Mariachi Brass: Taste Of Tequila / Hats Off
Taste Of Tequila / Hats Off
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Beat Goes Public, 1966
- Bestellnummer: 7575441
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.7.2006
+ Chet Baker, Jack Nitzsche
After decades of the US recording industry being centred upon New York, the 60s saw a period of re-focusing upon Los Angeles. Their time had come, and the cream of the musicians and arrangers were able to work as many hours in the day as they liked or could tolerate.
Los Angelean session musicians aided the chart action for the Beach Boys, the Byrds and many other local acts, but what turned out to be the biggest long-term seller was Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass. Many players attempted to gain some of the Tijuana Brass’s sales action by using the session talents available locally. World Pacific’s Bud Dain saw the opportunity, and approached the hard workin’ arranger man, Jack Nitzsche, to help bring a similar act to fruition. Nitzsche, fresh from his work with Phil Spector, Jackie De Shannon, Bob Lind et al, knew all the best local players, and was quickly able to assemble a crack team including guitarists Al Casey and Don Peake, bassist Lyle Ritz, drummer Frank Capp and brass players Roy Caton, Lou Blackburn and Lew McCreary – all names familiar to students of Californian recording of the time. World Pacific had another ace up their sleeve in that they had the cool jazzer Chet Baker under contract, and Bud Dain was keen, despite some misgivings from Nitzsche, to have Baker front the project.
Baker’s playing on the first two Mariachi Brass albums, A TASTE OF TEQUILA and HATS OFF, was delectable. Without having to be the main driving force of the group, he was able to relax and let his flugelhorn work around Nitzsche’s arrangements and produce some of the best of his later playing, making the albums’ title lines ‘Featuring Chet Baker’ genuinely rewarding sales points.
The team (that included George Tipton arrangements for some of the second album’s tracks), played safe with their choice of material, picking well-known recent pop hits that fitted the jaunty upbeat concept. The Statler Brothers’ Flowers On The Wall, the Champs’ Tequila and Gene Pitney’s Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa all got the treatment on the first album, with Speedy Gonzales, El Paso and La Bamba maintaining the geographical and cultural focus. The second album, “Hats Off”, predominantly took a more recent focus with hits from 1966, though one of the best tracks, Spanish Harlem, was of course from slightly earlier. Here Baker improvises easily atop a cool percussive arrangement that would make anyone smile. Sales of the project were not massive, but the quality of the playing and arrangements from a particularly successful US 60s genre demand attention. We are proud to bring the Mariachi Brass to market once again.
Los Angelean session musicians aided the chart action for the Beach Boys, the Byrds and many other local acts, but what turned out to be the biggest long-term seller was Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass. Many players attempted to gain some of the Tijuana Brass’s sales action by using the session talents available locally. World Pacific’s Bud Dain saw the opportunity, and approached the hard workin’ arranger man, Jack Nitzsche, to help bring a similar act to fruition. Nitzsche, fresh from his work with Phil Spector, Jackie De Shannon, Bob Lind et al, knew all the best local players, and was quickly able to assemble a crack team including guitarists Al Casey and Don Peake, bassist Lyle Ritz, drummer Frank Capp and brass players Roy Caton, Lou Blackburn and Lew McCreary – all names familiar to students of Californian recording of the time. World Pacific had another ace up their sleeve in that they had the cool jazzer Chet Baker under contract, and Bud Dain was keen, despite some misgivings from Nitzsche, to have Baker front the project.
Baker’s playing on the first two Mariachi Brass albums, A TASTE OF TEQUILA and HATS OFF, was delectable. Without having to be the main driving force of the group, he was able to relax and let his flugelhorn work around Nitzsche’s arrangements and produce some of the best of his later playing, making the albums’ title lines ‘Featuring Chet Baker’ genuinely rewarding sales points.
The team (that included George Tipton arrangements for some of the second album’s tracks), played safe with their choice of material, picking well-known recent pop hits that fitted the jaunty upbeat concept. The Statler Brothers’ Flowers On The Wall, the Champs’ Tequila and Gene Pitney’s Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa all got the treatment on the first album, with Speedy Gonzales, El Paso and La Bamba maintaining the geographical and cultural focus. The second album, “Hats Off”, predominantly took a more recent focus with hits from 1966, though one of the best tracks, Spanish Harlem, was of course from slightly earlier. Here Baker improvises easily atop a cool percussive arrangement that would make anyone smile. Sales of the project were not massive, but the quality of the playing and arrangements from a particularly successful US 60s genre demand attention. We are proud to bring the Mariachi Brass to market once again.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Flowers on the wall (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 2 Tequila (A Taste Of Tequila (World Pacific Lp Wp 1839, 1966))
- 3 Mexico (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 4 Love me with all your heart (Cuando calienta el sol) (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 5 Hot Toddy (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 6 Twenty four hours from Tulsa (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 7 Speedy Gonzales (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 8 Come a little bit closer (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 9 El paso (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 10 La bamba (A taste of tequila (World Pacific LP WP 1839, 1966))
- 11 Happiness is (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 12 Sure gonna miss her (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 13 Bang bang (My baby shot me down) (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 14 The phoenix love theme (Senza fine) (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 15 These boots are made for walking (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 16 On the street where you live (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 17 Armens's theme (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 18 Spanish Harlem (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 19 Chiquita banana (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 20 When the day is all done (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 21 You baby (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 22 It's too late (Hats off (World Pacific Lp WP 1842, 1966))
- 23 Colonel Bogey March (World Pacific 77853, 1966)