Rufus Harley - Courage: The Atlantic Recordings
ARTIST.....: Rufus Harley
TITLE......: Courage: The Atlantic Recordings
LABEL......: Rhino Hand Made
URL........: http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7725
RIP DATE...: Jan-30-2007
STORE DATE.: 000-00-2006
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 218,3 MB
Track Listing:
cd1
01 - Bagpipe Blues 02:43
02 - Kerry Dancers 06:07
03 - Who Can I Turn To 04:01
04 - More 06:43
05 - Chim Chim Cheree 02:29
06 - Sportin' 05:10
07 - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 05:43
08 - Feeling Good 07:35
09 - If You Could See Me Now 06:19
10 - Tarus The 20th 07:00
11 - Scotch & Soul 05:06
12 - Passing The Cup Around 04:07
13 - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 05:07
14 - Sufur 04:53
15 - Pipin' The Blues (With Sonny Stitt) 05:54
cd2
01 - Sunny 07:10
02 - A Tribute To Courage (JFK) 07:50
03 - Swing Low Sweet Chariot 05:38
04 - Ali 05:06
05 - 'X' 03:33
06 - About Trane 07:50
07 - Eight Miles High 06:00
08 - Moon River 06:04
09 - Love Is Blue 06:36
10 - Windy 04:11
11 - King 07:35
12 - Queens 09:02
13 - Where Have All The Flowers Gone 03:10
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cd1: 78:57 cd2: 79:45
Release Notes:
Courage: The Atlantic Recordings is available as an individually
numbered limited edition of 3,000 copies. #1359 of 3000
Rufus Harley was a saxophone player. That is, until he had an
epiphany while watching the bagpipers of the Black Watch of the
Royal Highlanders Regiment lead JFK's November 1963 funeral
procession from the White House to St. Matthew's Cathedral. This
was the sound he was hearing in his head but unable to realize on
the sax.
Noted producer Joel Dorn discovered Harley and brought him to
Atlantic Records, and to this day credits the success of the
bagpiper's debut album, Bagpipe Blues, as the reason Nesuhi
Ertegun invited him to become a full-time producer at the label.
Dorn recorded both Bagpipe Blues and Scotch & Soul, in 1966, A
Tribute To Courage in 1967, and King/Queens in 1970, before Harley
parted with Atlantic.
Interestingly, all the facets of the bagpipes' sound appear on
these four Atlantic albums: chanter alone, drones alone, and full
bore with chanter screaming and drones wailing.
As Dorn remembers in the liner notes to this release, ôAny time
back then when you did something that was slightly different, the
regular jazz community looked at it as if it was gimmicky, or
vaudeville-like. People looked at it as an oddity or a one-off.ö
Harley's fellow musicians, however, saw it differently. John
Coltrane once called Harley in the middle of the night and asked
for lessons on the pipes, a set of which he'd recently acquired.
And in 1974, after his stint at Atlantic, Harley got to play with
his idol, Sonny Rollins. ôHe told me to play whole notes, way
before I came to the bagpipes, and he told me to sustain them,ö
Harley says of Rollins' massive influence.
Courage producer Daniel Goldmark says it best in the liner notes:
ôEvery time someone asks if bagpipe jazz is really jazz, they've
only confirmed that Rufus Harley was essential to the redefinition
of jazz that occurred in the 1960s.ö
Courage contains the Atlantic albums Bagpipe Blues, Scotch & Soul,
A Tribute To Courage, and King/Queens in their entirety, plus the
previously unreleased ôWhere Have All The Flowers Gone?ö and
ôPipin' The Bluesö from Sonny Stitt's Deuces Wild.