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Frank Foster and the SWR Big Band - A Fresh Taste of Thad Jones and Frank Foster (1996) FLAC

Frank Foster and the SWR Big Band - A Fresh Taste of Thad Jones and Frank Foster (1996) FLAC
  • Title: A Fresh Taste of Thad Jones and Frank Foster
  • Year Of Release: 1996
  • Label: SWR Classic
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 1:06:51
  • Total Size: 425 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Counter Block (05:16)
2. Mean What You Say (05:14)
3. Ode to Joe Newman (05:18)
4. Winners (05:11)
5. Love Handles (05:01)
6. Basic-Ally Yours (06:07)
7. Victorious Blues (06:38)
8. Now That She's Away (06:04)
9. The Biddle-De-Bop Samba (05:11)
10. Lady In Lace (08:01)
11. A Fresh Taste of the Blues (08:46)

Hanssler Classics is known more for its classical recordings than its occasional jazz releases, but when they feature a visiting American jazz all-star with the SWR Big Band, they make one wonder why they don't do more jazz. Frank Foster is their special guest, leading the band through a series of his charts and a few by another Count Basie alum, the late Thad Jones, though many of these compositions deserve to be more widely known. The band swings while sounding a bit more modern than Basie's recordings of these charts, which should come as no surprise as the original recordings were made decades earlier by a very different lineup. Foster remains a formidable soloist, particularly in Jones' "Mean What You Say," though there are a number of fine soloists with the band, including tenor saxophonists Andi Maile and Peter Weniger, trombonist Ian Cumming, trumpeter/flügelhornist Don Rader, flügelhornist Karl Farrent, and pianist Klaus Wagenleiter, to name a few. © Ken Dryden


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