Slide Hampton, where to start?

[brownie]

Brownie:

Perhaps you thought/wrote "silver Salvation" under the influence of Williams Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech? (I think it was recorded in a recreation by Bryon years later.)

No, that's not it. But I would have plenty to tell a shrink about this slip if I saw one. Don't fell the need to B)

A better edit could fixed this!

Edited June 22, 2004 by brownie

[Michael Fitzgerald]

My website has a complete discography of Slide. URL below.

I love the Octet - my favorite could well be the Two Sides of Slide album on Charlie Parker, now on 2-fer CD with the Strand album Horn of Plenty.

That Mellow-dy cheapie CD is quite good - at $5 or so, I've picked up several and passed them on to friends.

Mike

Edited June 23, 2004 by Michael Fitzgerald

[clifford_thornton]

How did that quartet with Joachim Kuhn come out originally, anyway?

I've got a nice big band date on Supraphon featuring Jiri Stivin, John Surman, Barre Phillips and Stu Martin among others, but the small-group stuff is a little more attractive to me. These rec's should be helpful...

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Originally on Pathe LP 10156 - see my discography.

Mike

[robviti]

no one's mentioned this gem yet, with clifford jordan, cedar walton, david williams, and billy higgins.

[brownie]

or the Curtis Fuller 'Two Bones' BN album where Slide Hampton confronts his skills with Fuller. The rhythm section was Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Charles Persip.

This has not been reissued since its original release in Japan in 1980. That LP listed Al Harewood instead of Persip as the drummer.

The session was included in the Fuller Mosaic but it could stand a fresher reissue.

[paul secor]

or the Curtis Fuller 'Two Bones' BN album where Slide Hampton confronts his skills with Fuller. The rhythm section was Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Charles Persip.

This has not been reissued since its original release in Japan in 1980. That LP listed Al Harewood instead of Persip as the drummer.

The session was included in the Fuller Mosaic but it could stand a fresher reissue.

I have the Japanese LP and it's been a favorite of mine over the years. Didn't think to mention it because it's only been available on that LP and as part of the Mosaic box, and both are long out of print. brownie is right. Blue note should do a reissue - it's a fine session.

[mjzee]

I'm bringing this thread up because I wanted to start a thread on Slide's arranging skills, but thought I'd extend this one.

I put on Junior Cook's "Good Cookin'" (now part of 32 Jazz's "Senior Cookin'"). Without checking the liner notes, I could immediately tell Slide's arranging - he has a distinctive sound, one that I really dig. Tight, solid arrangements of the head, but leaving lots of room for blowing. And, refreshingly, he doesn't call attention to himself.

Another date in this league is Dexter's "A Day in Copenhagen." Does anyone else have favorites of Slide's arranging?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Some of the very best writing is for the Slide Hampton Octet, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Amazingly, all of their albums but one have made it to CD. The basic concept of the group was 2 trumpets, 2 saxophones, 2 trombones, 2 rhythm. Slide could make this sound like a big band and there was always plenty of solo space because it really *wasn't* a big band. The Fresh Sound CD that combines "Horn Of Plenty" and "Two Sides Of Slide" is magnificent.

Of course, at the same time, Slide was working with Maynard Ferguson, whose band was a bit bigger (but still not a full big band): 4 trumpets, 4 saxophones, 2 trombones, 3 rhythm. Some of the same pieces were in the books of both.

Mike

BTW, the Octet sometimes wasn't an Octet, strictly speaking. Added trumpet, tuba, piano, percussion, etc.

[mgraham333]

no one's mentioned this gem yet, with clifford jordan, cedar walton, david williams, and billy higgins.

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Roots is one of my Slide favorites.... it also happens to be one of Slide's. He told me so in Chicago when I saw him in May.

[mrjazzman]

my favorite slide playing/writing is on "A Day In Copenhagen", of course you get the added bonus of having my favorite ts player Dexter Gordon.........mrjazzman

[sheldonm]

Here's a photograph of Slide playing at the Indy Jazz Festival (Tribute to Jobim) yesterday!

[mjzee]

On 6/22/2004 at 8:54 AM, paul secor said:

A Slide Hampton session I've enjoyed over the years is World of Trombones (now on a Black Lion CD). It's Slide Hampton leading a nine trombone choir accompanied by a rhythm section. Perhaps not typical Slide Hampton, but it's a good listen.

If you read the Penguin Guide to Jazz, you'll see it only merits a so-so rating. My ears tell me otherwise, and I always trust my ears over their words.

Just picked up a vinyl copy of World Of Trombones from Dusty Groove.  I really like Slide's mind.  He's certainly all in on the trombone!  Ingenious arrangements for 9 trombones playing in unison.  It's an interesting sound!  The musicians are all late-70's wonderful:

Trombone: Slide, Clifford Adams Jr., Clarence Banks, Curtis Fuller, Earl McIntyre, Douglas Purviance, Janice Robinson, Steve Turre, Papo Vasquez

Albert Dailey, piano

Ray Drummond, bass

Leroy Williams, drums

 

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, mjzee said:

Just picked up a vinyl copy of World Of Trombones from Dusty Groove.  I really like Slide's mind.  He's certainly all in on the trombone!  Ingenious arrangements for 9 trombones playing in unison.  It's an interesting sound!  The musicians are all late-70's wonderful:

Trombone: Slide, Clifford Adams Jr., Clarence Banks, Curtis Fuller, Earl McIntyre, Douglas Purviance, Janice Robinson, Steve Turre, Papo Vasquez

Albert Dailey, piano

Ray Drummond, bass

Leroy Williams, drums

 

That West 54 label was small and short-lived, but most of what they put out is worth hearing.

https://www.discogs.com/de/label/176328-West-54?page=1

[clifford_thornton]

All these years later, that Fabulous Slide Hampton quartet album with Joachim Kühn was purchased and is greatly enjoyed. I also really like Exodus, which I've never seen as an LP (very rare) but the CD reissue was easy enough to find.

[JSngry]

If you can hear Slide's arrangement of "Dancing In The Dark" that he did with Maynard, check that out, totally gonzo.

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

If you can hear Slide's arrangement of "Dancing In The Dark" that he did with Maynard, check that out, totally gonzo.

Track 18 here:

https://archive.org/details/CompleteRouletteRecordingsoftheMaynardFergusonOrchestra_201904