Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate
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Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate is an album by Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, the re-formed vocal group featuring Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks
Jon Hendricks
Jon Hendricks is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists...

 with Yolande Bavan
Yolande Bavan
Yolande Bavan is a singer and actress. Born in Ceylon , she toured Australia and Asia as a performer with Graeme Bell's band early in her career. She is best known for replacing Annie Ross in the legendary vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross after Ross was forced to leave the group due to poor...

 after Annie Ross
Annie Ross
Annie Ross is an English jazz singer, and actress, best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.-Early years:...

 left the group in 1962. The album was recorded live at the Village Gate, NYC, December 20 & 21, 1963.

Side One

  1. "Jumpin' At the Woodside" - 4:08
  2. "Meetin' Time" - 4:22
  3. "Days of Wine and Roses" - 3:06
  4. "Rusty Dusty Blues" - 3:46
  5. "Three Blind Mice" - 3:41

Side Two

  1. "Nothin' for Nothin'" - 3:31
  2. "With 'er 'ead Tucked Underneath'er Arm" - 3:17
  3. "It's Sand Man" - 2:57
  4. "I Wonder What's Become of Sally" - 4:08
  5. "Stops and Goes Blues" - 3:20

Personnel

  • Dave Lambert  – Vocals
  • Jon Hendricks
    Jon Hendricks
    Jon Hendricks is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists...

      – Vocals
  • Yolande Bavan
    Yolande Bavan
    Yolande Bavan is a singer and actress. Born in Ceylon , she toured Australia and Asia as a performer with Graeme Bell's band early in her career. She is best known for replacing Annie Ross in the legendary vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross after Ross was forced to leave the group due to poor...

      – Vocals

  • Gildo Mahones
    Gildo Mahones
    Gildo Mahones is an American jazz pianist.Early in his career, Mahones played with Joe Morris and Milt Jackson. He served in the Army during the Korean War and then played with Lester Young from 1953 to 1956. Later in the 1950s he toured with the Jazz Modes , Sonny Stitt, and Benny Green...

      – Piano
  • George Tucker
    George Tucker (musician)
    George Andrew Tucker was an American jazz double-bassist.Tucker attended the New York Conservatory of Modern Music, studying bass in the late 1940s. Early in his career he played with Earl Bostic, John Coltrane, and Jackie McLean...

      – Bass
  • Jimmie Smith
    Jimmie Smith
    James Howard "Jimmie" Smith is an American jazz drummer.Smith studied at the Al Germansky School for Drummers in his home town of Newark, New Jersey from 1951–54, then attended the Juilliard School in 1959-60. He began his professional career in New York around this time...

      – Drums
  • Thad Jones
    Thad Jones
    Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...

     - Cornet, flugelhorn
  • Booker Ervin
    Booker Ervin
    Booker Telleferro Ervin II was an American tenor saxophone player. He was perhaps best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus....

    - tenor sax


Recorded live at the Village Gate, NYC, December 20 & 21, 1963.
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