Woody's Winners

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Woody's Winners
Woody Herman studio album

Publication
(s)

1965

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

8th

running time

43:18

occupation

production

Teo Macero

Studio (s)

Live recording from Basin Street West, San Francisco

chronology

(1965) 		Woody's Winners
(1965)

Woody's Winners is a jazz - album of Woody Herman from 1965. It contains live recordings of 28, 29 and 30 June 1965 from the Jazz Club Basin Street West in San Francisco and was designed by Columbia Records released 1965th

The album

The Swinging Herd of bandleader Woody Herman had played together for several years, recordings live than this the end of June originated in San Francisco in 1965; This summer there was also a performance at the Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins ( Jazz à Juan ). Herman's Big Band at the time included well-known soloists such as trumpeters Dusko Goykovich , Bill Chase and Don Rader as well as tenor saxophonists Sal Nistico , Andy McGhee and Gary Klein .

The first piece “23 Red” is a composition by trumpeter Bill Chase; the title refers to a roulette combination Chase used when the Woody Herman band performed in Reno, Tahoe and Las Vegas. The "23" was also the short name in the band for the title " Four Brothers "; similarly, “Caldonia” had the number 24 and “ Early Autumn ” the 21. The title particularly emphasizes the trumpet section from Chase, Goykovich and Rader as a soloist. Rader arranged the version of the Rodgers / Hart standard " My Funny Valentine " played here; Band leader Herman played the first solo on the clarinet. After Rader's solo, Gary Klein followed with a saxophone solo in the style of Al Cohn . This is followed by a remake, arranged by Nat Pierce, of the title "Northwest Passage" by Herman, Chubby Jackson and Ralph Burns ; the title was a hit number of First Herd , which was first recorded in 1945.

The short "Poor Butterfly" arranged by Don Rader is a feature for the band leader with lyrical solos on the clarinet and alto saxophone. On the “Greasy Sack Blues”, Herman wrote in the liner notes : It was a reminiscence of his and Basie's times in the Roseland Club; “He certainly left his mark on both of us”. “Woody 'Whistle” is an original blues by Dusko Goykovich, who is also the first soloist, followed by pianist Pierce and Sal Nistico. Goykovich also did the arrangement of “Red Roses for a Blue Lady”, in which the reed section of the band comes into its own. The concert recording closes with Horace Silver's “Opus de Funk”, which Nat Pierce arranged and which the band had had in the program since 1955. Nat Pierce's playing is a reference to the pianist Mary Lou Williams . It was the last track the Herman band played in Basin Street West last night , followed by Woody Herman’s encore “Blue Flame”.

Rating of the album

Richard Cook and Brian Morton counted “Woody's Winners” among the greatest big band recordings that had ever been made, and awarded the album the rarely awarded crown in the Penguin Guide to Jazz in addition to the highest rating. They named Herman's band of Goykovich, Chase, Rader and Nat Pierce as his most enthusiastic and capable Herd line-up of the 1960s. The authors particularly emphasize the opening “23 Red” by Chase as well as the up tempo interpretation of “My Funny Valentine” and Sal Nistico's solo masterpieces in “Northwest Passage”. Woody Herman himself convinced in "Poor Butterfly", as well as the processing of Horace Silver's "Opus De Funk". Scott Yanow in the All Music Guide considers the album to be the "definitive" work among the many entertaining records by the band leader and his swinging stove from this period; Martin Kunzler counts Woody's Winners in his jazz dictionary as one of the band leader's impressive albums. In his review in Rough Guide: Jazz, Brian Priestley highlights the album from Herman's extensive discography and particularly mentions “Opus De Funk” with soloist Nat Pierce, the “excellent new material” such as “23 Red” and the “Greasy Sack Blues” as well as the remarkable remake of "Northwest Passage" from the first stove .

The title of the original album

Woody Herman 1976
  • Woody Herman: Woody's Winners (Columbia Records CS 9236)
  1. "23 Red" (Bill Chase) 3:23
  2. " My Funny Valentine " ( Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart ) 4:07
  3. "Northwest Passage" (W. Herman, Chubby Jackson , Ralph Burns ) 5:09
  4. "Poor Butterfly" (JLGolden / R. Hubbell) 3:05
  5. "Greasy Sack Blues" (D. Rader) 5:37
  6. "Woody 'Whistle" (Dusko Goykovich) 7:29
  7. "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" (S. Tepper / R. Bennett) 3:35
  8. "Opus de Funk" (J. Noble / J. Bishop / L. Corday / H. Silver) and "The Theme (Blue Flame)" (W. Herman / Joe Bishop ) 10:44
  • The new CD edition from Mosaic Records contains further concert recordings from Basin Street West in June 1965:
  1. "Watermelon Man" ( Herbie Hancock ) 6:42 Solos: Andy McGhee, Bobby Shew, Henry Southall, Woody Herman (clarinet)
  2. " I Remember Clifford " ( Benny Golson ) 5:38 Solo: Dusko Goykovich
  3. "The Preacher" (Horace Silver) 4:40 Solos: Gary Klein, Sal Nistico, Henry Southall, Woody Herman (clarinet)
  4. "Waltz For A Hung Up Ballet Mistress" (Bill Holman) 2:39 Solo: Woody Herman (soprano saxophone)
  5. " I Can't Get Started " (V. Duke-I. Gershwin) 3:47 Solo: Bill Chase
  6. "Hallelujah" (Peterson-Hamilton-Dodds) 3:12 Solos: Sal Nistico, Andy McGhee
  7. "Jazz Hoot" (Bill Holman) 5:02 solos: Bill Chase or Bobby Shew, Henry Southall, Sal Nistico, Woody Herman (clarinet)
  8. “Satin Doll” (Ellington-Strayhorn-Mercer) 2:56 Solo: Tony Leonardi

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Herman, cit. after Herb Wong, Liner notes.
  2. ^ Cook (Morton, p. 710)
  3. ↑ See Priestley, p. 292.