Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert

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Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert
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Live album by
Lenny White et al.
Released1982
RecordedApril 7, 1982
Venue Reseda, Los Angeles, California
Studio Reseda Country Club
Genre Jazz, Vocal jazz
Length53:03
Label Elektra/Musician
Producer Lenny White and Jeffrey Weber
Lenny White et al. chronology
Echoes of an Era
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Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert is a live album by Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and vocalist Nancy Wilson, released in 1982 on Elektra/Musician. It was a follow-up to the studio recording Echoes of an Era that had been released earlier in the year and featured Chaka Khan on vocals, supported by the same instrumentalists, along with Freddie Hubbard.

Contents

According to Monika Herzig's book, Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener's Companion, Khan's "management did not open up her schedule to join the group for a series of tour opportunities," so the musicians invited Nancy Wilson to serve as vocalist for a series of concerts. [2] In the liner notes for Echoes of an Era 2, White says he first met Wilson in 1972 on a tour with Freddie Hubbard and "learned of her musical abilities then." For the concerts, which were done without rehearsal, White says, "We took her out of her usual context here and made her the fifth instrument in this 'quintet.'" [3] Similar to the studio release, the concert includes a mixture of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, work by Thelonious Monk, and an original composition by Chick Corea.

The album reached No. 29 on the Billboard Jazz Lps chart. [4]

Echoes of an Era 1 & 2 are two of four albums by Henderson, Hubbard, Corea, Clarke and White – a group dubbed the "Griffith Park band" in White's liner notes. [3] At the request of Elektra president Bruce Lundvall, they also recorded two instrumental albums during the same time period: The Griffith Park Collection and The Griffith Park Collection 2: In Concert. [2] White called Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert the "third part of the series." [3]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "I Want to Be Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:24
  2. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 7:33
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:40
  4. "Rhythm-a-Ning" (Monk) – 8:12

Side 2

  1. "500 Miles High" (Chick Corea) – 11:57
  2. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:23
  3. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 7:15
  4. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 3:39

Personnel

Performance

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 67. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  2. 1 2 Herzig, Monika (2017). Experiencing Chick Corea: A Listener's Companion. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 70–71. ISBN   9781442244696.
  3. 1 2 3 White, Lenny (1982). Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert (liner notes). Lenny White. Elektra/Musician. 60165-1.
  4. ↑ "Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs". Billboard. Vol. 94, no. 42. October 23, 1982. p. 36 – via Google Books.
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