Joe Mooney – The Happiness Of...The Greatness Of... Joe Mooney (1963/65)(2000)

Artist: Joe Mooney
Title Of Album: The Happiness Of...The Greatness Of... Joe Mooney
Year Of Release: 1963,65/1989
Label (Catalog#) :Koch Jazz KOC-CD-7886
Country: USA
Genre: Jazz Swing, Vocal, Pop, Ballad
Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 63:08
Full Size: 326Mb(+3%)(covers, pdf)
Info:wiki

Singer-keyboardist Joe Mooney, who died in 1975, was simply too hip and classy for his time. His innovative New York quartet of the 1940s, admired by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett never scored with the public. His mid-1960s solo comeback attempt with the two Columbia LPs repackaged here met similar fates: acclaim within the industry, indifference elsewhere despite their warm, lithe vocals, fleet-fingered keyboard accompaniment and airy, clever arrangements, rendering each number a concert in miniature. On Happiness, he brought his joi de vivre to "What Kind of Fool Am I" and "I Wish You Love" and infused "Lollipops and Roses" with a bright, easy swing light-years from Jack Jones 's hit version. Greatness maintained a similar vein: toying with Neal Hefti's "Cute" and drenching "I Wanna Be Around" with a bluesy, 3 A.M. flavor. And on "Honeysuckle Rose," an organ instrumental, he can be heard cheerfully scat-singing away beneath his solo. With much of Mooney's work now available on reissues and John Pizzarelli paying a small homage on each album, perhaps the public is ready at last. --Rich Kienzle

Tracks:
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The Greatness of Joe Mooney (Columbia, 1963)
1. Wait Till You See Her
2. But Beautiful
3. The Second Time Around
4. I Wish You Love
5. Call Me Irresponsible
6. Nobody Else But Me
7. Once Upon A Summertime
8. Lollipops And Roses
9. This Is All I Ask
10. What Kind Of Fool Am I
11. Days Of Wine And Roses
12. The Good Life
The Happiness of Joe Mooney (Columbia, 1965)
13. Cute
14. When I Fall In Love
15. Emily
16. You Irritate Me So
17. I Wonder What Became Of Me
18. Honeysuckle Rose
19. Happiness Is You
20. She's Not For You
21. I Wanna Be Around
22. When The World Is At Rest
23. When Sunny Gets Blue
24. This Is The Life

Personnel:
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Joe Mooney - vocal, organ, accordion, piano, arranger
Mundell Lowe - arranger, guitar
Gene Allen, Al Klink, Walt Levinsky, Phil Bodner, Andy Fitzgerald, Don Ashworth, Leon Cohen, Jerry Dodgion - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute
Gary Burton, Phil Kraus, Joe Venuto - Vibraphone
Barry Galbraith - guitar
George Duvivier - bass
Eddie Shaughnessy - drums

All thanks to original releaser