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CAMDEN STEREO RECORDS may be played on any modern phonograph with a

lightweight tone arm. You will hear excellent sound reproduction on a

mono player and full stereo sound on a stereo player.

Side 1

Memphis Underground (ASCAP 2:52)

If Love Is Good to Me (ascapP 2:30)

(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay (8M1 2:46)

Watch What Happens (M1 3:43)

I’m Walkin’ to Memphis (ascap 2:18)

Side 2

Eleanor Rigby (M1 3:20)

Ballad of Easy Rider (8M1 2:54)

I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City (61 2:40)

Double Date (ascaP 2:30)

Recorded in RCA’s Studio C, New York City

Recording Engineer: Don Miller

Stereo CAS-2394

MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND Living Jazz

Arranged and Conducted by Phil Bodner Produced by Ethel Gabriel

Living Jazz Play Today’s Hits

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Since its early formative years in New Orleans, jazz has

been imbued with an astounding variety of outside influ-

ences, absorbing and utilizing features of other musical

styles in order to enrich and broaden its own develop-

ment. Yet, it has always managed to retain its own

unique identity, its essence unsubmerged by appear-

ances. Whatever else jazz may seem to be, it is always

jazz, always the music of now.

Rock and bossa nova are two of the more recent contribu-

tors to the growth and development of that protean or-

ganism we call jazz. Here is particularly fertile ground

for the jazzman: the rhythmic, electric excitement of

rock and the gentle, lyrical understatement of bossa

nova. In the right hands this combination of ingredients

promises some very groovy music indeed.

Which brings us to the present album. Phil Bodner, along

with a superbly gifted group of instrumentalists, has

come up with an outstanding example of jazz a la mode.

The recipe calls for a brimming bagful of choice, Grade

A, now hits liberally seasoned with the sounds of rock,

a dash of bossa nova and served with a great heaping of

jazz soul. |

Included in this collection of tunes are such tasty morsels

as Lennon-McCartney’s Eleanor Rigby, Otis Redding’s

(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay, Herbie Mann’s Memphis

Underground and Nilsson’s I Guess the Lord Must Be in

New York City. Phil Bodner’s arrangements are as up-

to-the-minute as the material itself, and Living Jazz plays

them with its customary sound and spirit.

All in all, MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND stands as living proof

of the fact that although the face of jazz may change the

groove goes on and on.

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