Artist.......: Max Roach
Album........: Jazz in three-quarter time
Label........: Emarcy
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: 14-11-2005
str.date.....: 26-04-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
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track title time
01. Blues Waltz 06:34
02. Valse hot 14:25
03. I'll take romance 04:35
04. Little folks 05:39
05. Lover 05:38
06. The most beautiful girl in the world 07:05
Runtime 43:56 min
Size 40,5 MB
Release Notes:
The post-Clifford Brown quintet that drummer Max
Roach led tends to get overlooked, but it actually
ranked up there with the Jazz Messengers and the
Horace Silver Quintet in the late '50s. With tenor
saxophonist Sonny Rollins becoming a stronger
soloist month-by-month (he was arguably the top
tenor in jazz at the time) and veteran trumpeter
Kenny Dorham in prime form, Roach was able to
stretch himself; the obscure pianist Billy Wallace
and bassist George Morrow completed the group. On
this LP, Roach explores six songs in waltz time, an
innovation for the period (predating Dave Brubeck's
recording of "Take Five" by two years). Roach
contributed two originals and the group played 3/4
versions of three standards but it was Rollins's
"Valse Hot" (which clocks in on this EmArcy album
at 14:15) that was the hit of the date. These
excellent performances show that jazz does not
always have to be in 4/4 time in order to swing.
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