Proto-Bopper

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Proto-Bopper
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Studio album by Joe Albany
Released 1972
Recorded February 14 & 29 and October 7, 1972
Studio The Church of Truth, Pasadena, CA and Herrick Lounge, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Genre Jazz
Length42:14
Label Revelation
REV-16
Producer John William Hardy, Jon Horwich
Joe Albany chronology
Joe Albany at Home
(1971)		Proto-Bopper
(1972)		 Birdtown Birds
(1973)

Proto-Bopper is an album by pianist Joe Albany recorded in 1972 and released on the Revelation label in the US and on Spotlite in the UK. [1]

Joe Albany was an American modern jazz pianist who played bebop with Charlie Parker as well as being a leader on his own recordings.

Revelation Records was an American jazz record label based in Los Angeles, active from 1965 until the late 1980s.

Spotlite Records is a British jazz record company and label. It was founded in 1968 by producer Tony Williams, originally as an outlet for Charlie Parker's Dial recordings. It has reissued other Dial masters, and undertaken new recordings. Some other notable artists include, Don Rendell, Al Haig and Peter King.

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Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "Despite an out-of-tune piano on a few of the songs, this is a worthy and historical set". [2]

Track listing

  1. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter) – 5:00
  2. "Our Love Affair Is Over" (Joe Albany, Bob Whitlock) – 5:00
  3. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 3:30
  4. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer) – 2:30
  5. "Gettin' Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 5:10
  6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 3:56
  7. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:30
  8. "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:50
  9. "C.C. Rider" (Traditional) – 4:33
  10. "You're Blasé" (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Sievier) – 3:15
  11. "Suddenly, It's Spring" (Victor Young) – 3:00

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.

Bob Whitlock was an American jazz double-bassist. Von Varlynn Whitlock.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Discogs album entry, accessed March 22, 2018
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Proto Bopper – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 22, 2018.
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