The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.26 – Bud Freeman [1939-1940] [2005]

01.Sensation
02.Fidgety Feet
03.Tia Juana
04.Copenhagen
05.I’ve Found A New Baby
06.Easy To Get
07.China Boy
08.The Eel
09.Oh! Baby
10.I Need Some Pettin’
11.Susie
12.Big Boy
13.As Long As I Live
14.The Sail Fish
15.Sunday
16.Satanic Blues
17.Jack Hits The Road
18.Forty Seven And State
19.Muskrat Ramble
20.That Da-Da Strain
21.Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
22.At The Jazz Band Ball
23.Prince Of Wails
24.After Awhile
25.Love Is Just Around The Corner

When Bud Freeman first matured, his was the only strong alternative approach on the tenor to the harder-toned style of Coleman Hawkins and he was an inspiration for Lester Young. Freeman, one of the top tenors of the 1930s, was also one of the few saxophonists (along with the slightly later Eddie Miller) to be accepted in the Dixieland world, and his oddly angular but consistently swinging solos were an asset to a countless number of hot sessions.

Freeman, excited (as were the other members of the Austin High School Gang in Chicago) by the music of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, took up the C-melody sax in 1923, switching to tenor two years later. It took him time to develop his playing, which was still pretty primitive in 1927 when he made his recording debut with the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans. Freeman moved to New York later that year and worked with Red Nichols' Five Pennies, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Ben Pollack, Joe Venuti, Gene Kardos, and others. He starred on Eddie Condon's memorable 1933 recording "The Eel." After stints with Joe Haymes and Ray Noble, Freeman was a star with Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra and Clambake Seven (1936-1938) before having a short unhappy stint with Benny Goodman (1938). He led his short-lived but legendary Summe Cum Laude Orchestra (1939-1940) which was actually an octet, spent two years in the military, and then from 1945 on, alternated between being a bandleader and working with Eddie Condon's freewheeling Chicago jazz groups. Freeman traveled the world, made scores of fine recordings, and stuck to the same basic style that he had developed by the mid-'30s (untouched by a brief period spent studying with Lennie Tristano). Bud Freeman was with the World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1971), lived in London in the late '70s, and ended up back where he started, in Chicago. He was active into his eighties, and a strong sampling of his recordings are currently available on CD. --- Scott Yanow, Rovi

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