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As jazz is increasingly seen as America's classical music, jazz record labels have become expert at mining their catalogs for retrospectives—most are now assembling one every decade. Impulse! Records issued its first label-wide compilation, The Definitive Jazz Scene Volume 1 in 1964 and now comes this well-chosen 25-track sampler (in the famous orange and black design theme) to celebrate the label's 60 years of existence, directed by such visionaries as Creed Taylor, Bob Thiele and Ed Michel. While aficionados will already own many of the albums these tracks come from, surveys like this are particularly useful for newbies and also as impressive shuffle play party records. The styles here range across the entire Impulse spectrum, from the almost R&B of Stanley Turrentine's "Good Lookin' Out" and Earl Hines' especially piquant arrangement of Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" to Archie Shepp's alternately angry and desolate "Malcolm Malcolm—Semper Malcolm" and Quincy Jones snappy, upbeat big band bop, "Hard Sock Dance."
Impulse was always horn driven—hence the nickname, "the house that Trane built"—and we hear from some of lesser-known lights in the label's horn universe like Dewey Redman, Marion Brown, Albert Ayler and Yusef Lateef. There are also wonderful surprises buried within like an edit of Pharoah Sanders' surprisingly cheerful and lyrical, "The Creator has a Master Plan" (from the album Karma) where singer Leon Thomas speaks of universal happiness before taking his vibrato into a quiet yodel.
While it's tempting to say that just throwing darts at Impulse titles would make for a great collection, there's a powerful unifying theme to this tribute. The song titles tell the story: Oliver Nelson's brilliant "The Rights of All," The Ahmad Jamal Trio's smooth "The Awakening" and Charlie Haden's short, instrumental version of the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome." All beautifully recorded (most by Rudy Van Gelder), this is music bent on change, an idea that poet and critic A. B. Spellman—who lived through NYC's early bop era—picks up in the liner notes. "…this is all music that has something to say. It expresses a deep commitment to the fundamental change of the human condition… We need this scope of sound again: We need the horns to scream of stout resistance, and we need the bands to sing to us of the righteous beauty of our souls." Perhaps no track expresses that "scope" better than John Coltrane's frenetic, squeal 'n' skronk "Reverend King," (from Cosmic Music, his album with wife Alice, released after his death), it's pent-up energy frustrated, ricocheting, crying for a way out. An insightful collection built to celebrate 60 years as an indispensable part of the story of jazz, this timeless music has fresh relevance. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
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John Coltrane, Composer, Tenor Saxophone, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Garrison, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Dolphy, Conductor - McCoy Tyner, Piano, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Elvin Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Coltrane Quartet, MainArtist - Creed Taylor, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Art Davis, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Abbey Lincoln, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Dolphy, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Jordan, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Julian Priester, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Mal Waldron, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Producer, Drums, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Carlos Valdes, Conga, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carlos "Totico" Eugenio, Bells, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Eric Dixon, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Thad Jones, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Wess, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Hinton, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Quincy Jones, Conductor, ComposerLyricist - Oliver Nelson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Richardson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Freddie Hubbard, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Woods, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Byers, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Melba Liston, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Snooky Young, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Faulise, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Frank Abbey, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Quincy Jones And His Orchestra, MainArtist - Bill English, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Julius Watkins, French Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Patti Brown, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Rod Levitt, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Al De Risi, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
John Coltrane, Composer, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Garrison, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - McCoy Tyner, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Elvin Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - John Coltrane Quartet, MainArtist
℗ 1963 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Garrison, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - McCoy Tyner, Piano, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Elvin Jones, Drums, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Douglas, Producer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Sonny Simmons, Alto Saxophone, English Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Davis, Bari Sax, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Prince Lasha, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Garrison Sextet, MainArtist
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
John Coltrane, Producer, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Garrison, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - McCoy Tyner, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Elvin Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer
