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Modern Country (album)

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Released
  
1964

Artist
  
Kai Winding

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

Modern Country (1964)
  
Rainy Day (1965)

Release date
  
1964

Label
  
Verve Records

Recorded
  
August 5 & 6, 1964 Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN

Jazz albums
  
The Incredible Kai Windi, Playboys, Dave Brubeck and Jay

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Modern Country is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger Kai Winding featuring jazz adaptations of country music songs recorded with members of The Nashville A-Team in 1964 for the Verve label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "I Really Don't Want to Know" (Don Robertson, Howard Barnes) - 3:05
  2. "Busted" (Harlan Howard) - 3:15
  3. "Wolverton Mountain" (Merle Kilgore, Claude King) - 2:19
  4. "Bye Bye, Love" (Felice Bryant, Bouleux Bryant) - 2:19
  5. "Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) - 2:52
  6. "Wildwood Flower" (Cecil Null) - 2:04
  7. "Detroit City" (Danny Dill, Mel Tillis) - 2:20
  8. "I Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash) - 2:04
  9. "Oh Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) - 2:02
  10. "Slippin' Around" (Floyd Tillman) - 2:46
  11. "Gotta Travel On" (David Lazar, Larry Ehrlich, Paul Clayton, Tom Six) - 2:10
  12. "Dang Me" (Roger Miller) - 1:57
  • Recorded in Nashville, TN on August 5, 1964 (tracks 1-4) and August 6, 1964 (tracks 5-12)

    • Personnel

  • Kai Winding - trombone, arranger, conductor
  • Gene Mullins, Bill Watrous - trombone
  • Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, Grady Martin, Wayne Moss - guitar
  • Joe Zintan - bass
  • Murrey Harman, Doug Kirkbom - drums
  • The Anita Kerr Singers - vocal group (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7-11)
  • Orchestra conducted by Grady Martin
  • Bill McElhiney - arranger, conductor

    • References

    Modern Country (album) Wikipedia
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