Brilliant Corners (James Spaulding album)

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Brilliant Corners
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Studio album by James Spaulding
Released 1990
Recorded November 25, 1988
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length45:25
Label Muse
MR 5369
Producer Don Sickler
James Spaulding chronology
Gotstabe a Better Way!
(1988)		Brilliant Corners
(1990)		 Songs of Courage
(1990)

Brilliant Corners is an album by saxophonist James Spaulding featuring compositions by, or associated with Thelonious Monk which was recorded in 1988 and released on the Muse label. [1] [2] [3]

James Spaulding American saxophonist

James Ralph Spaulding Jr. is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist.

Thelonious Monk American jazz pianist and composer

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces, whereas Monk wrote about 70.

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "James Spaulding is a very distinctive altoist and flutist whose inside/outside playing can cover anything from bop to freer improvisations. On what was surprisingly only his third recording as a leader, Spaulding is heard at the peak of his powers, leading a quartet/quintet ... this is his definitive recording". [4]

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Track listing

All compositions by Thelonious Monk except where noted

  1. "Brilliant Corners" – 6:15
  2. "Let's Cool One" – 6:04
  3. "Down With It" (Bud Powell) – 3:58
  4. "Reflections" – 6:08
  5. "I Mean You" (Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk) – 5:41
  6. "Ask Me Now" – 6:03
  7. "Little Willie Leaps" (Miles Davis) – 5:16
  8. "Little Rootie Tootie" – 6:00

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Flute musical instrument of the woodwind family

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

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References

  1. ↑ Muse LP series discography: 5350 to 5399 accessed September 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Muse Records listing, accessed September 27, 2017
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: James Spaulding discography, accessed September 27, 2017
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. James Spaulding: Brilliant Corners – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
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