Artist: The Bob Brookmeyer Quartet
Album: Oslo
Genre: Post-Bop, Cool, West Coast Jazz
Label: Concord
Released: 1987
Recorded: Sage And Sound Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA, September 1986
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair (5:18)
- Oslo (5:11)
- Later Blues (5:07)
- Detour Ahead (8:14)
- Tootsie Samba (4:16)
- Alone Together (5:18)
- Who Could Care (5:24)
- Caravan (6:02)
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- Personnel:
- Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone
- Alan Broadbent - piano & synthesizer
- Eric Von Essen - bass
- Michael Stephans - drums
Bob Brookmeyer has been so busy as a writer since the mid-'60s that his valve trombone playing has been somewhat underrecorded. This quartet set with pianist Alan Broadbent (who also plays a bit of synthesizer), bassist Eric Von Essen and drummer Michael Stephans) finds Brookmeyer in top form on four standards and a quartet of his originals (including "Later Blues," "Tootsie Samba" and "Who Could Care"). His valve trombone playing had grown and evolved through the years and, although he still had the cool tone, Brookmeyer's solos are often quite complex while not completely abandoning chordal improvisation. This Concord release is well worth picking up.