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Jack The Bear - Jimmy Blanton Full Bass Score

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from «The Blanton - Webster Band (Duke Ellington)» Bluebird Records (RCA) (1990)

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Big Band
  • Engineer, Misc.  Prod., Reissue  Producer: Steven Lasker
  • Reissue  Producer: Orrin Keepnews
  • Trumpet: Wallace Jones
  • Trumpet: Cootie Williams
  • Cornet: Rex Stewart
  • Re-mastering  Engineer: Dennis Ferrante
  • Trombone: Joe Nanton
  • Trombone: Lawrence Brown
  • Trombone: Juan Tizol
  • Clarinet, Tenor  Saxophone: Barney Bigard
  • Alto  Saxophone, Clarinet: Johnny Hodges
  • Alto  Saxophone: Otto Hardwick
  • Tenor  Saxophone: Ben Webster
  • Alto  Saxophone, Baritone  Saxophone, Clarinet: Harry Carney
  • Guitar: Fred Guy
  • Bass: Jimmy Blanton
  • Drums: Sonny Greer
  • Arranger: Billy Strayhorn

Originally Recorded 1940.


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Jimmy Blanton
Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton

Jimmy Blanton, byname of James Blanton, (born October 1918, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.—died July 30, 1942, Monrovia, California), American jazz musician whose innovative string bass techniques and concepts, displayed during his two years in the Duke Ellington band, made him by far the major influence on subsequent jazz bassists for several decades.

While based in St. Louis, Blanton played in the Jeter-Pillars and Fate Marable bands, both notable “territory bands” (i.e., those in the South, Southwest, and Midwest), before Ellington hired him in 1939. He was a key figure in Ellington’s greatest period. His mobile swing and his remarkably full, resonant, pizzicato tones were the band’s foundation. His original technique permitted him an unprecedented rhythmic variety on his instrument, allowing him to play melodic phrasing instead of conventional, swing-era “walking” metre lines in solos; his harmonies, too, were considered advanced for the swing era.

In 1939–40 Ellington recorded a series of piano and bass duets with Blanton, including “Pitter Panther Patter,” “Sophisticated Lady,” and “Body and Soul.” The bassist was also featured in classic Ellington band recordings such as “Jack the Bear” and “Ko-Ko”; altogether he made more than 130 recordings with Ellington, together with other recordings led by Ellington sidemen. In 1941, ill from tuberculosis, he entered a California sanitorium, ending a brief, brilliant career.

from Britannica

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