Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Jimmy Woods - Awakening!

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:37
Size: 96,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:05)  1. Awakening!
(4:22)  2. Circus
(7:54)  3. Not Yet
(3:37)  4. A New Twist
(6:38)  5. Love For Sale
(5:11)  6. Roma
(5:45)  7. Little Jim
(4:01)  8. Anticipation

Fantastic work by this obscure LA legend! Jimmy Woods was one of the unsung geniuses of the west coast scene at the start of the 60s and the few recordings he ever made stand as some of the best examples of how the avant garde was feeding into the hard bop scene out there and with fantastic results! Jimmy's alto is hard and biting throughout and although it veers in the direction of Ornette Coleman at times, the overall conception is very much Woods' own with a starkly clear voice that should have made him one of the key figures in 60s modern jazz. The rest of the group includes the great (and also underrecorded) Joe Gordon on trumpet, plus Amos Trice on piano, Milt Turner on drums, and either Gary Peacock or the highly rhythmic Jimmy Bond on bass. Titles include "Awakening", "Roma", "Not Yet", "New Twist", "Little Jim", and "Anticipation".  © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/7830/Jimmy-Woods:Awakening

Personnel: Jimmy Woods - alto saxophone;  Milton Turner - drums

Awakening!
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5 comments:

  1. kikenMay 1, 2019 at 4:34 AM

    Thank you!

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  2. FourcadeMay 1, 2019 at 7:05 PM

    Searched the web a bit, and it seems the
    album consists of 2 different quintet
    dates, 1961 and 1962 respectively, with
    Joe Gordon only on 2 tracks, and on the
    other session, trumpet Martin Banks on 3
    tracks. Cheers!!

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  3. Nobody'sTunesMay 1, 2019 at 9:42 PM

    Yes, you are right Fourcade. This is a reissue of the Contemporary Records-S7605 whose Personnel is:

    Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Woods
    Bass – Gary Peacock (tracks: A3, B2, B3), Jimmy Bond (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B4)
    Drums – Milt Turner
    Piano – Amos Trice (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B4), Dick Whittington (3) (tracks: A3, B2, B3)
    Producer – Lester Koenig
    Recorded By [Sound] – Roy DuNann
    Trumpet – Joe Gordon (tracks: B1, B4), Martin Banks (tracks: A1, A4, B1)

    Tracks A1, A2, A4, B1, B4 were recorded on September 13, 1961 in Los Angeles, CA and tracks A3, B2, B3 were recorded on February 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, CA

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