Main Stem (album)

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Main Stem
Main Stem.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1962 [1]
RecordedAugust 25, 1961
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length35:50
Label Prestige
PRLP 7236
Producer Esmond Edwards
Oliver Nelson chronology
Straight Ahead
(1961)
Main Stem
(1962)
Afro/American Sketches
(1962)

Main Stem is an album by American saxophonist Oliver Nelson with trumpeter Joe Newman. [2] It was originally released in 1962 on Prestige Records, and reissued by Prestige on CD in 1992.

Contents

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Track listing

All compositions by Oliver Nelson, except where noted

  1. "Main Stem" (Duke Ellington) – 6:52
  2. "J & B" – 5:51
  3. "Ho!" – 4:33
  4. "Latino" – 6:12
  5. "Tipsy" – 5:19
  6. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger) – 7:03

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard Oct 20, 1962
  2. Main Stem at Jazzdisco.org
  3. Down Beat: October 25, 1962 vol. 29, no. 27
  4. Main Stem at AllMusic
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1071. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.