Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Coney Island

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1975
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:42
Size: 96,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:14)  1. Coney Island
(2:36)  2. I Have Dreamed
(4:29)  3. Senor Mouse
(4:04)  4. Mickey
(2:30)  5. Sweet Georgia Brown
(3:07)  6. Ratatouille (Rata Too Ee)
(2:37)  7. Catfish
(2:39)  8. This Masquerade
(5:34)  9. Carmine
(1:54) 10. The Crave
(3:49) 11. Vento Bravo
(5:02) 12. I Belong

Encouraged by his comeback album, Herb Alpert assembled a new version of the TJB including a hotshot second trumpeter, Bob Findley, and jazz piano whiz Dave Frishberg and hit the studio and road in 1975. Yet Coney Island was a brave, nearly complete departure from the old Tijuana Brass, where the jazzers were given carte blanche and the rhythm section encouraged to do more complex things. As a signal of independence, the new Brass tackle Chick Corea's "Senor Mouse" head-on, where Frishberg runs wild and even longtime marimbist Julius Wechter is affected by the adventurous spirit. Alpert's own playing on trumpet (and now flugelhorn and piano) is a bit freer as well, and he goes out on a limb as a composer with the experimental, not-quite-coherent "Carmine." TJB tradition is also served by a loose, swinging version of "I Have Dreamed," and an older legacy pops up in the Alpert/Frishberg duet on Jelly Roll Morton's "The Crave." But this edition of the Brass was short-lived; the public didn't get it and Alpert soon moved on to solo projects, leaving this sole LP as its legacy. ~ Richard S.Ginell http://www.allmusic.com/album/coney-island-mw0000857103

Personnel: Peter Woodford (guitar); Herb Alpert, Bob Findley (trumpet); Bob Edmondson (trombone); Dave Fishberg (piano); Julius Wechter (marimba, percussion); Steven Schaeffer (drums); Vince Charles (steel drum, percussion).

Coney Island

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