Young at Heart (Howard McGhee and Teddy Edwards album)

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Young at Heart
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Studio album by
Released1983
RecordedOctober 4–5, 1979
StudioSpectrum Studio, Venice, CA
Genre Jazz
Length41:25
Label Storyville
SLP 4080
Producer Lars Johansen
Howard McGhee chronology
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(1978)
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(1983)
Wise in Time
(1979)
Teddy Edwards chronology
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(1976)
Young at Heart
(1979)
Wise in Time
(1979)

Young at Heart is an album by trumpeter Howard McGhee and saxophonist Teddy Edwards recorded in 1979 and released on the Storyville label. [1] [2]

Howard McGhee American trumpeter

Howard McGhee was one of the first bebop jazz trumpeters, with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast fingers and very high notes. What is generally not known is the influence that he had on younger hard bop trumpeters, with Fats Navarro.

Teddy Edwards American musician

Theodore Marcus Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist on the west coast of the U.S.

Storyville Records is an international record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music. Besides its original material, Storyville Records has reissued many vintage jazz recordings that previously appeared on labels such as Paramount Records, American Music Records, and Southland Records. Many Storyville records were pressed in Japan.

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In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow stated "Tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards was in trumpeter Howard McGhee's group during 1945-47. Over 30 years later they reunited for what would be McGhee's final recording sessions (although the trumpeter lived until 1987). ... McGhee and Edwards are in excellent form on a set filled with bop standards". [3]

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AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Track listing

  1. "Relaxing at Camarillo" (Charlie Parker) – 7:36
  2. "Reflections" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:36
  3. "Blues in the Closet" (Oscar Pettiford) – 7:27
  4. "On a Misty Night" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:32
  5. "In Walked Bud" (Monk) – 4:07
  6. "Yardbird Suite" (Parker) – 4:07
  7. "Moose the Mooche" (Parker) – 7:00

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.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F key have a range from A2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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. Discogs album entry accessed February 27, 2018
  2. Teddy Edwards discography accessed February 27, 2018
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Young at Heart – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 27, 2018.