Artist:  THE DAVE BAILEY SEXTET    

Title:  “Gettin’ Into Somethin'

Label:   EPIC RECORDS ~  # LA 16011.  Mono pressing on medium weight vinyl, with deep groove.  Label is yellow with black text.  

Personnel:

Dave Bailey – drums

Clark Terry – trumpet

Curtis Fuller – trombone

Charlie Rouse – tenor sax

Horace Parlan – piano

Peck Morrison – bass.

Condition:   

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or issues.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean; Side One has promotional “Demonstration” sticker on it.  A fine playing copy of a scarce and excellent session.      

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG+.   Front artwork is clean and bright, with some visible ring wear.  Bottom seam has approx 5” split at right side; remaining seams and spine are nice.  Reverse has “Demonstration” stamp mark and a few tiny scrapes at the center.  No writing or stickers.  Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the nice sounding disc.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Slop Jah Little Old Mongoose Evad Smurd

Side Two:

Blues for JP

Review:

“This LP was the second of three dates led by drummer Dave Bailey for Epic in the early '60s, all of which were recorded live in the studio with an invited audience.  His supporting cast is a potent one, with trumpeter and flugelhornist Clark Terry, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Horace Parlan, and bassist Peck Morrison.  This blowing session starts off with a foot-patting blues by Terry, the amusingly titled "Slop Jah."  Terry co-wrote "Little Old Mongoose" with Archie Moore (the light heavyweight boxing champion who was also a musician and jazz fan); this up-tempo swinger features Terry's excellent muted solo and a carousing effort by Rouse, too.  Terry also composed the brisk "Evad Smurd" (an anagram of "Dave Drums"), which seems to be a well-disguised reworking of "Oh, Lady Be Good"; Bailey actually takes a series of drum breaks, which is rare for him since he prefers time keeping to the solo spotlight.  An extended workout of Horace Parlan's "Blues for J.P." has great solos all around, as well as Terry at first on flugelhorn and later on trumpet.”

(courtesy Ken Dryden, allmusic.com.)

 

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