Phil Woods - Young Woods (1957)

Artist: Phil Woods
Title Of Album: Young Woods
Year Of Release: 1957
Label: Fresh Sound Rec.
Genre: Jazz
Format: FLAC (Tracks)
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 00:43:06
Total Size: 258 mb

Apart from his Prestige dates during 1956-57, Phil Woods participated as a sideman in several recording sessions for other labels, and three of them have been compiled here on this CD. The first 4 tracks come from an August '57 session headed by pianist Nat Pierce. The quintet sides, with Woods' smoothy flowing alto lines, are equally well integrated sound-wise-and on the septet tracks it's not just two horns plus rhythm, as so often is the case. The arrangements, mostly by George Roumanis, are crisp and the patterns interweave to good musical effect. Phil Woods, for his part, plays with swinging elan, demonstrating a great individuality of conception ans style. A direct, head-on musician who can also "shout" when the occasion demands, he is particularly scintillating on his own composition, "Took the Spook", named after Chan Parker's dog.


Tracks:

1 Blues in Pig Alley (Pierce) 3:08
2 Easy Living (Rainger, Robin) 3:06
3 Wailing on the Left Bank (Pierce) 2:48
4 There Will Never Be Another You (Gordon, Warren) 3:12
5 I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' (Brown, Freed) 4:26
6 I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You (Noble) 4:58
7 I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Ellington, Webster) 4:27
8 You're Driving Me Crazy (Donaldson) 4:49
9 Took the Spook (Woods) 4:28
10 Delighted (Salvador) 4:10
11 Carioca (Eliscu, Kahn, Youmans) 3:34

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