Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
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Hank Crawford
More Soul
(Atlantic, 1961)
When Brother Ray’s baritone sax player proved he was a king of the alto.
Many fine sax players passed through Ray Charles’ classic horn section of the late ’50s to mid-’60s, but two stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, a fact we were reminded of last month when the death was announced of David ‘Fathead’ Newman. Fathead: Ray Charles Presents David Newman has already featured as a MOJO Disc Of The Day, but More Soul by Hank Crawford stands tall beside it as a second imperishable reminder of the section’s pre-eminence. Crawford, who joined the Charles band in 1957, primarily held down the role of baritone sax player with Brother Ray, but like his boss he was an accomplished and expressive alto saxophonist. As well as allowing him to stretch out on that instrument, More Soul sees Hank in the role of arranger, another of his gigs with Charles. Essentially, this is the Ray Charles small band of the day, vamping after hours. Indeed, that October 7 in ’61 they had played at Harlem’s Apollo until 1am, taken the short ride down to Broadway and the Atlantic studios and the record, seven tracks, was finished before dawn, roughly in the time it takes a 2009 rock band to get a bass drum sound, in fact. In a bold move, particularly for a septet, Crawford’s arrangements dispense with piano, aside from a little comping by Hank, which vividly opens out the sound of brass and horns, and gives a greater weight and clarity to the bass/drums rhythm section of Edgar Willis and Milt Turner. Newman’s sweeter-toned tenor was the perfect foil for Crawford’s raspier, heartfelt readings, and the latter’s reinterpretations here of the ballads Angel Eyes and Misty, are genuinely, bluesily, moving. Two James Moody pieces, Boo’s Tune and The Story, a hip, swinging take on Bobby Timmons’ Dat Dere and Crawford’s likeably skittish Four Five Six are other highlights on this exceptional companion piece to Fathead.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 03/02/2009
Further Listening
David Newman – Fathead: Ray Charles Presents David Newman (Atlantic, 1959)
Bobby Timmons – This Here Is Bobby Timmons (Riverside, 1960)
Ray Charles – The Great Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1956)
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