What is it about Riverside? Not every title sounds amazing, but many do. I'm obsessed with Duke Ellington right now, I admit. So take that into account.
But Clark Terry's Riverside R-1108 is a superb album. Astonishingly wonderful sound and great music, too, with Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalvez, Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn, and Tyree Glenn -- one of many non-Ellington Ellington albums. Prior to this Clark Terry seemed, to me, nothing special. But I have now learned the error of my ways. This is a superb album.
(I have a very, very nice Nikon camera, and a decent lens or two. Soon, I will take them out and begin reproducing these album covers. But not tonight; I'm having way too much fun listening to "Cottontail" and drinking high-end Wild Turkey.)
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Riverside did some absolutely fabulous Jazz, but what I've been concentrating upon lately is the Impulse catalog. Unbelievably great stuff...one of the most important (in my 'never humble in the least' opinion) being Oliver Nelson's "Blues and the Abstract Truth"
What is really turning me on is the trend for new releases from companies such as Nonesuch who give you a CD along with your LP purchase...how good is that?
A CD I just bought of Oscar Peterson's "We get Requests" on First Impression Music K2HD (HDCD) is not only a superb Oscar and Ray Brown outing, but the silver discs that First Impression is doing will rival any LP I ever heard.
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