Eddie Gomez - Down Stretch

Styles: Jazz, Post Bop 
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:05
Size: 101,0 MB
Art: Front

(10:44)  1. Blues E
( 6:59)  2. Caprice
( 5:08)  3. Half Life
( 9:16)  4. Down Stretch
( 4:41)  5. Starry Night
( 7:15)  6. Dream Passage

Legendary bassist and two-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Gomez has been on the cutting edge of music for over four decades.  His impressive resumé includes performances with jazz giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan and Benny Goodman.  Eddie’s unique sound and style can be heard on many Grammy winning records as well as on hundreds of recordings spanning the worlds of jazz, classical, Latin jazz, rhythm & blues, popular and contemporary music. Born in 1944 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Eddie moved to New York City with his family at an early age.  His love of music led him to the double bass as a precocious 11-year old student in the public school system.  Two years later he was accepted to the High School of Music and Art and soon began private studies with the great double bass teacher Fred Zimmerman.  During these years, he performed with many professional dance bands and was a member of the Newport Youth Band led by Marshall Brown.  By 18, he had performed with such jazz luminaries as Buck Clayton, Lionel Hampton, Marian McPartland and Paul Bley. Eddie continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, where his contemporaries included Chick Corea, Hubert Laws, James Levine, Itzak Perlman, Paula Robinson and Gary Karr.  By the end of his third year of school, he dreamed, of a career as a performing jazz musician.  Later that summer he joined with Gary McFarland and soon after the Gerry Mulligan Quintet. More.. http://eddiegomez.com/biography.html

Personnel:  Bass – Eddie Gomez;  Percussion – Elliot Zigmund;  Piano – Takehiro Honda

Down Stretch

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