Lighthouse All-Stars Collection III

Howard Rumsey

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars

Volume 1 

★Sunday Jazz A La Lighthouse • Vol. 1★

This album is the first of a series of releases that are aimed to satisfy the many requests we have had for some SUNDAY JAZZ a la LIGHTHOUSE.

It was almost four years ago that John Levine decided to present Jazz in concert form — that is, for listening only — in the Southern California seashore club, The Lighthouse. Hermosa Beach is the ideal locale for such a year-around presentation, because although it is remote enough to be "goiung somewhere", it is situated in a fast-growing South Bay area so that more people live closer to it every year.

Sunday Jazz was a feature from the very inception of our concert policy and the popularity of the afternoon and evening concerts led into what is now our most popular feature of the week — a continuous concert from 2 p.m. to 2 a. m. every Sunday throughout the year.

The recorded efforts of our Lighthouse All-Stars as they pace themselves through this extraordinary concert with the many sounds of the room — the tinkling of glasses, the extemporaneous laughter, even the occasional ring of a cash register — go to make up this interesting forty-five minutes of Sunday Jazz designed to let our friends, all over the world, bring the music and, in fact, the Lighthouse itself, into own home.

HAPPY LISTENING! *Howard Rumsey (from the liner notes)*

One of the earliest sets issued under the name of the Lighthouse All-Stars — that hip assemblage of west coast players headed by bassist Howard Rumsey — hardly a household name on his own, but well-remembered for all the great work done at this famous club! The lineup is a who's who of key players on the west coast at the time — Shorty Rogers and Maynard Ferguson on trumpet, Jimmy Giuffre and Bob Cooper on tenor, Hampton Hawes on piano, Milt Bernhart on trombone, and Shelly Manne on drums — and some tracks are a bit longer than usual, offering up freer solo space than you're likely to get on other west coast dates — a key contribution of the All-Stars recording mode. *Dusty Groove, Inc.*

1 - Four Others

(Jimmy Giuffre)

2 - All The Things You Are

(Hammerstein, Kern)

3 - Creme de Menthe

(Jimmy Giuffre)

4 - Viva Zapata!

(Shorty Rogers)

5 - Bernie's Tune

(Leiber, Stoller, Miller)

6 - Solitaire

(Bill Russo)

7 - Morgan Davis

(Shorty Rogers)

8 - La Soncailli

(Jimmy Giuffre)

Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers (trumpets);

Milt Bernhart (trombone); Bob Cooper, Jimmy Giuffre (tenor saxes);

Frank Patchen [#1, #3 to #6], Hampton Hawes [#2, #7, #8] (piano); Howard Rumsey (bass);

Shelly Manne (drums); Carlos Vidal (conga drums [#4]).

Recorded live at The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, California, February 21, 1953