Tad Shull - In The Land Of The Tenor

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:58
Size: 138,4 MB
Art: Front

(7:38)  1. Here's The Kicker
(5:14)  2. Night Horse
(8:02)  3. I Keep Going Back To Joe's
(7:39)  4. A Portrait Of Bojangles
(6:06)  5. This Is New
(7:11)  6. Pick Yourself Up
(6:55)  7. Nobody Else But Me
(5:55)  8. Angel Face
(5:15)  9. Prey-Loot

Tad Shull grew up in Westport on; during his school days at the Westport Public School, he started with the saxophone and entered the age of 13 in a swing band, also with 15 years in blues and rock and roll bands. In Westport, he studied jazz piano and improvisation at 1970/71 John Mehegan , with 16 years of saxophone and jazz improvisation with David Liebman (1971-73), with 18 years improvisation with Richard Beirach (1973-4). He attended the New England Conservatory , where he met with Gunther Schuller and Jaki Byard worked. Shull 1978 went to New York and worked in swing clubs in Midtown, as the Jimmy Ryan's and Eddie Condon's. Shull learned while musicians such as Roy Eldridge , Jimmy Rowles , Eddie Locke and Bobby Pratt know that as swing and mainstream jazz veterans were still active. 1981/82 Shull played in the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble of Bob Wilber , from which he also received clarinet lessons. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Widespread Depression Jazz Orchestra, with whom he went in the late 1980s on numerous tours. Until 1997, Shull worked with the formation. 

1990 Shull began to play with their own formations; Here, among other things worked the pianist Mike LeDonne and Ray Gallon , bassist Dennis Irwin and drummer Kenny Washington with. He also played with Dizzy Gillespie , Milt Jackson , Joe Williams , Cab Calloway and Woody Herman . In 2002, he participated in various events tribute in honor of Billy Strayhorn in Lincoln Center and played less well-known pieces by the composer. In addition, Shull underwent a study of political science at Columbia University ; Since then he has published about politics, music and culture. Furthermore, he has worked as a marketing consultant and also in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.  Shull's game on the tenor saxophone combined influences of Coleman Hawkins , Don Byas , Lucky Thompson , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Johnny Griffin and Sonny Rollins. ~ Bio  http://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Shull&prev=search

Personnel: Tad Shull (tenor saxophone); Kenny Washington (drums); Mike LeDonne (piano); Dennis Irvin (bass).

In The Land Of The Tenor

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