TEDDY CHARLES - Four Classic Albums (Evolution / Tentet / Coolin / Flyin' Home, Salute To Hamp) (2 CDS)

AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Teddy Charles, complete with original artwork and liner notes.
Teddy Charles Quintet/Teddy Charles New Direction Quartet-”Evolution”; “The Teddy Charles Tentet”; “Coolin’” and Teddy Charles & His Sextet-”Flyin’ Home, Salute To Hamp”
Vibraphonist, pianist, writer, arranger and bandleader Teddy Charles is perhaps best regarded more for his arranging and composing than for his playing although he was a more than capable vibes player! His most important asset was perhaps his open minded approach to the new jazz emerging in the 1950’s led by the likes of George Russell and Charles Mingus and the Jazz Composers Workshop. Teddy Charles has played with Miles Davis, Wardell Gray, Anita O’Day. Roy Eldridge, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw.

CD1
1-8: ‘Evolution’
1. Violetta
2. The Night We Called It A Day
3. Jay Walkin’
4. Speak Low
5. Relaxo Abstracto
6. I Can’t Get Started
7. Free
8. Evolution

9-15: ‘Tentet’
9. Vibrations
10. The Quiet Time
11. The Emperor
12. Nature Boy
13. Green Blues
14. You Go To My Head
15. Lydian M-1

CD2
1-6: ‘Coolin’
1. Staggers
2. Song Of A Star
3. The Eagle Flies
4. Bunni
5. Reiteration
6. Everything Happens To Me

7-15: ‘Flyin’ Home, Salute To Hamp’
7. Airmail Special
8. Midnight Sun
9. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
10. He’s Gone Again
11. Stompin’ At The Savoy
12. Flyin’ Home
13. Stardust
14. Blue Hamp
15. Moonglow