Saxophonist Hal Stein Passes April 27th

[BeBop]

Reported by SFGate.com.

Thanks and RIP, Hal.

[JohnS]

Is this the Hal Stein who recorded a very pleasant album for Progressive in 1955 and the Prestige Four Altos session among other things? All nice stuff.

[flat5]

Prestige Four Altos

yes

[JohnS]

Four Altos. On the turntable now.

[mikeweil]

I found him just as good as his peers on the Four Altos LP - any other jazz sessions he played on?

R.I.P.

[Niko]

rip

discography from his webpage

http://www.halsteinjazz.com

Hal Stein- Warren Fitzgerald(progressive)includes "Nan De Mo Nai"

Four Altos w. Gene Quill, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab and Hal Stein (Prestige) includes "Kinda Kanonic"

Word From Bird (Teddy Charles tentet)(Atlantic)

Broadway 54 with Al Cohn (Prestige)

Doctor in Jazz (Giorgio Diaferia ens.) (Splasch) includes "Oh Yeah" and "Flower Child"

the last cd is available for instance via www.jpc.de

additionally he has a quartet album on cdbaby

http://cdbaby.com/cd/halsteinquartet

Edited May 7, 2008 by Niko

[mikeweil]

Thanks! Now all I need is the solo order on Four Altos - the later Prestige reissue LP I have doesn't list it ...

[JohnS]

Thanks! Now all I need is the solo order on Four Altos - the later Prestige reissue LP I have doesn't list it ...

Same here Mike.

[king ubu]

Peda Eyes (Waldron) - Shihab (2 choruses), Stein (3), Woods (2), Quill (2)

Kokochee (Charles) - Woods, Quill, Shihab, Stein (1 each), fours in same order

No More Nights (Charles) - Stein, Shihab, Quill, Woods, Waldron (1 each)

Kinda Kanonic (Stein) - Quill, Woods, Stein, Shihab, 8-bars apiece in same order, fours by Stein & Shihab w/Hayes

Don't Blame Me - theme: Quill (16 bars), Woods (16 bars), uptempo: Stein (16), Shihab (16), tag at end by Shihab

Staggers (Waldron) - Shihab, Woods, Stein, Quill (2 choruses each)

Will have to put that one in the player again, too!

r.i.p. Hal Stein

[mikeweil]

Herzlichen Dank, Herr König!

[BeBop]

I saw Hal on my most recent trip through the Bay Area - a bit less than a year ago. He played at a little bar as part of a street fair. Sounded good too.

I'd taken a few private lessons with him, back in the dark ages...not to date Mr. Stein.

Among other things, he did some duo work with Al Plank, under the name Plank n' Stein

[JohnS]

Herzlichen Dank, Herr König!

My thanks to Flurin

[king ubu]

I happened to stumble over the Stein/Fitzgerald Progressive disc - gave it one spin so far, sounded very good!

Bob Dorough is on piano and Paul Motian on drums, recorded at Van Gelder's in 1955. On bass, there's an Alphonso Cotton on bass.

Both Stein and Fitzgerald sound good enough, and Dorough is always nice to hear (no singing, just in case...)

Funny, but there seems to be a punk guy called Warren Fitzgerald as well, and AMG wants us to think he performed songs by Hal Stein... http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hbfuxqt5ldke