Loch Lomond

by Maxine Sullivan

Overview

Singer Maxine Sullivan gets top billing on this CD reissue, and she has delightful vocals on 11 of the selections, but there are also 15 instrumentals by the "backup group," the John Kirby Sextet, as Sullivan was married to the bassist/leader at the time. In addition to the title cut (a remake of her biggest hit), she is in fine form on a variety of folk-oriented songs, including two versions of "If I Had a Ribbon Bow." However, it is the sextet features that are of greatest interest. The classic early cool jazz group (bassist Kirby, trumpeter Charlie Shavers, clarinetist Buster Bailey, altoist Russell Procope, pianist Billy Kyle and drummer Cozy Cole, who had replaced O'Neil Spencer) romps through such unlikely but swinging tunes as "Humoresque," "Haydn Gets Hip," "Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and "Amapola." These selections were originally recorded as radio transcriptions for the Lang-Worth service, and they are important additions to the discographies of both Kirby and Sullivan. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	08/12/1994
Label:	Circle
UPC:	0762247404729
Rank:	103309

Tracks

1. Loch Lomond
2. Humoresque
3. If I Had a Ribbon Bow
4. Given the Lady
5. That Lonely Tune
6. Rustle of Spring
7. Who Is Sylvia?
8. Arabian Nightmare
9. There I Go
10. Valse, Opus 64
11. Red River Valley
12. I Give You My Word
13. Haydn Gets Hep
14. The Same Old Story
15. Feeling in a Mellow Mood
16. As the Tide Was Flowing In
17. Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairy
18. Blue Fantasy
19. The Raggle Taggle Gypsies
20. Yours Forever
21. Molly Malone
22. Amapola
23. Efffervescent Blues
24. Call Me Happy
25. If I Had a Ribbon Bow
26. Down on the Riminent

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Maxine Sullivan   Primary Artist,Vocals
John Kirby Sextet   Primary Artist
John Kirby   Primary Artist,Bass (Upright)
John Kirby & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Billy Kyle   Piano
Cozy Cole   Drums
Charlie Shavers   Trumpet
Russell Procope   Sax (Alto)
Buster Bailey   Clarinet

Technical Credits

Sidney Jerome   Composer
Billy Kyle   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Frederic Chopin   Composer
Irving Weiser   Composer
Frank Driggs   Liner Notes
Claude Thornhill   Arranger
Charlie Shavers   Composer
John Kirby   Leader,Arranger
John Kirby & His Orchestra   Performer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   Composer
Lou Singer   Composer
Hughie Prince   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Merril Lyn   Composer
Franz Schubert   Composer
Antonin Dvorak   Composer
Hy Zaret   Composer
Christian Sinding   Composer
George H. Buck, Jr.   Producer,Liner Notes
William Shakespeare   Composer
Michael Field   Composer
Newt Oliphant   Composer
Wendell Echols   Production Coordination
Wally Ives   Composer
Albert Gamse   Composer
Parker Dinkins   Digital Mastering
Al Kavelin   Composer
Jose Maria Lacalle   Composer