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Mack The Knife And Other Berlin Theatre Songs Of Kurt Weill

The Sextet Of Orchestra U.S.A.

Recorded	Jan 10 & Jun 1, 1964
Label	RCA
Released	1964
Personnel	9 credited players
Discogs	master 373199

The record

A rare chamber-jazz reading of Weimar cabaret songs, arranged with John Lewis's contrapuntal poise and colored by Eric Dolphy's angular bass clarinet -- one of Dolphy's final sessions before his death that year. Orchestra U.S.A.'s stripped-down sextet turns Brecht-Weill theatre music into cool, brooding jazz chamber pieces.

Session personnel

Eric Dolphy — alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Jerome Richardson — alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Richard Davis — bass
Thad Jones — cornet
Connie Kay — drums
Jimmy Raney — guitar
John Lewis — piano
Nick Travis — trumpet
Mike Zwerin — trumpet [bass]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 15 pressings on file.

1965	RCA Victor · LSP 3498 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1965	RCA Victor · LPM-3498 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1965	RCA Victor · LSP-3498 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1965	RCA Victor · LSP-3498 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	RCA Victor · 430.730 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Black labels
1966	RCA Victor · LPM 3498 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1973	RCA · RGP-1060 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue
1973	RCA · RGP-1060 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Green label
1974	RCA · RGP-1060 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1979	RCA · PG-125 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1981	RCA — STEREO
1998	BMG · 74321591622 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2001	Koch Jazz · KOC-CD-8588 — CD, Album, Reissue
2016	Sony Music · 88985308602 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered