Moon Child (Johnny Lytle album)

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Moon Child
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Studio album by
Johnny Lytle
Released1962
RecordedJuly 5, 1962
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Jazzland
JLP 81
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Johnny Lytle chronology
Nice and Easy
(1962)		Moon Child
(1962)		 Got That Feeling!
(1963)

Moon Child is the fourth album led by American jazz vibraphonist Johnny Lytle which was recorded in 1962 for the Jazzland label. [1]

Johnny Dillard Lytle was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist.

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions in 1953, the label played an important role in the jazz record industry for a decade. Riverside headquarters were located in New York City, at 553 West 51st Street.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "Moon Child is a perfect example of how instrumental jazz can have commercial appeal without losing its integrity". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny Lytle except as indicated

  1. "Moonchild" - 4:39
  2. "Work Song" (Nat Adderley) - 6:38
  3. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) - 4:28
  4. "The Moor Man" - 4:02
  5. "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) - 4:36
  6. "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" (Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin) - 4:32
  7. "Moonlight In Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 4:27
  8. "The House Of Winchester" - 4:19

Personnel

Vibraphone musical instrument

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. People who play the vibraphone are called vibraphonists or vibraharpists.

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.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzland Records discography accessed November 2, 2012
  2. 1 2 Henderson, A. Allmusic Review accessed November 2, 2012
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