Urbie Green: Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926 – December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He played on over 250 recordings and released more than twenty albums as a soloist. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.

Early years:
Green was born in Mobile, Alabama. He was taught the piano as a child by his mother. He learned jazz and popular tunes from the beginning. He started to play trombone, which both older brothers played, when he was about 12. He listened to trombonists Tommy Dorsey, J. C. Higginbotham, Jack Jenney, Jack Teagarden, and Trummy Young, but said he was more influenced by the styles of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His style was also influenced by the vocals of Perry Como and Louis Armstrong. He attended Auburn High School, where he was a member of The Auburn Knights Orchestra.

Career:
When Green was fifteen years old, his father died, and he began his music career, first with Tommy Reynolds in California, then with Bob Strong, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. In California, he finished high school at the Hollywood Professional School in Los Angeles. In 1947, he joined Gene Krupa's band. Three years later, he and his brother Jack became members of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd.

In 1953, he moved to New York City, and a year later was voted New Star trombonist in the International Critics Poll of Down Beat magazine. During the 1950s and 1960s he toured with Benny Goodman and led the Tommy Dorsey orchestra after Dorsey's death in 1956. He worked with record producer Enoch Light on the albums The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green and 21 Trombones. Green spent his later life with his second wife Kathy, a jazz singer, at their home in the Pocono Mountains region of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

In 1995, Green was elected to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He continued playing live at the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts Festival every September into the last years of his life.


All About Urbie Green
1-1Sleep
1-2Soft Winds
1-3With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair
1-4I Ain't Got Nobody
1-5Stella By Starlight
1-6Little John
1-7Home, Craddle Of Happiness
1-8Cherokee
1-9'Round Midnight
1-10Springsville
1-11Plain Bill From Bluesville
Let's Face the Music and Dance
1-12Please
1-13The Moon Is Low
1-14Baby Won't You Please Come Home
1-15It Must Be True
1-16Show Me Rge Way To Go Home
1-17Dinner For One Please James
1-18When You're Smiling
1-19You're My Everything
1-20Let's Face The Music And Dance
1-21Love Walked In
1-22I Won't Dance
1-23That Old Gang Of Miner
Jimmy McHugh in Hi-Fi
2-1Louella
2-2Cuban Love Song
2-3Medley Of McHugh's Hits 1
2-4Rock-A-Bye Blue Bird
2-5I Feel A Song Coming out
2-6I Found Myself A Guy
2-7Diga Diga Do
2-8I Must Have That Man
2-9Medley Of McHugh's Hits 2
2-10Goodbye Blues
The Message
2-11The Message
2-12I'm Confessin'
2-13But Not For Me
2-14Good Night My Love
2-15One O'Clock Jump
2-16I'm Through With Love
2-17Whirlaway
2-18I'm In A Dancing Mood
2-19Early Autumn
Ⓟ&Ⓒ 2007 Lone Hill Jazz
This release contains all of the '50s recordings by the fabulous Urbie Green Big Band. It includes the complete original LP's "All About Urbie Green", "Let's Face The Music And Dance", "Jimmy McHugh In HI-Fi" & "The Message". The last two albums appear here for the first time on CD.

Recorded:
- Tracks 1-1 to 1-11: New York, July-August 1956
- Tracks 1-12 to 1-23: New York, December 20-23, 1957
- Tracks 2-1 to 2-10: New York, May 5-12, 1958
- Tracks 2-11 to 2-19: New York, February 2-3, 1959
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  • Depósito Legal: AND. 527-2007