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| 1. | Landslide
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| 2. | Time After Time
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| 3. | Sonar
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| 4. | Mia
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| 5. | Sarah
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| 6. | A Fifth for Frank
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Jazz
Recorded October 8 & 15, 1956
Curtis Counce - Bass,
Carl Perkins - Piano
Curtis Counce Group
Frank Butler - Drums
Harold Land - Sax (Tenor)
Jack Sheldon - Trumpet
* Lester Koenig - Liner Notes, Producer
* Roy DuNann - Engineer
During 1956-1957, bassist Curtis Counce led an excellent Los Angeles-based hard bop quintet comprised of trumpeter Jack Sheldon, tenor saxophonist Harold Land, pianist Carl Perkins, bassist Curtis Counce, and drummer Frank Butler. They recorded four albums' worth of material for Contemporary, all of which have been reissued on CD (three as part of the Original Jazz Classics series). For their debut album, the group performs selections by Land ("Landslide"), Perkins, Sheldon, and two by Gerald Wiggins (including "Sonar"), plus the lone standard "Time After Time." All of Counce's recordings (which include a slightly later album for Dootone) are well-worth getting by collectors interested in 1950s straight-ahead jazz. This disc is an excellent place to start.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Curtis Counce
Active Decades: '40s, '50s and '60s
Born: Jan 23, 1926 in Kansas City, MO
Died: Jul 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, West Coast Jazz
Curtis Counce was an in-demand session bassist and one of the first African Americans to get heavily involved in the West Coast jazz movement in the 1940s. He studied violin and tuba in addition to bass before leaving his native city for employment with the Nat Towles Band in Omaha at the age of 16. He moved to L.A. in 1945, taking a job with Johnny Otis at the Club Alabam and made his recording debut with Lester Young the following year. He recorded prolifically as a sideman (Shelly Manne, Lyle Murphy, Teddy Charles, Clifford Brown) before starting his famous quintet in 1956. His premature death from a heart attack was a tragic loss to jazz. All of Counce's Contemporary dates as a leader have been reissued, as has the once rare Exploring the Future. An added bonus was the appearance of previously unreleased Contemporary masters on the 1989 CD Sonority.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide |
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