Artist: The Clare Fischer Big Band
Album: Thesaurus
Genre: Hard Bop, Latin Jazz, World Fusion
Label: Atlantic/WEA/Warner
Released: 1968/2013
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- The Duke (Fischer) - 5:03
- Miles Behind (Fischer) - 5:13
- Calamus (S.Fischer) - 4:54
- Lennie's Pennies (Tristano) - 5:30
- 'Twas Only Yesterday (Fischer) - 6:38
- Bitter Leaf (S.Fischer) - 7:11
- Upper Manhattan Medical Group (Strayhorn) - 4:18
- In Memoriam (John F. & Robert F. Kennedy) (Fischer) - 1:57
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- Personnel:
- Clare Fischer - piano, Fender-Rhodes electronic piano
- Gary Foster - lead alto saxophone
- Kim Richmond - alto saxophone
- Louis Ciotti, Warne Marsh – tenor saxophone
- Bill Perkins - baritone saxophone
- John Lowe - bass saxophone
- Larry McGuire, Buddy Childers (#1,2,4,5,8), John Audino (#3,6,7), Conte Candoli, Steve Huffsteter, Stewart Fischer - trumpets
- Gil Falco, Charley Loper, David Sanchez - trombones
- Morris Repass - bass trombone
- Chuck Domanico - bass
- Larry Bunker - drums
Clare Fischer's big-band release was only briefly available as an Atlantic LP but it has finally reappeared in the CD era after a brief appearance under another title on LP some ten years after its first release. Fischer's potent originals and first-rate arrangements bring out the best in his musicians, which include Warne Marsh and Conte Candoli (featured on "Miles Behind"), Bill Perkins on a work trumpeter Stewart Fischer specially composed for the baritone saxophonist ("Calamus"), and alto saxophonist Gary Foster featured with Marsh on Lennie Tristano's "Lennie's Pennies." A well-conceived chart of Billy Strayhorn's "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" swings mightily. The leader even makes a rare appearance on alto sax in the brief "In Memoriam" dedicated to the assassinated Kennedy brothers.
Review by Ken Dryden