5 for Freddie
| 5 for Freddie: Bucky's Tribute to Freddie Green | ||||
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| Studio album by Bucky Pizzarelli | ||||
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| Label (s) | Arbors Records | |||
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CD |
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11 |
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01:08:12 |
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Nola Studios, New York City |
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5 for Freddie: Bucky's Tribute to Freddie Green is a jazz album by Bucky Pizzarelli . The recordings, which were made on May 9 and 10, 2006 at Nola Studios in New York City, were released on February 13, 2007 on Arbors Records .
background
With his quintet of Warren Vaché (cornet), John Bunch (piano), Jay Leonhart (double bass) and Mickey Roker , guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli played in the same line-up as Freddie Green (1911–1987), known from the original Basie band. with Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet), Count Basie (piano), Walter Page (bass) and Jo Jones on drums. Five of the tracks chosen by Pizzarelli were composed by Freddie Green, including the Basie favorite "Corner Pocket" (recorded by the Basie band for the first time in 1955) and the comparatively forgotten numbers "Down for Double" (1941), "High Tide" ( 1945), "Bustin 'Suds" (1952) and "Up in the Blues" (1955). However, the album begins with a track that has nothing to do with Green, Basie or the Swing era, "Groovin 'High" from 1945, a reference to Pizzarelli's former band leader Dizzy Gillespie .
The guitarist Freddie Green of the Count Basie Orchestra was "the gold standard by which all big band rhythm guitarists were measured," wrote Elliott Simonin All About Jazz . Using an acoustic archtop guitar, Pizzarelli developed a style in which two strings of a three-string chord were muted to define the big band rhythm. As Pizzarelli relates:
- “With a big band there is a way to play and you have to know how to do it. The archtop is what you heard in all dance bands. Every good big band has a guitarist; that's why all these big bands had a great beat . The second rate bands didn't have a guitarist and even today, when you listen to a record without a guitar, there's a big empty hole. "
Track list
- 5 For Freddie: Bucky Pizzarelli's Tribute to Freddie Green (Arbors Jazz ARCD19344)
- Groovin 'High ( Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Parker ) 6:00
- Bustin 'Suds (Freddie Green) 6:00
- For Lena and Lennie ( Quincy Jones ) 9:12
- Up in the Blues (Freddie Green) 4:04
- Down for Double (Freddie Green) 4:10
- High Tide (Count Basie, Freddie Green) 4:27
- Dreamsville ( Jay Livingston , Henry Mancini ) 4:04
- Shiny Stockings ( Frank Foster ) 5:58
- Centerpiece (Harry Edison, Jon Hendricks ) 4:43
- Corner Pocket (Freddie Green) 4:30
- All of Me ( Gerald Marks , Seymour Simons ) 4:10
- Sophisticated Swing ( Will Hudson , Mitchell Parish ) 6:33
- Lester Leaps In ( Lester Young ) 4:21
reception
Ken Dryden awarded the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and praised Bucky Pizzarelli's homage to Freddie Green, who was the heart of the Count Basie Orchestra's rhythm section for half a century , captures the spirit of the late guitarist. Pizzarelli unplugged his amp and played many one-note chords, just like Green. He remembers the humble musician who rarely played solo on record or in concert. In Dryden's view, Pizarrelli did not attempt to imitate certain pictures Green; in fact, some of the selected pieces were never recorded by the musicians honored with them. But with so much experience among the five players present, swing the music with ease. To complement the band leader's restrained guitar playing, Warren Vaché uses a damper throughout the sessions, Bunch's piano is economical (similar to Basie's approach), and the rhythm section is similarly reserved, but there is “no doubt that swing is in the air . "
Mike Joyce reviewed the album in JazzTimes and said that even if this was just a small jazz combo session, Bucky Pizzarelli was still in a great ensemble mood, one big band veteran greets another. Pizzarelli had been a long-time admirer of Green's work with the Basie band. Obviously, Pizzarelli knew what sound he was looking for - his guitar played a prominent part in the mix, a steady driving force - and he's not the only one showing his affinity for the friendly, no-frills swing that Green has advocated his entire life . No one knows better than Pizzarelli that being Freddie Green is not easy, Joyce wrote, but he treats the assignment with confidence and affection.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of Ken Dryden's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 1, 2020.
- ↑ First recorded by Paul Quinichette in 1952 on the EmArcy EP Paul Quinichette Quintet .
- ↑ First recording by Freddie Green and His All Stars ( Mr. Rhythm ), with Joe Newman (tp), Henry Coker (trb), Al Cohn (ts, cl, b-cl, arr), Nat Pierce (p), Freddie Green (git), Milt Hinton (kb), Jo Jones (dr), Osie Johnson (dr), Manny Albam , Ernie Wilkins (arr); see. (as well as the previous years) Tom Lord , Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ a b Mike Joyce: Bucky Pizzarelli: 5 for Freddie: Bucky's Tribute to Freddie Green. JazzTimes, May 1, 2007, accessed April 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Elliott Simon: Bucky Pizzarelli: Dean Of The Seven-String. All About Jazz, August 2, 2008, accessed April 3, 2020 .
- ^ Bucky Pizzarelli - 5 for Freddie bei Discogs