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Frank Wess/Johnny Coles,
Two At The Top
Although standard jazz history presents the 1980s as an era when young musicians took on the tunes, styles and attitudes of earlier generations, there were several veterans at that time who sounded as strong as ever. That was particularly true for saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess and flugelhorn player Johnny Coles. They recorded Two At The Top for Uptown at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in 1983, and the label has reissued it as part of a two-disc set with six unreleased studio tracks and a previously unissued quintet program (with a different rhythm section) recorded live at Yoshi’s in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 15, 1988. On the 1983 album, Wess and Coles created an immediately warm dialogue on familiar standards (Gigi Gryce’s “Nica’s Tempo”) and a couple of new discoveries, including Rodgers Grant’s “Morning Star.” Pianist Kenny Barron is equally scintillating on Kenny Dorham’s “An Oscar For Oscar.” At the Yoshi’s gig, Wess proves his accomplishments as a composer as well as a tenor player on the sublime ballad “If You Can’t Call, Don’t Come.” Bassist Larry Grenadier was not a household name when he performed with the group at Yoshi’s, but his solo on “One For Amos” foreshadowed fine things for his future.
Frank Wess/Johnny Coles,
Two At The Top
Although standard jazz history presents the 1980s as an era when young musicians took on the tunes, styles and attitudes of earlier generations, there were several veterans at that time who sounded as strong as ever. That was particularly true for saxophonist/flutist Frank Wess and flugelhorn player Johnny Coles. They recorded Two At The Top for Uptown at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in 1983, and the label has reissued it as part of a two-disc set with six unreleased studio tracks and a previously unissued quintet program (with a different rhythm section) recorded live at Yoshi’s in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 15, 1988. On the 1983 album, Wess and Coles created an immediately warm dialogue on familiar standards (Gigi Gryce’s “Nica’s Tempo”) and a couple of new discoveries, including Rodgers Grant’s “Morning Star.” Pianist Kenny Barron is equally scintillating on Kenny Dorham’s “An Oscar For Oscar.” At the Yoshi’s gig, Wess proves his accomplishments as a composer as well as a tenor player on the sublime ballad “If You Can’t Call, Don’t Come.” Bassist Larry Grenadier was not a household name when he performed with the group at Yoshi’s, but his solo on “One For Amos” foreshadowed fine things for his future.
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