Product Details
- SKU: 11428CD
- Format: CD
- UPC: 8436559466998
- Street Date: 11/22/19
- PreBook Date: 10/18/19
- Label: Essential Jazz Classics »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 70 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2019
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US
Product Assets
Ray Bryant - Hollywood Jazz Beat + Take A Bryant Step
- List Price: $16.99
- Your Price: $10.53
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Born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana in 1931 (he is 87 at this writing), soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson is most widely known as the sax soloist on Henry Mancini's"The Pink Panther Theme". Johnson recorded profusely both as a leader and with a variety of different groups.Presented here are two rare quintet albums which he originally issued for contractual reasons under the pseudonym "Johnny Beecher": Sax 5th Ave. (MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 102), and On the Scene (MGM Records/CRC Charter CLS 104). The title track of the first album, "Sax 5th Avenue", was also issued as a single, billed as "Johnny Beecher and His Buckingham Road Quintet" and made its dent on the charts at # 65 Billboard Pop Hot 100. That song was backed on the single with "Jack Sax the City", from the sames essions, which has been added here as a bonus.
