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Yellow and Green (Ron Carter album)

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Released
  
1976

Yellow & Green (1976)
  
Pastels (1976)

Release date
  
1976

Label
  
CTI Records

Length
  
36:44

Artist
  
Ron Carter

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 17, 18 and 20, 1976

Similar
  
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Yellow & Green is an album by bassist Ron Carter recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in New Jersey in 1976 and released on the CTI label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Jim Todd calls the album "A low point for bassist Ron Carter, this aimless set suffers from the malaise that hit the jazz scene after the fusion boom of the late '60s and early '70s... An episode best forgotten".

Track listing

All compositions by Ron Carter except as indicated
  1. "Tenaj" - 7:44
  2. "Receipt, Please" - 7:05
  3. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 2:40
  4. "Yellow and Green" - 6:13
  5. "Opus 15" - 6:55
  6. "Epistrophy" (Kenny Clarke, Thelonious Monk) - 6:07
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 17, 18 and 20, 1976

    • Personnel

  • Ron Carter - bass, piccolo bass, cowbell, tambourine
  • Kenny Barron - piano (track 1, 5 & 6)
  • Don Grolnick - piano, electric piano (track 2 & 4)
  • Hugh McCracken - guitar, harmonica (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5)
  • Billy Cobham (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5), Ben Riley (track 6) - drums
  • Dom Um Romão - percussion (tracks 2 & 5)

    • Songs

    1Tenaj7:41
    2Receipt - Please7:02
    3Willow Weep for Me2:35

    References

    Yellow & Green (Ron Carter album) Wikipedia
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