Al Grey - The Last Of The Big Plungers

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 67:50
Size: 155.3 MB
Styles: Trombone jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:42] 1. Thing's Ain't What They Used To Be
[4:48] 2. Open Wider, Please
[3:17] 3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
[3:06] 4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
[2:30] 5. Home Come You Do Me Like You Do
[3:08] 6. Bluish Grey
[5:13] 7. The Elder
[3:35] 8. Bewitched
[6:04] 9. Kenie-Konie
[5:49] 10. Salty Papa
[2:21] 11. Don't Cry Baby
[5:27] 12. Stranded
[2:03] 13. Tenderly
[3:43] 14. Rompin'
[5:37] 15. King Bee
[2:31] 16. When I Fall In Love
[4:49] 17. Al-Lamo

Tracks #1-9 from the album "The Last Of The Big Plungers" (Argo LP 653). Al Grey Octet: Joe Newman (tp), Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb), Billy Mitchell (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs), Floyd Morris (p), Ed Jones (b) and Sonny Payne (d). Recorded at Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago, September 25 & 28, 1959.

Tracks #10-17 from the album "The Thinking Man's Trombone" (Argo LP 677). Al Grey Nonet: Joe Newman (tp), Al Grey, Benny Powell (tb); Billy Mitchell (ts), Charlie Fowlkes (bs); Freddie Green (g), Billy Higgins (p), Ed Jones (b) and Sonny Payne (d). Recorded at Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago, August 23,24 & 25, 1960.

These two albums, under the leadership of trombonist Al Grey, were recorded while he was a member of Count Basie’s band. With the exception of the pianists, the men assembled to play in these sessions were all well known Basie-ites. All the charts share a spare, functional approach ideal for the three brass-two saxes instrumentation. The arrangements delve cleanly and right to the heart of swinging. Grey, famed for his plunger mute work, plays vigorously and inventively.

Both groups—an octet and a nonet—display that warm, moving blues feeling that characterized the Basie band, with all the soloists blowing with sure-footed intensity alongside the tastefully swinging leader.

The Last Of The Big Plungers

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