Al Haig: One-Day Session: Vogue & Esoteric Recordings on CD
One-Day Session: Vogue & Esoteric Recordings
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Fresh Sound
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1952-54
- Item number:
- 9070311
- UPC/EAN:
- 8427328604321
- Release date:
- 5.3.2007
Featuring: Al Haig (p), Bill Crow (b), Lee Abrams (d), Harry Babasin (b), Larry Bunker (d)
Al Haig (1924-1982) was still on his twenties when he became one of the first influential bebop pianists, having played in the Forties in groups led by Diz, Bird, Wardell Gray, and Stan Getz among others. Haig’s was a singing approach to the piano as well as a swinging one. He played with unusual sensitivity and taste, always lightly energized by an easily flowing pulsation. Al was no stomper, but he was far from fragile.
This long one-day session was originally produced by Henri Renaud, the French jazz pianist, when he visited New York in the very early part of 1954. Al’s melodic improvisations get firm, unobtrusive support from drummer Lee Abrams, and bassist Bill Crow. This set was especially valuable because, in the early Fifties, Haig had been all-too-infrequently heard on records and, at 31, he proved he still had an important place in the modern jazz field. (freshsoundrecords. com)
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Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Yardbird Suite
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2 Mighty Like A Rose
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3 Just One Of Those Things
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4 Taboo
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5 'S Wonderful
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6 Just You, Just Me-Spotlite
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7 The Moon Is Yellow
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8 'Round About Midnight
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9 Autumn In New York
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10 Isn't It Romantic?
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11 They Can't Take That Away from Me
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12 Royal Garden Blues
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13 Don't Blame Me
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14 Moonlight in Vermont
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15 If I Should Lose You
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16 April in Paris
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17 All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
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18 Body and Soul
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19 Gone With the Wind
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20 My Old Flame
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21 On the Alamo
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22 Taking a chance on love
