JOE NEWMAN: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS (LOCKING HORNS / ALL I WANNA DO IS SWING / THE MIDGETS / SOFT SWINGIN’ JAZZ) (2CD)

AVID Jazz here presents four classic Joe Newman albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Locking Horns”, “All I Wanna Do Is Swing”, “The Midgets” and “Soft Swingin’ Jazz”.“Locking Horns” with the legendary Count Basie sideman Joe Newman for our first selection is Cool School saxophonist Zoot Sims who is joined by the one and only Oscar Pettiford on bass, Osie Johnson on drums and Adrian Acea on piano (who contributes 50% of the writing duties to this fine blowing album). Picture the scene …………it’s somewhere between midnight and 10 am and a group of musicians are gathered around a single mike in a recording studio…………engineer Dick Gardner is at the controls. The men are all seated in a circle, rising only to take a solo. Joe Newman could be taking the first solo, (after all it is his band!)….he’s ready to swing! Alongside he has a brace of fine saxophonists, Al Cohn on tenor and Ernie Wilkins on alto. Another horn man rises to take his