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Bill Cunliffe: The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2
by C. Michael Bailey
Bill Cunliffe The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2 Resonance Records 2008Oliver Nelson (1932-1975) was a saxophonist, arranger, and composer who seemed everywhere in the 1960s. In popular culture, Nelson is best remembered for his television scoring for shows including Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million ...
Kenny Burrell: Mr. Good Notes
by Russ Musto
“I'm just trying to play the good notes," says Kenny Burrell, lighthearted laughter accompanying his response to the question of how he would characterize his style of guitar playing. The reply betrayed the genial humility that has long distinguished him as one of the music's truly gracious gentlemen. Burrell has been playing the “good notes" for ...
Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Full Nelson; Skookian; Miss Fine; Majorca; Cool; Back Woods; Lila's Theme; Ballad for Benny; Hoe Down; Paris Blues; What Kind of Fool Am I?; You Love But Once; Hobo Flats; Post No Bills; A Bientot; Three Plus One; Take Me With You; Daylie's Double; Teenie's Blues; Laz-ie Katie. CD2: St. Louis Blues; I Remember Bird; Ricardo's Dilemma; Patterns for Orchestra; East Side; West Side; Greensleeves; John Brown's Blues; Twelve Tone Blues; A Typical Day In New York; The East Side/West Side; 125th and Seventh Avenue; A Penthouse Dawn; One For Duke; Complex City. CD3:
Roll 'em; For Dancers Only; Sophisticated Swing; Sometimes I'm Happy; Lined With A Groove; Lazy Theme; Now Hear My Meaning; In A Crowd; Sound Piece for Jazz Orchestra; Flute Salad; The Lady From Girl Talk. CD4: Let The Word Go Forth; A Genuine Peace; The Rights of All; Tolerance; The Artists' Rightful Place; Jacqueline; Day in Dallas; John Kennedy Memory Waltz; Love Is Just Around The Corner; This Is It; Memories of You; Pee Wee's Blues; The Shadow of Your Smile; Ja-Da; A Good Man Is Hard To Find; Bopol; I'm Comin' Virginia; Six and Four. CD5: Walk On The Wild Side; Ol' Man River; In A Mellow Tone; Step Right Up; Hobo Flats; Blueberry Hill; Walk Right In; Trouble In Mind; The Preacher; Meditation; I Can't Stop Loving You; Slaughter on Tenth Avenue; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff; Part One; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff; Part Two. CD6: The Bird/The Duck/The Cat/The Grandfather/The Wolf/The Hunter/Peter; Duck Theme/Jimmy and the Duck/Peter's Theme/Meal Time; Elegy For A Duck; Cat In A Tree; Capture Of the Wolf; Finale: Parade/Peter Plays Some Blues; One Mint Julip; Blues And The Abstract Truth; Down By The Riverside; Night Train; (Death March); Milestones; 'Round Midnight.
Screamin' the Blues
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Screamin' the Blues; March On, March On; The Drive; The Meetin'; Three Seconds; Alto-itis.
Oliver Nelson: Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions
by Andrew Velez
The work of Oliver Nelson (1932-1975), saxophonist, composer and arranger (including composing orchestral and chamber music in non-jazz idioms), is remembered in this typically classy Mosaic six-CD set of 1962-1967 sessions. In his liner notes Nelson scholar and saxophonist and composer/arranger Kenny Berger observes, “The recordings in this set were made from the mid to late ...
Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy: Screamin' the Blues
by Samuel Chell
Screamin' the Blues is an apt description of the soloists' approach on this 1960 session, here reissued as an RVG remaster, the first of three matching leader Oliver Nelson with avant-gardist Eric Dolphy. Although not as well-known as Nelson's masterpiece, Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961), the date is characterized, above all, by “generosity" on the ...
Screamin' the Blues
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Screamin' the Blues; March On, March On; The Drive; The Meetin'; Three Seconds; Alto-Itis.
Oliver Nelson: Screamin' The Blues
by Chris May
A gutsy, down-home, blues-drenched saxophonist who could make flames burst out of the bell of his horn, Oliver Nelson is probably best remembered for his back-room chores on other musicians' records. He arranged Jimmy Smith's biggest chart hit, “Walk On The Wild Side," and an even bigger one for Louis Armstrong, “What A Wonderful World." He ...
Oliver Nelson: Screamin' The Blues
by Ronald S. Russ
There were many saxophonists on the scene in 1960 who would influence jazz for the next forty years. While saxophonist/composer/arranger Oliver Nelson might not be the best known of the musicians of that era, he blew alongside some of the greats. He is probably best known for his compositions and arrangements ("Stolen Moments," “Miss Fine" and ...
