''Frankly Speaking'' is an album by saxophonists
Frank Foster and
Frank Wess which was recorded in 1984 and released on the
Concord Jazz
Concord Jazz is a record company and label founded in 1973 by Carl Jefferson, the former owner of Jefferson Motors Lincoln Mercury dealership in Concord, California. The label was named after the city in the East San Francisco Bay area, and the j ...
label the following year.
Enciclopedia del Jazz: Frank Foster discography
accessed May 9, 2018
Reception
The AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...
review by Scott Yanow said "Using the same personnel as the previous year's ''Two for the Blues'', this set gets the slight edge and is an excellent introduction to the playing of the two Count Basie saxophonists. ... Recommended".
Track listing
All compositions by Frank Foster except where noted
# "An' All Such Stuff as 'Dat" – 6:32
# "The Summer Knows" (Michel Legrand
Michel Jean Legrand (; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many son ...
, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) – 6:47
# "When Did You Leave Heaven?" ( Richard A. Whiting, Walter Bullock
Walter Bullock (May 6, 1907, Shelburn, Indiana – August 19, 1953, Los Angeles, California) was an American song lyricist and screenwriter. He recorded with his brother, James Russell Lowell Bullock. On April 22, 1930, they released a record on ...
) – 7:12
# "Up and Coming" (Frank Wess) – 4:43
# " One Morning in May" (Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first ...
, Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.
Biography
Parish was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania, Russian Empire in July 190 ...
) – 5:01
# "Two Franks" (Neal Hefti
Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for '' The Odd Couple'' movie and TV series and for the ''Batman'' TV series.
He began arranging professionally in his ...
) – 3:09
# "This Is All I Ask "This Is All I Ask" is a popular song written by Gordon Jenkins in 1958.
Jenkins considered this his finest composition, and he recorded it in arrangements he wrote for Nat King Cole, Harry Nilsson, Tiny Tim (musician), Tiny Tim, Tony Bennett, and ...
" (Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Lo ...
) – 10:22
# "Blues Backstage" – 5:47
Personnel
* Frank Foster – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Frank Wess – tenor saxophone, flute
* Kenny Barron – piano
* Rufus Reid – double bass
*Marvin "Smitty" Smith
Marvin "Smitty" Smith (born June 24, 1961) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at a young age, receiving formal musica ...
– drums
References
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Concord Records albums
Frank Wess albums
Frank Foster (musician) albums
1985 albums