Focus (Bill Hardman album)

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Focus
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Studio album by Bill Hardman
Released 1984
Recorded April 17, 1980
Studio Sound Heights Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Genre Jazz
Length38:14
Label Muse
MR 5259
Producer Fred Seibert
Bill Hardman chronology
Home
(1978)		Focus
(1984)		 Politely
(1981)

Home is an album by American jazz trumpeter Bill Hardman which was recorded in 1980 but not released on the Muse label until 1984. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

William Franklin Hardman, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop. He was married to Roseline and they had a daughter Nadege.

Muse Records

Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "Always a bit underrated and overshadowed, trumpeter Bill Hardman was a solid soloist in the tradition of Clifford Brown. He led three Muse albums during 1978-81, of which this was the second. ... Hardman is heard in top form". [6]

AllMusic Online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Clifford Brown American jazz musician

Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter. He died at the age of 25 in a car accident, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. He was also a composer of note: three of his compositions, "Sandu," "Joy Spring" and "Daahoud", have become jazz standards.

Track listing

  1. "Avila & Tequila" (Hank Mobley) − 6:04
  2. "Cubicle" (Walter Bishop Jr.) − 6:15
  3. "Too Little, Too Late" (Bill Lee) − 6:04
  4. "Focus" (Tadd Dameron) − 5:32
  5. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) − 9:10
  6. "Minority" (Basheer Qusim) − 5:09

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Junior Cook American saxophonist

Herman "Junior" Cook was a hard bop tenor saxophone player.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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References

  1. ↑ Muse Records listing accessed February 6, 2018
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Bill Hardman discography accessed February 6, 2018
  3. ↑ Bill Hardman catalog accessed February 6, 2018
  4. ↑ Jazzlists: Muse LP series discography: 5250 to 5299 accessed February 6, 2018
  5. ↑ Bill Hardman Leader Entry accessed February 7, 2018
  6. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Focus – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 6, 2018.
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