Movin' Right Along (album)

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Movin' Right Along
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Studio album by Arnett Cobb
Released 1960
Recorded February 16 & 17, 1960
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length36:25
Label Prestige
PRLP 7175
Producer Esmond Edwards
Arnett Cobb chronology
More Party Time
(1960)
Movin' Right Along
(1960)
Sizzlin'
(1960)
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Movin' Right Along is an album by saxophonist Arnett Cobb recorded in 1960 for the Prestige label. [2]

Arnett Cobb American jazz tenor saxophonist

Arnett Cleophus Cobb was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, sometimes known as the "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb wrote the words and music for the jazz standard "Smooth Sailing" (1951), which Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Decca on her album Lullabies of Birdland.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars and stated: "Movin' Right Along is a warm, stimulating set. Recorded in two days in February 1960, the album finds Arnett Cobb and a few friends playing an energetic, straight-ahead set". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Arnett Cobb except as indicated

  1. "Nitty Gritty" - 3:54
  2. "All I Do Is Dream of You" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) - 4:03
  3. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:23
  4. "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 6:31
  5. "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 5:29
  6. "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 4:08
  7. "Fast Ride" - 4:12
  8. "The Shy One" - 4:43

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F key have a range from A2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Tommy Flanagan American jazz pianist

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by the newer bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' landmark Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including the historically important Giant Steps of John Coltrane, and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, continued well into 1962, when he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, this time for a decade.

Bobby Timmons American pianist

Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively.

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References

  1. 1 2 Lankford, R. D. Allmusic Review accessed April 3, 2013.
  2. Prestige Records discography accessed April 3, 2013.