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| 1. | No Turn on Red
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| 2. | The Bishop
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| 3. | Young and Foolish
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| 4. | Observation and Celebration
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| 5. | An Answered Prayer
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| 6. | But, But, What If...?
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| 7. | Red Giant
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| 8. | Quick Pick
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| 9. | Greensleeves
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Jazz / Bop, Hard Bop
Red Rodney - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Red Rodney Quintet
Aldo Reale Photography
Cynthia Daniels Engineer
Dick Oatts Sax (Tenor), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto)
Francois Eckert Assistant Engineer
Garry Dial Piano, Producer
Jay Anderson Bass
Joey Baron Drums
John Livelli Liner Notes, Executive Producer
Michel Delsol Photography
After Ira Sullivan decided to return to Miami after six years spent co-leading an advanced quintet with trumpeter Red Rodney, Dick Oatts (best known for his work with Flim and the BB's) took his place. Oatts (heard on this CD on soprano, alto and tenor) matched well with Rodney and the young rhythm section of pianist Garry Dial, bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Joey Baron. The music remained quite modern, particularly compared to what most of Rodney's contemporaries were playing in the mid-'80s, and the almost 80-year-old Rodney was still in prime form. The repertoire on this adventurous but often swinging CD consists of five Dial originals, one by Oatts, a ballad written for the leader ("Red Giant"), "Young and Foolish," and a nearly eleven-minute rendition of "Greensleeves." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Red Rodney
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Sep 27, 1927 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: May 27, 1994 in Boynton Beach, FL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop
Red Rodney's comeback in the late '70s was quite inspiring and found the veteran bebop trumpeter playing even better than he had during his legendary period with Charlie Parker. He started his professional career by performing with Jerry Wald's orchestra when he was 15, and he passed through a lot of big bands, including those of Jimmy Dorsey (during which Rodney closely emulated his early idol Harry James), Elliot Lawrence, Georgie Auld, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown. He totally changed his style after hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, becoming one of the brighter young voices in bebop. Rodney made strong contributions to the bands of Gene Krupa (1946), Claude Thornhill, and Woody Herman's Second Herd (1948-1949). Off and on during 1949-1951, Rodney was a regular member of the Charlie Parker Quintet, playing brilliantly at Bird's recorded Carnegie Hall concert of 1949. But drugs cut short that association, and Rodney spent most of the 1950s in and out of jail. After he kicked heroin, almost as damaging to his jazz chops was a long period playing for shows in Las Vegas. When he returned to New York in 1972, it took Rodney several years to regain his former form. However, he hooked up with multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan in 1980 and the musical partnership benefited both of the veterans; Sullivan's inquisitive style inspired Rodney to play post-bop music (rather than continually stick to bop) and sometimes their quintet (which also featured Garry Dial) sounded like the Ornette Coleman Quartet, amazingly. After Sullivan went back to Florida a few years later, Rodney continued leading his own quintet which in later years featured the talented young saxophonist Chris Potter. Red Rodney, who was portrayed quite sympathetically in the Clint Eastwood film Bird (during which he played his own solos), stands as proof that for the most open-minded veterans there is life beyond bop.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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