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Mosaic Select 9: Bob Brookmeyer

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: DISC ONE 1. Liberty Belle (A1) 2:46 (Bob Brookmeyer) 2. Have You Met Miss Jones (A1) 3:32 (R. Rodgers-L. Hart) 3. Isn't It Romantic (A2) 2:35 (R. Rodgers-L. Hart) 4. Traditional Blues (A1) 2:34 (traditional) 5. Doe Eyes (A2) 3:17 (Red Mitchell) 6. Red Devil (A2) 3:18 (Red Mitchell) 7. Body And Soul (A2) 3:18 (Green-Heyman-Sour) 8. Last Chance (A2) 2:47 (Bob Brookmeyer) 9. Arrowhead (C) 6:58 (Jim Hall) 10. Street Swingers (C) 6:19 (Bob Brookmeyer) 11. Hot Buttered Noodling (C) 6:02 (Jimmy Raney) 12. Musicale Du Jour (C) 8:48 (Bob Brookmeyer) 13. Raney Day (C) 5:24 (Jim Hall) 14. Jupiter (C) 5:04 (Jimmy Raney) DISC TWO 1. Louisiana (B1) 5:27 (Johnson-Schafer-Razaf) 2. Santa Claus Blues (B1) 5:43 (G. Kahn-C. Straight) 3. Truckin' (B2) 7:27 (R. Bloom-T. Koehler) 4. Some Sweet Day (B1) 4:46 (Jackson-Rose-Olman) 5. Sweet Like This (B1) 4:03 (K. Oliver-D. Nelson) 6. Jada (B1) 3:48 (Bob Carlton) 7. Don't Be That Way (B1) 4:59 (Sampson-Goodman-Parish) 8. Honeysuckle Rose (B2) 6:05 (F. Waller-A. Razaf) 9. Brook's Blues (B2) 4:14 (Bob Brookmeyer) 10. Slow Freight (B2) 8:49 (Bob Brookmeyer) 11. The Sheik Of Araby (B1) 5:01 (Snyder-Wheeler-Smith) DISC THREE 1. Jumpin' At The Woodside (D) 7:59 (Count Basie) 2. A Blues (What's On Your Mind) (D) 5:05 (Clarence Henry Miller) 3. Blue And Sentimental (D) 6:53 (Basie-Livingston-David) 4. Doggin' Around (D) 8:39 (E. Battle-H. Evans) 5. Moten Swing (D) 10:12 (B. Noten-B. Moten) 6. Trav'lin' Light (D) 3:32 (Mundy-Young-Mercer) 7. Stretching Out (E) 6:07 (Bob Brookmeyer) 8. Now Will You Be Good (E) 5:27 (Pease-Terker-Jentes) 9. Pennies From Heaven (E) 6:15 (A. Johnston-J. Burke) 10. King Porter Stomp (E) 4:38 (Morton-Burke-Robin) 11. Ain't Misbehavin' (E) 6:54 (Waller-Razaf-Brooks) 12. Bee Kay (E) 6:39 (Bill Potts)

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Get Well Soon

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Tah-DUM!; Monster Rally; For You; Over Here; Interlude #1; Lovely; Song, Sing, Sung; Interlude #2; Elegy; Get Well Soon (65:36).

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Mosaic Select

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2004

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Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: Get Well Soon

Read "Get Well Soon" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Get Well Soon is the third recording by the New Art Orchestra, an eighteen-piece ensemble formed nearly two decades ago in Lubeck, Germany, as a jazz component of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and overseen since its inception by the renowned American trombonist and composer, Bob Brookmeyer. Brookmeyer loves the NAO ("It has been my good fortune ...

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Bob Brookmeyer: Stay Out of the Sun

Read "Stay Out of the Sun" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich


In valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer's biography, one can trace the map of jazz's history, both musical and personal. Brookmeyer has spent time in many of jazz's major ensembles, including Basie, Thornhill, Ellington and Lewis, and small groups, playing with Mulligan, Getz, Giuffre and Mingus. Along the way he has taken part in and contributed to the ...

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A Bob Brookmeyer Bonanza

Read "A Bob Brookmeyer Bonanza" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Turning 75 this year, valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer brought his New Art Orchestra to town last month at the IAJE and a “Battle of the Bands” at the Village Vanguard. He endures as a master of the “cool” and continues to produce musical permutations resulting in elaborate and complex compositions that are clear and pure: music, ...

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Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler: Island

Read "Island" reviewed by Rex  Butters


Veterans Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler explore shared sensibilities on Island, a collection that could have fit comfortably in Wheeler’s ECM catalogue, but instead spearheads the resuscitated Artists House label. Although they’ve not recorded together before, they set eachother up and finish eachother’s thoughts like a long married couple. The island in question seems more north ...

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Island

Label: New World Records
Released: 2003

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Waltzing with Zoe

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Seesaw; Child at Play; For Maria; Waltzing with Zoe; Fireflies; K.P.

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The Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra: Waltzing with Zoe

Read "Waltzing with Zoe" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Spectacular. There’s no other way to describe “Seesaw,” the opening number on the second album by Bob Brookmeyer’s German–based New Art Orchestra. A shame the Grammy Awards don’t include one for best big–band composition (even though there is a ludicrous prize for “best Jazz solo”), as “Seesaw” would win the honor going away. The highest compliment ...


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