Free Spirits (album)

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Free Spirits
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Studio album by
Mary Lou Williams Trio
Released1976
RecordedJuly 8, 1975
StudioC.I. Recording, NY
Genre Jazz
Length68:19
Label SteepleChase
SCS-1043
Producer Nils Winther
Mary Lou Williams chronology
Zoning
(1974)		Free Spirits
(1976)		 Live at the Cookery
(1975)

Free Spirits is an album by pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1975 and released on the SteepleChase label in 1976. [1] [2] [3]

Mary Lou Williams American pianist

Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.

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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Allmusic said it "Includes great trio cuts". [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection. [5] [6]

<i>The Penguin Guide to Jazz</i> book

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

Track listing

  1. "Dat Dere" (Bobby Timmons) – 4:48
  2. "Baby Man, #2" (John Stubblefield) – 7:56 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "Baby Man" (Stubblefield) – 8:31
  4. "All Blues" (Miles Davis) – 6:59
  5. "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 5:08
  6. "Pale Blue" (Buster Williams) – 4:27
  7. "Free Spirits #2" (Stubblefield) – 5:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Free Spirits" (Stubblefield) – 5:25
  9. "Blues for Timme" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:37
  10. "Ode to Saint Cecile" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:55 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Gloria" (Mary Lou Williams) – 5:31

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.

Buster Williams American musician

Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, working with guitarist Larry Coryell from the 1980s to present, working in the Thelonious Monk repertory band Sphere and as the accompanist of choice for many singers, including Nancy Wilson.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Mary Lou Williams discography, accessed January 13, 2017
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Steeplechase Records 1000/31000 series discography, accessed January 13, 2017
  3. ↑ SteepleChase Productions ApS: album entry, accessed January 13, 2017
  4. 1 2 Wynn, Ron. Free Spirits – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Mary Lou Williams". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1511. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ↑ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List, January 13, 2017
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