Description
Offered for sale is an original U.S. green vinyl white label promotional copy of The Herdsmen Play Paris by the Herdsmen.
About this copy: This copy of The Herdsmen Play Paris is a 1955 U.S. mono pressing on the Fantasy label.
The cover is VG, with moderate general wear, but no splits.
The green vinyl white label promo disc is VG++ with a couple of light sleeve scuffs and a couple of faint hairlines on side two. It’s a clean disc that has had little play.
A nice copy of a scarce Jazz LP.
Background: Released in 1955, The Herdsmen Play Paris is the only album by a short-lived group of musicians who, in their day jobs, were members of Woody Herman’s Third Herd.
Allmusic.com gave The Herdsmen Play Paris a 3 star review:
Here’s the deal on this set from “the Herdsmen”: Dick Collins, Red Kelly, Ralph Burns, and a few other cats went over to Paris from Germany while they were playing with Woody Herman’s Third Herd, the first to play Europe in 1954. All the players involved — Nat Pierce, Cy Touff, Jerry Coker, Bill Perkins, Dick Hafer, Chuck Flores, Jimmy Gourley — were either currently in the Third Herd or kicking around Europe anyway. Why have you heard of so few of these people? Simply because they are footnotes in jazz history, not major players. This is not to imply that they are not quality musicians, just that they were, most of them, workmen in various bands of the era, from Herman to Shorty Rogers to Kenton to Charlie Ventura, etc….This is a blowing date. The arrangements are loose, the swing value is high, and there is a feeling of relaxation and reckless abandon found on few recordings from this period. This is West Coast jazz with a European elegance courtesy of Renaud — one of the greatest pianists in any genre France ever produced.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Fantasy |
| Catalog Number: |
3-201 |
| Year of Release: | 1955 |
| Format: | Mono |
| Share: |       |
