Mumbles (album)

Mumbles
Mumbles
Studio album by Clark Terry
Released	1966
Recorded	1966 in New York
Genre	Jazz
Label	Mainstream; 56066/S6066; Fontana Records
Producer	Bob Shad
Clark Terry chronology

Mumbles (also reissued as Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi!) is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and originally released on the Mainstream label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Allmusic	^[4]

Allmusic's Ken Dryden awarded the album 2½ stars and states "Clark Terry launched his "Mumbles" routine (where he delivered semi-coherent vocals interspersed with scat) with two numbers on a studio date for Verve led by Oscar Peterson; this Mainstream LP finds him expanding the concept to album length, with mixed success. Unfortunately, the effort becomes a little too commercial, not only de-emphasizing the jazz element to focus on the vocals, but adding lackluster songs".^[3] The retitled rerelease was awarded 4 stars by Richard S. Ginell who commented "As per the weird title, the music within this LP is among the happiest and most lighthearted (perhaps even occasionally light-headed) of Clark Terry's long, happy career".^[4]

Track listing[]

"The Mumbler Strikes Again" (Clark Terry) - 3:07
"Big Spender" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) - 2:29
"Rum and Mumbles" (Terry, Joe Cain) - 2:50
"The Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:19
"Mumbles" (Terry) - 2:42
"Grand Dad's Blues" (Terry) - 3:52
"The Cat from Cadiz" (Cain) - 4:35
"Never" (Terry) - 3:37
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) - 2:34
"Night Song" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) - 2:40
"El Blues Latino" (Cain) - 3:07

Personnel[]

Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn, vocal
Jerome Richardson - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, sopranino saxophone, flute, piccolo
Frank Anderson - piano, organ
Vinnie Bell, Eric Gale - guitar
Richard Davis, George Duvivier - bass
Grady Tate - drums
Phil Kraus - percussion
Willie Bobo - congas
José Mangual - bongos
Joe Cain - arranger

References[]

^ Edwards, D., Callahan, Eyries, P., Watts, R. & Neely, T. Discography of the Mainstream Label (Preview), accessed November 11, 2014
^ Lord, T., Clark Terry discography, accessed November 11, 2014
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Dryden K., Mumbles: Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2014
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Ginell, R. S., Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi!: Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2014

[1] Edwards, D., Callahan, Eyries, P., Watts, R. & Neely, T. Discography of the Mainstream Label (Preview), accessed November 11, 2014

[2] Lord, T., Clark Terry discography, accessed November 11, 2014

[Allmusic-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Dryden K., Mumbles: Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2014

[Allmusic2-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Ginell, R. S., Angyumaluma Bongliddleany Nannyany Awhan Yi!: Allmusic Review accessed November 11, 2014

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Clark Terry (1955) Serenade to a Bus Seat (1957) Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (1957) Duke with a Difference (1957) In Orbit (1958) Top and Bottom Brass (1959) Tate-a-Tate (and Buddy Tate, 1960) Color Changes (1960) Everything's Mellow (1961) Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American (1962) Back in Bean's Bag (and Coleman Hawkins, 1962) 3 in Jazz (split album with Gary Burton & Sonny Rollins, 1963) Oscar Peterson Trio + One (1964) The Happy Horns of Clark Terry (1964) Tonight (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1964) The Power of Positive Swinging (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1965) Gingerbread Men (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1966) Mumbles (1966) Soul Duo (and Shirley Scott, 1966) Spanish Rice (and Chico O'Farrill, 1966) It's What's Happenin' (1967) Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry (1975) Ain't Misbehavin' (1979) Mother ! Mother ! (1979) Memories of Duke (1980)
With Duke Ellington	Ellington Uptown (1952) Premiered by Ellington (1953) Ellington '55 (1953–54) Dance to the Duke! (1953–54) Ellington Showcase (1953–55) A Drum Is a Woman (1956) Blue Rose (1956) Ellington at Newport (1956) Such Sweet Thunder (1957) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1957) All Star Road Band (1957) Ellington Indigos (1957) Black, Brown and Beige (1958) Blues in Orbit (1958–59) Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque (1958) The Cosmic Scene (1958) Festival Session (1959) The Ellington Suites (1959) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (1967)
With Johnny Hodges	Creamy (1954) Ellingtonia '56 (1956) Duke's in Bed (1956) The Big Sound (1957) Big Bags (with Milt Jackson, 1962) For Someone I Love (with Milt Jackson, 1963) Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965)
With Quincy Jones	The Birth of a Band! (1959) I Dig Dancers (1960) The Quintessence (1961) Big Band Bossa Nova (1962) Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits (1962–63) Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964) Quincy Plays for Pussycats (1959–65) The Hot Rock (1972)
With Herbie Mann	Our Mann Flute (1960–66) Latin Fever (1962–64) My Kinda Groove (1964) The Beat Goes On (1964–67) The Herbie Mann String Album (1964–67)
With Oliver Nelson	Impressions of Phaedra (1962) Full Nelson (1962–63) Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle (1966) Happenings (with Hank Jones, 1966) Encyclopedia of Jazz (1965–66) The Sound of Feeling (1966–67) The Spirit of '67 (with Pee Wee Russell, 1967)
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