A Fresh Taste of Thad Jones


Artist: Frank Foster

Label: Hanssler Classic

Price: $14.95

Year: 2006
Format: CD

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A swinging program of big band jazz from the SWR Big Band—destined to be another Grammy winner for the band! Saxophonist/composer/arranger Frank Foster, born in Cincinnati in 1928, is one of the last prominent exponents who played a substantial role in the success of Count Basie’s legendary orchestra both as soloist and arranger. Besides Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones, it was particularly Frank Foster and Thad Jones (celebrated on this CD) who determined the distinctive sound of the Basie Band with their arrangements in the fifties and sixties. After Basie’s death in 1984, Foster advanced to the position of the new bandleader of the Basie Organization from 1986 until 1995. Frank Foster’s engagement as a guest conductor for the SWR Big Band (then called the SDR Big Band) took place within the context of a production and concert series created in the late nineties by then-SDR jazz producer Hans Thomas.

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Frank Foster and the SWR Big Band

TRACKS
Counter Block Mean What You Say Ode to Joe Newman Winners
Love Handles
Basic-Ally Yours
Victorious Blues
Now That She’s Away
The Biddle-De-Bop Samba
Lady in Lace
A Fresh Taste of the Blues

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