All the Cats Join In
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| All the Cats Join In | ||||
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| Released | 1956 | |||
| Recorded | December 16, 1953, March 15, 1955 and March 5, 1956 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 882 | |||
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All the Cats Join In is a song written by Ray Gilbert, Eddie Sauter and Alec Wilder, and first recorded by Benny Goodman. It later was a track on an LP with the same title by trumpeter Buck Clayton.
It is the last of five jam session albums released by Clayton (and produced by George Avakian at Columbia Studios) between 1954 and 1956 that Dennis Davis of Hi-Fi+ magazine as Clayton's "greatest recorded legacy".[1]
Curiously, Goodman recorded this song three times. The first-released version, released after the ASCAP boycott of 1944–1948, followed a version which was only put out later.[2]
The third recording was for a segment of the 1946 Walt Disney film Make Mine Music.[3]
Clayton record
The record album was subtitled 25 Star Jazzmen in a Buck Clayton Jam Session. It was recorded between 1953 and 1956 and released by Columbia.[4][5]
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| Allmusic |   [6] |
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Everyone plays at least up to their usual high level and the riffing behind some of the solos really generates a lot of excitement".[6]