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| 1. | Anything Goes
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| 2. | Headstrong
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| 3. | Black Bottom
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| 4. | The Changing Scene
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| 5. | The Turning Point
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| 6. | Charmaine
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| 7. | Diga Diga Doo
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| 8. | Royal Garden Blues
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| 9. | Swingin' on a Star
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| 10. | Intermezzo
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| 11. | Ferris Wheel
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| 12. | Urbanity
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| 13. | First Movement: Dancers on Drums [*]
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| 14. | Second Movement: Bristling [*]
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| 15. | Third Movement: Chants of the Witch Doctors [*]
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| 16. | Fourth Movement: Skinning the Valves [*]
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| 17. | Fifth Movement: Cymbalisms [*]
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| 18. | Sixth Movement: The Octopus [*]
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Jazz / Bop, Cool, Progressive Jazz
Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Conte Candoli, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Milt Hinton, Urbie Green, Jimmy Cleveland, Hank Jones, Freddie Green, Eddie Costa, Osie Johnson
Tracks 1-12: "THE JAZZ WORKSHOP":
Recorded in New York, December 24, 29 & 31, 1955
Manny Albam & his Orchestra, including Joe Newman, Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Al Cohn, Milt Hinton, Urbie Green and Osie Johnson
Tracks 13-18: "THE DRUM SUITE":
Recorded in Los Angeles, 1956
Manny Albam & his Orchestra, including Joe Newman, Conte Candoli, Jimmy Cleveland, Ur bie Green, Al Cohn, Hank Jones, Freddie Green, Eddie Costa, Osie Johnson
This issue comprises for the first time on one CD the first two albums Manny Albam recorded under his own name:
- The Jazz Workshop (RCA)
- The Drum Suite (RCA)
Manny Albam
Active Decades: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Jun 24, 1922 in Samana, Dominican Republic
Died: Oct 02, 2001 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Progressive Big Band, Cool, West Coast Jazz, Progressive Jazz
During a career that spanned seven decades, composer and arranger Manny Albam collaborated with a who's who of jazz greats including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz. He also developed successive generations of new talent as co-founder and musical director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. Albam was born June 24, 1922. His parents were en route from their native Russia to their new home in New York City, and his mother went into labor while their ship was outside of the Dominican Republic port of Samana. At the age of seven Albam discovered jazz after hearing a Bix Beiderbecke record, and soon after began playing the alto saxophone; at 16 he dropped out of school following an invitation to join Muggsy Spanier's Dixieland combo, and later played with Georgie Auld, an experience that also afforded Albam his first shot at arranging under the tutelage of bandmate Budd Johnson. Albam next gigged behind Charlie Barnet, from there signing on with Charlie Spivak. During his two years with Spivak, his arranging skills flourished, and he generated an average of two arrangements per week. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Albam returned to the Barnet stable, and as his interest in writing and arranging grew, he effectively retired from performing in 1950, a decision that coincided with the last gasps of the big band era.
Albam quickly emerged as a sought-after freelancer, composing and arranging material for many of the bop era's brightest talents. His tight, brisk arrangements favored subtlety over flash, while his writing exhibited a wry sense of humor. Albam eventually signed to headline his own LPs for labels including Mercury, RCA Victor, and Dot, bringing together musicians including Phil Woods, Al Cohn, and Bob Brookmeyer for acclaimed easy listening efforts including The Blues Is Everybody's Business and The Drum Suite. His 1957 jazz arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's score to West Side Story so impressed Bernstein that the maestro invited Albam to write for the New York Philharmonic. The offer prompted Albam to study classical composition under Tibor Serly, later yielding such works as the luminous "Concerto for Trombone and Strings." Albam also wrote for feature films, television, and even advertising jingles, and in 1964 signed on as musical director for Sonny Lester's fledgling Solid State label, which two years later issued his jazz suite The Soul of the City. By that time Albam was increasingly channeling his energies into teaching, however. After stints with the Eastman School of Music, Glassboro State College, and the Manhattan School of Music, in 1988 he co-founded the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, assuming the title of musical director from Brookmeyer three years later. Albam died of cancer on October 2, 2001.
---Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide |
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