Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.[2] Record producer Tom Wilson was involved in the sessions and wrote the album's liner notes.[3] The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.[4] The related jazz tunes are contrafacts or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure.
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Studio album by Benny Golson | ||||
Released | 1962 | |||
Recorded | April 1962 New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 37:41 | |||
Label | Audio Fidelity AFLP 1978 | |||
Producer | Tom Wilson | |||
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The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue on the Jazz Beat label. The recording of "Walkin'" is the last released recording of the famed rhythm section of Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb.[5]
Jazz Band - Right Channel
Pop Orchestra - Left Channel
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