Condition: Used
Lennie Niehaus - Vol.1 The Quintet
Label: Contemporary Records
Catalog#: C-2513
Format: Vinyl, Album, 10"
Record is VG with marks ( listen)
Cover has 1 inch wear opening side right top and bottom and has some wear to front ( see pic)
Country:
US
Released: 1954
Genre: Jazz
Tracklist.
A1 I Remember You
Composed By – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
A2 Whose Blues
Composed By – Lennie Niehaus
A3 Prime Rib
Composed By – Lennie Niehaus
A4 Inside Out
Composed By – Lennie Niehaus
B1 You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Composed By – Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown
B2 I'll Take Romance
Composed By – Ben Oakland, Oscar Hammerstein II
B3 Day By Day
Composed By – Frank Skinner , Paul G. Smith
B4 Bottoms Up
Composed By – Lennie Niehaus
Credits
Double Bass – Monty Budwig
Drums – Shelly Manne
Saxophone [Alto] – Lennie Niehaus
Saxophone [Baritone] – Bob Gordon
Saxophone [Tenor] – Jack Montrose
Frankly I would say that west coast Jazz musicians produced some of the best jazz of the fifties (commonly known as the golden era of Jazz). Apart from Charlie Parker and the pure bebop experience and records of the forties- early fifties, I think that west coast Jazz from the middle-late fifties is the best jazz you can buy. Among the greatest west coast Jazz musicians surely ranks Lennie Niehaus an impressive alto saxophonist with remarkable chops.
He was a great composer-arranger and instrumentalist something very rare in the whole history of Jazz music
It is a swinging, bebop recording that showcases Lennie Niehaus's remarkable talents as arranger and soloist. Using well-written charts, the Niehaus ensemble plays tight harmonies yet have free rein to improvise on the choruses.
The tunes are well chosen standard fare but it's the Niehaus originals that stand out: "Whose Blues", "Prime Rib", "Inside Out",
Make no mistake about this group. They swing and they swing hard.
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