Bass – Bill Crow (tracks: 7 to 13), Buddy Clark (tracks: 1 to 6)
Drums – Mel Lewis
Guitar – Jim Hall (tracks: 7 to 13)
Piano – Jimmy Rowles (tracks: 1 to 6)
Producer – Creed Taylor (tracks: 7-13), Norman Granz (tracks: 1 to 6)
Valve Trombone, Piano – Bob Brookmeyer
Tracks 1-6: recorded in Los Angeles, June 16, 1960. Originally released as "The Blues Hot And Cold" in 1960.
Tracks 7-13: recorded in New York, June 29, 1961. Originally released as "7X Wilder" in 1961.
Digitally remastered two-fer from the Jazz great containing two complete consecutive albums on one disc: The Blues Hot And Cold (1960) and 7 X Wilder (1961), both of which appear here on CD for the first time ever.
Bob Brookmeyer
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 19, 1929 in Kansas City, MO
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop, Progressive Big Band, Progressive Jazz, West Coast Jazz
Bob Brookmeyer has long been the top valve trombonist in jazz and a very advanced arranger whose writing is influenced by modern classical music. He started out as a pianist in dance bands but was on valve trombone with Stan Getz (1953). He gained fame as a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet (1954-1957), was part of the unusual Jimmy Giuffre Three of 1957-1958 (which consisted of Giuffre's reeds, Brookmeyer's valve trombone, and Jim Hall's guitar), and then re-joined Mulligan as arranger and occasional player with his Concert Jazz Band. Brookmeyer, who was a strong enough pianist to hold his own on a two-piano date with Bill Evans, occasionally switched to piano with Mulligan. He co-led a part-time quintet with Clark Terry (1961-1966), was an original member of the Thad JonesMel Lewis orchestra (1965-1967), and became a busy studio musician. Brookmeyer was fairly inactive during much of the 1970s, but made a comeback in the late '70s with some very advanced arrangements for the Mel Lewis band (of which he became musical director for a time). Brookmeyer moved to Europe, where he continually writes and occasionally records on his distinctive valve trombone, issuing Old Friends in 1998. New Works Celebration appeared a year later, and in 2000 Brookmeyer issued Together.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
