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Music CD - Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
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Music CD: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Artist: Oliver Nelson
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $6.59
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Manufacturer: Verve
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Tracks:
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1. Stolen Moments
2. Hoe-Down
3. Cascades
4. Yearnin'
5. Butch and Butch
6. Teenie's Blues
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517448162
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Verve
Manufacturer: Verve
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Verve
Release Date: 2007-10-09
Studio: Verve
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Very Much Under rated Artist and Album
Comment: Known more for his arranging and composing than his playing, Oliver Nelson demonstrates here that he is equally facile in both arenas.
The title of the album is accurate; this is the abstract blues. That is to say, it is the blues reduced to its pure musical essence. The now famous tune: "Stolen Moments," which is often the sound track for various movies and advertisements, has become famous in its own right, but is only a scratching of the surface of Nelson's immense talents.
I failed to keep up with him in his later musical life, but here is a beautiful summary of all of his talents on display, and with a cast of young musicians who would later go on to becomes giants in their own right: And here I am of course speaking primarily of Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard.
Five stars
Customer Rating:
Summary: Near Perfection
Comment: There are very few sessions that somehow transcend all the other great stuff that's available out there and have that special something or other that brings the music close to perfection. Obviously Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme fall in that category... Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch comes to mind as well. This is one of those sessions that transcends all the other good stuff that is out there. Maybe it isn't the masterwork in the spirit of those three aforementioned releases but it is still extraordinarily good. Stolen Moments is just an amazing arrangement - so good that I am going to order Nelson's chart for my own septet. All of the arrangements are great and the soloist's note and line selections are just perfect. This one belongs in the same league as those other masterworks I noted earlier.
Hoedown!
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