Lem Winchester with Feeling

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Lem Winchester with Feeling
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Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedOctober 7, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length36:10
Label Moodsville
MVLP 11
Producer Esmond Edwards
Lem Winchester chronology
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Lem Winchester with Feeling is an album by vibraphonist Lem Winchester which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Moodsville label the following year. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer applauded the absence of sentimentality in Winchester's playing. [7] AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow states: "Vibraphonist Lem Winchester's final recording was made just three months before his accidental death, which occurred when he was demonstrating a gun trick. Although originally recorded for the Prestige subsidiary Moodsville (a series that emphasized slow, melodic ballads), there is a fair amount of variety on Winchester's last effort. ... Winchester mixes medium-tempo performances with slower numbers and shows that his style was growing away from his original Milt Jackson influence". [5] All About Jazz called it "an enjoyable session" observing "Ballads and relaxed tempos prevail, and Winchester is consisently[sic] laid back.". [6]

Track listing

  1. "Why Don't They Understand" (Jack Fishman, Joe Henderson) – 4:31
  2. "Butterfly" (Patrica Bradshaw) – 4:30
  3. "With a Song in My Heart" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:28
  4. "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:10
  5. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 6:39
  6. "To Love and Be Loved" (Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) – 3:48
  7. "The Kids" (Lem Winchester) – 3:59
  8. "My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:05

Personnel

References

  1. Jazzdisco: Prestige Records Catalog: Moodsville series accessed December 7, 2018
  2. Jazzdisco: Lem Winchester Catalog accessed December 7, 2018
  3. jazzlists: Moodsville releases accessed December 7, 2018
  4. Jazzlists: Lem Winchester discography accessed December 7, 2018
  5. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Lem Winchester: With Feeling – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  6. 1 2 All About Jazz Review accessed December 7, 2018
  7. 1 2 Williams, Martin (October 12, 1961). "Lem Winchester: With Feeling". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 21. p. 32.
  8. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1522. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.