Fountainhead (album)

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Fountainhead
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Studio album by Andy Laverne and Dave Samuels
Released 1990
Recorded June 28, 1989
Genre Jazz
Length63:21
Label SteepleChase
SCS 1261
Producer Nils Winther
Andy LaVerne chronology
Frozen Music
(1989) Frozen Music1989		Fountainhead
(1989)		 Magic Fingers
(1989) Magic Fingers1989

Fountainhead is an album by pianist Andy LaVerne recorded in 1989 and released on the Danish label, SteepleChase. [1] [2] [3]

Andy LaVerne is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He is a prolific recording artist and as a jazz educator has produced many instructional guides.

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.

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Ken Dryden of AllMusic stated "Andy LaVerne has developed into a top-notch pianist, particularly during his tenure on Steeplechase. This duo date with Dave Samuels, who switches between vibes and marimba on this date, has the energy of Chick Corea's duets with Gary Burton". [4]

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.

Chick Corea American pianist, keyboardist, and composer

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta" and "Windows", are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed the fusion band Return to Forever. With Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Keith Jarrett, he has been described as one of the major jazz piano voices to emerge in the post-John Coltrane era.

Gary Burton American vibraphonist

Gary Burton is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in jazz, as well as being a major figure in music education from his 30 years at the Berklee College of Music.

Track listing

All compositions by Andy LaVerne except where noted.

  1. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:02
  2. "Severe Clear" – 7:57
  3. "ATB" – 4:41
  4. "Come to Me" – 4:43
  5. "My Asian Land" (Dave Samuels) – 5:09
  6. "ECB" (Samuels) – 4:55
  7. "Fountainhead" – 3:53
  8. "Round Corners" (Samuels) – 7:13
  9. "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 6:54
  10. "Waiting for You" (Samuels) – 3:15
  11. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 4:57

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Dave Samuels is an American vibraphonist and marimba player who spent many years with the contemporary jazz group Spyro Gyra. His recordings and live performances during that period also reflect his prowess on the steelpan, a tuned percussion instrument of Trinidadian origin.

Vibraphone musical instrument

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist or vibraharpist.

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References

  1. ↑ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 16, 2017
  2. ↑ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed March 16, 2017
  3. ↑ Andy LaVerne discography, accessed March 16, 2017
  4. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Andy LaVerne: Fountainhead – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
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