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| 1. | Watch what happens
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| 2. | Ode to Trane
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| 3. | Serenata
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| 4. | Where butterflies play
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| 5. | If ever I would leave you
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| 6. | This Hotel
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| 7. | Eloquence
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| 8. | Angel eyes
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| 9. | Whisper not
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| 10. | Guava Gelly
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| 11. | Autumn sunset
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Jazz
Recorded in NYC, August 1967.
Tracks #3, 10, 11: Harold Vick Orchestra with Harold Vick (ts), Jimmy Owens (tp,flh), Tom McIntosh (tb), George Marge and Joe Farrell (rds), John Blair (v), Herbie Hancock (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Bob Cranshaw (b), Grady Tate (d), Teddy Charles (vb), Dave Carey (perc)
Tracks #1, 4, 6, 7, 9: Same as above except McIntosh out and Lawrence Lucie (g) added.
Tracks #2, 5, 8: Harold Vick Quartet with Harold Vick (ts,ss), Herbie Hancock (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Grady Tate (d)
Arranged by Ed Bland
About Harold Vick:
"When Harold Vick was a young boy his ambitions went in two directions. Either he would become a professional basketball player or a professional musician. As he grew up he attained six feet four inches, the height that helps an aspiring basketball player, and he also had talent, evidenced by his winning an award in the sport while at college. As a child in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (he was born there on April 3, 1936), Vick heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby on his grandmother's Gramophone. When Vick was fifteen he received a tenor saxophone for Christmas, and in seven months he was playing weekend jobs. After high school he entered Howard University in Washington, D.C. where he studied psychology and sociology. Although he knew, after two years, that music was to be his life, he decided to finish his liberal arts education before devoting himself fully to his chosen profession.
Until his graduation in 1958, Harold helped support himself by working in the house band at the Howard Theater under former Ellington saxophonist Rick Henderson. There he was able to play with pros and absorb the kind of varied experience that is invaluable to the young musician. After graduation Vick began working with a series of bands that used to be called rhythm and blues. First he was with Red Prysock, then Paul Williams, Ruth Brown and Lloyd Price. In 1960 he left Price, came to New York, and gigged with Howard McGhee and Philly Joe Jones. Then he became part of organist Jack McDuff's group for several years. Recently he has appeared with the quartet of pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., and in a big band led by pianist Duke Pearson.
Through the years, some of Vick's preferred saxophonists have been Lester Young, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons and John Coltrane. He credits Miles Davis' former tenorman George Coleman with helping his approach. From this list you can get an idea of Harold's playing attitude. It is modern, but within a tradition that stands for melodic improvisation and that forward thrust known as swing. It has a relaxed, unhurried, unharried quality that is decidedly very easy listening."
---Ira Gitler
Harold Vick
Active Decades: '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Apr 03, 1936 in Rocky Mount, NC
Died: Nov 13, 1987 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, Soul-Jazz
One of jazz's great unsung saxophonists, Harold Vick can be placed in a category with the likes of Booker Ervin, David "Fathead" Newman, Wilton Felder, and James Clay -- hard-toned, aggressive, funky tenorists who placed an emphasis on the blues even as they embodied state-of-the-art bop-derived modernism. Although he led relatively few recording dates, Vick was held in high regard by other leaders, especially such '60s-era soul-jazz organists as Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Shirley Scott, and Big John Patton. Vick also performed and recorded with many noted R&B and jazz vocalists, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Ashford & Simpson, Angela Bofill, Abbey Lincoln, and Lena Horne.
Vick was born in the same small North Carolina town -- Rocky Mount -- as pianist Thelonious Monk (his elder by 20 years). Vick started playing music at the age of 13 when his uncle Prince Robinson (a highly regarded tenor saxophonist who played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and others during the '20s and '30s) gave him a clarinet. At 16 Vick took up the tenor and soon after began playing in R&B bands. In the '50s Vick moved to Washington, D.C., and studied psychology at Howard University. He continued to play, mostly with R&B bands.
His work with such organists as McDuff and McGriff began attracting attention. By the mid-'60s, Vick was leading his own groups, featuring such players as trumpeter Blue Mitchell and guitarist Grant Green. In 1963, he recorded his first album as a leader, Steppin' Out!, for the Blue Note label. Between 1966 and 1974 he led dates for the RCA, Muse, and Strata East labels. In 1972 he recorded with Jack DeJohnette's band Compost, one of the drummer's first efforts at leading a band.
By the mid-'70s Vick had essentially stopped recording as a leader. His career as a sideman flourished, however. He continued working with organists Scott and McGriff, singers Franklin and Charles, Dizzy Gillepie's big band, and with R&B acts both in the studio and on the road. Shortly before his death in 1987, Vick recorded a pair of Billie Holiday tributes with singer Abbey Lincoln for the enja label. In 1998 Sonny Rollins paid tribute to Vick by composing and recording a tune titled "Did You See Harold Vick?"
---Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide |
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