Three Wishes
Tom McIntosh had only one wish when asked by Pannonica:- “To be exactly as the Creator wished me to be. Then everything else would have to be alright.”
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Saudade is an album by Brazilian composer Moacir Santos recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label. The album was recorded at United Artists Studios in West Hollywood, California on March 5, 6 & 12, 1974.
The compositions that make up the album are Early Morning Love (Santos, Yanna Cotti) – 3:25, A Saudade Matta a Gente (Antonio Almeida, J. de Barro) – 6:10, Off and On (Santos, Cotti) – 3:37, The City of LA (Mark Levine) – 3:38, Suk Cha (Santos) – 4:06, Kathy (Santos, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) – 3:37, Haply-Happy (Santos, Petsye Powell) – 2:59, Amphibious (Santos, Assis) – 3:25, This Life (Santos, Cotti) – 2:33 and lastly What’s My Name (Santos, Evans, Livingston) – 3:07.
The players were Moacir Santos – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, conductor, arranger, Steve Huffsteter – trumpet, flugelhorn, Benny Powell – trombone, Morris Repass – bass trombone, Sidney Muldrow – french horn, Ray Pizzi – bassoon, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo, Jerome Richardson – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute, Mark Levine – piano, electric piano, arranger, Lee Ritenour – guitar, electric guitar, John Heard – bass, electric bass, Harvey Mason – drums, Mayuto Correa, Carmelo Garcia – conga, percussion, and Donald Alves, Mike Campbell, Jose Marino, Petsye Powell, Carmen Saveiros, Regina Werneck on background vocals.
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The album by Claus Ogerman and His Orchestra, Watusi Trumpets, was recorded and released in 1965 on the RCA Victor label. All the compositions were arranged, written and conducted by Ogerman, produced by Andy Wiswell and the session engineer was Mickey Crofford. The liner notes were written by Arnold Falleder.
The tracklist includes It’s Not Unusual, Stingray, Watusi Trumpets, El Watusi, Downtown and Right Now on Side A. Along with the B side featuring Harlem Watch, One Step Above, The Joker, Poinciana, La Bamba and Land Of 1,000 Dances. Filled with jazz, rock, soul, lounge and Latin rhythms this is an inspired look at a number of pop, rock, Brazilian and a classic tunes.
Steeped in the music of the Sixties this finger-popping disc may not change your life but just may take you back to those mod years and have you shaking on the dance floor.
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The Blues And The Abstract Blues is an album by jazz composer/arranger and saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in 1961 for the Impulse label. Rudy Van Gelder was the recording engineering, Chuck Stewart took the photograph and Pete Turner designed the cover.
The albums length is a mere 36 minute and 33 seconds long but remains Nelson’s most acclaimed album. It is an exploration of the mood and structure of the blues, though only some of the tracks are structured in the conventional 12-bar blues form.
All the songs are composed by Nelson Stolen Moments, Hoe-Down, Cascades, Yearnin’, Butch and Butch and Teenie’s Blues. The musicians on the session were Oliver Nelson on alto and tenor saxophone, Eric Dolphy on flute and alto saxophone, George Barrow on baritone saxophone, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Roy Haynes.
The most famous composition from the album, Stolen Moments, is also his most recorded and performed, both instrumental and vocal, by numerous artists such as Phil Woods, J.J. Johnson, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Frank Zappa, Mark Murphy, Ahmad Jamal, Booker Ervin, New York Voices, the United Future Organization and the Turtle Island Quartet, to name just a few.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Karel Vlach, born in Prague, Czech Republic on October 8, 1911 and founded his first orchestra in 1938. Over the years many important composers, instrumentalists and arrangers of the Czech jazz scene went through his band.
From 1947 to 1948 Vlach’s orchestra performed at the V+W Theatre, recorded prolifically with Supraphon and his albums include both light classical, orchestral, jazz and pop arrangements for big band with strings.
During the decades from 1940to 1980 Karel arranged and conducted many Czech film scores, launched the singing careers of Czech artists Yvetta Simonová and Milan Chladil. He and his musical colleagues Dalibor Brazda and Gustav Brom also arranged and recorded many titles that are now a part of the Great American Songbook for British singer Gery Scott in the late 1950s.
Dance orchestra conductor and arranger Karel Vlach passed away on February 26, 1986 in Prague.