Sunset to Dawn

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Sunset to Dawn
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Studio album by Kenny Barron
Released 1973
Recorded April 2, 1973
Studio RCA Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length39:50
Label Muse
Producer Don Schlitten
Kenny Barron chronology
You Had Better Listen
(1968)		Sunset to Dawn
(1973)		 Peruvian Blue
(1974)

Sunset to Dawn is a studio album by American pianist Kenny Barron which was recorded in 1973 and first released on the Muse label. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Kenny Barron American pianist

Kenny Barron is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.

Muse Records

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

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Reception

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In his review on Allmusic, Scott Yanow notes "Kenny Barron could easily go unidentified if some of the selections on this LP were played for a listener during a "blindfold test" – he sounds quite unrecognizable on the three numbers on which he plays electric piano. Barron, who is joined by electric bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Freddie Waits, and the colorful percussion of both Richard Landrum and Warren Smith on his five originals and one by Waits, utilizes electricity with intelligence and creativity. His songs are moody and complex yet somewhat accessible and this underrated set would certainly surprise some of his current fans" [6] In JazzTimes David Zych wrote "The program has Barron offering a rich program of originals with a '70s tinge, but nevertheless rich, imaginative, and worth repeated listenings". [7]

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

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Davidson Sabin (1928–2018) as a newsletter called Radio Free Jazz. Sabine founded Radio Free Jazz to complement his Washington, D.C. record store that he founded in 1962. As a newsletter, it informed consumers of the latest jazz releases and provided jazz broadcasters with news and backstories related to playlists.

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Barron except where noted.

  1. "Sunset" – 9:08
  2. "A Flower" – 6:56
  3. "Swamp Demon" – 4:43
  4. "Al-Kifha" (Freddie Waits) – 6:17
  5. "Delores Street, S.F." – 6:43
  6. "Dawn" – 6:03

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.

Electric piano musical instrument

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations which are converted into electrical signals by magnetic pickups, which are then connected to an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to make a sound loud enough for the performer and audience to hear. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument. Instead, it is an electro-mechanical instrument. Some early electric pianos used lengths of wire to produce the tone, like a traditional piano. Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone. The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar's Vivi-Tone Clavier. A few other noteworthy producers of electric pianos include Baldwin Piano and Organ Company and the Wurlitzer Company.

Bob Cranshaw American musician

Melbourne Robert "Bob" Cranshaw was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzlists: Muse LP series discography: 5000 to 5049 accessed January 9, 2017
  2. ↑ Kenny Barron Catalog accessed January 9, 2017
  3. ↑ Kenny Barron: recordings accessed January 9, 2017
  4. ↑ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Kenny Barron accessed January 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Fitzgerald, M. Kenny Barron Discography, accessed January 20, 2019
  6. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Kenny Barron – Sunset to Dawn: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  7. ↑ Zych, D., JazzTimes Review, accessed January 9, 2017
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