Fraser MacPherson Quintet - Our Blues

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:48
Size: 119,4 MB
Scans:

(2:53)  1. Our Blues
(4:48)  2. Born to Be Blue
(3:51)  3. Whisper Not
(5:14)  4. Round Midnight
(4:57)  5. Louisiana
(4:11)  6. Theme
(3:56)  7. Crazy Rhythm
(5:27)  8. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
(4:43)  9. Woody 'n' You
(5:29) 10. Round Midnight
(6:13) 11. Speak Low

The late Fraser MacPherson (1928-93) was among the most admired musicians in Canadian jazz. A prominent member of the Vancouver jazz scene for over four decades, "Fras" remains a much beloved icon to virtually every Vancouver jazz player that's come along in the last fifty years. As a tenor player from the early 1970s, he earned an international reputation. These marvelous tracks, originally captured by CBC radio, date from 1962 and 1963. Fraser is in great company, including legendary pianist Chris Gage, who has never been previously heard on a commercially released recording, and who was said to be the only serious rival to Oscar Peterson at that time. Sadly, Gage was to take his own life in November 1964. 

After moving to Vancouver in 1948, he studied in NYC (1956-57), and worked for 20 years in local nightclubs, among them the Palomar (1950-54) with Chuck Barber, Bob Reid, and Lance Harrison) and the Cave (1961-63 with Chris Gage, then to 1970 with his own band), where he played with such visiting luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Earl Hines, Tony Bennett and Duke Ellington. Concurrently he was a first-call studio musician (saxophone, flute, and clarinet) and occasionally played saxophone with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. MacPherson, with Oliver Gannon, won a Juno Award for Best Jazz Album in 1983 for I Didn't Know About You, (Sackville 4009), was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1987, and won the Oscar Peterson Trophy shortly before his death in 1993.   http://vancouverjazz.com/newcd/2007/05/fraser-macpherson.html

Personnel:  Fraser MacPherson, tenor saxophone; Carse Sneddon, trumpet, valve trombone; Chris Gage, piano; Stan Johnson, bass; Jimmy Wightman, drums

Recorded in Vancouver BC, July 26, 1962 and January 31, 1963

Our Blues

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