Illinois Jacquet - Swing's The Thing - Hybrid Mono SACD

This product is a Hybrid SACD designed to play in both CD and SACD players, as well as all SACD-compatible DVD players.

llinois Jacquet's 1956 album Swing's The Thing features Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Jones, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Jo Jones. Throughout his career, Jacquet, who was born of a Sioux mother and a Creole father, played marvelous swing music. He was famed for his imaginative improvisations and gave brilliant shows with the Count Basie orchestra and at a number of Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts.

The man from Louisiana performed swing at every live appearance - no wonder, then, that Norman Granz chose this theme as the title of the present recording, which was set down in October 1956. This time, however, Jimmy Jones on the piano was not responsible for providing the background for a vocal soloist; rather he delivers airy chords for the swinging tenor sax. That all musicians are superb interpreters of ballads is testified to in "Harlem Nocturne," where Illinois Jacquet's sound can best be described as "soulful."

Illinois Jacquet, tenor saxophone

Ray Brown, bass

Roy Eldridge, trumpet

Herb Ellis, guitar

Jimmy Jones, piano

Jo Jones, drums