''With the Tenors of Our Time'' is an album by
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove (October 16, 1969 – November 2, 2018) was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn. He achieved worldwide acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles ...
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Track listing
# "Soppin' the Biscuit" (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Stanley Turrentine) – 7:59
# "When We Were One" (composer Johnny Griffin, featuring Johnny Griffin) – 5:59
# "Valse Hot" (composer Sonny Rollins, featuring Branford Marsalis, Ron Blake) – 6:57
# "Once Forgotten" (composer Pamela Watson, featuring Ron Blake on tenor and soprano saxophone) – 5:45
# "Shade of Jade" (composer Joe Henderson, featuring Joe Henderson) – 5:24
# "Greens at the Chicken Shack" (composer Cyrus Chestnut, featuring Johnny Griffin) – 5:45
# "Never Let Me Go" (composer Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, featuring Rodney Whitaker) – 5:36
# "Serenity" (composer Joe Henderson, featuring Joe Henderson) – 5:35
# "Across the Pond" (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Joshua Redman) – 6:47
# "Wild Is Love" (composer Robert Mickens and G. Brown, featuring Stanley Turrentine) – 6:50
# "Mental Phrasing" (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Ron Blake, Joshua Redman) – 6:25
# "April's Fool" (composer Ron Blake) – 3:54
Personnel
Musicians
* Roy Hargrove – trumpet, Flugelhorn, production
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Ron Blake
Ron Blake (born September 7, 1965) is an American saxophonist, band leader, composer, and music educator. Born in the Virgin Islands, he attended Northwestern University, and now lives in New York City. Blake began studying guitar at 8 and tur ...
– soprano, tenor saxophone
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Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut (born January 17, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer. In 2006, Josh Tyrangiel, music critic for ''Time'', wrote: "What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes ...
– piano
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Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the mid-1940s and continued until the month of ...
– tenor saxophone
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Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent l ...
– tenor saxophone
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Gregory Hutchinson – drums
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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed inst ...
– tenor saxophone
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Joshua Redman
Joshua Redman (born February 1, 1969) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is the son of jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman (1931–2006).
Life and career
Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, to jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman ...
– tenor saxophone
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Stanley Turrentine
Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion dur ...
– tenor saxophone
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Rodney Whitaker
Rodney Whitaker (born February 22, 1968) is an American jazz double bass player and educator.
Biography
Born in Detroit, Whitaker attended Wayne State University, and studied with Robert Gladstone, principal bass with the Detroit Symphony Orche ...
– bass
Production
*Larry Clothier – production, engineering, mixing
*Robert Friedrich – assistant engineering
*Troy Halderson – mastering
*Jimmy Katz – liner notes
*David Lau – art direction, design
*James Minchin – photography
*Nelly Muganda – make-up, hair stylist
*Ed Rak – engineering, mastering, mixing
*Richard Seidel – executive production
*Camille Tominaro – production coordination
References
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1994 albums
Roy Hargrove albums