The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.82 – Charlie Shavers [1938-1941] [2005]

01.Undecided
02.Rehearsin’ For a Nervous Breakdown
03.Royal Garden Blues
04.Blue Skies
05.Opus 5
06.Front And Center
07.Sweet Georgia Brown
08.It Feels Good
09.Andiology
10.Coquette
11.Zooming At the Zombie
12.Jumpin’ In the Pump Room
13.20th Century Closet
14.Blues Petite
15.Can’t We Be Friends
16.Beethoven Riffs On
17.Prelude For Trumpet
18.The Peanut Vendor
19.Blue Fantasy
20.Revolutionary Etude
21.Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider
22.Echoes Of Harlem

Charlie Shavers was one of the great trumpeters to emerge during the swing era, a virtuoso with an open-minded and extroverted style along with a strong sense of humor. He originally played piano and banjo before switching to trumpet, and he developed very quickly. In 1935, he was with Tiny Bradshaw's band and two years later he joined Lucky Millinder's big band. Soon afterward he became a key member of John Kirby's Sextet where he showed his versatility by mostly playing crisp solos while muted. Shavers was in demand for recording sessions and participated on notable dates with New Orleans jazz pioneers Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, and Sidney Bechet. He also had many opportunities to write arrangements for Kirby and had a major hit with his composition "Undecided." After leaving Kirby in 1944, Charlie Shavers worked for a year with Raymond Scott's CBS staff orchestra, and then was an important part of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra from 1945 until past TD's death in 1956. Although well-featured, this association kept Shavers out of the spotlight of jazz, but fortunately he did have occasional vacations in which he recorded with the Metronome All-Stars and toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic; at the latter's concerts in 1953, Shaver's trumpet battles with Roy Eldridge were quite exciting. After Dorsey's death, Shavers often led his own quartet although he came back to the ghost band from time to time. During the 1960s, his range and technique gradually faded, and Charlie Shavers died from throat cancer in 1971 at the age of 53. ---Scott Yanow, Rovi

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