''Life Is a Many Splendored Gig'' is an album by the

Herb Pomeroy Irving Herbert Pomeroy III (April 15, 1930 – August 11, 2007) was an American jazz trumpeter, teacher, and the founder of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble. Early life Pomeroy was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. He began playing ...

Orchestra.

Recording and music

The album was recorded in New York in June 1957. The arrangements were written by various band members.

Release

The album was released by

Roulette Records Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed direc ...

in 1957 or early 1958. It was issued on CD by

Fresh Sound Records Fresh Sound, or Fresh Sound New Talent, is a jazz record label established in Barcelona, Spain, by Jordi Pujol. The label was initially founded as a reissue label. The catalog includes work by musicians both major and minor that was recorded be ...

more than four decades later.

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by ...

'' commented that "for admirers of sophisticated big-band music it's an unexpected delight".

Track listing

#"Blue Grass" #"Wolafunt's Lament" #"Jack Sprat" #"Aluminum Baby" #"It's Sandman" #"Our Delight" #"Theme for Terry" #"No One Will Room with Me" #"Feather Merchant" #"Big Man" #"Less Talk"

Personnel

*Herb Pomeroy – trumpet *Lennie Johnson – trumpet * Augie Ferretti – trumpet *Everett Longstreth – trumpet *

Joe Gordon Joseph Lowell Gordon (February 18, 1915 – April 14, 1978), nicknamed "Flash" in reference to the comic-book character ''Flash Gordon'', was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yank ...

– trumpet *Joe Ciavardone – trombone *Bill Legan – trombone *Gene DiStasio – trombone *Deane Haskins – baritone sax *Varty Haroutunian – tenor sax *

Jaki Byard John Arthur "Jaki" Byard (; June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among several other instruments. He was known for hi ...

– tenor sax *

Zoot Sims John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone. He first gained attention in the "Four Brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's big ...

(uncredited) – tenor saxVacca, Richard (February 2, 2014
"January 1958: Life Is a Many Splendored Gig for the Pomeroy Band"
Troy Street Publishing. *Dave Chapman – alto sax *

Boots Mussulli Henry "Boots" Mussulli (November 18, 1915 in Milford, Massachusetts – September 23, 1967 in Norfolk, Massachusetts) was an Italian-American jazz saxophonist, based chiefly out of Boston. According to the Social Security files, he was born i ...

– alto sax *

Ray Santisi Ray Santisi (1 February 1933 – 28 October 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, recording artist and educator. Santisi has played as a featured soloist with Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Mel Torme, Irene Kral, He ...

– piano *John Neves – bass *Jimmy Zitano – drums

References

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