Pete Christlieb Recommendations

[Jazztropic]

I just got Appogee with Warne Marsh really nice.Does anyone here have some other favorites of this tenor player?I see another on the net that is cheep Late Night Jazz is this as good?

Thanks

[Chuck Nessa]

They may be expensive but the only other Christlieb titles I find worth buying are the two Criss Cross discs with Warne. Pete is a wonderful player.

[JSngry]

There was a pretty decent local (L.A.) indie label release from the late 70s that had a few cuts w/Warne, but I forget the details.

Correction, 1981.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/self-portrait-r246024

Edited September 12, 2011 by JSngry

[felser]

Out of left field recommendation, but serious - Tom Waits 'Nighhawks at the Diner'. Very early (1975) live-with-audience-in-the-studio album, the only Tom Waits I've bothered to keep. It's the most memorable Christlieb I've heard (he's on constant display through the entire album), and quite a cast.

Here is a portion of the AMG review: " Waits is a colorful tour guide of midnight L.A., raving over a swinging rhythm section of Jim Hughart (bass) and Bill Goodwin (drums), with Pete Christlieb wailing away on tenor sax between paragraphs and Mike Melvoin trading off with Waits on piano runs."

[brownie]

Those Christlieb-Marsh collaborations are wonderful!

May I recommend the Lou Levy album 'Lunacy' on Verve. The CD came and went without the fanfare it should have had!

Christlieb is excellent throughout.

[mikeweil]

I found Christlieb's playing on this Jack Sheldon CD absolutely great - baritone included:

There's also a duo with just tenor and piano on this CD - thanks to Jack Sheldon for such an unselfish attitude.

[medjuck]

Christlieb did a wild version of There's No Business Like Show Business for an HBO show I helped produced. We wanted to use Sonny Rollins version but couldn't afford it.

[Peter Friedman]

Here are additional things with Pete Christlieb in a small group setting that I enjoy.

Don Lanphere & Pete Christlieb - Get Happy - Origin

Hadley Caliman & Pete Christlieb - Reunion - Origin

Pete Christlieb / Bob Cooper Quintet - Mosaic - Capri

John Leitham Quintet - Live - Cars

John Leitham Septet - Lefty Leaps In - Cars

Pete Christlieb - For Heaven's Sake - Cars

Pete Christlieb and the Bill Ramsey / Milt Kleeb Band - Kelly's Heroes - Cars

Conte Candoli Quintet - Sweet Simon - BR (Best Recordings)

Pete Christlieb with the Lori Menchem Quartet - Live At The Jazz Cave - Cognito

Andy Simpkins Quintet - Comin' At Ya - MAMA

Ernie Watts / Pete Christlieb / Rickey Woodard - The Tenor Trio - JMI

Frank Strazzeri and His Woodwinds West - Somebody Loves Me - Fresh Sound

Christlieb also can be found on many big band recordings by such as Bill Holman, Bob Florence and Nat Pierce/Frankie Capp.

It is interesting that in a published interview, (I believe it was in CODA) Warne Marsh referred to Pete Christlieb as the best or one of the best tenor players

on the scene.

[Clunky]

There was a pretty decent local (L.A.) indie label release from the late 70s that had a few cuts w/Warne, but I forget the details.

Correction, 1981.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/self-portrait-r246024

another :tup for this one,

[Ted O'Reilly]

Dang! Another flipped cover picture. I hate 'em!

But it IS a very nice record...

[mikeweil]

BTW - is there anyone else here who finds the sound on Apogee less than great?