Solo Duo & Trio

Randy Weston | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1954
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milestone
• ASIN: B00004YLJU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,120 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet Sue, Just You

2. Pam's Waltz

3. Solemn Meditation

4. Again

5. Zulu

6. Little Girl Blue

7. We'll Be Together Again

8. Softness

9. Lover

10. If You Could See Me Now

11. What Is This Thing Called Love?

12. I Love Her

13. Night and Day

14. I Get a Kick Out of You

15. In the Still of the Night

16. Get Out of Town

17. Just One of Those Things

18. I've Got You Under My Skin

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roots Of A Champion., March 31, 2006

By 

Michael F. Hopkins "A Deeper Groove" (Buffalo, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solo Duo & Trio (Audio CD)

From 1954 to 1956, these are the first recordings

from one of the grandmasters of African American

perspective, a genius of the acoustic piano, and

one highly exceptional composer. These milestones

are the debut recordings of Randy Weston, and they

are a special treat for anyone who loves great

Music in general, and Jazz in

particular.

With the recordings of Thelonious Monk, Herbie

Nichols, Cecil Taylor and Horace Silver, SOLO,

DUO, AND TRIO features some of the most epic,

versatile pianistry to emerge from the 1950s.

Listen to Weston's hip-walking take on "Sweet

Sue" (the spirit call of drummer Art Blakey

forecasting the rituals to come), and associate

the subtle dance and finger-popping sway with

a new kid on the block!

Too, Weston's originality as a composer and

soloist is already intact. Listen to the

infectious serenade of "Pam's Waltz", or the

warrior's stroll of "Zulu", and you hear a

musicmaker of the highest order. Employing

intervals usually associated with Monk

(especially with the "Rootie Tootie"-

inspired cadence opening "Zulu"), Weston

wields all tools with a lyrical grasp

all his own.

Listening further to Weston in solo

performance, or his inspired duos with

bassist Sam Gill interpreting Cole

Porter, you are always in the presence

of a highly original artist. It is a

humble, forthright artistry which would

evolve -over the decades- into

the towering trailblazing which

would conceive UHURU AFRIKA, THE

HEALERS, AFRICAN COOKBOOK, and

other bulwarks of globe-crossing

Black genius.

Weston's jubilant stride continues

today through epic recordings such

as IN THE SPIRITS OF OUR ANCESTORS

and ZEP TEPI. His is a momentous

stride full of character, dignity,

and Wisdom's might.

Hear how it all began.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shades of Herbie..., December 12, 2008

By 

D. Bush "Desert Diver" (Albuquerque,NM-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solo Duo & Trio (Audio CD)

WOW! Early Weston, showing influences of/on Monk & Nichols!

A choice recording that should be in every Jazz collection!!!