JIMMY RUSHING - THE YOU AND ME THAT USED TO BE (1971)
2.Fine And Mellow
3.When I Grow Too Old To Dream
4.I Surrender Dear
5.Linger Awhile
6.Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
7.My Last Affair
8.All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
9.More Than You Know
10.Home
11.Thanks A Million
On this straight CD reissue of Jimmy Rushing's final recording sessions, the singer is in spirited form despite being little more than a year from his death. On the ten swing standards and a lone blues ("Fine and Mellow"), Rushing is joined by pianist Dave Frishberg (also responsible for the arrangements), bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Mel Lewis, plus either Ray Nance on cornet and violin and tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, or Budd Johnson (on soprano) and Al Cohn (on tenor). Touching renditions of "I Surrender Dear" and "More Than You Know" find Rushing backed only by Frishberg's very able piano. This recommended CD is proof that "Mr. Five by Five" (whose career spanned more than 40 years) went out on top. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Ada Moore, Jimmy Rushing & Buck Clayton - CATS MEETS CHICK: A STORY OF JAZZ
2. Pretty Little Baby
3. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
4. If I Could Be With You
5. Ain't She Sweet
6. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
7. You're My Thrill
8. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
9. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You
10. Cool Breeze, Woman
11. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
12. The Blues
13. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home/After You've Gone
As the common format for LPs became 12" rather than 10" in the mid-'50s, record companies and artists struggled to come up with ideas for sustained musical performances lasting 30 to 45 minutes. In 1955, Columbia Records producer Irving Townsend put together a selection of pop songs with the singers Felicia Sanders, Peggy King, and Jerry Vale to come up with Girl Meets Boy, and he had a similar concept in the jazz realm for Cat Meets Chick. Borrowing Jimmy Rushing from Vanguard Records and hiring young Ada Moore, who had recently made her Broadway debut in the musical House of Flowers, he put them in front of an orchestra led by Buck Clayton and had them perform a series of songs in which the story line was that Clayton (through the medium of his trumpet) and Rushing were vying for Moore's attention. For example, Moore would say, "Buck, if I choose you, what are you gonna give me?," which would be a cue for Clayton to launch into "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." "Nothin' but love?" Moore would say, "Uh-huh, you got the wrong girl," after which Clayton would play "The Blues." The concept, of course, was just an excuse to have Rushing and Moore sing a bunch of old favorites before Clayton's band, and that was fine, especially because Moore, sporting a Sarah Vaughan-like alto, held her own against the great blues shouter. Of course, the ruling presence, even in his absence, was Count Basie, who had previously employed both Rushing and Clayton for extended periods. The music had much of the verve and swing of the Basie band, even without the leader being on the date. The story might be silly, but the music was not.
JIMMY RUSHING - MR. FIVE BY FIVE (1995)
2.That Too, Do Blues
3.Liza Lee
4.Now That I Need You
5.New Orleans
6.Exactly Like You
7.Boogie Woogie
8.Listen My Children (And You Shall Hear)
9.Good Morning Blues
10.Don't You Miss Your Baby?
11.Blues in the Dark
12.Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today)
13.The Blues I Like to Hear
14.Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
15.You Can Depend on Me
16.Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
17.How Long Blues
18.I Left My Baby
19.Blues (I Still Think of Her)
20.Take Me Back, Baby
21.Harvard Blues
22.I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
For these sessions, from 1956-60, veteran swing/blues singer Jimmy Rushing is featured in eight different settings on 30 selections, including with all-star groups featuring trumpeter Buck Clayton, tenors Coleman Hawkins and Buddy Tate, trombonist Dickie Wells and pianist Ray Bryant. In addition, there are numbers with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, the Benny Goodman big band, and (on four previously unreleased songs) fellow singer Helen Humes and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. Throughout the high-quality program, Rushing is heard in prime form. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
JIMMY RUSHING ALL STARS - GEE, BABY, AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU (1997)
2. MJR Blues
3. Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More
4. St. James Infirmary 5:37
5. One O'Clock Jump
6. Who's Sorry Now?
7. These Foolish Things
8. I Ain't Got Nobody
9. Good Morning Blues
Personnel: Jimmy Rushing (vocals, piano); Julian Dash (tenor saxophone); Buck Clayton (trumpet); Dicky Wells (trombone); Sir Charles Thompson (piano); Jo Jones (drums).
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