Les Jazz Modes

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Les Jazz Modes (also The Rouse-Watkins Combo, Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes, The Jazz Modes or Les Modes ) was a jazz ensemble of the late 1950s, which was initially directed by Julius Watkins and Charlie Rouse .

Band history

The formation Les Jazz Modes emerged as an instrument quintet and essentially interpreted compositions and arrangements by French horn player Julius Watkins. During its existence from 1956 to 1959, the band released five albums on Dawn and later on Atlantic Records , Jazzville, Les Jazz Modes, Mood in Scarlet (recorded 1956), The Jazz Modes (1957) and The Most Happy Fella (based on the music of the Broadway musical of the same name by Frank Loesser , composed in 1957 and 1958). While the other staff of the band changed in the course of its existence and it then expanded into a septet with a singer, the pianist was always Gildo Mahones . In the fall of 1958, Charlie Rouse left the band to become a member of the Thelonious Monk Quartet; Watkins then played in the orchestras of Gil Evans and Johnny Richards .

Discographic notes

  • Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes: Jazzville '56, Vol. 1 (Dawn, June 1956), with Julius Watkins, Charlie Rouse, Gildo Mahones, Paul West , Art Taylor
  • Les Jazz Modes (Dawn, June 1956), with Julius Watkins, Charlie Rouse, Gildo Mahones, Paul Chambers , Oscar Pettiford , Janet Putnam , Ron Jefferson , Eileen Gilbert
  • Mood in Scarlet (Dawn, November 1956), with Julius Watkins, Charlie Rouse, Gildo Mahones, Martin Rivera , Ron Jefferson , Chino Pozo , Eileen Gilbert
  • The Jazz Modes (Atlantic, October 1957), with Julius Watkins, Charlie Rouse, Gildo Mahones, Martin Rivera, Ron Jefferson, Chino Pozo, Eileen Gilbert
  • The Most Happy Fella (Atlantic, November 1957 and November 1958), dto., Or with Sahib Shihab , Gildo Mahones, Martin Rivera, Jimmy Wormworth
  • The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions (ed. 2011)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Harrison , Eric Thacker, Stuart Nicholson: The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to Postmodernism, London, New York, Mansell 2000, ISBN 0720118220
  2. ↑ The second side of the LP contained recordings by the Gene Quill - Dick Sherman Quintet