Cecil Young Progressive Quartet – Volume 2

Posted by on July 14, 2008

Crazy beatnik jazz from the 50s, heavy on the scat, bongos & humour. They have another EP before this one but I don’t know of anything else this group did apart from these two EPs on King. I suspect they both featured smilarly excellent cover art & the longer tracks (“Who Parked The Car” & “Sweet Georgia Brown”) on this EP are actually pretty good. Recorded live so there’s a bit of background ambiance too.

“Who Parked The Car”
[audio:Cecil_Young_Who_Parked_The_Car.mp3]

“Sweet Georgia Brown”
[audio:Cecil_Young_Sweet_Georgia_Brown.mp3]

“Too Marvelous For Words”
[audio:Cecil_Young_Too_Marvelous_For_Words.mp3]

4 Comments

  • Ivan says:
    July 14, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Thanks Kris!

  • Tim B. says:
    July 14, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Thanks for turning me on to this. Great stuff!

  • bernie helinski says:
    December 31, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    Enjoyed muchly. I have their Race Horse and Rushin’on Home blasts and occasionally still listen to these ! Thanks

  • Ariane says:
    June 16, 2013 at 7:07 pm

    Thank you! I’m an ex-pat Brit, didn’t hear Cecil Yount Quartet till just recently on a friend’s cassette. Definately Dizzy’s tribe.
    Found your site looking them up. Excellent.
    A.
    Great Barrington MA – the hub of the Berkshires

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