Last weekend, I posted a video clip that included pianist Paul Smith accompanying Frank Sinatra. Smith belonged to a small group of superb West Coast jazz studio pianists that included Lou Levy, Jimmy Rowles and Pete Jolly. In the late 1950s, Smith recorded four albums for Capitol that became known as the Liquid Sound sessions. One of them was Delicate Jazz, recorded in November 1957.
For this week's Perfection clip, I've chosen I've Got You Under My Skin. I'm not sure who handled the arranging, but I'd bet it was Frank Comstock. The musicians in the nifty sextet featured Bob Cooper (ts), Jules Kinsler (fl), Paul Smith (p), Tony Rizzi (g), Joe Mondragon (b) and Stan Levey (d). Delicate Jazz is probably the best of the four albums in this series, but they all have merit and are easy on the ear. [Photo above of Paul Smith]
If you like it, all four are available from Fresh Sound on a two-CD set: Paul Smith: The Complete Liquid Sounds Sessions, 1954-1958 here.
For more on Paul Smith at JazzWax, go here.
Here's Paul Smith with a sextet playing I've Got You Under My Skin...
Other Perfection tracks in this ongoing series...
- Paul Desmond and Jim Hall: Any Other Time, go here.
- John Coltrane: You Say You Care, go here.
- Quincy Jones: Funk Junction, go here.
- Art Farmer's Work of Art, go here.
- Miles Davis: A Gal in Calico, go here.
- Gene Krupa: Mulligan Stew, go here.
- Dave Brubeck: The Duke, go here.
- Horace Silver: The Back Beat, go here.
- Horace Parlan: Up & Down, go here.
- Dexter Gordon: Society Red, go here.
- Barney Kessel: You Go to My Head, go here.
- Count Basie: Corner Pocket, go here.
- Herbie Mann: Manteca, go here.
- Donald Byrd: Bronze Dance, go here.
- George Shearing: I'll Be Around, go here.
- Ammons & Stitt: You Talk That Talk, go here.
- Count Basie: Blues in My Heart, go here.
- Moonlight in Vermont, go here.
- Johnny Griffin / Matthew Gee, Here, go here.
- Jimmy Smith / Stanley Turrentine, When I Grow Too Old to Dream, go here.
- Chet Baker: Estate, go here.
- Jazz Studio 1: Tenderly, go here.
- Herb Pomeroy: Down Home Outing, go here.
- Frank Sinatra: There's a Small Hotel, go here.
- Bill Harris Herd: Blackstrap, go here.
- Gerry Mulligan: Westwood Walk, go here.
- Red Garland/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: We'll Be Together Again, go here.
- Bill Evans: Reflections in D, go here.
- Ted McNabb & Co.: Mountain Greenery, go here.
- Maynard Ferguson: Fox Hunt, go here.
- Serge Chaloff & the Herdsmen: The Most!, go here.
- Maynard Ferguson: Starfire, go here.
- Urbie Green, Please, go here.
- Machito, Conversation, go here.
- David Allyn, Love Is a Serious Thing, go here.
- Lennie Tristano, Wow, go here.
- Teddy Charles, Borodin Bossa Nova, go here.
- Gerry Mulligan, Night Lights, go here.
- Tommy Flanagan, In the Blue of Evening, go here.
- Stan Getz, Stella by Starlight, go here.
- Erroll Garner, It's the Talk of the Town, go here.
- Sonny Stitt, Miss Ann, Lisa, Sue and Sadie, go here.
- Phil Urso, P.U. Stomp, go here.
- Jimmy Forrest, Soul Street, go here.
- Harry James, late 1950s/early '60s, go here.
- Hal McKusick, You're Everywhere, go here.
- Dexter Gordon, I Want More, go here.
- Keely Smith: The Song Is You, go here.
- Elliot Lawrence: But Not for Me, go here.
- Doug Raney: Lean Years, go here.