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Ian Hunter - All American Alien Boy

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It's a Stanley Clarke kind of Sunday. So ll begin with the first Stanley Clarke album I ever bought - "Journey To Love." When I first bought this album I was deep in my rock music phase, so this became my introduction to the jazz music that would eventually become my genre of choice. But the fusion jazz of Stanley Clarke (and Jean-Luc Ponty, Billy Cobham, Return To Forever, and The Mahavishnu Orchestra to add but a few) touched my rock soul in a way I hadn't expected. The musicianship displayed here still sounds fresh despite the passing of over 40 years. With help from such jazz/rock luminaries such as Jeff Beck, Steve Gadd, Lenny White, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, George Duke, David Sancious, Jon Fadis, and Lewis Soloff, Clarke had the backing of some of the top musicians of his day. All the tunes here are Clarke compositions, so what you hear is what Stanley wants you to hear. Fusion, as a mainstream musical genre May has slipped from forefront years ago, but great music never passes out of style. And "Journey To Love" is great music that will sound quite exciting to the novice and still as fresh and enjoyable to the longtime fan. If you own it, its Tull to reacquaint yourself with its magic. If you've never heard it, it's time to rectify that oversight. This LP (cause that's what I'm listening to, the original vinyl pressing) comes with my very highest recommendation. #LP #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinyladdict #record #recordcollection #analog #audio #highend #stereo #jazz #fusion #music #audiophile

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Bob James – One Mint Julep (1976)

Bass — Gary King Cello — Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken Drums – Harvey Mason Flute — Hubert Laws, Jerry Dodgion Flute, Tenor Saxophone — Eddie Daniels Guitar — Eric Gale Harp — Gloria Agostini Keyboards — Bob James Percussion — Ralph MacDonald Producer — Creed Taylor Tenor Saxophone, Tin Whistle — Grover Washington, Jr. Trombone — Wayne Andre Trombone [Bass] — Dave Taylor Trombone [Bass], Tuba — Dave Bargeron Trumpet — John Frosk, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm Viola — Al Brown, Manny Vardi Violin — David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Frederick Buldrini, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Lewis Eley, Matthew Raimondi, Max Ellen source

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USA: "For Lew," CD Tribute to Lew Soloff by Bill Warfield Big Band, Due March 9 from Planet Arts Records

Trumpeter/Composer/Arranger/Big Band Leader Bill Warfield Pays Tribute to His Late Mentor, Colleague, & Friend Trumpeter Lew Soloff On "For Lew," To Be Released March 9 by Planet Arts Records 

10 Tracks Compiled from Four Warfield Big Band Albums (1990-2014) Plus Two Previously Unreleased Songs

CD Release Show at the Zinc Bar, NYC, 

Saturday, March 24

  February 7, 2018

    Bill Warfield's career as a trumpeter was launched the moment he heard Lew Soloff's immortal solo on the Blood, Sweat & Tears hit "Spinning Wheel." "It just completely knocked me out," says Warfield, who was 18 at the time and gigging as a pianist, having given up hope of earning a living as a horn player due to dental problems. "I'd never heard anything like it. I decided at that point that I wanted to play the trumpet again."

  Eventually, Warfield would get to know, study, and record with Soloff, who died in 2014 at age 71. Warfield's latest album, For Lew, set for release on March 9 by Planet Arts Records, is a tribute to his late mentor, colleague, friend, and inspiration. Compiled from material Warfield recorded with his big band between 1990 and 2014, the album includes ten selections that first appeared on New York City Jazz (1990), The City Never Sleeps (1994), A Faceless Place (2005), and Trumpet Story (2014). Two of the tracks are previously unreleased.

  "Lew was such a warm, supportive human being," Warfield says of Soloff. "When he died, it took me a week to get over it. I patterned my playing after him. I wanted to do the gigs he did. I wanted to sound like him. I wanted to be like him. I wanted to be him. I patterned my whole career after that guy. He was a little nerdy guy who would put a horn in front of his mouth and became Superman. He was the guy who got me to take my writing seriously. On the second record I used him on, I used a few other people's charts. Then he pulled me to the side and said, 'Look, your writing is really special. You shouldn't include anybody else's stuff on your records.'"  

