Tony Aless: Tony Aless And His Long Island Suite
Tony Aless And His Long Island Suite
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Fresh Sound, 1955
- Bestellnummer: 5028569
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.4.2014
+ Kai Winding, Billy Bauer, Tony Aless u.a.
*** 24 Bit remastered
*** 24 Bit remastered
Product Information
This album is a happy musical trip to eight Long Island communities written by Tony Aless (1921-1985). A pianist of broad big band experience-Bunny Berigan, Teddy Powell, Georgie Auld, Charlie Spivak, Woody Herman, Charlie Ventura, Neal Hefti, Chubby Jackson, George Siravo-he also worked on networks and independent stations around New York and recorded with the groups of Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, George Handy, Seldon Powell and John Plonsky.
These years of iron-clad, elite experience not only inform his authoritative playing, but are also distilled in this impressive project into a personal musical credo. "More than anything else," he said, "my concern was swinging. I think we got that across." Besides his persuasive contributions as player, composer and arranger on what was the only album released under his own name, there is much to admire; in a first-rate rhythm section of Billy Bauer, Arnold Fishkin and Don Lamond, Bauer is also one of the better soloists on the date; of the others, Nick Travis is crisply vibrant, and Dave Schildkraut swings hard and Bird-like. Tenorman Seldon Powell, imaginative, visceral, with a fine, full sound, is best of all. Also effective in their brief appearances are the alternating trombones Kai & J. J. But even the most casual hearing of the Long Island Suite will confirm Aless's judgment: it swings all the way. And it is, as he hoped it would be, "simple, like Basie. Because, as far as I am concerned, that's the only thing, to swing all night-long." Music composed and arranged by Tony Aless.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Levittown
- 2 Corona
- 3 Aqueduct
- 4 Riverhead
- 5 Valley Stream
- 6 Greenport
- 7 Fire Island
- 8 Massapequa