Ted Brown - Shades of Brown

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:04
Size: 151,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:54)  1. After You've Gone
(5:48)  2. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
(6:19)  3. Almost Like Being in Love
(6:31)  4. She's Funny That Way
(5:29)  5. Limehouse Blues
(5:00)  6. How Deep is the ocean
(4:36)  7. This can't be Love
(6:28)  8. Cherokee
(4:39)  9. Embraceable You
(5:31) 10. The Song is You
(4:46) 11. You go to my Head
(5:58) 12. I Found a new baby

Although nearing his 80th birthday by the time this early-2007 session was issued near the end of the same year, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown hasn't recorded extensively as a leader. A onetime student of Lennie Tristano, he mastered the pianist's intricate reworkings of standards, though he eventually returned to a more straight-ahead approach to his instrument, becoming a descendant of Lester Young's playing style. With support from guitarist Steve Lamattina (making one of his first appearances on a widely distributed jazz CD) and veteran bassist Dennis Irwin, Brown possesses a light tone and consistently swings in these cool performances, with the rhythm section also playing at a low volume level, making for a relaxing date. Yet, Brown is very much his own man and not a "repeating pencil" trying to re-create Young's work, much like Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, and other cool-toned saxophonists who paid their dues during the 1950s. There isn't a piece on the session that's less than a half-century old, but Brown and his mates make each of them sound fresh. "Cherokee," "This Can't Be Love," and "You Go to My Head" are just a few of the highlights of this rewarding CD. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/shades-of-brown-mw0000585361

Personnel:  Ted Brown (tenor sax);  Dennis Irwin (bass);  Steve Lamattina (guitar)

Shades of Brown

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