DAVE PELL: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS (JAZZ AND ROMANTIC PLACES / JAZZ GOES DANCING / I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM / A PELL OF A TIME) (2CD)

  AVID Jazz here presents four classic Dave Pell albums including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Jazz and Romantic Places; “Jazz Goes Dancing”; “I Had the Craziest Dream” and “A Pell of a Time!”The subject may be “Jazz and Romantic Places” and the locations may range from Paris to Rio but the jazz is strictly West Coast and Cool! Dave Pell on tenor sax is joined by the cream of jazz players from the Les Brown band with whom Pell had played for many years. The band having found time between their lucrative “day job” on the Bob Hope TV show to join their old band mate for the trip! For “Jazz Goes Dancing” Dave Pell writes in the original sleeve notes that for this project he was determined to create a jazz album to dance to, just like in the old dance band days. The swing was away from the clubs and concert stages and back to the dance halls, colleges and proms where Pell’s band were making an enjoyable and lucrative living! Pell’s octet here in