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This 1966 live set comes by its retro-bop feel honestly. Its link to the bop tradition is the group's pianist, Barry Harris, who bridges the generation between Bird, Diz, and Bud Powell and that of leader Charles McPherson. It was Harris, a Powell disciple, who steeped saxophonist McPherson and trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer in the bop idiom when they were teenagers growing up in Detroit. An equally formative experience for McPherson and Hillyer was their time with various Charles Mingus groups in the early '60s. By the time of this date, the bop flames the pair had nurtured had become white hot. McPherson is a commanding performer, with a penetrating tone and an ability to explore a song for subtler possibilities. Hillyer, a less imposing presence, has a questing musical conception that makes up for occasions when his ideas get away from him at a technical level. Harris is the connecting tissue, the player who -- with drummer Billy Higgins -- holds the music together, keeping these loose-limbed performances from becoming a rambling blowing session. Bassist Ray McKinney plays a classic supporting role, seamlessly weaving his contribution into Harris and Higgins' fabric. The best tracks on this varied set are the ones most firmly rooted in bop: a turbo-speed treatment of Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's "Shaw Nuff," one of the better versions of Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy," and Harris' own "Luminesence," derived from "How High the Moon."
© Jim Todd /TiVo
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Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Charlie Parker, ComposerLyricist - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Dizzy Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - James Van Heusen, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Burke, ComposerLyricist - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Jay Livingston, ComposerLyricist - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Evans, ComposerLyricist - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
FRANK LOESSER, ComposerLyricist - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Thelonious Monk, ComposerLyricist - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kenneth Clarke, ComposerLyricist - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Barry Harris, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Charles McPherson, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Hillyer, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Newman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Don Schlitten, Producer, Recording Producer - Ray McKinney, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Phil De Lancie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Prestige Records
Album review
This 1966 live set comes by its retro-bop feel honestly. Its link to the bop tradition is the group's pianist, Barry Harris, who bridges the generation between Bird, Diz, and Bud Powell and that of leader Charles McPherson. It was Harris, a Powell disciple, who steeped saxophonist McPherson and trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer in the bop idiom when they were teenagers growing up in Detroit. An equally formative experience for McPherson and Hillyer was their time with various Charles Mingus groups in the early '60s. By the time of this date, the bop flames the pair had nurtured had become white hot. McPherson is a commanding performer, with a penetrating tone and an ability to explore a song for subtler possibilities. Hillyer, a less imposing presence, has a questing musical conception that makes up for occasions when his ideas get away from him at a technical level. Harris is the connecting tissue, the player who -- with drummer Billy Higgins -- holds the music together, keeping these loose-limbed performances from becoming a rambling blowing session. Bassist Ray McKinney plays a classic supporting role, seamlessly weaving his contribution into Harris and Higgins' fabric. The best tracks on this varied set are the ones most firmly rooted in bop: a turbo-speed treatment of Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's "Shaw Nuff," one of the better versions of Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy," and Harris' own "Luminesence," derived from "How High the Moon."
© Jim Todd /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:18
- Main artists: Charles McPherson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Prestige
- Genre: Jazz
© 1994 Prestige Records ℗ 1967 Prestige Records
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