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Sunday 20 November 2022

Jonah Jones & Glenn Gray 's Casa Loma Orchestra

Some great Trumpet playing on this selection well worth a listen to !!
Jonah Jones zoomed to popularity in the late 50s. He found a successful formula and used it to brighten the hit charts with a succession of bouncy albums on Capitol Records. His quartet was one of the three newcomers in the Top 10 wide variety of small groups listed in the favorite Instrumental Billboard lists in 1958.

Jonah Jones/Glenn Gray Review by Scott Yanow Of ALLMUSIC
Since trumpeter Jonah Jones and bandleader Glen Gray were two of Capitol's biggest jazz-oriented attractions of the late '50s/early '60s, a collaboration seemed logical. Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra (which at this point was really a big band filled with top West Coast studio players) performs a dozen Benny Carter arrangements; tenorman Plas Johnson gets in a few licks, and the swing-oriented repertoire suits Jones' playing just fine on this instrumental LP. Highlights include a remake of "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," "Two O'Clock Jump," "After You've Gone" and "West End Blues."

1. Baubles Bangles And Beads
2. Echoes Of Harlem
3. Two O'clock Jump
4. I Can't Get Started
5. Boy Meets Horn
6. Hot Lips

1. After You've Gone
2. West End Blues
3. Ciribiribin
4. Tenderly
5. Sugar Blues
6. Apollo Jumps

        5. Boy Meets Horn

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