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| 1. | Wendy
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| 2. | Wave
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| 3. | Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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| 4. | Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
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| 5. | Manh&
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| 6. | Here's That Rainy Day
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| 7. | My Funny Valentine
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| 8. | Take Five
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| 9. | Line for Lyons [*]
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Jazz / Cool
Recorded: Oct 25, 1975-Nov 1, 1975, Bourbon Street, Toronto, Canada
Paul Desmond Quartet
Paul Desmond (alto saxophone)
Ed Bickert (guitar); Don Thompson (bass); Jerry Fuller (drums)
During his post-Brubeck years, altoist Paul Desmond was semiretired, only playing in public on an occasional basis. When he did perform, it was often with the tasteful Canadian guitarist Ed Bickert in a quiet pianoless quartet. This double LP, put out by John Snyder's Horizon subsidiary for A&M, is melodic, subtle and consistently swinging. Desmond and Bickert (along with bassist Don Thompson and drummer Jerry Fuller) clearly enjoyed themselves matching wits and wisdom on the altoist's "Wendy" and the seven superior standards (which include Desmond's "Take Five").
---Scott Yanow, AMG
Includes liner notes by Paul Desmond, Doug Ramsey, and Carl Woideck
Paul Desmond
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Nov 25, 1924 in San Francisco, CA
Died: May 30, 1977 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ballads, Cool, Mainstream Jazz
Paul Desmond is widely recognized for his genius as a melodic improviser and as the benchmark of cool jazz sax players. His warm, elegant tone was one that he admittedly tried to make sound like a dry martini. He and Art Pepper were virtually the only alto players of their generation not directly influenced by Charlie Parker. Desmond was influenced by Lester Young, but took it further, into melodic and harmonic worlds never before traveled by reedmen -- especially in the upper registers. Desmond is best known for his years with the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959-1967) and his infamous composition "Take Five." He met Brubeck in the late '40s and played with his Octet. The Quartet formed toward the end of 1950 and took final shape with Eugene Wright and Joe Morello a few years later. Jazz at Oberlin and Take Five were considered essential purchases by college students of the era, but Jazz Impressions of Japan was its most innovative recording. Desmond played his loping, slow, ordered, and intricate solos in direct contrast to the pianist's obsession with large chords, creating a myriad of textures for melodic and rhythmic counterpoint unlike any heard in jazz. His witty quotations from musicals, classical pieces, and folk songs were also a watermark of his artistry. When the Quartet split in 1967, Desmond began an intermittent yet satisfying recording career. It included dates with Gerry Mulligan for Verve, various sessions with Jim Hall, and a concert with the the Modern Jazz Quartet. He played his last gigs with the Brubeck Quartet at reunions before dying of lung cancer. Desmond's recordings for RCA have gotten box-set treatment and Mosaic issued one of the complete sessions with Hall. There are also reissues from A&M and CTI, though recordings on Artist House and Finesse remain regrettably out of print.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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