''The In Instrumentals'' is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger
Kai Winding
Kai Chresten Winding ( ; May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983) was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the theme from the movie ''Mondo Ca ...
recorded in 1965 for the
Verve
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Music
* The Verve, an English rock band
* ''The Verve E.P.'', a 1992 EP by The Verve
* ''Verve'' (R. Stevie Moore album)
* Verve Records, an American jazz record label
Businesses
* Verve Coffee Roasters, an American coffee ho ...
label.
[Payne, D]
Kai Winding on Verve (1961-1967)
accessed June 23, 2016
Reception
The
Allmusic
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review by Tony Wilds said "''The In Instrumentals'' does not stick to the truly "in" mod tunes, nor does it do much with its standard pop and rock tunes. ...let's face it: the music manager of New York's
Playboy Club
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may have been "in," but he wasn't exactly hip, at least not on this album".
Track listing
# "
On Broadway" (
Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller,
Cynthia Weil
Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940) is an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann.
Life and career
Weil was born in New York City, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish family. Her father was Morris Wei ...
,
Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter and musician, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.
He has written or co-written 53 hits in the UK and 98 in the US.
Early li ...
) - 2:04
# "
Yesterday" (
John Lennon
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,
Paul McCartney
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) - 2:43
# "
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin is a song by Phil Spector, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, first recorded in 1964 by the American vocal duo the Righteous Brothers, whose version was also produced by Spector and is cited by some music critics as the ...
" (Weil, Mann,
Phil Spector
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) - 2:59
# "
Georgia On My Mind
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" (
Hoagy Carmichael
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,
Stuart Gorrell
Stuart Graham Steven Gorrell (September 17, 1901 – August 10, 1963) was best known for writing the lyrics for the song "Georgia on My Mind".
Born in Knox, Indiana, Gorrell attended Indiana University; there he became friends with fellow student ...
) - 2:30
# "
Looking Through the Eyes of Love
"Looking Through the Eyes of Love" is a song written and composed by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. It first became a popular hit in 1965 by Gene Pitney. In 1972, The Partridge Family recorded a hit cover version.
Gene Pitney version
Gene Pitney w ...
" (Mann, Weil) - 2:40
# "Mohair Sam" (
Dallas Frazier
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Life and career
Frazier was born in Spiro, Oklahoma, on October 27, 1939, but was raised in Bakersfie ...
) - 2:18
# "Sign of the Times" (Kai Winding) - 2:29
# "
You've Got Your Troubles
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" (
Roger Cook,
Roger Greenaway
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) - 2:46
# "
I Know a Place
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...
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Tony Hatch
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Early life and early career
Hatch was born in Pinner, Middlesex. Encouraged by his mus ...
) - 2:31
# "
Spanish Harlem
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" (Leiber, Spector) - 2:39
# "
Anyone Who Had a Heart" (
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach ( ; born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Gra ...
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Hal David
Harold Lane David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.
Early life
David ...
) - 2:29
# "Foxy" (Winding) - 2:06
*Recorded in NYC on September 9, 1965 (tracks 1 & 7), September 23, 1965 (tracks 5, 6, 9 & 12) and September 28, 1965 (tracks 3, 4, 8, 10 & 11)
Personnel
*
Kai Winding
Kai Chresten Winding ( ; May 18, 1922 – May 6, 1983) was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the theme from the movie ''Mondo Ca ...
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trombone
The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...
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arranger
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conductor
*John Frosk,
Irv Markowitz,
Joe Shepley
Joseph James Shepley (born in Yonkers, New York on August 7, 1930; March 26, 2016) was an American jazz trumpeter. He worked with Burt Collins, Mike Longo, Duke Pearson and others. He can be heard in the docudrama ''Pumping Iron''.
Discography
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trumpet
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flugelhorn
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*
Wayne Andre
Wayne Andre (November 17, 1931 – August 26, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist, best known for his work as a session musician.
Andre's father was a saxophonist, and he took private music lessons from age 15. He played with Charlie Spivak in ...
,
Jimmy Cleveland
James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee. ,
Bill Watrous
William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love", which he recorded on a 1993 albu ...
- trombone
*Tony Studd -
bass trombone
The bass trombone (german: Bassposaune, it, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to ...
*Charles de Angelis -
flute
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clarinet
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Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
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alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...
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tenor saxophone
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Gene Orloff
Gene Orloff (June 14, 1921 – March 23, 2009) was an American violinist, concertmaster, arranger, contractor and session musician.
Background
The son of a Russian immigrant violin maker, Orloff would try and get his father's violin down from th ...
,
Max Pollikoff,
Paul Winter
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violin
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*Al Brown, David Mankowitz -
viola
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*Peter Makas, George Ricci, Sol Shapiro -
cello
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*
Jerry Ragovoy
Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy (September 4, 1930 – July 13, 2011) was an American songwriter and record producer.
His best-known composition " Time Is on My Side" (written under the pseudonym of Norman Meade) was made famous by the Rolling Stones, alt ...
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piano
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*
Paul Griffin - piano,
organ
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Musical instruments
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** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
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harpsichord
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*
Everett Barksdale
Everett Barksdale (April 28, 1910 – January 29, 1986) was an American jazz guitarist and session musician.
He played bass and banjo before settling on guitar. In the 1930s, Barksdale moved to Chicago, where he was in Erskine Tate's band. He r ...
,
Al Gorgoni
Al Gorgoni (born 1939) is an American guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer, known for his work as a studio musician during the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography
Growing up in Philadelphia, his family moved to The Bronx where he took up the guit ...
, Bill Suyker -
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 stri ...
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Russ Savakus
Russell Savakus (May 13, 1925 – June 26, 1984) was an American session bass player (both electric and stand-up), violinist and singer. Savakus recorded with numerous artists in and around the 1960s folk and folk-rock movement in New York. Earlie ...
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electric bass
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The ...
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Gary Chester
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drums
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*Jack Jennings -
percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
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Don Sebesky
Don Sebesky (born December 10, 1937) is an American arranger, jazz trombonist, and keyboardist.
Biography
Sebesky trained in trombone at the Manhattan School of Music; in his early career, he played with Kai Winding, Claude Thornhill, Tommy Do ...
(tracks 8 & 11), Gary Sherman (tracks 1-5, 9 & 10) - arranger, conductor
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:In Instrumentals, The
1965 albums
Verve Records albums
Kai Winding albums
Albums produced by Creed Taylor
Albums arranged by Don Sebesky
Albums conducted by Don Sebesky