Ira Sullivan (Flying Fish album)

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Ira Sullivan
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Studio album by Ira Sullivan
Released 1978
Recorded October 11 & 20, 1977
Studio Streeterville Studios, Chicago, IL
Genre Jazz
Label Flying Fish
FF-075
Producer Chuck Nessa
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Ira Sullivan is an eponymous album by multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Flying Fish label. [1] [2] [3]

Ira Sullivan American jazz musician

Ira Sullivan is a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, flautist, saxophonist, and composer born in Washington, D.C.. An active musician since the 1950s, he worked often with Red Rodney and Lin Halliday.

Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records.

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The talented multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan made a rare return to Chicago for this set, ... Switching between trumpet, flugelhorn, soprano and flute, Sullivan performs a couple of originals and four standards ... This is a more straight-ahead than usual program of music by the adventurous improviser". [4]

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Track listing

  1. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 8:45
  2. "Monday's Dance" (Ira Sullivan) – 6:04
  3. "Circumstantial" (Simon Salz) – 9:44
  4. "Stranger in Paradise" (Robert Wright, George Forrest, Alexander Borodin) – 8:30
  5. "Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) – 8:07
  6. "That's Earl, Brother" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 8:04

Personnel

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.

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass saxophone and tubax. Soprano saxophones are the smallest saxophone in common use.

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.

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References

  1. Discogs album entry, accessed October 19, 2017
  2. Ira Sullivan discography, accessed October 19, 2017
  3. Ira Sullivan catalog, accessed October 19, 2017
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Ira Sullivan: Ira Sullivan (1977) – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 13, 2017.