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| Playing Jazz - The Musical Autobiography of Herb Geller |
| Herb Geller |
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első megjelenés éve: 1997 |
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| (1997)
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| 5.576 Ft
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| 1. | Overture
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| 2. | Midnight Memories pe-
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| 3. | Max Flack and Sam Geller/The New World...
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| 4. | Chromatic Cry
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| 5. | Stand-Up Comic
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| 6. | Lenny's Bit
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| 7. | Tolerance and Lovin'
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| 8. | Searching for Truth Searching/Playing Jazz
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| 9. | Celebrating Bird (Geller)
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| 10. | Times Like These
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| 11. | Pick-Up Pieces
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| 12. | The Order
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| 13. | Joe Albany
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| 14. | My Favorite Songs
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| 15. | Common Ground
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| 16. | Chet Baker/Chet and The Devil
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| 17. | Mr. Music
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| 18. | Music and Life
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| 19. | Nostalgia
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Jazz
Recorded: Sage & Sound Studio, Hollywood, January 16,17,19 & 20,1995
Herb Geller (as,ss)
Tom Rainer (p)
John Leitham (b)
Paul Kreibich (d)
"Altoist Herb Geller put together a musical play based on his life, and this CD is the result. Geller, who throughout the 1990s was at the peak of his playing powers, takes many fine solos on his originals and is assisted by pianist Tom Ranier, bassist John Leitham and drummer Paul Kriebich. He is joined by singers Lothar Atwell, Mike Campbell, Stephanie Haynes (who plays Lorraine Geller) and Polly Podewell, plus DJ Chuck Niles and Rich Crystal (who depicts Lenny Bruce doing a routine). Some of the individual pieces are overly talky, and the chronology is sometimes a little confusing, but this generally intriguing set has its strong moments. Particularly memorable are "Stand-Up Comic" and "Celebrating Bird.""
- Scott Yanow (All Music Guide)
Herb Geller
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 02, 1928 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Standards, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Herb Geller is a survivor of the Los Angeles jazz scene of the 1950s who played better than ever in the mid-'90s. Geller played in 1946 with Joe Venuti's Orchestra and in 1949, he traveled to New York to play with Claude Thornhill. In 1951, he moved back to L.A. and married the excellent bop pianist Lorraine Walsh. Geller was a fixture in L.A., playing with Billy May (1952), Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bill Holman, and Chet Baker, among others; jamming with Clifford Brown and Max Roach (1954); and leading a quartet that included his wife (1954-1955). Lorraine Geller's sudden death in 1958 eventually resulted in the altoist deciding to leave the country to escape his grief. He played with Benny Goodman off and on between 1958-1961, spent time in Brazil, and in 1962, moved to Berlin. Geller worked in German radio orchestras for 30 years, played in European big bands, and continued to grow as a musician, although he was pretty much forgotten in the U.S. From the early '90s on, Herb Geller returned to the States on a more regular basis and he recorded a tribute to Al Cohn for Hep. Geller also recorded as a leader in the 1950s for EmArcy, Jubilee, and Atco, and in the 1980s and '90s for Enja, Fresh Sound, and V.S.O.P.
---Scott Yanow, Rovi |
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