The Lowest

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The Lowest
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Studio album by Red Callender
Released 1958
Recorded April 30 and May 1, 1958
Studio Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Label MetroJazz
E 1007
Producer Leonard Feather
Red Callender chronology
Callender Speaks Low
(1957)		The Lowest
(1958)		 Basin Street Brass
(1973)

The Lowest is an album by bassist and tubist Red Callender, recorded for the MetroJazz label in 1958. [1] [2]

Red Callender American string bass and tuba player, member of The Wrecking Crew

George Sylvester "Red" Callender was an American string bass and tuba player. He is perhaps best known as a jazz musician, but worked with an array of pop, rock and vocal acts as a member of The Wrecking Crew, a group of first-call session musicians in Los Angeles.

MetroJazz was an American jazz record label founded in 1958 as a division of MGM Records. These records were produced by Leonard Feather and included Pepper Adams, Red Callender, Teddy Edwards, Thad Jones, Jimmy Knepper, Sonny Rollins, Randy Weston.

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The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden states: "These sessions feature quite a few of the rising stars of the West Coast jazz scene... As a bassist, Callender was very much in demand and displays his immense talent in a rather subdued way. He sets aside his bass to play tuba on several tracks, proving himself as a convincing soloist on an instrument almost always relegated to rhythm, in addition to being out of favor once the bass came into jazz ensembles". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Red Callender except where noted

  1. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke)
  2. "Pickin, Pluckin, Whistlin' and Walkin'"
  3. "The Lowest"
  4. "Of Thee I Sing" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  5. "Dedicated to the Blues"
  6. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin)
  7. "Five-Four Blues" (Josef Myrow)
  8. "Tea For Two" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar)
  9. "Another Blues"
  10. "Volume, Too"
  11. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder)

Personnel

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.

Tuba type of musical instrument of the brass family

The tuba (bass) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibration into a large mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band. The tuba largely replaced the ophicleide. Tuba is Latin for 'trumpet'.

Gerald Wilson American trumpetist

Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer/arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. In addition to being a band leader, Wilson wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.

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References

  1. ↑ Both Sides Now: MetroJazz Album Discography, accessed February 28, 2018
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: MetroJazz discography, accessed February 28, 2018
  3. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. The Lowest – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
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