Howard Roberts - The Swingin’ Groove Of Howard Robert (2018/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Looking for more musical activity, he moved to Los Angeles in 1950, where he gigged around the city in jam sessions at after-hours clubs. There, he developed his dazzling technique and fine harmonic sense. Having played with the best instrumentalists and composers, he started getting calls for session work.

He established his reputation with the Bobby Troup trio, which appeared on TV from coast to coast, and consolidated the fame of Troup’s group with some brilliant playing of his Gibson guitar, so much so that the Down Beat jazz critics accorded Roberts the New Guitar Star Award of 1955.

In the years following he continued recording with top jazz singers and instrumentists, and eventually made his first albums as a leader for Verve. In 1959 Roberts started getting more and more work on TV and film, but not content with settling down in the Hollywood studios, in a kind of prosperous obscurity, he kept very active in the jazz scene, playing concerts and recording his own albums.

Howard Roberts was a skilled guitarist with a fondness for direct and unencumbered jazz playing, his tone always bright and penetrating, never twangy. A fine technician, he was able to execute difficult passages cleanly and forcefully. He forged a sound of his own, fiery and hard-swinging, creative and unpretentious. These sessions are an example of his jazz work, as a sideman and as a leader.

TRACKLIST

1. Howard Roberts - How Do You Do? (Remastered)
2. Howard Roberts - Johnson’s Wax (Remastered)
3. Howard Roberts - When The Lights Are Low (Remastered)
4. Howard Roberts - Hip Soup (Remastered)
5. Howard Roberts - But Not for Me (Remastered)
6. Howard Roberts - Emma (Remastered)
7. Howard Roberts - Room 608 (Remastered)
8. Howard Roberts - Ballad Medley: Everything Happens To Me/Moonlight In Vermont/Flamingo (Remastered)
9. Howard Roberts - All The Things You Are (Remastered)
10. Howard Roberts - Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) (Remastered)
11. Howard Roberts - Easy Living (Remastered)
12. Howard Roberts - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (Remastered)
13. Howard Roberts - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Remastered)
14. Howard Roberts - In A Little Spanish Town (Remastered)
15. Howard Roberts - I’ll Take Romance (Remastered)
16. Howard Roberts - Zigeuner (Remastered)
17. Howard Roberts - Aunt Orsavella (Remastered)
18. Howard Roberts - Aunt Orsavella 2 (Remastered)
19. Howard Roberts - Anything Goes (Remastered)
20. Howard Roberts - Caribe (Remastered)



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