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The Four Brothers Sound

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Jimmy Giuffre

Producer
  
Nesuhi Ertegun

Genre
  
Jazz

The Four Brothers Sound (1958)
  
Western Suite (1958)

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Jazz Classics

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Recorded
  
January 23 & 25 and September 1, 1958 Atlantic Studios, NYC and Lenox, MA

Similar
  
Jimmy Giuffre albums, Jazz albums

The Four Brothers Sound is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre featuring Giuffre's tenor saxophone overdubbed four times to recreate the sound of Woody Herman's "Four Brothers" band which was released on the Atlantic label in 1959.

Contents

Reception

Brandon Burke of Allmusic states: "The effect of this overdubbing process is, while sonically challenging, unlikely to turn off listeners not quite sold on experimental jazz... ''Four Brothers Sound is proof that the term avant-garde needn't always be associated with harsh dissonance. This is a very enjoyable set".

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre except as indicated

  1. "Four Brothers" - 3:23
  2. "Ode to Switzerland" - 4:44
  3. "Blues in the Barn" - 4:46
  4. "Space" - 3:31
  5. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:26
  6. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:07
  7. "Memphis in June" (Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster) - 3:31
  8. "Cabin in the Sky" (Vernon Duke, John La Touche) - 2:57
  9. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 2:22
  • Recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC on June 23, 1958 (track 6), June 23, 1958 (track 2) and Lenox, MA on September 1, 1958 (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7-9)

    • Personnel

  • Jimmy Giuffre - tenor saxophone
  • Jim Hall - guitar (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7-9)
  • Bob Brookmeyer - piano (tracks 1, 3-5 & 7-9)

    • Songs

    1Four Brothers (feat Jim Hall)Jim Hall3:25
    2Ode to Switzerland (feat Jim Hall)Jim Hall4:46
    3Blues in the Barn (feat Jim Hall)Jim Hall4:44

    References

    The Four Brothers Sound Wikipedia
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