℗ 1963 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Williams, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Richardson, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Mingus, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Dolphy, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Britt Woodman, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Booker Ervin, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - George Douglas, Producer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Jaki Byard, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Don Butterfield, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Preston, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Walter Perkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Simpson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1963 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ed Shaughnessy, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Quentin Jackson, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Thad Jones, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Cleveland, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Nottingham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Mundell Lowe, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ernie Royal, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Oliver Nelson, Conductor, ComposerLyricist - Art Davis, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Shirley Scott, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Joe Venuto, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tom McIntosh, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Shirley Scott Trio, MainArtist - Tom Mitchell, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Eddy Manson, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Kail, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1963 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Williams, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - James Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Yusef Lateef, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Mike Nock, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - George Douglas, Producer - Ernie Farrow, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bob Thiele, Producer - Archie Shepp, Spoken Word, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Izenzon, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - J.C. Moses, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ron Carter, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Rudy Van Gelder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stanley Turrentine, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Shirley Scott, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Mack Simpkins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sonny Greer, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Ellington, Composer - Lawrence Brown, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Earl Hines, MainArtist - Pee Wee Russell, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Procope, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Ashby, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - JOHNNY HODGES, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Gonsalves, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Cat Anderson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Hamilton, Clarinet, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Nance, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - James Wesley "Bubber" Miley, ComposerLyricist - Aaron Bell, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Phil Bodner, English Horn, AssociatedPerformer - George Duvivier, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Grady Tate, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oliver Nelson, Trombone, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Hank Jones, Piano, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Woods, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Don Butterfield, Tuba, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Arnold, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Richard Davis, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Leon Thomas, Percussion, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Workman, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pharoah Sanders, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Bob Thiele, Producer - WILLIAM HART, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Liston Smith, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - James Spaulding, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Julius Watkins, French Horn, AssociatedPerformer - Nat Bettis, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
John Coltrane, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy Garrison, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pharoah Sanders, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coltrane, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bob Thiele, Producer - Rashied Ali, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Appleton, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1969 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ahmad Jamal, Composer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Ahmad Jamal Trio, MainArtist - Frank Gant, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jamil Nasser, Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1970 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bobby Few, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Albert Ayler, MainArtist - Henry Vestine, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Mary Parks, ComposerLyricist - Muhammad Ali, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Stafford James, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Folwell, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Mary Maria, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1969 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Zilphia Horton, ComposerLyricist - Frank Hamilton, ComposerLyricist - Charlie Haden, MainArtist - Bob Thiele, Producer - Guy Carawan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1970 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ron Carter, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Henderson, Alto Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Pharoah Sanders, Alto Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coltrane, Harp, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ben Riley, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - W.L. Barneke, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1970 UMG Recordings, Inc.
MICHAEL WHITE, Percussion, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Szymczyk, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Cecil MCBee, Cymbals, Percussion, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Pharoah Sanders, Bells, Percussion, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lonnie Liston Smith, Percussion, Piano, Rhodes , AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tom Flye, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - ED MICHEL, Producer - Clifford Jarvis, Bells, Drums, Percussion, Maracas, AssociatedPerformer - Lillian Davis Douma, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1971 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Roland Wilson, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Cornell Dupree, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joshie Armstead, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Billy Higgins, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Gerald Jemmott, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Garrison, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - John Blake, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Robinson, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Archie Shepp, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - CLARENCE WHITE, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Charles McGhee, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Kiane Zawadi, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Cal