Newer Than New

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Newer Than New
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Studio album by Barry Harris Quintet
Released 1961
Recorded September 28, 1961
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length39:57
Label Riverside
RLP 413
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Barry Harris chronology
Listen to Barry Harris
(1961)		Newer Than New
(1961)		 Chasin' the Bird
(1962)

Newer Than New is an album by pianist Barry Harris recorded in 1961 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

Barry Harris American bebop jazz pianist

Barry Doyle Harris is an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and educator. He is an exponent of the bebop style.

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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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Ronny D. Lankforth, Jr. stating, "the music still sounds fresh and exciting... Jazz styles, like all styles, come and go, but great music like Newer Than New transcends styles". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Barry Harris except as indicated

  1. "Mucho Dinero" - 3:44
  2. "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) - 4:50
  3. "Burgundy" - 7:01
  4. "The Last One" - 4:57
  5. "Anthropology" (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker) - 4:17
  6. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:12
  7. "Make Haste" - 5:39
  8. "Nightingale" (George Rosner, Fred Wise) - 5:17

Personnel

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.

Lonnie Hillyer was an American jazz trumpeter, strongly influenced by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and other bebop legends of that era.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Riverside Records discography accessed September 11, 2012
  2. ↑ Down Beat:September 27, 1962 Vol. 29, No.25
  3. 1 2 Lankforth Jr., R. D. Allmusic Review, accessed September 11, 2012
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