Jazz Mission to Moscow
1962 studio album by Al Cohn
| Jazz Mission to Moscow | ||||
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| Studio album by Al Cohn | ||||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | July 12, 1962 | |||
| Studio | Webster Hall, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 30:40 | |||
| Label | Colpix CP/SCP 433 | |||
| Producer | Jack Lewis | |||
| Al Cohn chronology | ||||
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Jazz Mission to Moscow is an album arranged and conducted by Al Cohn featuring Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, Bill Crow, Willie Dennis and Mel Lewis in performances recorded in 1962 following the Benny Goodman Band's tour of the Soviet Union which was released on the RCA Victor label.[1][2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow called it "An interesting set of modern swing" and noted "In 1962 Benny Goodman had a historic visit to the Soviet Union, touring with a big band full of young all-stars. After the orchestra returned to the U.S., tenor saxophonist Al Cohn (who had not made the trip but did write some of Goodman's charts) put together an album (also released by Colpix) using many of the sidemen and paying tribute to the event".[3]
Track listing
- "Mission to Moscow" (Mel Powell) – 4:20
- "The Sochi Boatman" (Traditional) – 5:17
- "Midnight in Moscow" (Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Mikhail Matusovsky) – 5:59
- "Let's Dance" (Gregory Stone, Josef Bonime, Fanny Baldridge) – 4:32
- "Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin) – 5:39
- "Red, White and Blue Eyes" (Traditional) – 4:53
Personnel
- Al Cohn – arranger, conductor
- Markie Markowitz, Jimmy Maxwell – trumpet
- Willie Dennis – trombone
- Phil Woods – alto saxophone, clarinet
- Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute
- Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
- Gene Allen – baritone saxophone
- Eddie Costa – piano
- Bill Crow – bass
- Mel Lewis – drums
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
leader
or
co-leader
- The Brothers (and Stan Getz, 1949–52)
- Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956)
- The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956)
- Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956)
- Zoot! (1956)
- Locking Horns (and Joe Newman, 1957)
- Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958)
- Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods, 1959)
- Down Home (1960)
- Two Jims and Zoot/Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall, 1964)
- Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Waiting Game (1966)
- The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
- Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Rich, 1974)
- Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie, 1975)
- The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)
- Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, 1975)
- Soprano Sax (1976)
- Hawthorne Nights (1976)
- If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles, 1977)
- For Lady Day (1978)
- Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles, 1979)
- The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson, 1979)
- Just Friends (and Harry Edison, 1980)
- Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper, 1981)
with
Al Cohn
- From A to...Z (1956)
- The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956)
- Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, 1957)
- The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, 1957)
- Al and Zoot (1957)
- Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac, 1959)
- SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral, Steve Allen, 1959)
- Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960)
- You 'n' Me (1960)
- Either Way (1961)
- Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962)
- Body and Soul (1973)
- Motoring Along (1974)
Quincy
Jones
- This Is How I Feel About Jazz (1956)
- The Birth of a Band! (1959)
- Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1962)
- Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964)
Gerry
Mulligan
- California Concerts (1954)
- Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)
- Mainstream of Jazz (1956)
- The Gerry Mulligan Songbook (1957)
- The Concert Jazz Band (1960)
- Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour (1960)
others
- Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963)
- Encounter! (Pepper Adams, 1968)
- Trigger Happy!/East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert/Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott, 1956)
- Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54)
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959)
- The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner, 1973)
- Louis Bellson Quintet (1954)
- The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
- Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, 1961)
- Chris Connor (1956)
- The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960)
- Loose Blues (Bill Evans, 1962)
- The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer, 1959)
- South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
- Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett, 1967)
- The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins, 1956)
- Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953)
- The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975)
- Profiles (Gary McFarland, 1966)
- Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae, 1959)
- Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973)
- Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose, 1954)
- Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966)
- Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967)
- All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day, 1962)
- Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, 1974)
- Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954)
- Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin, Bob Brookmeyer, 1963)
- Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith, 1952)
- Phoebe Snow (1974)
- Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt, 1965)
- Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan, 1958)
- The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979)
- The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953)
- At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)
