Soft Swingin' Jazz By The Happy Cats

Joe Newman

Lone Hill Jazz

A CD release of music originally issued on 2 LPs in 1957 and 1958. Shirley Scott plays on one of the source LPs.

Tracks

• Makin' Whopee (Donaldson / Kahn)
• Three Little Words (Kalmar / Ruby)
• Scotty (Scott)
• There's a Small Hotel (Hart / Rodgers)
• I Let a Song Go out of My Heart (Ellington / Mills / Nemo / Redmond)
• Moonglow (DeLange / Hudson / Mills)
• Organ Grinder's Song (Hudson / Mills / Parish)
• Rosetta (Hines / Woods)
• Too Marvelous for Words (Mercer / Whiting)
• The Farmer's Daughter (Arlen / Harburg)
• Save Your Love for Me (Johnson)
• The Happy Cats (Newman)
• Cocktails for Two (Coslow / Johnston)
• Later for the Happenings (Acea)
• Buttercup (Powell)
• Robbin's Nest (Jacquet / Thompson)
• They Can't Take That Away from Me (Gershwin / Gershwin)
• Feather's Nest (Wilkins)
• Mean to Me (Ahlert / Turk)
• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (Arlen / Koehler)
• Joe's Tune (Newman)
• I Never Knew (Fio / Rito)

Tracks 1 to 11;

• Joe Newman - trumpet, vocals
• Shirley Scott - organ
• Eddie Jones - bass
• Charlie Persip - drums
• Ernie Wilkins - piano (on Save Your Love For Me)

The music on this CD was originally released on;

• The Happy Cats, Joe Newman Sextet, 1957 (tracks 12 to 22)
• Soft Swingin' Jazz, Joe Newman Quartet, 1958 (tracks 1 to 11)