Chico Hamilton Freddie Gambrell 1958 Deep Groove RARE

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Please Note: This is the debut LP for Freddie Gambrell, the blind jazz piano player, discovered by Chico Hamilton. This 1958 original Stereo released on World Pacific Records is Out-Of-Print and never reissued. This is a first pressing, deep groove, extremely rare and hard to find.

This is original 1958 Vinyl, World Pacific Stereo 1008 Deep Groove,    "The Chico Hamilton Trio introducing Freddie Gambrell" "Produced by Richard  Bock.  The vinyl is Excellent, MINT-, No defects or marks of any kind.
A test play proved excellent delivering bright and full fidelity.. .The matte  Jacket( west coast artist series, painting by Edmond Kohn) is excellent , minor  1/2" seam split upper right, otherwise perfect!  The Labels are bright and Clean.    Overall the condition is Excellent! A flawless play!!

Review: courtesy Allmusic Guide
Freddie Gambrell could be described as an alternative to Cecil Taylor in terms of extending the legacy of Art Tatum into postmodernism, the majority of his peers choosing to cut and run as if a reader confronted with the first half of this sentence. So much more alluring would be the combination of mysterious and mundane details out of which came his relatively brief time in the spotlight, at least by jazz standards.

Blinded as a teenager, Gambrell mastered enough instruments to humiliate even a multi-instrumentalist from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He learned violin at 11, later recorded on viola, was "introduced" to the public in the early '50s by maestro Chico Hamilton as a pianist in the "blind genius" category, and also played guitar, bass, and brass instruments from top to bottom. One of the strangest things about Gambrell -- which at the very least gives him something in common with Garth Brooks and the suicidal phase of Phil Ochs -- was his reinvention of himself as Federico Cervantes, modern jazz trumpet player.

The discography of Gambrell, such as it is, cannot really be examined without a study of as many as four albums released under the name of the Federico Cervantes Sextet. Reports about these recordings are enthusiastic, mentioning combinations of Latin jazz and country & western and trumpet solos full of the type of daring common to a musician operating under an alias. His approach as Cervantes nonetheless came out of his self-taught background as Gambrell, at one point paying his way by playing keyboards in clubs much more off the beaten track than the San Francisco Jazz Workshop. The latter venue finally provided Gambrell an opportunity to present his keyboard style to a wider, more discerning audience. He was associated with a rhythm section featuring Hamilton and Ben Tucker, a bassist from Nashville.

This artist's stylistic choices under whatever name are bound by their connection to the Bay area, the sweet smell of old vinyl in glossy covers on the World Pacific label.


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