One to Get Ready, Four to Go

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One to Get Ready, Four to Go
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Studio album by Clare Fischer
Released 1968
Recorded November 2, 1963; March 1964; Spring 1965 [1]
Genre Jazz
Length 40 min [1]
Label Revelation
REV-6
Producer Jon Horwich [2]
Clare Fischer chronology
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One to Get Ready, Four to Go is an album by the composer, arranger and keyboardist Clare Fischer, a program of standards and originals including both solo piano and quartet performances, recorded between 1963 and 1965 and released in 1968 on the Revelation label. Each of the album's sides concludes with one of the quartet tracks, both of which were recorded on November 2, 1963; three of the four solo piano tracks were recorded in March 1964, with Liz Anne (composed by Fischer's longtime colleague Cal Tjader) added in the spring of 1965. [1]

Clare Fischer American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader

Douglas Clare Fischer was an American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After graduating from Michigan State University, he became the pianist and arranger for the vocal group the Hi-Lo's in the late 1950s. Fischer went on to work with Donald Byrd and Dizzy Gillespie, and became known for his Latin and bossa nova recordings in the 1960s. He composed the Latin jazz standard "Morning", and the jazz standard "Pensativa". Consistently cited by jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock as a major influence, he was nominated for eleven Grammy Awards during his lifetime, winning for his landmark album, 2+2 (1981), the first of Fischer's records to incorporate the vocal ensemble writing developed during his Hi-Lo's days into his already sizable Latin jazz discography; it was also the first recorded installment in Fischer's three-decade-long collaboration with his son Brent. Fischer was also a posthumous Grammy winner for ¡Ritmo! (2012) and for Music for Strings, Percussion and the Rest (2013).

Cal Tjader American musician

Callen Radcliffe "Cal" Tjader, Jr. was an American Latin jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform the music of Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America for the rest of his life.

Contents

Track listing

Composer credits and durations derived from album images. [2]

Side 1

  1. "Liz Anne" (Cal Tjader) – 5:30
  2. "In Memoriam: J.F.K. and R.F.K." (Clare Fischer) – 1:59
  3. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Kahn and Brown) – 2:32
  4. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, R. Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 9:24

Side 2

  1. "Lover Man" – 4:27
  2. "Free Ways" (Traditional) – 16:27

Personnel

On Side 1, track 4 and Side 2, track 2, add:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 One to get ready, four to go! . WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
  2. 1 2 One to Get Ready, Four...To Go! . Amoeba Music. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  3. ↑ One to Get Ready, Four to Go . Allmusic. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
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