Harry Betts & His Orchestra • The Jazz Soul Of Doctor Kildare

 

Review by Bruce Eder
This wasn't the first album of its kind -- others had done jazz interpretations of television music, going back to the '50s -- but Harry Betts' Jazz Soul of Doctor Kildare was one of the better ones in the subgenre, an enjoyable and occasionally surprisingly ambitious pop-jazz creation, by a top arranger and trombonist. Betts and company -- including Jack Sheldon, Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, and Red Callender on tuba, no less -- manage to find room for improvisation without straying so far from the mood and character of the series for which the music was written that it ever becomes unrecognizable. And engineer Bones Howe recorded them so crisply and vividly that the record has held up as an audiophile quality release across more than three decades, even earning a Mobile Fidelity CD reissue in the '80s.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-soul-of-doctor-kildare-mw0000193513

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Reseña de Bruce Eder
Este no fue el primer álbum de este tipo - otros habían hecho interpretaciones de jazz de la música de la televisión, remontándose a los años 50 - pero el Jazz Soul of Doctor Kildare de Harry Betts fue uno de los mejores en el subgénero, una creación pop-jazz agradable y ocasionalmente sorprendente, de un arreglista y trombonista de primera. Betts y compañía -incluyendo a Jack Sheldon, Bud Shank, Conte Candoli, y Red Callender en la tuba, nada menos- consiguen encontrar espacio para la improvisación sin alejarse tanto del ambiente y el carácter de la serie para la que se escribió la música como para resultar irreconocible. Y el ingeniero Bones Howe los grabó de forma tan nítida y vívida que el disco se ha mantenido como un lanzamiento de calidad audiófila a lo largo de más de tres décadas, ganándose incluso una reedición en CD de Mobile Fidelity en los años 80.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-soul-of-doctor-kildare-mw0000193513

Tracklist:
1. Theme From "Dr. Kildare"
2. Theme From "Adventures In Paradise"
3. The Enchanted Melody From "The Shirley Temple Show"
4. Theme From "The Asphalt Jungle"
5. Joanna - A Theme From "Hong Kong"
6. Evan's Theme From "Hong Kong"
7. Theme From "Klondike"
8. Theme From "Follow The Sun"
9. Theme From "Moment Of Fear"
10. Theme From "Bus Stop"
11. Theme From "National Velvet"
12. Theme From "Cain's Hundred"


Credits:
Alto Recorder – Bud Shank
Alto Saxophone – Bud Shank
Arranged By – Harry Betts
Banjo – Al Hendrickson
Baritone Saxophone – Bill Hood, Bud Shank
Bass – Buddy Clark
Bass Guitar – Al Hendrickson
Bell Tree – Larry Bunker
Bells – Larry Bunker
Bongos – Chano Pozo, Luis Miranda
Celesta – Russ Freeman
Clarinet – Bill Hood, Bill Perkins, Herbie Steward*
Claves – Larry Bunker
Conductor – Harry Betts
Congas – Francisco Aguabella
Cowbell – Larry Bunker
Design – Jay Rothman
Drums – Frankie Capp*, Mel Lewis
Engineer – "Bones" Howe*
Finger Cymbals – Larry Bunker
Flute – Bill Perkins, Bud Shank, Herbie Steward*
Gong – Don Raffell
Guitar – Al Hendrickson
Marimba – Larry Bunker
Orchestrated By – Harry Betts
Painting – Jay Rothman
Piano – Russ Freeman
Producer – Jackie Mills, Tommy Wolf
Tenor Saxophone – Bill Perkins, Bud Shank, Herbie Steward*
Timbales – Jackie Mills
Trombone – Bob Edmondson, Frank Rosolino, Milt Bernhart, Dick Leith*
Trumpet – Al Porcino, Conte Candoli, Jack Sheldon, Ray Triscari
Tuba – Red Callender
Vibraphone – Larry Bunker
Whistle – Harry Betts
Xylophone – Larry Bunker

Label:    Choreo Records – A-6, Choreo Records – A6
Released:    Oct 1962
Genre:    Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style:    Big Band
https://www.discogs.com/release/4572232-Harry-Betts-His-Orchestra-The-Jazz-Soul-Of-Doctor-Kildare

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