Maini,Joe Small Group Recordings CD

2008 four CD set from the highly talented alto saxophonist and friend and disciple of Charlie Parker. The collection compiles most of Maini's small group recordings recorded in L.A. and New York between 1956 and 1962. The Jane Fielding album and the Joe Maini Sextet session, as well as a Shorty Rogers TV Broadcast appear here for the first time ever on CD. Features his recordings with Shelly Manne, Jack Sheldon, Red Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Knepper and others. Maini died at the age of 34, the victim of a game of Russian roulette, in 1964. 64 tracks. Lonehill Jazz.

1. Grasshopper 2. Summer Night 3. Spring Is Here 4. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me 5. Jam for Your Bread 6. Where or When 7. Section Blues 8. Duff 9. Ornithology 10. Will You Still Be Mine 11. East Coast Outpost 12. You Go to My Head 13. Minor Incident 14. Dollar Day 15. Easy Terms 16. It's Only Paper Moon 17. Leroy's Blues 18. Contour 19. Talkin' Walkin' 20. In the Prescribed Manner 21. Prelude to a Kiss 22. Wee Dot 23. Hidden Channel 24. Deadline 25. I'm Old Fashioned 26. Minor Blues (Blues in a Cardbox) 27. Walkin' Talkin' 28. Embers Glow 29. Our Waltz 30. Key Largo 31. Along with Me 32. In Love in Vain 33. Round Midnight 34. Too Marvelous for Words 35. Make the Men Love Me 36. Right Boy for Me 37. All Dressed Up Tonight and No Place to Go 38. Latter Day Saint 39. Cunningbird 40. Jumpin' Blues (Jump the Blues Away) 41. Masher 42. Latter Day Saint 43. Latter Day Saint 44. Latter Day Saint 45. Masher 46. I'll Remember April 47. Indian Summer 48. Theme 49. Long and Far Away 50. Night in Tunisia 51. Broadway 52. Concertino Da Camera (Blues and Vanilla) 53. Shish Ka Bob 54. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 55. Martian Bossa Nova 56. I'm Gonna Go Fishin' 57. Time Was 58. Allen's Alley (Wee) 59. Blooz 60. Blooz 61. Sweet Georgia Brown 62. Sweet Georgia Brown 63. Auld Lang Syne