroverted alto saxophone solos found favor with rhythm-and-blues audiences – his hits included “Flamingo,” “Sleep,” “Moonglow,” “Cherokee,” and “You Go to My Head.” Bostic was elected to the 1959 Playboy All-Star band in a readers’ poll and appeared at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago in August of that year.
He scored as a songwriter with “Let Me Off Uptown,” the Gene Krupa band’s novelty hit featuring Anita O’Day and Roy Eldridge on vocals, “The Major & the Minor,” recorded by guitarist Alvin Ray, and “Brooklyn Boogie,” recorded by Louis Prima.
Bostic died October 28, 1965, in Rochester, New York.
Tracklist 1. Bostic's Jump 2. Earl's Rhumboogie 3. Hot Sauce Boss 4. 8:45 Stomp 5. Bar Fly Baby 6. Bostic's Boogie Blues 7. Blip Boogie 8. From Midnight To Dawn 9. Swing Low Sweet Boogie 10. Nay, Nay, Go Away 11. Sugar Hill Blues 12. Choppin' It Down 13. No Name Blues 14. Way Down 15. Don't You Do It 16. Rockin' And Reelin'
Tracks 1-6 Recorded : New York 1948 Earl Bostic alto Ted Barnett tenor (track 5) Roger Jones trumpet(vocal on track 5) George Parker piano Vernon King bass Shep Shepherd drums
Tracks 7-9 Recorded: Cincinnati 12 January 1949 Earl Bostic alto Lowel Hastings tenor Roger Jones trumpet John Byand piano Vernon King bass Shep Shepherd drums
Track 10 Recorded: New York 28 May 1949 Earl Bostic alto vocals Lowel Hastings tenor Roger Jones trumpet Rufus Webster piano William Betts bass Shep Shepherd drums
Tracks 11-13 Recorded: New York August 1949 Earl Bostic alto Lowel Hastings tenor Roger Jones trumpet Rufus Webster piano William Betts bass Shep Shepherd drums
Track 14,15 Recorded: New York 13 August 1950 Earl Bostic alto (vocal track 14) Lowel Hastings tenor Gene Redd vibes Edward Barefield guitar Clifton Smalis piano William Betts bass Joe Marshall drums
Track 16 Recorded: New York 10 January 1951 Earl Bostic alto Lowel Hastings tenor Gene Redd vibes, trumpet Rene Hall guirar Clifton Smalis piano William Betts bass Jimmy Cobb drums Clyde Terrel vocals
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