Five tunes on For Lew are Warfield originals; six arrangements are his. While drawn from four different sessions, each made up of different players, every track is an all-star affair. Soloff is the soloist on one track, "Salsa En Mi Alma," and is heard playing lead trumpet on that song and two others. In addition to Warfield, who solos on three tracks, other world-class instrumentalists among the disc's collective personnel are trumpeters Randy Brecker and John Eckert; trombonist Matt Havilan; saxophonists Dan Block, Andy Fusco, Bob Hanlon, Rich Perry, Chris Potter, and Walt Weiskopf; pianists Ted Rosenthal and Joel Weiskopf; guitarists Vic Juris and Dave Stryker; bassist Mike Richmond; and drummers Tim Horner and Bob Weller.

  Warfield followed Soloff's advice and over the past quarter century has created a canon of music for large ensemble that showcases his distinctive composing and arranging style. He counts Hank Levy, Fred Lipsius, Dick Halligan, Mike Abene (who would produce his first two big band albums), Michel Colombier, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Gil Evans, and Bob Brookmeyer, along with Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Webern, Prokofiev, and other classical composers, as influences on his arranging style.

  Bill Warfield was born in Baltimore on March 2, 1952. He took up trumpet in the fourth grade because, he says, "it looked cool. Because it only had three buttons, I thought it would be easier to play." By the time he was 14, he played Saturday mornings with the orchestra and brass ensemble at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory School and Saturday afternoons with the Maryland Youth Symphony, as well as with a teenage soul band called Nina and the Marcels.

  After recovering from a car accident in which he lost his front teeth, he studied for four years at Towson State with Hank Levy, an arranger noted for his charts for Don Ellis and Stan Kenton who was a key early influence.

  Warfield moved to New York City in 1980 and began subbing in the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, playing and arranging for the Bill Kirchner Nonet, and copying music for Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, and others, while earning a master's from the Manhattan School of Music. He toured Europe with Ornette Coleman, having been recommended by Lew Soloff.

  Warfield has spent three decades as an inspiring music educator. After stints at the Dalton School in New York, Brooklyn College, Towson State University in Maryland, and the University of North Florida, he joined the faculty at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, in 1996. He continues to teach and direct the jazz program there three days per week.

  The other four days are usually spent in back in Manhattan, where he currently directs four bands: the New York Jazz Repertory Ensemble, the New York Jazz Octet (which includes tenor saxophonist Don Braden and pianist Kenny Werner), the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra, and the Bill Warfield Big Band.

  The Bill Warfield Big Band will be performing two sets (7:00pm/8:30pm) at the Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village to celebrate the release of For Lew. 

    Photography by John Abbott

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Carnegie Hall Jazz Band | Carnegie Hall Jazz Band

The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band was a fairly short-lived big band directed, at least on this album, by trumpeter Jon Faddis and including an all-star cast of musicians, including trumpeters Lew Soloff, Byron Stripling, and Ryan Kisor, trombonists Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, and Dennis Wilson, saxophonists Lew Tabackin, Ted Nash, and Dick Oatts, pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash.  Arranging duties are split between multiple musicians - Jim McNeely contributes three, Slide Hampton two, and the other tracks each have a different arranger.  The set list is all classic big band standards (and Giant Steps), although frequently given some kind of modern reimagining.  Jim McNeely provides off-kilter, almost seasick sounding versions of Sing Sing Sing and In The Mood, and Frank Foster’s take on Giant Steps is bright and melodic.  For whatever reason, though, this album just doesn’t stick out to me that much.  I guess I didn’t think a lot of these arrangements were ultimately that interesting, even if they are played tightly and expertly.  I think this band did record one other album, which I’ll probably try to track down to see if that one’s the same kind of deal, or what.  The UNCG Jazz Ensemble (UNCG is my alma mater) did record a version of Jim McNeely’s arrangement of Sing SIng Sing from this album, so that’s pretty neat, though.

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Bob James – One Mint Julep (1976)

Bass — Gary King Cello — Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken Drums – Harvey Mason Flute — Hubert Laws, Jerry Dodgion Flute, Tenor Saxophone — Eddie Daniels Guitar — Eric Gale Harp — Gloria Agostini Keyboards — Bob James Percussion — Ralph MacDonald Producer — Creed Taylor Tenor Saxophone, Tin Whistle — Grover Washington, Jr. Trombone — Wayne Andre Trombone [Bass] — Dave Taylor Trombone [Bass], Tuba — Dave Bargeron Trumpet — John Frosk, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm Viola — Al Brown, Manny Vardi Violin — David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Frederick Buldrini, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Lewis Eley, Matthew Raimondi, Max Ellen source

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