Leave Your Mind Behind

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Leave Your Mind Behind
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Studio album by
Joe Roccisano Orchestra
Released1995
RecordedNovember–December, 1994
StudioSony Studios, New York, NY
Genre Jazz
Length67:38
Label Landmark
LCD 1533
Producer Alan Foust, Joe Roccisano
Joe Roccisano chronology
The Shape I'm In
(1993)		Leave Your Mind Behind
(1995)		 Nonet
(1994)

Leave Your Mind Behind is an album by the Joe Roccisano Orchestra which was released on Orrin Keepnews' Landmark label in 1995. [1] [2]

Joseph Lucian "Joe" Roccisano was an American jazz saxophonist and arranger.

Orrin Keepnews American record producer

Orrin Keepnews was an American jazz writer and record producer known for founding Riverside Records and Milestone Records, for freelance work, and for his work at other labels.

Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews. Landmark's releases included music by Donald Byrd, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgomery, and reissues of Cannonball Adderley.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The AllMusic review by Alex Henderson stated "Joe Roccisano was never a huge name in the jazz world, nor was he ever an innovator. He was, however, a hard-swinging saxman who had no problem leading a big band. One of Roccisano's big-band recordings came in 1994 when he did all of the arranging and conducting on Leave Your Mind Behind. There aren't a lot of surprises on this hard bop CD, and the charts are pretty conventional. Still, it's enjoyable and honest. ... the album plays it safe and does so with decent, if unremarkable, results". [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Joe Roccisano except where noted

  1. "The Fax of Life" – 6:24
  2. "Quill" (Phil Woods) – 6:56
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 7:11
  4. "The Goodbye Look" (Donald Fagen) – 5:05
  5. "It Seem Like Yesterday" – 6:10
  6. "Throw Back the Little Ones" (Walter Becker, Fagen) – 6:29
  7. "Changes" – 6:06
  8. "Avarice" – 4:29
  9. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) – 4:11
  10. "Leave Your Mind Behind" – 6:41
  11. "Medley: Adiós Nonino/La Muerta del Angel" (Astor Piazzolla) – 7:56

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

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.

Wind controller

A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a "wind synth", or "wind synthesizer", is a wind instrument capable of controlling one or more music synthesizers or other devices. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a woodwind instrument, usually the saxophone, with the next most common being brass fingering, particularly the trumpet. Models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the recorder or the tin whistle. One form of wind controller, the hardware-based variety, uses electronic sensors to convert fingering, breath pressure, bite pressure, finger pressure, and other gesture information into control signals. Another form of wind controller uses software to convert the acoustic sound of an unmodified wind instrument directly into MIDI messages. In either case, the control signals or MIDI messages generated by the wind controller are used to control internal or external devices such as analog synthesizers or MIDI-compatible synthesizers, softsynths, sequencers, or even lighting systems.

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References

  1. ↑ Fitzgerald, M., Landmark Records listing accessed February 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Landmark 1500 series discography, accessed February 5, 2019
  3. 1 2 Henderson, Alex. Joe Roccisano Orchestra: Leave Your Mind Behind – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 5, 2019.
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