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| 2. | Bull Fighter
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| 3. | Lotus Land
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| 4. | Theme
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| 5. | Mambo Mexicano
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| 6. | Black Rose
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| 8. | Since We Said Goodbye
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| 9. | Hollywood Freeway [Live][*]
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| 12. | Indiana [Live][*]
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Jazz
Tracks 1-8:
Recorded live at San Francisco's Veterans Memorial, 1950
Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra:
Gerald Wilson (arr/cond, tp )
Ernie Royal, Walter Williams (tp), Melba Liston, Henry Coker, Robert Wagner, Trummy Young (tb), Sonny Criss (as), Gerald Wiggins (p) Red Callender (b), Lee Young (d). Guest stars: Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims & Stan Getz (ts)
Tracks 9-15:
Recorded in Los Angeles, 1954
Gerald Wilson And His Orchestra:
John Anderson, Louis Grey, Allen Smith, Clark Terry (tp), Isaac Bell, Atlee Chapman, John Ewing, Britt Woodman (tb), Jerry Dodgion (as), Teddy Edwards, Paul Gonsalves, Frank Haynes (ts), Bill Green (bar), Cedric Haywood (p), Addison Farmer (b), Gus Gustafson (d), Gerald Wilson (arr, cond)
Previously unissued on any format.
Here is the very rare 1954 "Big Band Modern" LP (for the first time on CD) plus, as bonus, a splendid previously-unissued stereo recording of a 1950 concert in San Francisco. Includes never before heard solos by tenor stars Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims and Stan Getz and one of a kind arrangements by Wilson.
First time on CD for this ultra-rare album by the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, the only studio session recorded by Wilson under his own name between 1947 and 1961 and features seven bonus tracks. Includes never before heard solos by tenor stars Wardell Gray, Zoot Sims and Stan Getz and one of a kind arrangements by Wilson! The bonus tracks are from a 1950 concert recorded in San Francisco which is, without a doubt, an essential addition to Wilson's recorded legacy, and an extremely important discographic discovery. In fact, this concert has never been previously released on any format. It was originally recorded in Stereo, which was a completely new technology in 1950.
Album Details
This Release Presents an Ultra Rare LP by the Gerald Wilson Orchestra for the First Time Ever on CD. Although He Recorded Innumerable Sessions as an Arranger and as a Trumpeter, this is the Only Studio Session Recorded by Wilson under his Own Name Between 1947 and 1961, When He Began a Long Term Recording Contract with Pacific Records. What Makes "Big Band Modern" Even More Interesting is that Six of the Eight Tunes on the Album were Composed by Wilson Himself. Considering the Dearth of Wilson's Recordings with his Own Band During this Period, the 1950 Concert Recorded in San Francisco - which is Included on this Release as a Bonus Performance - Is, Without a Doubt, an Essential Addition to Wilson's Recorded Legacy, and an Extremely Important Discographic Discovery. In Fact, this Concert Has Never Been Previously Released on Any Format.
Gerald Wilson
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 04, 1918 in Shelby, MS
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Progressive Big Band, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Progressive Jazz, Traditional Pop, Interview, Orchestral Jazz
From time to time, Gerald Wilson seems like one of Los Angeles' better-kept secrets, an unusually skillful, imaginative and charismatic bandleader who hasn't received his due outside the West Coast. His arrangements have distinctive, often complex voicings and harmonies, rooted in swing and bop yet always forward-looking and energetic in tone. He likes to play around with structures, which contributes to the restless quality in much of his music -- and being a bullfight aficionado, he was one of the first arrangers to make use of Spanish influences. He has been consistently able to attract top-rank musicians to his bands, who play with immaculate precision and brio for the flamboyantly gesticulating maestro. Upon moving from Memphis to Detroit with his family in 1932, Wilson studied music in high school and played with the Plantation Music Orchestra before undergoing the formative experience of his life, working with the Jimmie Lunceford band from 1939 to 1942. Replacing Sy Oliver as arranger, conductor and trumpet soloist, Wilson learned his craft in the Lunceford band, after which he took off for Los Angeles to play with the bands of Les Hite, Benny Carter and Willie Smith. Wilson organized his first big band in 1944, which sported an intriguing blend of swing and bop and featured musicians like Melba Liston and Snooky Young. But it only lasted three years, and after playing for Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie in 1947-48, Wilson quit the music business for a while to try his hand in the grocery trade. After a tentative return as a bandleader in 1952, it took awhile for Wilson to gradually ease his way back into jazz full-time; he even made appearances as a TV actor.
In 1961, after experimenting with a workshop band for four years, Wilson formed a new orchestra which made a string of successful albums for the Pacific Jazz label throughout the '60s, featuring soloists like Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Bud Shank, Jack Wilson and Joe Pass. One tune that he wrote for the Moment of Truth album, "Viva Tirado" (later reprised on Live and Swinging) became a surprise hit single for the Latin rock group El Chicano in 1970. He scored films and TV programs, worked as an arranger for recordings by singers such as Al Hibbler, Bobby Darin and Johnny Hartman, contributed arrangements to the Duke Ellington band, and wrote music for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also started a series of hugely entertaining and informative classes in jazz history at California State University, Northridge (then San Fernando Valley State College) in 1970, moving them to UCLA in 1992, and had his own radio program on L.A.'s KBCA-FM from 1969 to 1976.
Wilson continued to lead big bands off and on through the 1980s and '90s, as well as running the orchestra for Redd Foxx's NBC shows and serving as one of the Los Angeles jazz scene's more revered elder statesmen. In 1995, he commemorated more than half a century as a leader by releasing State Street Sweet, a vigorous tribute to the durability of his work, and scoring a solid hit at the Playboy Jazz Festival. In 1996 Wilson's life's work was archived by the Library Of Congress, and in 1997 he completed Theme For Monterey, a piece commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 2003 he recorded New York, New Sound, his debut for Mack Avenue Records, which went on receive a Grammy nomination in the "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" category.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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