Live at the Lighthouse (The Three Sounds album)

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Live at the Lighthouse
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Live album by The Three Sounds
Released November 1967 [1]
Recorded June 9–10, 1967
Venue Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach, CA
Genre Jazz
Length67:18
Label Blue Note
Producer Dick Bock
The Three Sounds chronology
Vibrations
(1966)		Live at the Lighthouse
(1967)		 Coldwater Flat
(1967)

Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1967 at the Lighthouse Club in California and released on the Blue Note label. [2]

The Three Sounds were an American jazz piano trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973.

Lighthouse Café

The Lighthouse Café is a nightclub located at 30 Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach, California. It has been active as a jazz showcase since 1949 and, under the name "The Lighthouse", was one of the central West Coast jazz clubs from the 1950s through the late 1970s. In addition to jazz, music of many different genres, from reggae to rock, is now heard at the venue, including performances by local artists such as Jett Prescott and George Stanford.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music on Live at the Lighthouse is hotter than some of their studio recordings, pulsating with energy and good feelings, demonstrating that they had worked out any of the problems that hampered Vibrations . It's their finest set since Black Orchid ". [3] The All About Jazz review by C. Andrew Hovan stated "Live at the Lighthouse captures The Three Sounds at or near their peak and in one of only three live performances ever caught on tape. Let's cherish it". [4]

<i>Vibrations</i> (The Three Sounds album) 1967 studio album by The Three Sounds

Vibrations is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.

<i>Black Orchid</i> (album) album by The Three Sounds

Black Orchid is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. The 1998 limited CD reissue features other seven unissued tracks recorded at different sessions. It was also issued in Japan in 2015, on SHM-CD, featuring different bonus tracks recorded on the same sessions.

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

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Track listing

All compositions by Gene Harris except as indicated
  1. "Still I'm Sad" (Jim McCarty, Paul Samwell-Smith) - 2:53
  2. "Crying Time" (Buck Owens) - 2:31
  3. "June Night (Just Give Me a June Night, the Moonlight and You)" (Abel Baer, Cliff Friend) - 7:08
  4. "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:54
  5. "I Held My Head in Shame" - 2:56
  6. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 4:58
  7. "Makin' Bread Again" - 3:44
  8. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) - 4:30
  9. "Blues March" (Benny Golson) - 3:50
  10. "Takin' It Easy" - 2:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Drown in My Own Tears" (Henry Glover) - 3:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" (Roebuck Staples) - 2:59 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "Never Say Yes" (Nat Adderley) - 7:17 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "River Shallow" (André Previn, Dory Previn) - 4:15 Bonus track on CD reissue
  15. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 4:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
  16. "Bad, Bad Whiskey" (Maxwell Davis, Amos Milburn) - 2:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
  17. "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:07 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at the Lighthouse Club in Hermosa Beach, California on June 9 & 10, 1967

Personnel

Gene Harris American pianist

Gene Harris was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.

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.

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. ↑ Billboard Nov 11, 1967
  2. ↑ Blue Note discography accessed November 30, 2010
  3. 1 2 Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review accessed November 30, 2010
  4. ↑ Hovan, C. A. Live at the Lighthouse Review, All About Jazz , May 1, 2000
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