New Horizons (Charles McPherson album)

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New Horizons
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Studio album by Charles McPherson
Released 1978
Recorded September 28, 1977
RCA Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Xanadu
149
Producer Don Schlitten
Charles McPherson chronology
Live in Tokyo
(1976)		New Horizons
(1978)		 Free Bop!
(1978)

New Horizons is an album by saxophonist Charles McPherson which was recorded in 1977 and released on the Xanadu label. [1] [2]

Charles McPherson (musician) American jazz alto saxophonist

Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Joplin, Missouri, and raised in Detroit, Michigan, who worked intermittently with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1974, and as a performer leading his own groups.

Xanadu Records

Xanadu Records was a jazz record label founded in 1975 by Don Schlitten. It was most active during the 1970s and 1980s and stopped recording in the 1990s. The catalogue was bought by emusic in 1999, but no new music was produced. In 2007, the catalogue was bought by The Orchard, which entered an agreement in 2015 with Elemental Music to reissue some of the catalog as the Xanadu Master Edition Series. The partnership planned to include albums by Kenny Barron, Bob Berg, Al Cohn, Sonny Criss, Joe Farrell, Barry Harris, Dexter Gordon, Albert Heath, Jimmy Heath, Duke Jordan, Charles McPherson, and Cecil Payne.

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The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music is typically swinging and has its exciting moments". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles McPherson except as indicated

  1. "Promise" - 5:02
  2. "I'll Never Stop Loving You" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) - 4:17
  3. "Night Eyes" - 9:38
  4. "Horizons" - 5:19
  5. "Samba de Orfeu" (Luiz Bonfá, Antonio María) - 6:56
  6. "Dee Blues" - 8:13

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Mickey Tucker is an American jazz pianist and organist.

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Charles McPherson discography accessed April 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Xanadu Records discography accessed April 24, 2014
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed April 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 137. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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