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The Vernel Fournier Trio - Motherless Child album flac Performer: The Vernel Fournier Trio
Title: Motherless Child
MP3 album: 1662 mb
FLAC album: 1921 mb
Rating: 4.2
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Genre: Jazz

Vernel Fournier Trio. Members: Kevin O'Connell (4), Vernell Fournier, Victor Sproles. Vernel Fournier Trio ‎(CD, Album). TCB Records (2). 9060.

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Vernel Fournier, who played with such jazz greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal, died Saturday in Jackson, Mississippi, of co Vernel Anthony Fournier (born July 30, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died November 4, 2000 in Jackson, Mississippi and, from 1975, known as Amir Rushdan, was a jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Ahmad Jamal from 1956. Fournier left college to join a big band led by King Kolax. After leaving the Jamal trio, Fournier joined George Shearing for two years before rejoining Jamal briefly in 1965-66. He then took a long-running gig with a trio at a restaurant owned by Elijah Muhammad. He converted to Islam in 1975, and took the Muslim name of Amir Rushdan. He worked with Nancy Wilson, Clifford Jordan, Billy Eckstine and Joe Williams, John Lewis and Barry Harris.

Vernel Anthony Fournier (July 30, 1928 – November 4, 2000) and, from 1975, known as Amir Rushdan, was a jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Ahmad Jamal from 1956 to 1962. He then took a long-running gig with a trio at a restaurant owned by Elijah Muhammad He worked with Nancy Wilson, Clifford Jordan, Billy Eckstine and Joe Williams, John Lewis and Barry Harris. Fournier was also a teacher of drumming, working at Barry Harris’s Jazz Cultural Theater, the New School, and the Mannes College of Music.

Vernel Anthony Fournier (July 30, 1928 – November 4, 2000) and, from 1975, known as Amir Rushdan, was an American jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Ahmad Jamal from 1956 to 1962. Fournier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Creole family. He left college to join a big band led by King Kolax.

The trio's sound changed significantly when Crawford was replaced with drummer Vernel Fournier in 1957, and the group worked as the "House Trio" at Chicago's Pershing Hotel. The trio released the live album, At the Pershing: But Not for Me, which stayed on the Ten Best-selling charts for 108 weeks. Jamal's recording of the well known song "Poinciana" was first released on this album

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A1 Motherless Child
A2 This Is All I Ask
A3 Maria
A4 Smiles
Written By – Ned Washington, Nino Rota
B1 By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Written By – Jimmy Webb
B2 Charade
Written By – Henry Mancini
B3 Watch What Happens
B4 My Way

Credits

  • Bass – Dan Shepera
  • Drums – Vernell Fournier
  • Engineer – Ed Cody
  • Liner Notes – Bill Tyson
  • Piano – Willie Pickens

Notes

Record at 8-Track Studio, Chicago. Remixed and edited at United Technique Recording Studio, Chicago. Distributed by Music Bag Record Distributors, of which liner notes writer Bill Tyson is the National Promotions Director.