New Solos by an Old Master

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New Solos by an Old Master
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Studio album by Joe Sullivan
Released 1955
Recorded 1953
San Francisco, California
Genre Jazz
Label Riverside
RLP 12-202
Producer Bill Grauer

New Solos by an Old Master is an album by American jazz pianist Joe Sullivan recorded in 1953 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

Joe Sullivan American musician

Michael Joseph O'Sullivan was an American jazz pianist.

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions in 1953, the label played an important role in the jazz record industry for a decade. Riverside headquarters were located in New York City, at 553 West 51st Street.

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Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating, "Pianist Joe Sullivan, although only 44 at the time, was already slipping into obscurity when he recorded these nine solo and three trio performances ". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Sullivan except as indicated

  1. "Gin Mill Blues"
  2. "That's a Plenty" (Lew Pollack, Ray Gilbert)
  3. "A Room With a View" (Noël Coward)
  4. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)
  5. "Hangover Blues"
  6. "Little Rock Getaway"
  7. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller)
  8. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)
  9. "Fido's Fantasy"
  10. "My Little Pride and Joy"
  11. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman)
  12. "Farewell to Riverside"

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.

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.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

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References

  1. ↑ Riverside Records discography accessed August 9, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed August 9, 2012
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