Solid (Woody Shaw album)

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Solid
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Studio album by Woody Shaw
Released 1987
Recorded March 24, 1986
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length39:40
Label Muse
MR 5329
Producer Michael Cuscuna
Woody Shaw chronology
Bemsha Swing
(1986) Bemsha Swing1986		Solid
(1986)		 Dr. Chi
(1986) Dr. Chi1986

Solid is an album led by trumpeter Woody Shaw which was recorded in 1986 and released on the Muse label. [1] [2] Solid was reissued by Mosaic Records as part of Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions in 2013.

Woody Shaw American musician

Woody Herman Shaw Jr. was an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader. Born with a photographic memory and perfect pitch he was an innovative musician who respected his predecessors and was himself respected by a wide variety of jazz musicians, many of whom played and recorded with him.

Muse Records

Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972.

Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American jazz record company and label established in 1982 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie. It produces limited-edition box sets that are available only by mail.

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Reception

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "This CD serves as a perfect introduction to the memorable but always underrated trumpeter Woody Shaw, who tragically had only three years left to live". [3]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

  1. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 6:59
  2. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) - 5:32
  3. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 8:58
  4. "Solid" (Sonny Rollins) - 4:41
  5. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 10:06
  6. "The Woody Woodpecker Song" (Ramey Idriss, George Tibbles) - 3:46

Personnel

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.

Kenny Garrett American musician

Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. Since then, he has pursued a solo career.

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.

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References

  1. ↑ Woody Shaw discography Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine . accessed August 26, 2013
  2. ↑ Woody Shaw catalog accessed August 26, 2013
  3. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed August 26, 2013
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