Massey, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - Roland Alexander, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Lee Wilson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Romulus Franceschini, Conductor, Artist - Beaver Harris, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lakshminarayana Shankar, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Marion Brown, Flute, Percussion, Saxophone, Low Whistle, AssociatedPerformer - Leroy Jenkins, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Walter Davis Jr., Keyboards, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Burrell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Calo Scott, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Thornton, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - Juma Sultan, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Greenlee, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - James Ware, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Stephens, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Hakim Jami, Flugelhorn, AssociatedPerformer - William Kunstler, Spoken Word, AssociatedPerformer - Roy Burrows, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Ridley, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Ollie Anderson, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Nene DeFense, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Ronald Lipscomb, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Hull, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Waheeda Massey, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Albertine Robertson, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Bartholomew Gray, Spoken Word, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1972 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ed Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - MICHAEL WHITE, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Cecil MCBee, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenneth Nash, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Bob King, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Prince Lasha, Clarinet, Flute/Piccolo, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Jenkins, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Stanley Nash, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Norris Jones, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Danny Johnson, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Dewey Redman, Composer, Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Eddie Moore, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ted Daniel, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Robertson, Cello, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1973 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harold Budd, Composer, Cymbals, Celesta, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Hopps, Cymbals, AssociatedPerformer - Tony May, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reggie Workman, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - ED MICHEL, Producer - Baker Bigsby, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stanley Cowell, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Davis, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer - Marion Brown, Alto Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Braynon, Celesta, AssociatedPerformer - Jose Goico, Cymbals, AssociatedPerformer - Allen Murphy, Bells, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1975 Verve Label Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chuck Rainey, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES GADSON, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Handy, Vocals, Clapping, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Richard lll Handy, ComposerLyricist - Esmond Edwards, Producer - Mike Hoffmann, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Hotep Cecil Barnard, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Bongo Brown, Bongos, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1976 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
As jazz is increasingly seen as America's classical music, jazz record labels have become expert at mining their catalogs for retrospectives—most are now assembling one every decade. Impulse! Records issued its first label-wide compilation, The Definitive Jazz Scene Volume 1 in 1964 and now comes this well-chosen 25-track sampler (in the famous orange and black design theme) to celebrate the label's 60 years of existence, directed by such visionaries as Creed Taylor, Bob Thiele and Ed Michel. While aficionados will already own many of the albums these tracks come from, surveys like this are particularly useful for newbies and also as impressive shuffle play party records. The styles here range across the entire Impulse spectrum, from the almost R&B of Stanley Turrentine's "Good Lookin' Out" and Earl Hines' especially piquant arrangement of Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" to Archie Shepp's alternately angry and desolate "Malcolm Malcolm—Semper Malcolm" and Quincy Jones snappy, upbeat big band bop, "Hard Sock Dance."
Impulse was always horn driven—hence the nickname, "the house that Trane built"—and we hear from some of lesser-known lights in the label's horn universe like Dewey Redman, Marion Brown, Albert Ayler and Yusef Lateef. There are also wonderful surprises buried within like an edit of Pharoah Sanders' surprisingly cheerful and lyrical, "The Creator has a Master Plan" (from the album Karma) where singer Leon Thomas speaks of universal happiness before taking his vibrato into a quiet yodel.
While it's tempting to say that just throwing darts at Impulse titles would make for a great collection, there's a powerful unifying theme to this tribute. The song titles tell the story: Oliver Nelson's brilliant "The Rights of All," The Ahmad Jamal Trio's smooth "The Awakening" and Charlie Haden's short, instrumental version of the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome." All beautifully recorded (most by Rudy Van Gelder), this is music bent on change, an idea that poet and critic A. B. Spellman—who lived through NYC's early bop era—picks up in the liner notes. "…this is all music that has something to say. It expresses a deep commitment to the fundamental change of the human condition… We need this scope of sound again: We need the horns to scream of stout resistance, and we need the bands to sing to us of the righteous beauty of our souls." Perhaps no track expresses that "scope" better than John Coltrane's frenetic, squeal 'n' skronk "Reverend King," (from Cosmic Music, his album with wife Alice, released after his death), it's pent-up energy frustrated, ricocheting, crying for a way out. An insightful collection built to celebrate 60 years as an indispensable part of the story of jazz, this timeless music has fresh relevance. © Robert Baird/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 02:33:57
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: Various Artists
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Impulse!
- Genre: Jazz
© 2021 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2021 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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