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| ARTIST: | Cozy Cole |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Melodie Jazz Classic |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Blue Moon, Father Co-Operates, Just One More Chance, Through for the Night, Jericho, Talk to Me, Concerto for Cozy, Body and Soul, Nice and Cozy, Ol' Man River, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away), Ridin' the Riff, Flat Rock, Jersey Jump Off, Stompin' at the Savoy, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Jump Street, Twilight in Teheran, Morning Mist, Swing Street, Ram Session |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of 1944
The GREAT re-issues just keep on comin'... Fans of great small group Swing are in for a treat with this one. Also a treat are the personnel playing with Cozy. Much of the material here is on an older Savoy LP (itself a re-issue, right at the height of the "Topsy" years) called "Concerto For Cozy", with a wonderful LP cover featuring Cozy's silver sparkle Ludwig drum set. "Jersey Jumpoff", "Stompin' At The Savoy", "..Sunny Side..", and "Jump Awhile" have an all-star line-up, including Coleman Hawkins, Walter "Foots" Thomas, Eddie Barefield, Emmet Berry; while Budd Johnson replaces Barefield on "Old Man River", "Wrap Your Troubles..", Riding The Riff", and "Flat Rock". Ben Webster shows up, too, on "Jericho", "Talk To Me", "Concerto For Cozy", "Nice and Cozy", and "Body And Soul". All of this material is of the highest musical quality, and it is great to see it being re-issued.
From 1940s Big Band To 1950s Big Hit
Drummer William `Cozy' Cole, born on October 17, 1909 in East Orange, New Jersey (he died of cancer on January 29, 1981), spent time with several big bands in the Forties, including Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway, before forming Cozy Cole's All Star Band in 1944. That year he had a # 10 on the Harlem Hit Parade with Just One More Chance for the Keynote label, and also appeared in the movie Make Mine Music with Benny Goodman.
Fourteen years later a smaller combo led by Cole, and recording for the Love label, had a huge double-sided instrumental smash with an old Goodman hit from 1938, Topsy. The so-called B-side, Topsy II, actually was the bigger charter, going to # 1 R&B/# 3 pop in November 1958, while the flip, Topsy I, made it to # 27 pop. A month later, Turvy II went to # 36 pop b/o Turvy I - which did not chart.
Both sides of Topsy may be found on a number of multi-artist compilations, but Turvy seems to have fallen into a crack. This CD, meanwhile, will provide hours of fine "big band" entertainment, including his 1944 hit.