Bennie Inexperienced’s 1958 traditional Again on the Scene is getting a reissue in February 2026 through Blue Be aware’s Tone Poet sequence. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Version was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Grey from the unique analog grasp tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.
Again on the Scene was the trombonist’s Blue Be aware debut. The swinging six-song album options saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Joe Knight, bassist George Tucker, and drummer Louis Hayes. The report opens with Cole Porter’s “I Love You,” written in 1944 for his stage musical Mexican Hayride. Up subsequent is “Melba’s Mood,” one among two contributions from the trombonist and composer Melba Liston. Liston carried out with the Gillespie band all through the Forties and ‘50s. The primary facet of Again on the Scene wraps up with “Just Friends,” an ordinary written by John Klenner and Sam. M Lewis.
Facet B opens with “You’re Mine, You,” which the trombonist J.J. Johnson had interpreted one yr prior on his album Blue Trombone. Inexperienced was notably one of many few trombonists who didn’t play in a mode impressed by Johnson. “Bennie Plays the Blues” is an authentic by Inexperienced, and Liston’s second contribution, “Green Street,” closes Again on the Scene. Inexperienced recorded two different albums for Blue Be aware: Soul Stirrin’ (1958) and Walkin’ and Talkin’ (1959).
Inexperienced often recorded as a pacesetter all through the Nineteen Fifties and ‘60s, working with gamers like Cliff Smalls, Charlie Rouse, Eric Dixon, Paul Chambers, Louis Hayes, Sonny Clark, Gildo Mahones, and Jimmy Forrest. He additionally carried out with Duke Ellington for a couple of months between 1968 and 1969. Inexperienced spent his later years performing with resort bands in Las Vegas, although he did make occasional appearances, together with on the 1972 Newport Jazz Pageant. Inexperienced died in 1977.
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