Bennie Wallace - Bennie Wallace
release date: Tue Sep 01 1998
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AudioQuest 1051 CD - 14.98
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Track Listing
- Beyond the Bluebird (Flanagan) - 6:58
- Serenade to Sweden (Ellington) - 5:11
- Little Suprises (Wallace) - 6:32
- Moon Song (Coslow/Johnston) - 5:34
- Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) - 4:48
- So in Love (Porter) - 5:59
- Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington/Mills) - 6:11
- U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) (Strayhorn) - 7:19
- Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn) - 4:57
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Performers
Bennie Wallace - Tenor Saxophone
Tommy Flanagan - Piano
Eddie Gomez - Bass
Alvin Queen - Drums
Recording
Produced by: Joe Harley
All tracks recorded by: Roger Rhodes at Clinton Recording Studio, NYC, NY April 29 & 30, 1998
Mastered by: Bernie Grundman
All recording and mastering cables by: AudioQuest
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Bennie Wallace - The Old Songs
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AudioQuest 1017 CD - 14.98
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Track Listing
- I Hear A Rhapsody
- My One and Only Love
- When You Wish Upon a Star
- I Love You
- At Lulu White's (Blues Yamashita)
- What's New
- Love Letters
- Skylark
- Dancing in the Dark
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Amazon.com
Like his younger contemporary James Carter (and Joe Lovano, for that matter), tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace seems able to reference a panoply of jazz legends in his playing. He's got the octave leaps that Eric Dolphy made his own, and a swing-era sense of full-bodied tone and breathy playing, to boot. His renditions of standards on Old Songs, then, sound alternately like Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, and some genetic hybrid of about six other saxophonists. He leaps all over "I Hear a Rhapsody," with a lean trio of himself, bassist Bill Huntington, and drummer Alvin Queen. When pianist Lou Levy drops in, as on "My One and Only Love," "Skylark," and "What's New," things are far more intimate and gorgeous, showing Wallace's command of the ballad, sultry moods, and his horn's full range. This is a fantastic, underrecognized album. --Andrew Bartlett
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