Moods (The Three Sounds album)

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Moods
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Studio album by The Three Sounds
Released February 1961 [1]
Recorded June 28, 1960
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz blues
Length42:13
Label Blue Note
BST 84044
Producer Alfred Lion
The Three Sounds chronology
Good Deal
(1959)		Moods
(1961)		 Feelin' Good
(1960)

Moods is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds released in 1961 on the Blue Note label. [2] It was recorded the same day Feelin' Good was recorded.

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

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.

<i>Feelin Good</i> (The Three Sounds album) album by The Three Sounds

Feelin' Good is an album by jazz group The Three Sounds featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note label. It was released on CD only in Japan.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars stating "The Three Sounds open their signature sound a bit on the romantic Moods. They retain the same light touch that made their early albums so enjoyable, but they add more textures to the mix... on the whole, Moods is an endearing collection of appealing mainstream jazz". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Love for Sale" (Porter) - 6:37
  2. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 8:54
  3. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 5:37
  4. "Loose Walk" (Sonny Stitt) - 4:55
  5. "Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 4:52
  6. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, George, Hodges, James) - 2:29
  7. "Tammy's Breeze" (Gene Harris) - 4:28
  8. "Sandu" (Clifford Brown) - 4:21

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. ↑ Rateyourmusic entry
  2. ↑ Blue Note discography accessed October 11, 2010
  3. 1 2 Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review accessed October 11, 2010
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