RIVERSIDE JAZZ STORY ⑨
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ご案内：古庄紳二郎・瀧口譲司- ERNIE HENRY on RIVERSIDE Fats Navarro, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie 達と活動していた Ernie Henry がファンを引き付けたのは、RIVERSIDE 時代の録音だった。初リーダー作②「Presenting Ernie Henry (RLP 12-222)、③「SevenStandards and A Blues (RLP 12-248)、⑤「Last Chorus (RLP 12-266) のわずか３枚が彼のリーダー・アルバムだ。その他に①③⑤と他のミュージシャンとの共演盤もある。 特に③はジャズ史上に残る名盤で、いつ聴いてもアルバム全体にある彼の音色・フレーズはジャズファンの耳に強烈に残った。
今回の特集でその彼の音色を覚えていただければ幸いです。

① RLP 12-221② RLP 12-222③ RLP 12-226④ RLP 12-248⑤ RLP 12-255⑥ RLP 12-266

RLP 12-221 Jazz by Gee! MATTHEW GEE All-Stars
The Quintet (Side 1): Matthew Gee (tb) Ernie Henry (as) Joe Knight (p) Wilbur Ware (b) Art Taylor (drs)
NYC; August 22, 1956
The Septet (side 2): Kenny Dorham (tp) Matthew Gee (tb) Frank Foster (ts) Cecil Pane (brs) Joe Knight (p) John
Simmons (b) Art Taylor (drs)
NYC; July 19, 1956
SIDE 1SIDE 2
1. Out Of Nowhere (3:21) (Heyman – Green)
1. Gee! (6:07) (Matthew Gee)
2. I'll Remember April (4:13) (Raye – DePaul)
2. Kingston Lounge (8:41) (Matthew Gee)
3. Joram (3:02) (Bill Massey)
3. The Boys from Brooklyn (Matthew Gee)
4. Sweet Georgia Brown (2:55) (Bernie – Pinkard – Casery)
5. Lover Man (4:58) (Davis – Sherman – Ramirez)

RLP 12-222 Presenting ERNIE HENRY: A Remarkable New Jazz Talent
Ernie Henry (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Kenny Drew (p) Wilbur Ware (b) Art Taylor (drs)
NYC; August 23 and 30, 1956
SIDE 1SIDE 2
1. Gone With the Wind (3:21) (Wrubel – Magidson)
1. Active Ingredients (5:01) (Ernie Henry)
2. Orient (5:07) (Ernie Henry)
2. I Should Care (Cahn – Slordahl – Weston)
3. Free Flight (5:46) (Ernie Henry)
3. Cleo’s Chant (8:25) (Ernie Henry)
4. Checkmate (5:52) (Ernie Henry)RLP 12-226 Brilliant Corners: THELONIOUS MONK
Thelonious Monk (p) (also on celeste on Panonica); Ernie Henry (as) Sonny Rollins (ts) Oscar Pettiford (b) Max
Roach (drs) (also on tympany on Bemsha Swing)
New York; December, 1956
(On Bemsha Swing: Clark Terry (tp) replaces Henry; Paul Chambers (b) replaces Perriford. I Surrender Dear is anunaccompanied piano solo)
SIDE 1SIDE 2
1. Brilliant Corners (7:42) (Monk)
1. Pannonica (8:50) (Monk)
2. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are (13:15) (Monk)
2. I Surrender, Dear (5:52) (Clifford – Barris)
3. Bemsha Swing (7:42) (Monk – Best)RLP 12-248 Seven Standards and a Blues: ERNIE HENRY Quartet
Ernie Henry (as) Wynton Kelly (p) Wibur Ware (b) Philly Joe Jones (drs)
Recorded in New York; September 30, 1957
SIDE 1SIDE 2
1. I Get a kick Out of You (4:33) (Cole Porter)
1. Soon (5:55) (George & Ira Gershwin)
2. My Ideal (2:40) (Chase – Whiting)
2. Lover Man (2:38) (Sheman – Ramirez – Davis)
3. I’ve Got the World on a String (6:25) (Koehler – Arlen) 3. Specific Gravity (6:32) (Ernie Henry)
4. Sweet Lorraine (4:59) (Parish – Burwell)
4. Like Someone in Love (5:13) (Burke – Van Heusen)
RLP12-255 2 Horns/ 2 Rhythm: KENNY DORHAM Quartet featuring ERNIE HENRY
Kenny Dorham (tp, also on piano on Soon) Ernie Henry (as) Eddie Mathias (b) or Wilbur Ware (b; on Side 1, #4 andside 2, #4 only) G. T. Hogan (drs)
New York; November 13 and December 2, 1957
SIDE 1SIDE 2
1. Lotus Blossom (5:17) (Kenny Dorham)
1. The End of Love Affair (4:19) (Edward Redding)
2. 'Sposin' (6:08) (Razaf – Denniker)
2. I’ll Be Seeing You (4:16) (Kahal – Fain)
3. Soon (2:53) (George & Ira Gershwin)
3. Noose Bloods (6:21) (Kenny Dorham)
4. Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (4:36) (Caesar) 4. Jazz Classic (3:08) (Kenny Dorham)

RLP12-266 ERNIE HENRY: Last Chorus
On Side 1- ERNIE HENRY Octet: Ernie Henry (as) Lee Morgan (tp) Melba Liston (tb) Benny Golson (ts) Cecil Payne(brs) Wynton Kelly (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (drs)(All the Things You Are by Henry, Morgan and rhythm only.) New York; September, 1957
On Side 2: S’posin’ is by the KENNY DORHAM Quartet: Kenny Dorham (tp) Ernie Henry (as) Eddie Mathias (b) G.
T. Hogan (drs)
November, 1957.
Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are by a THELONIOUS MONK group: this excerpt includes solos by Thelonious Monk (p)Ernie Henry (as) Sonny Rollins (ts) Oscar Pettiford (b) Max Roach (drs)
November, 1956.
Like Someone in Love by the ERNIE HENRY Quartet: Ernie Henry (as) Wynton Kelly (p) Wilbur Ware (b) Jones (drs).
September, 1957
Cleo’s Chant by the ERNIE HENRY Quintet: Ernie Henry (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Kenny Drew (p) Ware (b)Art Taylor (drs)August, 1956
SIDE 1
1. Autumn Leaves (3:15) (Mercer – Prevert – Kosmo arr. by Benny Golson)
2. Beauty and the Blues (6:26) (Benny Golson)
3. All the Things You Are (7:46) (Hammerstein – Kern)
4. Melba's Tune (2:37) (Melba Liston)
SIDE 2
1. S'posin' (alt. take) (4:50) (Razaf – Denniker)
2. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are (6:54) (Thelonious Monk)
3. Like Someone in Love (alt. take) (4:35) (Berke – Van Heusen)
4. Cleo's Chant (7:29) (Ernie Henry)