Artist: Ray Brown
Title Of Album: Jazz Cello
Year Of Release: 1960
Label: Verve
Genre: Jazz
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 37:24
Total Size: 204 MB(+3%)
Artist: Ray Brown
Title Of Album: Jazz Cello
Year Of Release: 1960
Label: Verve
Genre: Jazz
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 37:24
Total Size: 204 MB(+3%)
Tracklist
01 — Tangerine
02 — Almost Like Being In Love
03 — That Old Feeling
04 — Ain’t Misbehavin’
05 — Alice Blue Gown
06 — Rosalie
07 — But Beautiful
08 — Poor Butterfly
09 — Memories Of You
10 — Rock A Bye Your Baby
personnel :
Ray Brown — cello, bass
Russ Garcia — arranger, conductor
Don Fagerquist — trumpet
Jack Cave — French horn
Harry Betts — trombone
Bob Cooper, Med Flory, Bill Hood, Paul Horn — reeds
Jimmy Rowles — piano
Joe Mondragon — bass
Dick Shanahan — drums
On the last day of August and the first day of September 1960,
bassist Ray Brown recorded his third album for the Verve label,
focusing most of his attention upon the cello while Joe Mondragon
handled the bass. The 11-piece band on this date was conducted by
arranger Russ Garcia and included reed players Paul Horn and Bob
Cooper as well as pianist Jimmy Rowles. The results were typical of
late-’50s West Coast mainstream jazz: familiar ballads and
friendly, uplifting standards, tidily performed. Some of the tunes
reach back to the 1920s, with «Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie
Melody» serving as a surprisingly hip link with vaudeville as
Brown’s pizzicato maneuverings are punctuated with punchy blasts
from reeds and brass. If one takes the time to place this recording
within an historical context, an impressive evolution reveals
itself. The first bassist to cross over to cello on records in
modern times is believed to have been Oscar Pettiford, while Fred
Katz popularized the warm-toned instrument through his work with
drummer Chico Hamilton. The progression of jazz cellists since then
is impressive, from Ray Brown, Sam Jones, Percy Heath and Ron
Carter to Abdul Wadud, David Holland, David Darling, David Eyges
and Diedre Murray. By the first decade of the 21st century, an
unprecedented number of improvising cellists had appeared, making
Ray Brown’s 1960 Jazz Cello album seem like a sunny little episode
in the foundation of a fascinating modern tradition spanning
several generations.