| Babe's Blues | ||||
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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Recorded | August 13, 1961 and March 8, 1962 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 42:37 | |||
| Label | Blue Note BST 84434 | |||
| Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
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Babe's Blues is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1961 with one additional track from 1962 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1986. [1] The title track is a composition by Randy Weston.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "The popular Three Sounds perform mostly standards on the album, infusing their swinging music with funk, soul, and sincere feeling". [2] The All About Jazz review by Douglas Payne stated: "Harris, aided by smooth, sympathetic bassist Andy Simpkins and subtle drummer Bill Dowdy, are in top form here, like a hip hotel lounge band with a wicked sense of the blues. Harris plumbs his specialty throughout, wresting the blues out of even the most mundane of tunes". [3]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
Recorded on August 13, 1961 (2–10) and March 8, 1962 (1).
The Three Sounds were an American jazz piano trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973.
Andrew Simpkins was an American jazz bassist.
LD + 3 is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson and The Three Sounds recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Donaldson with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins, and Bill Dowdy.
Blue Hour is a collaboration album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and The Three Sounds recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Turrentine with Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Bill Dowdy. The album was reissued in 2000 with an additional disc of unreleased recordings, as Blue Hour: The Complete Sessions.
Branching Out is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley with Johnny Griffin, and The Three Sounds.
Bottoms Up! is the second album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1958 and 1959 and released on the Blue Note label.
Good Deal is the third album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1959 and released on the Blue Note label. Like the majority of the band's albums, it has been released on CD only in Japan, as a limited edition.
Moods is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds released in 1961 on the Blue Note label. It was recorded the same day Feelin' Good was recorded.
Feelin' Good is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label. It was released on CD only in Japan.
Black Orchid is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. The 1998 limited CD reissue features other seven unissued tracks recorded at different sessions. It was also issued in Japan in 2015, on SHM-CD, featuring different bonus tracks recorded on the same sessions.
Out of This World is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label.
It Just Got to Be is an album by the jazz group The Three Sounds with performances recorded in 1960. It was released on the Blue Note label in 1963. It was reissued on CD only in Japan, with two bonus tracks.
Hey There is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label. In March 2015, it was released for the first time on SHM-CD in Japan, featuring all the pieces recorded at an August 13, 1961 session, including the previously unissued "Billy Boy" and the tracks from Babe's Blues.
The Modern Art of Jazz by Randy Weston is a jazz album by American pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1956 and released on the Dawn label.
Little Niles is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1958 and first released on the United Artists label. The album was later released as part of a Blue Note compilation under the same title. All the tracks are Weston originals and, as indicated in the LP's liner notes by Langston Hughes, the album was inspired by Weston's children Niles and Pamela, who are directly referenced in "Little Niles" and "Pam's Waltz" and feature in the cover photograph. As Hughes notes of the compositions, "All in three-quarter time, these charming little vignettes escape rigidity of beat by a fluid flow of counter-rhythms and melodies, one against another, that brings continuous delight."
Uhuru Afrika is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1960 and originally released on the Roulette label. The album features lyrics and liner notes by the poet Langston Hughes and was banned in South Africa in 1964, at the same time as was Lena Horne's Here's Lena Now!, with copies of the albums being seized in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Highlife is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Colpix label. Weston had traveled to Africa for the first time in 1961 for a series of concerts in Lagos, Nigeria, sponsored by the American Society of African Culture, and the album is inspired by the music of the African continent, in particular the highlife genre of West Africa.
Berkshire Blues is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1965 and first released on the Freedom label in 1977.
Live at the Living Room is a live album by The Three Sounds which was recorded in Cincinnati in 1964 and released on the Mercury label.
Standards is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds collecting performances recorded in 1959 and 1962 and originally released on the Blue Note label in 1998.
