Liner-notes:
Guitar In Hi-Fi / Metronome MLP 15007 (1960)
The
guitar is as indigenous to our native popular music as apple pie to an American dinner.
Ever since nineteenth century folk melodies were strummed on primitive stringed boxes,
long before the dawn of jazz and of Tin Pan Alley, the use of this instrument in at least
three roles-as a solo voice, as an accompaniment for singers, and as a component of the
rhythm section-has been of primary importance.
During
the past two decades the manner in which the guitar has been employed has been
considerably broadened by the use of electronic devices. Special steel guitar effects
achieved on noveity instruments by Alvino Rey, Floyd Smith and others, and single-string
jazz solo ideas as interpreted on amplified guitars by the late Charlie Christian and his
successors, showed some of the new paths the plectrist could follow.
The
invention of magnetic tape added yet another dimension. By recording at vorious speeds,
dubbing one track on top of another and generally taking advantage of all the
opportunities for trick techniques offorded by the combination of the electric guitar and
the tape recorder, Les Paul and others were able to produce strikingly unusual tone colors
and seemingly impossible technical executions.
Jørgen
lngmann's advent on the American record scene is but one indication of the degree to which
these fresh ideas have spread abroad. lngmann, still a little short of his thirtieth
birthday, has been heard during most of the past
decade with a combo under the direction of the noted Danish violinist Svend Asmussen. A
native of Copenhagen, Denmark, lngmann also happens to be as handy a man with the plugs and volts as he is with sharps and
flats; hence the present highly entertaining album.
lngmann
uses the so-called multiple recording technique, adding extra parts to his solos by
re-recording himself several times on the same tape - some of his performances have
included as many as ten different parts, all played
by lngmann. He has such an amazing knowledge of electronics and sound engineering that he
has set up his own private studio in which all his special-effect recordings are made.
lngmann's popularity is not in the least hurt by the fact that he happens to have a
masculine, movie-star brand of good looks. At last reports he was touring the world in a
group aboard a Swedish luxury liner and planning to return home to Scandinavia for some
more of his unique recording sessions.
The
twelve performances in this set are all guitar solos from start to finish; that monotony
never sets in is a tribute both to Ingmann's musical taste and to his mechanical
ingenuity.
DISCOGRAPHY
Metronome (Denmark)
singles
B1315 Little Serenade (Piccolissimo Serenata) / Trudie (1958)
B1343 Side Saddle / Dalla Strada Alle Stelle (1958)
B1371 Jørgen's Boogie / Pardon Me Pretty Baby (1959)
B1404 Frenesi / Gingando (1960)
B1445 Apache / Echo Boogie (1960)
B1458 Pepe / Amorada (1961)
B1474 Wheels / Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (1961)
B1477 Milord / Oceans Of Love (1961)
B1489 Violetta / Sweet Talk (1961)
B1500 Valencia / Donauwellen (1962)
B1523 Africa /Johnny's Tune (1962)
B1545 Camilla (The Fourth Man Theme) / Batacuda (1963)
B1561 Bonanza / Harry Lime Theme (Third Man Theme) (1963)
B1575 Drina-March / Ukraine (The Missing Link) (1963)
B1592 Desert March / Tovarisch (1964)
B1613 Tokyo Melody / La Mer (1964)
B1614 Olé, O Cangaceiro (The Bandit) / Sahara (Enta Amry) (1964)
B1628 Zorba / Marie (1965)
B1698 La La La / Frankie And Johnny (1968)
B1734 El Condor Pasa / No Time Like Now, My Love (1970)
EP's
MEP0083 Alexander's Ragtime Band / That's A Plenty / Royal Garden Blues / Muskrat Ramble
MEP0139 Jørgen's Boogie / Mean To Me / Blue Room / Pardon Me Pretty Baby (1959)
MEP1020 Old Moon / Moonlight Cocktail / Twilight Time / Blue Moon (1959)
MEP1082 Some Of These Days / Darktown Strutter's Ball / Hello Joe / Bye Bye Blues
MEP1162 I Can't Believe / I May Be Wrong / Margie / Jeepers Creepers (1960)
MEP1163 Frenesi / Gingando / Quizas Quizas Quizas / Camondango (1960)
MEP1164 Little Old Lady / Stardust / Two Sleepy People / Rocking Chair (1960)
MEP1708 Trudie / My Isle Of Golden Dreams / Little Serenade / Serenade Of The Mandolins
(1960)
MEP1790 Pepe / Amorada / Apache / Echo Boogie (1961)
MEP1791 Cherokee / High Noon / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie / Anna (1961)
MEP1799 Violetta / Sweet Talk / Bonanza / Harry Lime Theme (1962)
MEP1802 Valencia / Oceans Of Love / Danauwellen Twist / Oh! (1962)
MEP1804 Africa / Johnny's Tune / Toy Ballons / Cantina (1962)
MEP1808 Dansevise (V Grethe) / Forevigt Forbi (V Grethe) / Camilla / Batacuda (1963)
MEP1815 Drina March / Side Saddle / Monsieur Dupont / Angelina (1963)
MEP1817 Tokyo Melody / La Mer / Tovarisch / Misty (1964)
ATCO (USA + Canada)
singles
6184 Apache / Echo Boogie (1960)
