Gate swings

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Gate swings
Clarence Gatemouth Brown studio album

Publication
(s)

1997

admission

November 18-20, 1996

Label (s) Verve / Gitanes 537 617 - 2

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Blues , swing

Title (number)

13

running time

55:49

occupation
  • Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Eric Traub - tenor saxophone
  • David Peters - drums
  • Jamil Sharif, Rick Trolsen, Bernard Floyd, Bobby Campo - trumpet
  • Tony Dagradi, Eric Demmer, Warren Bell, Ray Moore - alto saxophone
  • Anthony Frigo - baritone saxophone
  • Gene Gunulfsen - vocals
  • Harold Floyd - bass
  • Joe Krown - piano
  • John Touchy, Brian O'Neill, Richard Erb - trombone

production

Jim Bateman and John Snyder

Studio (s)

Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana

chronology
A Long Way Home
1996 		Gate swings American Music, Texas Style
1999

Gate Swings is an album by US blues musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , which he recorded in 1997 for Verve / Gitanes.

General

The album celebrates the 50th anniversary of Clarence Gatemouth Brown as a record artist. The aptly named album draws on the fusion of big band blues and jazz that was popular in the late 1940s. In addition to numbers that have long been part of Brown's repertoire (for example Take The A Train and Percy Mayfield's River's Invitation ) there are also new pieces ( Bits and Pieces and Gate's Blues Waltz ).

Track list

  1. Midnight hour
  2. Honey Dew
  3. Tough up
  4. Take the "A" train
  5. Too late baby
  6. Gate's Blues Waltz
  7. Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)
  8. Bits and Pieces
  9. River's Invitation
  10. One O'Clock Jump
  11. Take me back baby
  12. Since I Fell for You
  13. Flying Home

Charts

  • Billboard Top Jazz Albums # 7

Criticism

  • Down Beat (9/97, pp. 43–44) - 4 out of 5 stars - "... he combine's the weight of experience with the immediacy of self-rejuvenation ... Brown the guitar storyteller really outdoes himself ..." (... he combines the weight of experience with the directness of self-rejuvenation ... Brown the guitar storyteller really outdoes himself ...)
  • Concerto ... his new album "Gate Swings" is rooted in the blues, but brings it to extensive orchestrated jazz fields.