So Why Not?

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So Why Not?
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Studio album by
Buddy Montgomery
Released1988
RecordedJuly 28, 1988 and August 12, 1988
Studio Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Genre Jazz
Length51:20
Label Landmark
LLP/LCD-1518
Producer Orrin Keepnews & Buddy Montgomery
Buddy Montgomery chronology
Ties of Love
(1987)		So Why Not?
(1988)		 Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Fifteen
(1992)

So Why Not? is an album by pianist Buddy Montgomery featuring performances recorded in 1985 and released on the Landmark label. [1] [2] [3]

Charles "Buddy" Montgomery was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery, both notable musicians on guitar and bass guitar respectively.

Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews. Landmark's releases included music by Donald Byrd, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Heath, Vincent Herring, Bobby Hutcherson, Mulgrew Miller, Buddy Montgomery, and reissues of Cannonball Adderley.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Scott Yanow at Allmusic noted "There is a lot of variety on this outing by Buddy Montgomery. ... All in all, this is a well-conceived and consistently intriguing straight-ahead outing by the underrated Buddy Montgomery". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Buddy Montgomery except where noted

  1. "So Why Not?" – 4:42
  2. "Waterfall" – 7:58
  3. "My Sentiments Exactly" – 5:26
  4. "Summer Nights" – 5:07
  5. "My Little Brown Book" (Billy Strayhorn) – 7:02
  6. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:54
  7. "If Ever I Would Leave You" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:23
  8. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:56
  9. "Budini" – 5:52

Personnel

Vibraphone musical instrument

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist or vibraharpist.

David "Fathead" Newman American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist

David "Fathead" Newman was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and early 1960s recordings by singer-pianist Ray Charles.

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 A♭2 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".

References

  1. ↑ Fitzgerald, M., Landmark Records listing. Retrieved February 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: album details. Retrieved February 4, 2019
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: Landmark 1500 series discography. Retrieved February 4, 2019
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Buddy Montgomery: So Why Not? – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved February 4, 2019.
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