Re: [Harp-L] Toots playing Lullaby of Birdland anyone?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

I doubt that it exists. Toots' main job with Shearing was to play guitar. He did get to record a handful of harmonica features with Shearing - Body and Soul, Caravan (live and studio versions), The Man I Love, Undecided, and one or two others. But not, so far as I've discovered, Lullaby of Birdland. And the non-harmonica versions tend be with Chuck Wayne on guitar, as they were recorded eitehr before 1952 or after Toots left Shearing in '59. I've bought just about everything of Shearing I could find from the period on both MGM and Capitol, and Toots' harmonica appearances are very few and far between. (Mweanwhile, on his own, he was recording The Sound, Man Bites Harmonica, and some unreleased tracks at Chess with Willie Dixon and Lafayette Leake.)

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Toots playing Lullaby of Birdland anyone?
To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 6:18 AM

Since Toots played with George Shearing when he first came over to New York,
I'm assuming that there must be a version of Lullaby of Birdland with him
playing harmonica on an album somewhere.  Does anyone know where I might find
such a thing.

Thanks 

Bill
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