Summer Afternoon Jazz

Phil Quintet Woods (Artist) | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (June 29, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hindsight Records
• ASIN: B00000JTO4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Track Listings

1. Song for Sisyphus

2. Last Night When We Were Young

3. Nuages

4. Change Partners

5. Monking Business

6. Summer Afternoon

7. When My Dreams Come True

8. Shaw 'Nuff

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Woods Summer Afternoon Jazz, May 29, 2009

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Dayzee D - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Summer Afternoon Jazz (Audio CD)

Very nice mellow version of Phil Woods music. Feels rather like one is relaxing on a lazy summer's afternoon listening to good jazz just as mellow as the weather. Not one of Woods top CDs but it is up there and well worth having.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best - alto sax as it was meant to be, July 31, 2007

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James A. Vedda (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Afternoon Jazz (Audio CD)

Important note on duplicate releases: This 1977 recording was released on CD in 1998 with its original title (Song for Sisyphus) and cover art, and again in 1999 under a new title (Summer Afternoon Jazz) and different cover art. The tracks are identical. Keep this in mind when shopping for Phil Woods CDs on Amazon. When I accessed the product information for Summer Afternoon Jazz, Amazon's "Better Together" ad urged me to buy both of these CDs. Don't do it unless you want two copies of the same thing.
But be sure you buy at least one copy. This is Phil Woods in his prime, backed up by the same quartet that was with him a year earlier when he won a Grammy award for his double-album set Live From The Showboat. Phil plays the horn the way it was meant to sound in the jazz idiom, rich and full across its whole range and at all dynamic levels. From lush ballads ("Last Night When We Were Young" and "Summer Afternoon") to up-tempo intensity ("Shaw `Nuff") and straight-ahead fun ("Change Partners" and "Monking Business"), that sound, and the technique and style behind it, never falter.
Phil shares the spotlight with his talented sidemen. Pianist Mike Melillo is all alone on "When My Dreams Come True," as is guitarist Harry Leahey on "Nuages."
The album is a bit short at just over 34 minutes, but all eight tracks are keepers.