Tom Harrell - Time's Mirror

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:34
Size: 116,0 MB
Art: Front

(8:19)  1. Shapes
(3:31)  2. Autumn Leaves
(4:01)  3. Daily News
(2:47)  4. Dream
(5:06)  5. Chasin' The Bird
(8:43)  6. São Paulo
(8:09)  7. Time's Mirror
(9:54)  8. Train Shuffle

Tom Harrell has received rave reviews from his fellow jazz musicians for years, but he only started receiving the attention he deserved from a wider audience in the latter half of the 1990s. A number of Harrell's compositions and arrangements on this outstanding big band session date from the 1960s but are just now being recorded; it is more than worth the wait. The background harmonies behind the soloists on the hard-driving "Shapes" are incredible; the tense "Daily News" with his rich flugelhorn, the haunting ballad "Times Mirror," and the foot tapping blues "Train Shuffle" are all candidates to become jazz standards. His treatments of "Autumn Leaves," "Dream" and "Chasin' The Bird" display vivid imagination. 

Harrell's playing on trumpet and flugelhorn is sparkling, and tenor saxophonists Alex Foster and Don Braden as well as pianist Xavier Davis also shine. Highly recommended! ~ Ken Dryden  http://www.allmusic.com/album/times-mirror-mw0000668736

Personnel: Tom Harrell (trumpet, flugelhorn); Craig Bailey (alto saxophone, flute); Mark Gross (alto saxophone, clarinet); Alex Foster (tenor saxophone, flute); Don Braden (tenor saxophone); David Schumacher (baritone saxophone); Joe Magnarelli, Chris Rogers, David Weiss, James Zollar (trumpet, flugelhorn); Earl Gardner (trumpet); Conrad Herwig, Mike Fahn, Curtis Hasselbring (trombone); Douglas Purviance (bass trombone); Xavier Davis (piano); Kenny Davis (bass); Carl Allen (drums).

Time's Mirror

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