Out of The Embers

Jonah Jones - At The Embers (1956) {Mosaic MCD-1017 rel 2008}
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Jazz / Classic Jazz / Swing / Trumpet

In 1956, Jonah Jones started to become an unlikely commercial success. A veteran swing trumpeter not known to the general public despite being an exciting player, Jones caught on playing frequently muted solos with a quartet at the Embers in New York. His music often featured a shuffle rhythm and mixed Dixieland, swing and show tunes. This first recording by the quartet (also including pianist George Rhodes, bassist John Browne and drummer Harold Austin) was popular, although it would soon be dwarfed by Jones' successes for Capitol. Highlights of the date, which was also released by Groove and Victor, include "It's All Right With Me," "All of You," "High Society" and "At Sundown."

Shimshon Miel is a sole musician, a multi instrumentalist who recorded this album by himself in Tel Aviv 1977. He had one public appearance at the Rock Club in Tel Aviv but shortly after disappeared from the public eye after failing to distribute his record. Originally released in 1977 in an edition of 220 copies privatly. The music is fabulous fuzzy acid folk with experimentations in a 'Canterbury ' way, with some exciting fuzzy distorted guitar passages and some long tracks included here. The CD has 4 bonus tracks.

In the late 1950s, the Doo Wop era began in a small subway arcade shop located beneath the Walgreen's Drug Store at Broadway and 42nd Street in New York City. Jerry Greene, a young teenager from Brooklyn, would travel to Times Square in search of records he heard on the Alan Freed radio show. One of his favorite stops was a costume jewelry store that strangely enough, also sold records - twenty for a dollar.