''New Music of Alec Wilder'' is an album by American jazz guitarist
Mundell Lowe and his orchestra featuring compositions by
Alec Wilder recorded in 1956 for the
Riverside label.
Riverside Records discography
accessed August 22, 2012
Reception
Allmusic
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awarded the album 3 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it "A nice vehicle for an 11-piece group".[Yanow, S]
Allmusic Review
accessed August 22, 2012
Track listing
''All compositions by Alec Wilder''
# "Suggestion for Bored Dancers" - 1:48
# "She Never Wore Makeup" - 3:42
# "What Happened Last Night?" - 2:08
# "Walk Softly" - 2:48
# "Let's Get Together and Cry" - 2:34
# "Mama Never Dug This Scene" - 1:31
# "Pop, What's a Passacaglia?" - 2:25
# "No Plans" - 2:38
# "The Endless Quest" - 2:47
# "Around the World in 2:34" - 2:35
# "An Unrelenting Memory" - 3:13
# "Tacet for Neurotics" - 2:12
*Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on June 12, 1956 (tracks 3, 4, 9 & 12) June 19, 1956 (tracks 5, 7, 8 & 11) and July 3, 1956 (tracks 1, 2, 6 & 10)
Personnel
* Mundell Lowe - guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
*Joe Wilder
Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored h ...
- trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
*John Barrows, Jim Buffington
James Lawrence Buffington (born May 15, 1922, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania; died July 20, 1981, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz, studio, and classical hornist.
Buffington was a busy studio and jazz player on the French horn. He ...
- French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...
*Don Hammond - flute
*Jerry Roth - oboe
The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range.
...
* Bernard Garfield (tracks 1-4, 6, 9, 10 & 12), Harold Goltzer (tracks 5, 7, 8 & 11) - bassoon
*Jimmy Carroll - clarinet, bass clarinet
*Trigger Alpert
Herman "Trigger" Alpert (September 3, 1916 – December 21, 2013) was an American jazz bassist from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Music career
A native of Indianapolis, Alpert attended Indiana University, where he studied music. Soon after, he played ...
(tracks 3-5, 7-9, 11 & 12), Milt Hinton
Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000) was an American double bassist and photographer.
Regarded as the Dean of American jazz bass players, his nicknames included "Sporty" from his years in Chicago, "Fump" from his time on the ...
(tracks 1, 2, 6 & 10) - bass
*Ed Shaughnessy
Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy (January 29, 1929 – May 24, 2013) was a swing music and jazz drummer long associated with Doc Severinsen and a member of The Tonight Show Band on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''.
Biography
Shaughn ...
- drums
References
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1956 albums
Mundell Lowe albums
Albums produced by Orrin Keepnews
Riverside Records albums