New Kingdom (album)

New Kingdom
Studio album by Roy Campbell
Released	1992
Recorded	October 6,7 & 8, 1991
Genre	Jazz
Length	63:51
Label	Delmark
Producer	Steve Wagner
Roy Campbell chronology

Last updated April 27, 2019

New Kingdom is the debut album by American jazz trumpeter Roy Campbell recorded in 1991 and released on the Delmark label. According to Roy, the title refers to "a whole generation of musicians who've been overlooked, musicians who use avant-garde techniques to develop stuff that refers to the tradition".^[1] "I Remember Lee" is dedicated to Roy's teacher Lee Morgan, while "For C.T.", composed by bassist William Parker, is a tribute to valve trombonist Clifford Thornton.^[1]

Delmark Records is the oldest American jazz and blues independent record label. It was founded in 1958 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The label originated in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1953 when owner Bob Koester released a recording of the Windy City Six, a traditional jazz group, under the Delmar imprint.

Lee Morgan was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz

Alex Henderson, in his review for AllMusic claims "New Kingdom is Campbell's most essential album".^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "the idea of New Kingdom is to create music that salutes the tradition and still pays heed to the avant-garde." ^[3]

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

Track listing

All compositions by Roy Campbell except as indicated

"I Remember Lee" - 10:33
"Angel" (William Parker) - 7:14
"Thanks to the Creator"- 6:18
"For C.T." (William Parker) - 10:26
"Mariescia" - 5:50
"Frankenstein & Igor" - 8:40
"Peace" (Zane Massey) - 3:46
"Spiritual Rejuvenation" - 11:04

Personnel

Roy Campbell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Zane Massey - tenor sax on 1, 3 & 7
Ricardo Strobert - alto sax, flute on 1, 3, 5 & 8
Bryan Carrott - vibes on 1, 3, 5 & 8
William Parker - bass
Zen Matsuura - drums

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of Hornbostel–Sachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less commonly, fluter or flutenist.

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References

1 2 Original Liner Notes by Kevin Whitehead
1 2 Henderson, Alex. Roy Campbell – New Kingdom: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 3, 2014.
↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 243. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.

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[Liner_notes-1] 1 2 Original Liner Notes by Kevin Whitehead

[Allmusic-2] 1 2 Henderson, Alex. Roy Campbell – New Kingdom: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 3, 2014.

[Penguin_Guide-3] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 243. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.