Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth album flac

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American composer and jazz saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album and features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy (his second-to-last appearance on a Nelson album following a series of collaborations recorded for Prestige), Bill Evans (his only appearance with Nelson), Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes

As Oliver Nelson is known primarily as a big band leader and arranger, he is lesser known as a saxophonist and organizer of small ensembles. Blues and the Abstract Truth is his triumph as a musician for the aspects of not only defining the sound of an era with his all-time classic "Stolen Moments," but on this recording, assembling one of the most potent modern jazz sextets ever. Lead trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is at his peak of performance, while alto saxophonists Nelson and Eric Dolphy (Nelson doubling on tenor) team to form an unlikely union that was simmered to perfection

x player Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth is one of the gems of the mid-60s. It’s not a great classic, though it comes close to it, but it’s one of those albums that is so well conceived and executed -the arrangements and the playing-that you keep coming back to it to listen. It’s fifty-four years now since the album was recorded. The only player still alive from it is drummer Roy Haynes, who still plays as hard and well at age 90 as at 20 or 30 or 4. .His solo work on this album is on a par with his work on other albums of the day: driving and fluid but no longer quite as new as it seemed back then. The weakest of the three horns is Nelson. It’s common to say that Nelson played arranger’s horn, and it’s true.

Album: The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Duration: 24:43 Year: 1961. 0:00 ? Other albums: Sade - Love Deluxe.

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Oliver Nelson - Laz-Ie Kate 04:01. Oliver Nelson, J. J. Johnson - Stolen Moments 05:52. Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth 05:16. Oliver Nelson - Blues O'mighty 06:51. Oliver Nelson - Theme from Mr. Broadway 05:51. Oliver Nelson - Midnight Blue 04:09. Oliver Nelson - The Critic's Choice 02:23. Oliver Nelson - One for Bob 06:10. Oliver Nelson - Blues for Mr. Broadway 08:15. Oliver Nelson - Goin' to Chicago Blues 04:40. Oliver Nelson - One for Phil 04:01. Oliver Nelson - Night Lights 02:54.

Released: 31 Dec 1960. More By Oliver Nelson. See All. The Blues and the Abstract Truth.