(Mainstream Jazz) Jesper Thilo Quintet - Jesper Thilo Quintet featuring Harry Edison - 1987, MP3, 320 kbps

Jesper Thilo (* 28. November 1941 in Copenhagen) is in Danish JazzMusicians (saxophonist, clarinetist and seamist).
Thilo began at the age of eleven years with the saxophone play; it studied classical clarinet at the royal music conservatoire. It was 23 years long as old saxophonist that To Danmarks radio bend volume actively and worked for the 1960er years in the surrounding field of the Danish Mainstream jazz Scene. As Sideman worked it and others with photographs of To Edmond resound, J. C. Higginbotham, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Harry Sweets Edison, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Vic Dickenson, Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry. Since beginning of the 1970er years published it under own name a set of albums on the disk label Storyville and/or. Music Mekka.
Sweets Edison (actually Debonair Harry Edison; * 10. October 1915 in Columbus, Ohio; † 27. July 1999 ibid) was in US-more American jazztrumpeter.
He spent his early childhood in Kentucky, where he was introduced to music by an uncle. After moving back to Columbus at the age of 12, the young Edison began playing the trumpet with local bands. In 1933, he became a member of the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra in Cleveland. Afterwards he played with the Mills Blue Rhythm Band and Lucky Millinder. In 1937 he moved to New York and joined the Count Basie Orchestra. His colleagues included Buck Clayton, Lester Young (who named him "Sweets"), Buddy Tate, Freddie Green, Jo Jones, and other original members of that famous band."Sweets" Edison came to prominence as a soloist with the Basie Band and as an occasional composer/arranger for the band. He also appeared in the 1944 film Jammin' The Blues.
Having joined the Basie Band in 1937, Edison spent 13 years with Basie until the band was temporarily disbanded in 1950. Edison thereafter pursued a varied career as leader of his own groups, traveling with Jazz at the Philharmonic and freelancing with other orchestras. In the early 1950s, he settled on the West Coast and became a highly sought-after studio musician, making important contributions to recordings by such artists as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald. In 1956 he recorded the first of three albums with tenor great Ben Webster.
According to the Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Edison in the 1960s and 1970s continued to work in many orchestras on TV shows, including Hollywood Palace and The Leslie Uggams Show, specials with Frank Sinatra; prominently featured on the sound track and in the sound track album of the film, Lady Sings the Blues. From 1973 Edison acted as Musical Director for Redd Foxx on theatre dates, at concerts, and in Las Vegas. For the past two decades he appeared frequently in Europe and Japan until shortly before his demise. As the Los Angeles Jazz Institute's (LAJI) first Tribute Honoree, "Sweets" will always have a special place in the hearts of jazz fans.

Jesper Thilo is one of Europe's top tenor saxophonists, but guest trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison takes solo honors on this outstanding CD. Following a swinging opening track, "On The Trail," the quintet plus their guest cover a number of gems ... Full Descriptionfrom the Great American Songbook including, "What's New," "Satin Doll," and "There Will Never Be Another You." Thilo has developed a style that incorporates elements of many greats who preceded him on his instrument without sounding like a clone of any of them. Pianist Ole Kock Hansen, a frequent pianist on Storyville sessions, provides inspired backing as well as some strong solos. But it is the work of Edison, who was 70 at the time of these sessions and still in his prime as a performer, that makes this release an essential acquisition.

Harry Edison - trumpet
Jesper Thilo - tenor sax
Ole Kock Hansen - piano
Ole Ousen - guitar
Hugo Rasmussen - bass
Svend Erik Norregaard - drums
Jesper Lundgaard - bass (replace Hugo Rasmussen on #4, #7, #8)