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08-31-2011, 07:41 PM
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| |  Essential Freddie Green?
Any Freddie Green recordings you guys feel are essential listening? |
08-31-2011, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazzpunk  Any Freddie Green recordings you guys feel are essential listening? | Listen to as much as you can find. Go to Freddie's website. There are a number of recordings you can listen to. Check you tube, Basie records and whatever else you can dig up. In my opinion, it's all essential listening. |
09-01-2011, 04:57 AM
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+1 They offer a selected Discography.
I would like to recommend this Record: Quote:
Title: Count Basie and His Kansas City Seven
Leader: Count Basie
LP Label: Impulse
LP Number: A 15
Recorded: March 1962
Notes: Small group setting lets Freddie be heard clearly. This LP has been re-issued on CD: MCA Impulse MCAD-5656 JVC-457. From the liner notes by Stanley Dance: "Too little has been said here about Freddie Green, (bassist) Eddie Jones, and (drummer) Sonny Payne, but they play all the way for the band rather than themselves. There is a rare unity about their contribution, and an unfailing entente with the combination's leader and pianist. Basie and his guitarist, Freddie Green, are, of course, two of the most highly valued constants in the (jazz) field, and where rhythm is concerned they are among the supreme arbiters. They firmly favor good taste. Humor is permissable in their book, but never the loudly dramatic. They can-and do- push or lift a soloist when necessary, but they are almost unique in their ability to maintain an undercurrent of relaxation in the stormiest of situations."
| This Quote is from the Freddie Green Website.  |
09-01-2011, 11:45 AM
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Here are a few good ones: - Mr. Rhythm, Four Brass One Tenor, I'm Still Swinging, Lullaby Of Birdland and The Natural Seven can be found on a Mosaic compilation
- Swing Reunion (1985) (Teddy Wilson (p), Benny Carter (as), Red Norvo (vib), Louis Bellson (dr), Remo Palmier (el-guit), George Duvivier (b), Freddie Green)
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09-01-2011, 06:08 PM
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