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Backgrounder: Jones/Lewis - Consummation

August 4, 2023

Recorded over four sessions in January 1970 and released later that year, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra's Consummation was one of the finest big band albums of the decade. A hit album and Grammy nominee, the LP's eight tracks were composed and arranged by Thad Jones. At the Grammy's the album lost out to Miles Davis's ...

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Consummation

By The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Dedication; It Only Happens Every Time; Tiptoe; A Child Is Born; Us; Ahunk Ahunk; Fingers; Consummation (46:32).

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Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra: Consummation

Read "Consummation" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 25, 2002

When it came to progressive big bands during the '60s, few ensembles could boast the kind of staying power and muscle of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. With some of the biggest names in the business as part of the ensemble's regular roster and the uniformly exceptional output of writer Thad Jones, this band was ...

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Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra: Consummation

Read "Consummation" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2002

This charming reissue from 1970 makes it even harder to accept the fact that Thad and Mel are no longer with us. Thank goodness we have such glorious music to remember them by. All of the compositions and arrangements are Jones,' and each one is an unpretentious classic of its kind. The orchestra itself is beyond ...

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Consummation

By Billy Harper

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1970
Track listing: Dedication; It Only Happens Every Time; Tiptoe; A Child Is Born; Us; Ahunk Ahunk; Fingers; Consummation;