Time: 78:43
Size: 180.2 MB
Styles: Hard bop
Year: 2013
Art: Front
[ 5:49] 1. Hard Sock Dance
[ 6:51] 2. Alison
[ 7:03] 3. Tipsy
[ 5:31] 4. Please Say Yes
[ 8:10] 5. A Kiss To Build The Dream On
[ 6:35] 6. Maud's Wood
[ 6:35] 7. Rights Of Swing: Prelude And Part 1
[ 7:42] 8. Rights Of Swing: Pt. 2 Ballad
[ 5:43] 9. Rights Of Swing Part 3 Waltz
[11:24] 10. Rights Of Swing Part 4 Scherzo
[ 7:16] 11. Rights Of Swing Part 5 Presto
Benny Bailey (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Julius Watkins (frh), Phil Woods (as, b-cl), Sahib Shihab (bs), Tommy Flanagan (p), Les Spann (fl, g), Buddy Catlett (b), Art Taylor, Osie Johnson (d). Tracks #1-6, from the album “Benny Bailey – Big Brass” (Candid CJS9011). Tracks #7-11, from the album “Phil Woods – Rights of Swing” (Candid CJS9016). Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered.
This memorable pairing of trumpeter Benny Bailey’s Big Brass and altoist Phil Woods’ Rights of Swing unites two albums which illustrate the virtues and the possibilities of the hard bop idiom. Made within months of each other at the start of the 1960s, they share largely the same brilliant players, but use them somewhat differently to achieve outstanding results.
For Big Brass Bailey had a blowing septet that included Woods, pianist Tommy Flanagan and French hornist Julius Watkins, and a programme mostly of originals, including pieces by Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson. Simple arrangements gave the soloists a chance to shine and they took it, with Bailey, Woods, Flanagan and Watkins outstanding on the blues “Hard Sock Dance” and “Maud’s Mood” (with Woods on bass clarinet), and on “Tipsy” and “Please Say Yes” in particular.
Rights of Swing is even better, an ambitious, unfailingly inventive, five-part suite composed and arranged by Woods, with the same group, with minor changes, expanded to an octet that included trombonists Curtis Fuller or Willie Dennis, and baritonist Sahib Shihab. Imaginatively conceived and deftly crafted writing lends the octet a huge sound, while the soloists respond magnificently to the opportunities it offers, notably on “Part III (Ballad)”, the contrapuntal “Part IV (Scherzo)” and a marvellous “Part V (Presto)”. Its success makes it surprising that Woods didn’t attempt this kind of project more often.
This memorable pairing of trumpeter Benny Bailey’s Big Brass and altoist Phil Woods’ Rights of Swing unites two albums which illustrate the virtues and the possibilities of the hard bop idiom. Made within months of each other at the start of the 1960s, they share largely the same brilliant players, but use them somewhat differently to achieve outstanding results.
For Big Brass Bailey had a blowing septet that included Woods, pianist Tommy Flanagan and French hornist Julius Watkins, and a programme mostly of originals, including pieces by Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson. Simple arrangements gave the soloists a chance to shine and they took it, with Bailey, Woods, Flanagan and Watkins outstanding on the blues “Hard Sock Dance” and “Maud’s Mood” (with Woods on bass clarinet), and on “Tipsy” and “Please Say Yes” in particular.
Rights of Swing is even better, an ambitious, unfailingly inventive, five-part suite composed and arranged by Woods, with the same group, with minor changes, expanded to an octet that included trombonists Curtis Fuller or Willie Dennis, and baritonist Sahib Shihab. Imaginatively conceived and deftly crafted writing lends the octet a huge sound, while the soloists respond magnificently to the opportunities it offers, notably on “Part III (Ballad)”, the contrapuntal “Part IV (Scherzo)” and a marvellous “Part V (Presto)”. Its success makes it surprising that Woods didn’t attempt this kind of project more often.
Big Brass / Rights Of Swing
Thanks! I love Woods (R.I.P.), and the Bailey set looks very interesting, the lineup is impressive. Cheers from Spain...
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Hi Giullia, could you reload this album? Please, thanks!
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