Visitation (Sam Jones album)

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Visitation
Visitation - album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Sam Jones
Released1978
RecordedMarch 20, 1978
Genre Jazz
Length1:42:19
Label SteepleChase SCS 1097
Producer Nils Winther
Sam Jones chronology
Something in Common
(1977)		Visitation
(1978)		 The Bassist!
(1979)
Professional ratings
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Visitation is a studio album by American jazz bassist Sam Jones which was recorded in March, 1978 for the Danish SteepleChase Records label. [3] This is his ninth album as a leader. The record was re-released on CD in 1994 and as an LP in 2014 with three bonus tracks.

Contents

Reception

Ken Dryden of Allmusic noted "this 1978 session, just a few years prior to his premature death, finds him leading a powerful post-bop quintet, his regular group at the time, with cornetist Terumasa Hino, tenor saxophonist Bob Berg, pianist Ronnie Mathews, and drummer Al Foster. Jones primarily plays a supporting role through a good part of the date, though he is prominently featured in the interpretation of Paul Chambers' "Visitation," while he also revisits his breezy bop vehicle "Del Sasser." [4] Reviewer of Jazz Journal wrote "this latest album by Sam Jones is well up to standard....an excellent band....As for Sam Jones, he is in splendid form on all tracks, perhaps inspired by the feeling that he has managed to gather about him a cracking good band." [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Occurrance [sic]" Tom Harrell 5:50
2."Visitation" Paul Chambers 6:35
3."Jean Marie"Ron Mathews6:53
4."Before You"Tom Harrell5:55
5."My Funny Valentine" Richard Rodgers 5:10
6."Del Sasser"Sam Jones8:30

Personnel

Band

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Dryden, Ken. "Sam Jones: visitation". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 798. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ↑ "Sam Jones – Visitation". Discogs . discogs.com. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  4. ↑ Dryden, Ken. "Sam Jones: visitation". Allmusic . allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sam Jones – Visitation (SCCD 31097)". SteepleChase Records . steeplechase.dk. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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