Pop + Jazz = Swing

Pop + Jazz = Swing is an album arranged and conducted by Benny Golson featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Audio Fidelity label.^[2] Record producer Tom Wilson was involved in the sessions and wrote the album's liner notes.^[3] The album utilised stereophonic sound to present a jazz group on the right channel and an 11-piece pop orchestra playing the same song or a related tune on the left channel which could be separated or mixed by the listener.^[4] The related jazz tunes are contrafacts or borrowed chord progressions where new melodies are overlaid on an existing harmonic structure.

Pop + Jazz = Swing
Studio album by Benny Golson
Released	1962
Recorded	April 1962 New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:41
Label	Audio Fidelity AFLP 1978
Producer	Tom Wilson
Benny Golson chronology
Here and Now (1962) Pop + Jazz = Swing (1962) Another Git Together (1962)
Just Jazz! Cover

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The jazz tunes were later released as Just Jazz! and both albums were combined on a CD reissue on the Jazz Beat label. The recording of "Walkin'" is the last released recording of the famed rhythm section of Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb.^[5]

Track listing

1. Left Channel: "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson) / Right Channel: "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten) – 4:14
2. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 4:16
3. Left Channel: "Whispering" (John Schoenberger, Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose) / Right Channel: "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:14
4. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 4:39
5. Left Channel: "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) / Right Channel: "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) – 2:44
6. Left Channel: "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) / Right Channel: "Quicksilver" (Horace Silver) – 3:52
7. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:20
8. Left Channel: "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) / Right Channel: "Ornithology" (Charlie Parker) – 3:43
9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:00
10. Left Channel: "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) / Right Channel: "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:39

Personnel

• Benny Golson – arranger, conductor
• Bill Evans – piano
• Ron Carter (tracks 1–9), Paul Chambers (track 10) – bass
• Charlie Persip (tracks 1–9), Jimmy Cobb (track 10) – drums

Jazz Band – Right Channel

• Freddie Hubbard (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Bill Hardman (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) – trumpet
• Curtis Fuller (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 10), Grachan Moncur III (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 9) – trombone
• Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9)
• Wayne Shorter (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) – tenor saxophone

Pop Orchestra – Left Channel

• Ray Alonge, Bob Northern – French horn
• Jerome Richardson – flute
• Danny Bank – flute, baritone saxophone
• Lou Cranston – tenor saxophone
• Julius Held, Harry Lookofsky, George Ockner, Gene Orloff – violin
• Harold Goletta – viola
• Charles McCracken – cello