Buck Clayton - All The Cats Join In + How Hi The Fi - Blue Moon

2019 reissue

Presented here is the complete LP All the Cats Join In (Columbia CL-882), which was arguably the best of those Jam Session albums. “After hours”, a song from the same sessions that wasn’t included on the original LP, plus two jam session tracks featuring Woody Herman (originally issued on the 10” LP How Hi the Fi + Blue Moon (Columbia CL-6326), have been added here as a bonus.
PERSONNEL:

    BUCK CLAYTON, trumpet on all tracks, plus:

    COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL
    Ruby Braff (cornet), Joe Newman, Billy Butterfield (tp),
    J.C. Higginbotham, Urbie Green (tb), Coleman Hawkins, Julian Dash (ts),
    Kenny Kersey, Sir Charles Thompson (p), Freddie Green, Steve Jordan (g),
    Milt Hinton, Walter Page (b), Jo Jones, Bobby Donaldson (d),
    Jimmy Rushing (vcl on 3), among others.

New York, 1953-56.
(*) BONUS TRACKS:

    [6]: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.
    [7-8]: Woody Herman (cl), Joe Thomas (tp), Urbie Green, Trummy Young (tb),.
    Lem Davis (as), Al Cohn, Julian Dash (ts), Jimmy Jones (p, celeste),.
    Steve Jordan (g), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones (d).
    New York, March 31, 1954.
TRACKS:

    01 All the Cats Join In
    02 Out of Nowhere
    03 Don’t You Miss Your Baby
    04 Lean Baby
    05 Blue Lou
    06 After Hours (*)
    07 How Hi the Fi (*)
    08 Blue Moon (*)

    TOTAL TIME: 75:58 Min.