Stan Getz & Bob Brookmeyer - Recorded Fall (1961)

Stan Getz & Bob Brookmeyer - Recorded Fall (1961)

jazz | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 315MB

Verve Master Edition

Allmusic:
Shortly after returning to the U.S. (following three years in Copenhagen) Stan Getz had a musical reunion with Bob Brookmeyer. As usual the cool-toned tenor blends in very well with the valve trombonist and, backed by a fine rhythm section (pianist Steve Kuhn, bassist John Neves and drummer Roy Haynes), they perform three Brookmeyer pieces (including one titled "Minuet Circa '61"), two standards and Buck Clayton's "Love Jumped Out." This little-known session is often quite memorable.

Tracks
-1. "Minuet Circa '61" (Bob Brookmeyer) - 10:38
-2. "Who Could Care?" (Brookmeyer) - 4:46
-3. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:58
-4. "Thump, Thump, Thump" (Brookmeyer) - 6:52
-5. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) - 6:59
-6. "Love Jumped Out" (Buck Clayton) - 7:46

Personnel
* Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone
* Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
* Steve Kuhn - piano
* John Neves - double bass
* Roy Haynes - drums

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Jimmy Raney - Featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956) (eac-log-cover)

Jimmy Raney - Featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956)

jazz | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 120MB

Verve/Decca originals

Allmusic:
Though Jimmy Raney recorded under his own name as early as 1953, this 1956 set is regarded as his arrival as a leader. Raney is as fine an arranger as he is a guitarist. These eight tracks with Bob Brookmeyer on trombone (another fine arranger in a soloist's role) shine with the ease and fluidity of the best of the cool sessions recorded at the dawn of hard bop. One of the finest examples of the interplay between Raney and Brookmeyer occurs at the beginning of the album's second track, "How Long Has This Been Going On?," where the pair engage in a brief contrapuntal dialogue before Brookmeyer solos on the melody and Raney gently fills the space behind him by whispering his chords and fills through the trombonist's phrasing, before taking his own solo and slipping an inverted harmonic pattern on the tune's lyric line. The pair re-engage about halfway through before Dick Katz solos on piano with a bluesy series of runs in the upper register. Raney's own tunes, such as "The Flag Is Up," are strident and swinging without losing the breezy cool feel . Raney's solo is a mix of bop phrasing and heated arpeggios that glide effortlessly into Katz's comping. Brookmeyer's "Get Off That Roof" is another swinging mini-opus that offers a new view of the trombonist as soloist. Hank Jones plays piano here and is stellar at creating a solid backdrop for both front-line players. This is as fine a set from the end of the cool jazz period as one is likely to hear.

Tracks
-1. "Isn't It Romantic?" 4:03
-2. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" 4:26
-3. "No Male for Me"
-4. "The Flag Is Up" 4:07
-5. "Get Off That Roof" 4:04
-6. "Jim's Tune" 4:00
-7. "Nobody Else But Me" 4:53
-8. "Too Late Now" 4:13

Personnel
*Jimmy Raney (guitar)
*Teddy Kotick (bass guitar)
*Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone)
*Dick Katz, Hank Jones (piano)
*Osie Johnson (drums)

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