Leonard Feather Presents… ★1954★

Leonard Feather Presents Cool Europe

Jutta Hipp and Mike Nevard

Not so many years ago, just about all Good jazz available on records could be categorized in terms of what part of America it came from. We had New Orleans jazz, Chicago jazz, Kansas City jazz. The music that came from overseas was just an occasional oddity that usually tried, with indifferent success, to emulate one of these forms.

Since then, the walls have come tumbling down. With our American music solidly established as not merely a regional or even a national phenomenon the interchange of ideas has had a salutary effect on the quality of the music produced both here and abroad.

A few years ago it was the Swedish jazzmen who surprised us with their effective assimilation of the modern jazz idiom. More recently, England and Germany have produced a little network of gifted musicians capable of the most advanced and inspired Brand of modern jazz improvisation.

The musical breezes wafted across the Atlantic for our delectation by the Cool Europeans are a relaxed and refreshing zephyr for jazz fans in search of someting new.

*Leonard Feather (liner notes)*

It's apparent from this excellent package that Americans no longer have a complete monopoly of the jazz medium. Perhaps modern or "cool" jazz simply has more traditional forms. At any rate, the pianist Jutta Hipp is a first-rate inventive artist, and her cohorts Emil Mangelsdorff, alto sax, and his brother Albert on trombone, could play in any fast local company.

The Britishers, too, show talent, especially the trumpeter, Albert Haall, pianist Ralph Dollimore and bassist Johnny Hawksworth. It's absorbing modern jazz regardless of geography, and may be offered as such. *Billboard, April 30, 1955*

Side 1

Jutta Hipp And Her German Jazzmen

1 - Simone

(Mangelsdorff)

2 - Lover Man

(Ramirez, Sherman)

3 - Cool Dogs

(Freund)

4 - Diagram

(Olsen)

5 - Anything Goes

(Porter)

6 - Brotherly

(Mangelsdorff)

7 - Yogi

(Freund)

8 - If I Had You

(Shaphiro, Campbell, Cennelly)

#1, #3, #5, #7:

Emil Mangelsdorff (alto sax), Joki Freund (tenor sax),

Jutta Hipp (piano), Hans Kresse (bass), Karl Sanner (drums).

#2, #4: 

Jutta Hipp (piano), Hans Kresse (bass), Karl Sanner (drums).

#6: 

Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Emil Mangelsdorff (alto sax),

Jutta Hipp (piano), Hans Kresse (bass), Karl Sanner (drums).

#8:

Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Hans Koller (tenor sax),

Jutta Hipp (piano), Shorty Roeder (bass), Karl Sanner (drums).

Recorded in Frankfurt, West Germany, April 13, 1954.

Side 2

Mike Nevard's British Jazzmen

9 - I'll Remember April

(Rraye, DePaul, Johnston)

10 - Deep Purple

(DeRose, Parish)

11 - Rhumblues

(Feather)

12 - Two Sleepy People

(Carmichael, Loesser)

13 - Amalgam

(Olsen)

#9, #12, #13:

Albert Hall (trumpet), Don Rendell (tenor sax), Harry Klein (baritone sax),

Ralph Dollimore (piano), Johnny Hawksworth (bass), David Murray (drums).

#10, #11:

Johnny Donkworth (alto sax), Don Rendell (tenor sax),

Ralph Dollimore (piano), Johnny Hawksworth (bass), Allan Ganley (drums).

Recorded in London, early 1954