''The Red Tornado'' is an album by trumpeter
Red Rodney
Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 – May 27, 1994), known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940 ...
which was recorded at New York City's
Bell Sound Studios Bell Sound Studios was an independent recording studio in New York City from 1950 to 1976. At its height, the studio was the largest independent recording studio in the United States, and the site of recording sessions that produced seminal hits by ...
in 1975 and released on the
Muse
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label.
Muse Records listing
accessed August 10, 2017
Reception
The AllMusic
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review by Scott Yanow stated "Red Rodney's string of Muse recordings in the 1970s found the trumpeter getting stronger album by album. For this date, he plays in the hard bop genre ... most of the tunes are based either on blues or on earlier songs (including "originals" close to "So What" and "Cherokee"). Rodney sounds strong".
Track listing
All compositions by Red Rodney except where noted.
# "For Dizzy" (George Young) - 5:40
# "I Can't Get Started
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" (Vernon Duke
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, Ira Gershwin
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) - 5:15
# "Red Bird" - 8:50
# "The Red Tornado" - 8:12
# "Nos Duis Ga Tarde" (M. Albonese, U. Yoeta) - 5:10
# "The Red Blues" - 6:00
Personnel
*Red Rodney
Robert Roland Chudnick (September 27, 1927 – May 27, 1994), known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940 ...
– trumpet
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*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
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* George Young - tenor saxophone
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, flute
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*Roland Hanna
Roland Pembroke Hanna (February 10, 1932 – November 13, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher.
Biography
Hanna studied classical piano from the age of 11, but was strongly interested in jazz, having been introduced to i ...
– piano
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, electric piano
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* Sam Jones – bass
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** Bass (instrument), including:
** Acoustic bass gui ...
*Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Biography
Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, be ...
– drums
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References
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Muse Records albums
Red Rodney albums
1976 albums
Albums produced by Bob Porter (record producer)