Up City

Calvin Newborn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yellow Dog Records
• ASIN: B0009HBPCG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #639,364 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Stanley Booth, Rythm Oil

Calvin's playing is infinitely expressive... He's just a total master of tone.

Anyone who knows a thing or two about Mid-South jazz knows this group is as good as it gets...

He sat in with us at Minton's Playhouse, way back in the day. He tore the place up!

Product Description

Imagine a young Calvin Newborn, migrating from Beale Street to the Big Apple in the mid-1950s: Guitar in hand, he pounded the big city pavement from Birdland to Broadway, earning the nickname "UpCity" from none other than Miles Davis, who was more than impressed with the Memphis musician.

Over the last five decades, Calvin – the brother of jazz virtuoso Phineas Newborn – has bounced from Memphis to New York and back again, anchoring sessions for Hank Crawford, Earl Hines, B.B. King, Jimmy Forrest, Wild Bill Davis, Herman Green, and everyone in between.

UpCity reflects the diversity of Calvin’s jazz style: The album was cut at dual sessions in Memphis and New York (with trumpeter Bill Mobley, saxman Bill Easley, drummer Tony Reedus, and pianist Charles Thomas) during the late 1990s, then originally self-released on Calvin’s own label, Omnifarious Music. Today, Yellow Dog Records is proud to issue this jazz classic, praised by the late James Williams, Cadence Magazine, and more, nationally for the first time.