Summer Wind: Live at the Loa

by Ray Brown, Ray Brown Trio

Overview

Ray Brown has many great contributions to jazz as a leader and a sideman, but one additional way in which he helped jazz was his encouraging Gene Harris to give up his early retirement and go back out on the road. The pianist was a part of Brown's groups for several years before he formed a working quartet and became a leader for good once again. This 1988 concert at a since-defunct Santa Monica night club (co-owned by Brown) finds the two, along with drummer Jeff Hamilton, at the top of their game. A phone ringing in the background distracts momentarily from Brown's opening solo in his composition "The Real Blues," during which Harris repeats a bluesy tremolo, which may be an inside joke about the early distraction. Harris take a blues-drenched approach to "Mona Lisa" before giving way to the leader's solo, while his lyrical approach to "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" is shimmering. Hamilton's soft brushes are prominent in "Little Darlin'," but his explosive playing provides a powerful pulse to the very unusual strutting take of "It Don't Mean a Thing." This extremely satisfying CD is warmly recommended. ~ Ken Dryden

Product Details

Release Date:	08/27/1990
Label:	Concord Jazz
UPC:	0013431442622
Rank:	6884

Tracks

1. Summer Wind
2. The Real Blues
3. Li'l Darlin'
4. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
5. Mona Lisa
6. Buhaina Buhaina
7. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
8. Bluesology

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ray Brown Trio   Primary Artist
Ray Brown   Primary Artist,Bass
Jeff Hamilton   Drums
Johnny Griffin   Sax (Tenor)
Monty Alexander   Piano
Gene Harris   Piano
Martin Drew   Drums

Technical Credits

Allen Farnham   Producer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Leonard Feather   Liner Notes
John Burk   Producer,Executive Producer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Neal Hefti   Composer
Nick Phillips   Producer,Assistant Producer
Ray Brown   Composer,Performer
Ray Evans   Composer
Milt Jackson   Composer
Chip Deffaa   Liner Notes
Glen Barros   Executive Producer
Herbert Waltl   Associate Producer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Jay Livingston   Composer
Phil Edwards   Mixing,Engineer,Remixing
George Horn   Mastering
Hans Bradtke   Composer
Jill Simonsen   Package Design
Kaspar Hugentobler   Assistant
Valerie Whitesell   Production Coordination
Fred Jacobs   Authoring
Sandi Young   Art Direction
Carl Jefferson   Producer,Executive Producer
Abbey Anna   Art Direction
Graeme Brown   Mastering
Henry Mayer   Composer
Ted White   Engineer