Jack Millman & His Hollywood Jazz All Stars - Big Bands Swingin Years: Jack Millman - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Trumpet and flugelhorn player Jack Millman was just 17 when he Inchsat inInch with Lionel Hampton and was then invited by Hamp to join the band for a 6-week stint at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. Just before he was drafted in the Army he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra for a West Coast Road Tour. When he completed his service he came out to form and manage his own jazz groups throughout the 50's that played the West Coast scene extensively. Presented here is Millman's classic 1955 recordings featuring some of the greatest West Coast jazz players of all time including Howard Roberts (guitar); Red Mitchell (bass); Jimmy Giuffre (tenor sax); Herb Geller (alto sax); Buddy Collette (flute); Bob Gordon (baritone sax); Bob Enevoldsen (claves); Shelley Manne (drums); Don Fagerquist (trumpet) Red Norvo (vibes) Mike Pacheco (bongos) and Jack Costanzo (congas). All selections newly remastered.

American jazz trumpeter, producer, and musical entrepreneur, Jack Millman is not a household name, yet he was a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker of the West Coast jazz scene and a highly adept instrumentalist in his own right. On this rare 1977 LP InchSwing Scene II,Inch Millman (who often went by the alias Johnny Kitchen) assembled an all-star cast of West Coast studio musicians who perform a mixture of easy listening instrumentals with a West Coast jazz flavor, along with more classic vocal style jazz offerings as heard on the standards InchSeptember In The Rain,Inch InchI'm Old Fashioned' and InchSpring Can Really Hang You Up The Most.Inch This rare vintage West Coast jazz album has been newly remastered for this exclusive .

Jack Millman wasn't just another trumpet player. He was an artist who saw the world of jazz as a canvas too vast to be confined by the rules of the genre. By the time he was 18, Millman had already composed a symphony, which was as bold a move as it was unusual for a young jazz musician. His early work was shaped by classical sensibilities, which made his approach to jazz more intricate and structured than many of his contemporaries, yet it never sacrificed the feeling and rhythm that defined the best of the genre. On this album we discover how Millman reshaped the landscape of the West Coast jazz band by challenging it's boundaries, infusing his work with both modern and symphonic elements in ways that had rarely been attempted. Through his work, Millman offered a vision of jazz that wasn't just about the rhythms or the solos - it was about creating a fuller, richer sound, one that captured the depth of both classical and jazz traditions without sacrificing the power of either.