6195 Anna / Cherokee (1961)
6216 Violetta / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (1961)
6235 Africa / Johnny's Tune (1962)
6265 I Loved You (Dansevise) / My Little Boy (1963)
6277 Drina / Fourth Man Theme (1963)
6305 Tovarisch / Desert March (1964)
6370 Gorilla / Zorba The Greek (1965)
6403 Corfu / Seven Roses (1966)
VISTA (Canada)
singles
331 Trudie / Ridin' West (with Camarata Orchestra) (1958)
PARROT (Canada)
singles
45006 Tokyo Melody / Sunrise Serenade (1964)
LP's (International)
METRONOME MLP 15xxx (DK) Swinging Guitars (1959)
Moonlight Cocktail / Twilight Time / Blue Moon / Old Moon / Jørgen's Boogie / Mean To Me
/ Blue Room / Pardon Me Pretty Baby / Hello Joe / Bye Bye Blues / Some Of These Days /
Darktown Strutter's Ball
+++ also issued as Swinging Guitars Mercury 20200 (US) 1959
METRONOME MLP 15007 (DK)
Guitar In Hi-Fi (1960)
Margie / I May Be Wrong / Frenesi / I Can't Believe / Quizas Quizas Quizas / Rocking Char
/ Jeepers Creepers / Stardust / Camondango / Little Old Lady / Two Sleepy People /
Gingando
+++ also issued as Swing Softly Mercury 20292 (US) 1960
+++ also issued as 10" LP PYE (UK) 1960
ATCO 33-130 (US)
Apache (1961)
Apache / Oh! / Little Serenade / Pepe / Serenade of the Mandolins / Echo Boogie // Amorada
/ Anna / The March of the Siamese Children / Dalla Strada Alle Stelle / Side Saddle / My
Isle of Golden Dreams
METRONOME MLP 15071 (DK) Jörgen
Ingmann (1961)
Pepe / High Noon / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie / March Of The Siamese Children / My Isle Of
Golden Dreams / Anna / Cherokee / Oh! / Twilight Time / Bonanza / Serenade Of The
Mandolins / Amorada
ATCO 33-139 (US) The Many
Guitars of Jorgen Ingmann (1962)
Bonanza /Pinetop's Boogie Woogie / High Noon / Cherokee / Sweet Talk / Third Man Theme //
Wheels / Jalousie / Oceans of Love /Milord / Violetta / Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
METRONOME MLP 15168 (DK) Many
Guitars Of Jørgen Ingmann (1965)
Marie / Alone / Sleepy Time Girl / Misty / La Mer / Tovarisch / Sunrise Serenade / Blauer
Himmel / Serpentina / In The Shadows / Litlle You've Had A Busy Day / The Jazz Me Blues
METRONOME HLP 10.062 (D) High
Noon (1965)
Pepe / High Noon / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie / March Of The Siamese Children / My Isle Of
Golden Dreams / Anna / Cherokee / Oh! / Twilight Time / Bonanza / Serenade Of The
Mandolins / Amorada
METRONONE HLP 10227 (D) Apache
(1965) (reissue of ATCO 33-130 1961)
Apache / Oh! / Little Serenade / Pepe / Serenade Of The Mandolins / Echo Boogie / Amorada
/ Anna / March Of The Siamese Children / Dalla Strada Alle Stelle / Side Saddle / My Isle
Of Golden Dreams
METRONOME MLP 15345 (DK) Boink
El Condor Pasa / Boink / Regntanga Skyar / Opus Five / Liza / Wishing & Hopin'
/ The Sea Is My Soul / It Might As Well Be Spring / Summer Wind / This Guy's In
Love With You / How Can I Be Sure
+++ also issued as El Condor Pasa UA 6785 (US)
GEMINI GMX5001 (UK) My
Sound Of Music (1969)
Sound Of Music / Django / This Is My song / The Bible / Love In The Open Air / Strangers
In The Night / A Man and A Woman / Who's Afraid / Arabesque / Georgy Girl / Khartoum /
Lara's Theme
+++ also issued as Movie Themes UA 15549 (US)
METRONOME BP 7729 (DK) Great
Hits From Great Days (1972)
Apache / Pepe / Bonanza / Tovarisch / Toy Ballon / Amorada / Drina March / Zorba / High
Noon / La Mer / Violetta / El Condor Pasa
OLYMPO L-198 (ES) Grandes
Exitos De Jörgen Ingmann (1974)
Pepe / Frenesi / Apache ('72 cut) / Quizas Quizas Quizas / Anna / Bonanza / Little
Serenade (Piccolissima Serenata) / High Noon / Dalla Strada Alle Stelle / Cherokee / Two
Sleepy People / Twilight Time
METRONOME MLP 15605 (DK) Jørgen
Ingmann And His Guitar (1977)
La Balanga / Classical Touch / The Olsen Gang / I'm Just A Girl / Trumpet Polka / Verde /
Vive America / Nostalgia / Money Money Money / Marguerite / Brazilian Mood / If We Only
Had Time
POLYDOR 2380054 Summer Of
Love (1977)
Musical box / Loneliness / If I Had To Do It All Over Again / Make It With You / Isn't She
Lovely / New York, New York / Summer Of Love / Gonna Love You More / Le Reve / The Shuffle
/ Gone Are The Days / Georgia Camp Meeting
METRONOME HLP 10.301 (DK) På
Genhör Med Jørgen Ingmann (198x)
Drina March / Manhattan Spiritual / Blå Roser (Glutrote Rosen) / Spanish Guard / Camilla
/ Røde Roser Fra Santa Monica (Eine Rose Aus Santa Monica) / This Is My Song / This Guy's
In Love With You / Zorba / Wheels / Korfu / Django / Trudie / La La La / Trumpet Polka /
Verde
METRONOME HLP 10.309 (DK) På
Genhör Med Jørgen Ingmann - vol.2 (198x)
Apache / Stardust / Violetta / Toy Ballon / Frenesi / Olsen-Banden / La Mer / Bonanza /
Boink / Echo Boogie / High Noon / Money Money Money
LINKS
Jørgen Ingmann - dansk
guitarist i verdensklasse
Discography
(complete PDF) by Laif Møller Lauridsen
pmouse, June 2002 (updated 09-12-2003)
