The entire private jazz album Selling Boats & All That Jazz! (1960)
Composed and recorded as a soundtrack for an the industrial film, \"Glasspar Makes Your 1960 Sales Picture\" by the Glasspar Company, a boat manufacture, in 1960. It's assumed that attendees of the screening of the film and/or employees of Glasspar received this album as a promotional gift.
\"Skipper: Buddy Colllette/the Crew, Red Callender, Gerald Wilson, Earl Palmer
Produced by the Glasspar Company, from the soundtrack of their film, \"Glasspar Makes Your 1960 Sales Picture.\" tunes published by Marcel Publishing Co., BMI
Selling boats is a subject very dear to our hearts. Yours, too, we know. And when we made our 1960 sales film, we felt you might like something to take home with you to help you remember it from time to time during the year. It's as simple as that. We hope this music, heard once again in the comfort of your living room, might help you recall with pleasure some of the vivid color and excitement of the water wonderwolds that Glasspar explored this year to make pictures to advertise their line of boats.
Lush settings like these deserved a rich accompaniment. So what better than cool, modern jazz...music just as refreshing. Just as relaxed and breezy as boating itself. The music isn't all that far out stuff though. You'll recognize a tune or two...but most of it was written specially to suit the setting.
The musicians are all the tops. Buddy Collette, the composer, arranger and leader of the group, is well known in jazz circles. He plays all of the saxes, flute, and clarinet, and he's played them all with the best men in the business. Bass and tuba were played by Red Callender, and it would be easy to to who Red hasn't recorded with than try to list his credits here. Trumpeter Gerald Wilson has fronted his own two bands from time to time and has also recorded extensively. And all that tasty drumming was done by Earl Palmer. Happy circumstance brought all four of these fellows in town at the same time, and we were very pleased to get them together for this dare. We hope you like them, too. \"
