Sea Changes

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Sea Changes
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Studio album by Tommy Flanagan
Released 1996
Recorded March 11-12, 1996
Studio Clinton Recording Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length62:46
Label Alfa Jazz
ALCB-3907
Producer Diana Flanagan and Todd Barkan
Tommy Flanagan chronology
Lady Be Good ... For Ella
(1993) Lady Be Good ... For Ella1993		Sea Changes
(1996)		 Sunset and the Mockingbird
(1997) Sunset and the Mockingbird1997

Sea Changes is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan recorded in 1996 for the Japanese Alfa Jazz label. [1] [2]

Tommy Flanagan American jazz pianist

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by the newer bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' landmark Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including the historically important Giant Steps of John Coltrane, and The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, continued well into 1962, when he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, this time for a decade.

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Allmusic gave the album 4 stars with Ken Dryden's review stating: "It's easy to understand why Tommy Flanagan has been one of the most praised pianists over the '80s and '90s while listening to an excellent trio date such as this CD". [3] On All About Jazz, Chris M. Slawecki said "in its own dignified, almost quiet, way, Sea Changes demonstrates that Tommy Flanagan remains a musician’s musician in every sense of the word – as an improviser and soloist, as a composer and arranger, as a melodic interpreter and as an accompanist for ample, robust solos by his musical partners". [4]

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

Track listing

All compositions by Tommy Flanagan except where noted.

  1. "Sea Changes" - 6:30
  2. "Verdandi" - 4:23
  3. "Delarna" - 4:58
  4. "Eclypso" - 7:05
  5. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) - 6:38
  6. "C.C. Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 4:42
  7. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 6:45
  8. "Beat's Up" - 5:30
  9. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 6:09
  10. "Relaxin' at Camarillo" (Charlie Parker) - 5:14
  11. "Dear Old Stockholm" (Traditional) - 4:52

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.

Peter Washington American bassist

Peter Washington is a jazz double bassist. He played with the Westchester Community Symphony at the age of 14. Later he played electric bass in rock bands. He majored in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became interested in jazz and played with John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Frank Morgan, Ernestine Anderson, Chris Connor and other Bay Area luminaries. In 1986 he joined Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers and moved to New York City. Beginning in the 1990s, he toured with the Tommy Flanagan trio until Flanagan's death in 2002, and has played with the Bill Charlap trio since then. He was a founding member of the collective hard bop sextet One for All. In 2008, Washington played with The Blue Note 7, an all-star septet formed in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. His extensive discography numbers more than 400 recordings, and speaks to a constant demand for his services as a versatile side man.

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. ↑ Tommy Flanagan Catalog accessed August 8, 2016
  2. ↑ Discogs album entry, accessed August 8, 2016
  3. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Sea Changes – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Slawecki, C. M. All About Jazz Review, October 1, 1997
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