The Arrival (album)
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| Studio album by Richard Wyands | ||||
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CD |
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9 |
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52:39 |
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Sound on Sound Studio, New York City |
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The Arrival is a jazz album by pianist Richard Wyands . The trio recordings with drummer Leroy Williams and bassist Lisle Atkinson were made on June 12, 1992 in Sound on Sound Studio, New York City, and were released in the same year on the Japanese label DIW Records .
background
After Then, Here and Now (which Richard Wyands recorded with Lisle Atkinson and David Lee in 1978), The Arrival was only the second album by the then 64-year-old pianist under his own name. During this time, he was otherwise engaged as a musician on recordings of Benny Carter's All Star Sax Ensemble, André Villeger , Don Sickler , George Kelly , Harold Ashby , Hal Singer , Eric Alexander , Frank Wess and Warren Vaché .
Wyands 'program on this studio production included mostly rarely recorded standards such as Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee" (a song from 1954 that Truman Capote wrote the lyrics to) and two Richard Rodgers tracks , the show number "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World ”from 1935, which he wrote with Lorenz Hart , and“ The Sweetest Sounds ”, a song from the musical No Strings from 1962. Wyands also performed Horace Parlan's “ The Arrival ”, Duke Ellington's “ Warm Valley ” and the theme song from Sidney Lumet's 1964 film The Pawnbroker , "The Pawnborker" by Quincy Jones . The one original composition by pianist consists of a Blues - line .
Track list
- Richard Wyand's Trio: The Arrival (DIW-611)
- The Most Beautiful Girl ( Rodgers and Hart ) 6:36
- The Arrival (Horace Parlan) 5:20
- Sleeping Bee (Harold Arlen) 6:42
- The Sweetest Sounds (Richard Rodgers) 4:46
- Teach Me Tonight ( Gene DePaul ) 5:44
- Warm Valley (Duke Ellington) 6:27
- The Pawnbroker ( Quincy Jones ) 4:59
- Dee's Den (Richard Wyands) 4:59
- The Juggler ( Mickey Bass ) 7:06
reception
Duck Barber praised in JazzTimes that Wyands is a good pianist with an attractive, crisp attack, whose playing is in the tradition of Bud Powell and embodies a convincing style of improvisation. Wyands is one of the often overlooked musicians who are not concerned with groundbreaking paths, but are effortlessly creative within the limits they have chosen. If he uses styles that are associated with other pianists, he does it in his own way. His trio colleagues Lisle Atkinson and Leroy Williams provided an inconspicuous support who followed every movement without drawing attention to themselves. The author compares Wyands' playing stance with that of Tommy Flanagan .
Ken Dryden gave the album in Allmusic 3½ (out of five) stars and said Wyands 'selection of tracks on this album was interesting because he favored a slightly swinging recording of "The Most Beautiful Girl" and Richard Rodgers' better known works a driving arrangement of "The Sweetest Sounds". His optimistic-looking revision in the style of Latin American music of Duke Ellington's "Warm Valley" and his uncomplicated interpretation of "The Pawnbroker" by Quincy Jones are very appealing. His only original, “Dee's Den”, is, in the author's opinion, “pretty percussive hardbop that sounds like it's an excellent final act on a live date. This solid commitment is worth it. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz discography online
- ^ A b Duck Barber: Richard Wyand's Trio: The Arrival. JazzTimes, March 1, 2000, accessed October 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Richard Wyand's Trio: The Arrival at Discogs
- ↑ Review of Ken Dryden's album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 8, 2019.