This Mosaic collection, drawn from 1951 to 1960, presents us with a body of work that stands admirably on its own and, in passing, an opportunity to reevaluate this severely underappreciated musician.
The earliest session here produced four sides, including two vocals that were obviously aimed to gain radio airplay. It’s interesting to compare the leader’s vocal and trumpet styles in both cases he produces a lovely clear tone in the higher register and trademark rasp in the lower. The next four tracks featured intelligent string arrangements by George Williams. The backgrounds are generally unobtrusive and Little Jazz plays lots of horn; his sound is especially gorgeous on his own “I Remember Harlem.” This is also the first of many sessions to include Oscar Peterson-unfortunately, he’s on organ rather than piano, and one gets the distinct impression that Peterson hadn’t done much of this kind of thing…
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Sam Phillips didn't record anybody else the way he recorded Jerry Lee Lewis. With other artists, he pushed and prodded, taking his time to discover the qualities that made them uniquely human, but with Jerry Lee, he just turned the tape on and let the Killer rip. There was no need to sculpt because Lewis arrived at Sun Studios fully formed, ready to lean back and play anything that crossed his mind. Over the course of seven years, that's more or less how things were run at Sun: Lewis would sit at the piano and play, singing songs that were brought to him and songs that crossed his mind, and Sam never stopped rolling the tape.