Oscar Pettiford Birdland Band: Jazz Off The Air Vol.6, 1984 LP Made in UK - NM

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(Visually Graded) Vinyl looks Near Mint and sleeve looks EX. See pics and info for details.

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 Oscar Pettiford And His Birdland Band – Jazz Off The Air Vol.6

Label:    Spotlite Records – SPJ 153   
Format:    12", 33rpm, Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:    UK
Released:     1984
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Bop, Bebop, Swing, Cool Jazz, Modern Jazz

Tracklist

A1        The Gentle Art Of Love    1:47
A2        Nica's Tempo    3:32
A3        Seventh Heaven    3:00
A4        Perdido    2:47
A5        Two French Fries    2:36
A6        He's My Guy    2:33
A7        Smoke Signals    3:53
A8        The Gentle Art Of Love (Theme)    0:38
B1        The Gentle Art Of Love (Theme)    1:00
B2        Aw, C'mon    4:09
B3        I Remember Clifford    4:00
B4        Not So Sleepy (To Fade)    2:37

Credits

    Alto Saxophone – Gene Quill (tracks: B1 to B4), Gigi Gryce (tracks: A1 to A8)
    Baritone Saxophone – Sahib Shihab (tracks: B1 to B4, possibly A1 to A8)
    Bass, Cello – Oscar Pettiford
    Drums – Shadow Wilson
    French Horn – Dave Amram*, Ed London*
    Harp – Betty Glamann
    Piano – Dick Katz
    Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Jerome Richardson
    Trombone – Al Grey
    Trumpet – Art Farmer (tracks: B1 to B4), Donald Byrd (tracks: A1 to A8), Ray Copeland (tracks: A1 to A8, possibly B1 to B4)    

Notes

Side A: Birdland, New York City, Sunday, May 26th, 1957.
Side B: Birdland, New York City, Sunday, Summer/Autumn, 1957.

- bio - Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960)[1] was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom.

 n 1942, he joined the Charlie Barnet band and in 1943 gained wider public attention after recording with Coleman Hawkins on his "The Man I Love". Pettiford also recorded with Earl Hines and Ben Webster around this time. After he moved to New York, he was one of the musicians (together with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) who in the early 1940s jammed at Minton's Playhouse, where the music style developed that later was called bebop. He and Dizzy Gillespie led a bop group in 1943.[1] In 1945, Pettiford went with Hawkins to California, where he appeared in The Crimson Canary, a mystery movie known for its jazz soundtrack, which also featured Josh White. He then worked with Duke Ellington from 1945 to 1948 and for Woody Herman in 1949, before working mainly as a leader in the 1950s.

As a leader he inadvertently discovered Cannonball Adderley. After one of his musicians had tricked him into letting Adderley, an unknown music teacher, onto the stand, he had Adderley solo on a demanding piece, on which Adderley performed impressively.

Pettiford is considered the pioneer of the cello as a solo instrument in jazz music. He first played the cello as a practical joke on his band leader (Woody Herman), when he walked off stage during his solo spot and came back, unexpectedly with a cello and played on that. In 1949, after suffering a broken arm, Pettiford found it impossible to play his bass, so he experimented with a cello a friend had lent him. Tuning it in fourths, like a double bass, but one octave higher, Pettiford found it possible to perform during his rehabilitation (during which time his arm was in a sling) and made his first recordings with the instrument in 1950. The cello thus became his secondary instrument, and he continued to perform and record with it throughout the remainder of his career. -wikipedia

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VG
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