How do you make the trombone cool?
Grachun Monchur III did it while recording for Blue Note, George Chisholm however good a player he may have been, did not!
Bob Brookmeyer was a cool guy, a pianist, composer and arranger as well as a fine valve trombone player.
A worthy addition to Avid’s Essential Collection cool jazz titles we feature Brookmeyer primarily as a trombone player on this excellent re-mastered double CD.
Featured both as leader and sideman between 1954 – 1955 we can hear Bob playing alongside such legends as Bud Shank, Red Mitchell, Larry Butler, Jimmy Rowles Buddy Clark, Mel Lewis and cool school sax man Zoot Sims, hey you don’t get a much cooler name than that!
Forget the haircut on the cover, (believe me that was cool back then) and just listen to the music and maybe change your opinion of what a trombone can do!
CD1
BOB BROOKMEYER QUINTET
1. 9.20 Sepcial
2. I Never Knew
3. Steeplechase
4. Lover Man
BOB BROOKMEYER QUARTET
5. Liberty Belle
6. Have You Met Miss Jones?
7. Traditional Blues
8. Isnt It Romantic
9. Doe Eyes
10. Red Devil
11. Last Chance
12. Body And Soul
13. You Took Advantage Of Me
14. He Aint Got Rhythm
15. What Is There To Say
16. There Will Never Be Another You
17. Jasmin
18. Sticks And Stems
CD2
BOB BROOKMEYER QUARTET
1. The Bulldog Blues
2. Under The Lilacs
3. Rocky Scotch
4. Potrezebie
5. They Say It’s Wonderful
BUD SHANK - BOB BROOKMEYER QUINTET WITH STRINGS
6. Out Of This World
7. There’s A Small Hotel
8. You Are Too Beautiful
9. When Your Lover Has Gone
10. Low Life
11. Rustic Hop
12. With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair
RED MITCHELL SEXTET
13. Happy Minor
14. Scrapple From The Apple
15. Long Ago And Far Away
16. Gone With The Wind
