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| 1. | I Get a Kick Out of You
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| 2. | The Lonely One
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| 3. | Moon Slippers
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| 4. | Easy to Love
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| 5. | Hoof Beats
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| 6. | Slave Girl
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| 7. | Moonlight Becomes You
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| 8. | Heat Wave
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| 9. | Imagination
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| 10. | Message in Minor
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| 11. | Thanatopsis
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Jazz
Recorded: 1995
Lenny Hambro - Liner Notes, Sax (Alto), Saxophone
Clyde Lombardi - Bass
Dick Garcia - Guitar
Mel Zelnick - Drums
Wade Legge - Piano
The Lenny Hambro Quintet provides a comfortable groove on "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Moonlight Becomes You" and "The Lonely One."
Alto saxophonist Lenny Hambro is better known for playing alongside jazz figures like Gene Krupa, Chico O'Farrill, and Tito Puente. Although Hambro's recorded output under his own leadership was not thoroughly documented, Collectables has reissued his 1955 session for Epic, Message From Hambro. Hambro was a disciple of Charlie Parker, and the few sessions he did release portrayed that influence. These 11 tracks, a combination of standards and originals, should please both the collector and casual listener alike.
---Al Campbell, All Music Guide
Lenny Hambro
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Oct 16, 1923 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Bop, Swing
Lenny Hambro may have been one of the musicians Charles Mingus had in mind when he wrote a song entitled "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There Would Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats." Then again, the Hambro sandwich actually tastes pretty good, once given a less biased chew. In a kinder, gentler appraisal, the "Gunslinging Bird" is acknowledged as a major influence, not only on Hambro but a lot of other people as well, a musical home-ground but not something stuffed in a canvas bag during a burglary.
Hambro seems to have a moment of glory during the second half of the '50s, when his own quintet was able to release a series of LPs, as well as tour Europe in both 1957 and 1958. The fine guitarist Dick Garcia was part of Hambro's lineup, as well as pianist Wade Legge, Clyde Lombardi on bass, and Mel Zelnick tending to the drum set. Message from Hambro and The Nature of Things were among the epistles from Hambro quintets, both eventually reissued on CD. Otherwise, this woodwind player -- whose axes include alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, and flute -- made do with a series of big-band jobs, espousing an allegiance to the "Gunslinging Bird" but playing lots of music stylistically preceding bebop. Before and after the Second World War, Hambro enjoyed his first major job with drummer Gene Krupa. In the postwar period he simultaneously held down chairs in other bands such as the Latin jazz outfits of Vincent Lopez and Pupi Campo.
In the early '50s Hambro played in and eventually began managing the Ray McKinley band, continuing the Latin connection on a Machito Orchestra tour. The latter collaboration worked out well, Hambro featured as a lead alto soloist intermittently through 1956, when he jumped over to a version of the Glenn Miller Orchestra led by former boss McKinley. Hambro also did some teaching and played on studio sessions by rhythm & blues performers such as the Spinners and Cissy Houston. Hambro's final recording date was Chico O'Farrill's comeback album on Milestone, the 1995 Pure Emotion. Significant use was made of a distinctive surname in original compositions including "Mambo Hambro" and "Ham Nose."
---Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide |
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