Gate swings
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Clarence Gatemouth Brown studio album | ||||
Publication |
1997 |
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admission |
November 18-20, 1996 |
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Label (s) | Verve / Gitanes 537 617 - 2 | |||
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
55:49 |
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occupation |
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Jim Bateman and John Snyder |
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Studio (s) |
Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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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
- Midnight hour
- Honey Dew
- Tough up
- Take the "A" train
- Too late baby
- Gate's Blues Waltz
- Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)
- Bits and Pieces
- River's Invitation
- One O'Clock Jump
- Take me back baby
- Since I Fell for You
- 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.