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Down Home Reunion - Young Men from Memphis
Booker Little;Louis Smith;Frank Strozier;George Coleman;Phineas Newborn Jr.;Calvin Newborn;George Joyner;Charles Crosby
Down Home Reunion - Young Men from Memphis
Genres: Jazz, Pop
 
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Few cities of comparable size have produced the extraordinary flowering of talent represented by the eight jazzmen from Memphis heard here. Preeminent among them, of course, are Booker Little, a precocious and singular t...  more »

     

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All Artists: Booker Little;Louis Smith;Frank Strozier;George Coleman;Phineas Newborn Jr.;Calvin Newborn;George Joyner;Charles Crosby
Title: Down Home Reunion - Young Men from Memphis
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 4/29/2010
Genres: Jazz, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8427328616423

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Few cities of comparable size have produced the extraordinary flowering of talent represented by the eight jazzmen from Memphis heard here. Preeminent among them, of course, are Booker Little, a precocious and singular trumpeter who died tragically young, tenor saxophonist George Coleman, who subsequently made his name with Miles Davis, the searingly blues-inflected alto of Frank Strozier and the gifted Phineas Newborn Jr, a remarkably virtuosic pianist, whose stunning, two-handed unison playing attracted astonishment and admiration in equal measure. Add to that the authoritative trumpet of Louis Smith, who carved out a career in the upper echelons of jazz, while the fleet and reliable Calvin Newborn on guitar and George Joyner on bass, with drummer Charles Crosby, formed a richly supportive rhythm section. It was a reunion of home-town boys from a city previously celebrated for its associations with blues composer W.C. Handy and, fittingly, it produced some memorable music.

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