3 in Jazz

Gary Burton, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WEX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,554 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hello, Young Lovers

2. Gentle Wind And Falling Tear

3. You Are My Lucky Star

4. I Could Write A Book

5. Sounds Of The Night

6. Cielito Lindo

7. Stella By Starlight

8. Blue Comedy

9. There Will Never Be Another You

10. Blues Tonight

11. When My Dream Boat Comes Home

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Trifecta For The Jazz fan, May 19, 2008

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Edward Abbott "American Audiophile" (Stuart, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 3 in Jazz (Audio CD)

How do you like your modern jazz? Gary Burton brings the freshness of youth to the swinging approach. Not yet 20, this brilliant virtuoso of the vibraphone first earned a high reputation among Eastern musicians, and then embarked on an international tour with the George Shearing Quintet which brought him to thousands of new fans in all parts of the United States and the Far East. (His first RCA Victor album, NEW VIBE MAN IN TowN-LPM/LSP-2420---had preceded him to Japan, and to his amazement he found himself to he Something of a celebrity among Nipponese jazz fans.)

Gary's program alternates between originals {by
himself and Mike Gibbs, a classmate at the Berklee School of Music) and well known standards. Either way, his imagination and technical skill are in abundant evidence. His work on Hello, Young Lovers, to cite only one example, is a rare blend of dazzling virtuosity and musical inventiveness.

Sonny Rollins offers the freest of improvisation, ranging from playful expositions of melody (most notably in You Are My Lucky Star, where the horns skip blithely around the string bass' lead voice) to intuitive group improvising, in passages in which all the members of the quartet feel their way with no guidelines but their own inter-reactions. (The coda of There Will Never Be Another You is an extraordinary instance.) In between are some of the freestyle blowing flights of fancy you will ever hear.

These performances are by Sonny's regular group.
Since his dramatic return to the jazz scene (celebrated by his ReA Victor album THE BRIDGE-LPM/LSP­2527), Sonny has taken over as boss of the tenor sax. His recent travels have included a tour of Europe, during which he made television appearances in addition to playing a series of sold-out concerts.

Clark Terry, a veteran of the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, has gradually emerged as the outstanding trumpet player in that unusual New York group of top jazz musicians who are also the most-in-demand studio sidemen. Tasteful improvisation with a driving beat is Clark's forte, but he is also a master of tone color. Aside.from his use of mutes, he has for several years featured a second instrument-the fluegelhorn, a mellow-toned and over­sized member of the trumpet family. You can hear its distinctive qualities on the first half of Sounds 0f the Night and throughout Cielito Lindo.

Clark's interpretations of When My Dream Boat Comes Home (with a bossa nova beat, no less) and Cielito Lindo are two of the specialties he has played several times on the NBC- TV "Tonight" show as a featured member of Skitch Henderson's orchestra. Blues Tonight, of course, is a bow to the show. Clark Terry's love of variety in jazz is perhaps most strongly illustrated in his treatment of Sounds 0f the Night, which includes an unusual polyrhythmic background which at one point gives way to hard-swinging beat before returning to the intricate cross-patterns of this unusually attractive mood piece.