Bill Charlap: The American Soul

[RonF]

The usual stellar trio, Peter Washington, Kenny Washington joined by Phil Woods, Frank Wess, Nicholas Payton and Slide Hampton. Damn nice arrangements. Charlap and the trio are as tasty as ever. Thumb way up.

[ghost of miles]

Our jazz director played a nice track from this just yesterday... looking forward to hearing the whole CD.

[Bol]

Do the 4 horn players play together? Or is the CD like "Stardust" in that only one guest will play on any one song?

[Alfred]

A new release of Charlap is always on my short list.

[RonF]

Do the 4 horn players play together?  Or is the CD like "Stardust" in that only one guest will play on any one song?

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Bol,

Horns are together on 3 tracks - Somebody Loves Me, A Foggy Day, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Frank Wess solos on 2 tracks - How Long Has This Been Going On, Bess, You Is My Woman Now. A great round of solos on S'Wonderful. The trio is featured on remaining of 10 tracks.

[Kalo]

When I interviewed Charlap last year he was very excited about this project.

I look forward to hearing it.

[Bol]

Do the 4 horn players play together?  Or is the CD like "Stardust" in that only one guest will play on any one song?

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Bol,

Horns are together on 3 tracks - Somebody Loves Me, A Foggy Day, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Frank Wess solos on 2 tracks - How Long Has This Been Going On, Bess, You Is My Woman Now. A great round of solos on S'Wonderful. The trio is featured on remaining of 10 tracks.

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Ron,

Thank you for the helpful response.

[Brad]

Sounds like a must. I haven't been that thrilled with some of his offerings lately. Nice but sort of blah.

[ghost of miles]

How does it compare to the recent Charlap release on Venus?

[Brad]

I assumed this out but it looks like it's not due to be released until next week.

[Brad]

Any thoughts on this one?

[JSngry]

Been hearing this on KNTU and have been wondering who the marvelously mature tenorist on "How Long..." was. Frank Wess, eh? No wonder!

[jlhoots]

Any thoughts on this one?

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Well worth it.

Disclaimer: I'm a big Charlap fan.

[Brad]

Any thoughts on this one?

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Well worth it.

Disclaimer: I'm a big Charlap fan.

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That's no disclaimer. That's a recommendation

[marcoliv]

Disclaimer: I'm a big Charlap fan.

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[James]

Caught the trio here in S.D. last night. Easily one of the best performances of the last couple of years. Luckily, I was able to be at the venue for both the early and late sets. The second set concluded with a mind-melting West Side Story medley - performed by the group without music. Ballads, burners, and everything in between --- all interesting takes on standards.

The amazing thing is that I would have missed the performance completely had I not been called on [last minute!] to dash to a music store for replacement drum heads for Kenny Washington! Through rush hour traffic I was able to make the delivery so that the concert started just ten minutes late. What a treat.

[RonF]

Caught the trio here in S.D. last night. Easily one of the best performances of the last couple of years. Luckily, I was able to be at the venue for both the early and late sets. The second set concluded with a mind-melting West Side Story medley - performed by the group without music. Ballads, burners, and everything in between --- all interesting takes on standards.

The amazing thing is that I would have missed the performance completely had I not been called on [last minute!] to dash to a music store for replacement drum heads for Kenny Washington! Through rush hour traffic I was able to make the delivery so that the concert started just ten minutes late. What a treat.

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Lucky Duck!

[montg]

I've heard a couple of Gershwin tracks on radio recently that really grabbed my attention. Each time it turned out to be a track from this CD. Charlap playing Gershwin does not, on the surface, appear to be a winner for me (you know, hasn't this been done before, Bill) but after hearing some of it, it may be worth picking up.