Seven Standards and a Blues

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Seven Standards and a Blues
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Studio album by Ernie Henry
Released 1957
Recorded September 30, 1957
Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length39:33
Label Riverside
RLP 12-248
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Ernie Henry chronology
Presenting Ernie Henry
(1956)		Seven Standards and a Blues
(1957)		 Last Chorus
(1956-57)

Seven Standards and a Blues is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Ernie Henry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label. [1]

Ernie Henry American musician

Ernie Henry was an American jazz saxophonist.

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
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow stating "Recorded just three months before his unexpected death, this set by altoist Ernie Henry is his definitive album as a leader... Superior modern mainstream music, but there should have been much more from the potentially significant Ernie Henry". [2]

Track listing

  1. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 4:39
  2. "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) - 2:46
  3. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 6:33
  4. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) - 5:01
  5. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:00
  6. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 2:41
  7. "Specific Gravity" (Ernie Henry) - 6:39
  8. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:14

Personnel

Alto saxophone type of saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846. It is pitched in E♭, and is smaller than the tenor, but larger than the soprano. The alto sax is the most common saxophone and is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, and jazz. The fingerings of the different saxophones are all the same so a saxophone player can play any type of saxophone.

Wynton Kelly American jazz pianist

Wynton Charles Kelly was a Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his lively, blues-based playing and as one of the finest accompanists in jazz. He began playing professionally at the age of 12, and was pianist on a No. 1 R&B hit at the age of 16. His recording debut as leader occurred three years later, around the time he started to become better known as accompanist to singer Dinah Washington, and as a member of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's band. This progress was interrupted by two years in the United States Army, after which Kelly returned to Washington and Gillespie, and played with other leaders. Over the next few years, these included instrumentalists Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, John Coltrane, Roland Kirk, Wes Montgomery, and Sonny Rollins, and vocalists Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, and Abbey Lincoln.

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Riverside Records discography accessed August 29, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 29, 2012
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