Catching Up

by Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends, Dick Cary, Dick Cary & His Tuesday Night Friends

Overview

Dick Cary, best known as a utility pianist, trumpeter, and alto horn player with trad bands in the 1950s, was also an inventive arranger/composer. For years on Tuesday nights he had a rehearsal band that played his many charts, which literally numbered in the thousands. It was not until after his death in 1994 that his ensemble finally began to record. This release for the Klavier label finds the band led by Dick Hamilton (who, like Cary, triples on trumpet, alto horn, and piano) and including such notables as trumpeter Jack Trott; Betty O'Hara on trombone, baritone horn, and double bell euphonium; clarinetist Abe Most; and Tommy Newsome on reeds. The music mixes together aspects of trad and 1950s West Coast jazz with Cary's own musical personality, and the swinging results sound both traditional and quite modern. Thirteen of the 16 numbers are Cary's (two of the other pieces are unusual reworkings of "Black and Blue" and "Shimmy Sha Wobble"). The intriguing set is well worth exploring. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	03/02/1999
Label:	KLAVIER
UPC:	0019688702427

Tracks

1. Catching Up
2. Oofy
3. September Etude
4. The Albatross
5. Late Sunday
6. Gramercy Park
7. Shimmy Sha Wobble
8. Black and Blue
9. Between Prone and Supine
10. December Song
11. Rialto
12. Sea of Cortez
13. B-E-T-T-Y O'-Ha-R-A
14. Recado
15. White April
16. Sgt. Pee Wee

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dick Cary & His Tuesday Night Friends   Primary Artist
Dick Cary   Primary Artist
Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends   Primary Artist
Betty O'Hara   Trombone,Horn (Baritone),Double Bell Euphonium
Dick Hamilton   Piano,Horn (Alto),Trumpet
Abe Most   Clarinet
Tommy Newsom   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano),Sax (Baritone)
Dave Koonse   Guitar
Ernie Tack   Trombone (Bass)
John Bambridge   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Herb Mickman   Bass
Fred Cooper   Sax (Baritone)
Jerry White   Drums
Randall Aldcroft   Horn (Baritone)
Jack Trott   Trumpet
Terry Harrington   Sax (Tenor)

Technical Credits

Andy Razaf   Composer
Djalma Ferreira   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Dick Hamilton   Leader,Engineer,Mixing
Jim Turner   Producer,Liner Notes
Bruce Leek   Mastering
Harry Brooks   Composer
Jimmy McPartland   Composer
Dick Cary   Composer
Luiz Antonio   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer