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| 2. | What's My Line Theme
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| 4. | The Dark Before The Dawn
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| 6. | Blues Melba
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Jazz
#3,6,7:
Recorded: New York City, December 22, 1958
Melba Liston, Bennie Green, Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb), Kenny Burrell (g), George Joyner (b), Charlie Persip (d)
#1,2,4,5,8:
Recorded: New York City, December 24, 1958
Melba Liston, Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak (tb), Slide Hampton (tb,tuba), Ray Bryant (p), Frank Dunlop (d)
#9-12: Melba Liston, Frank Rehak (tb), Marty Flax (bs), Walter Davis Jr. (p), Nelson Boyd (b), Charlie Persip (d). New York City, June, 1956
Most people in jazz circles first came to hear of trombonist Melba Liston when in 1944, she began a long association with trumpeter and bandleader Gerald Wilson. "He was probably the most important person in helping me develop as a writer." Melba never cared too much about solo work: "I can't say I like writing more than playing. Let's just say they are both very rewarding and challenging and all that." Later, in 1956, she joined the Gillespie band as arranger and featured soloist. That tall, dark, graceful young girl with a thousand-watt smile quickly stole the hearts of the East Coast jazz audiences, as well as the hearts of the band members. The guys in the band paid her the highest of compliments by saying "She's just like one of us." We hope these, her first recordings as a leader, will serve as a reminder that on the instrumental level, for many of her contemporaries, Melba Liston was the first lady of jazz.
"Finding an obscure recording, especially one of quality, can be exciting for jazz enthusiasts. This reissue of Melba Liston's only recording as a leader, originally released by the short-lived Metro Jazz label half a century ago, is cause for celebration. The reissued Melba Liston and Her ‘Bones also includes four tracks from another session which was originally released under Frank Rehak's name.
Melba Liston is best known as an arranger and composer, thanks to her associations with Dizzy Gillespie and subsequently Randy Weston. But she was a virtuoso trombone player as well. On this recording she joins a variety of other trombonists, including Bennie Green, Al Grey, and Benny Powell (three tracks); Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak and Slide Hampton (five tracks); and Frank Rehak (the four bonus tracks). The leader's interplay with the other trombone players adds to the musical richness of the recording.
Even in the company of high-quality, accomplished master musicians like these, her musical skills stand out. Her lyrical improvisations are melodic, clear and gay when she plays unmuted, and mysterious and warm when muted. This recording is one of the few places to hear Melba Liston solo, in addition to two tracks on Ernie Henry's Last Chorus (Riverside, 1958) and a beautiful solo on "My Reverie" with the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra.
This hard-swinging music is firmly planted in the bop tradition, enhanced by the playing of Marti Flax (baritone sax) and Kenny Burrell (guitar) on specific tracks. Melba Liston's playing matches her compositional skills; she wrote four of the twelve pieces, and they shine with originality. Liston has long been ignored as a composer and horn player, in large part due to gender bias, and so this reissue is long overdue—not just because of its historical value, but also the quality of the music."
--- Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz
Melba Liston
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Jan 13, 1926 in Kansas City, MO
Died: Apr 23, 1999 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop
A fine section trombonist, Melba Liston achieved her greatest fame as an arranger, particularly for her projects with Randy Weston. She grew up in California and played with Gerald Wilson's Orchestra starting in 1943. Her most notable recording as a soloist was with Dexter Gordon in 1947. Liston worked with Count Basie (1948-1949), Dizzy Gillespie's big band (1949-1950), and backed Billie Holiday, but then spent a few years outside of music. She toured with and wrote for Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra (1956-1957) and visited Europe with Quincy Jones' big band (1959), staying with that orchestra into 1961. Liston then became a freelance arranger, working on sessions led by Weston, Johnny Griffin, and Milt Jackson, writing for the studios, teaching, and occasionally playing. A serious stroke confined her to a wheelchair from 1985 onward, but Liston still wrote for several latter-day Randy Weston projects in the years prior to her death on April 23, 1999.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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