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Oliver Nelson With Eric Dolphy – Straight Ahead / Original Jazz Classics Audio CD Stereo / OJCCD 099-2
UPC 090204062980
Straight Ahead is a jazz studio album by saxophonist Oliver Nelson. It features acclaimed musicians such as Eric Dolphy on sax, clarinet and flute (his last appearance on a Nelson album following a series of collaborations recorded for Prestige), and Roy Haynes on drums. It was recorded in March 1961 at the celebrated Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs. All the pieces were first takes; Joe Goldberg recalls: "The session was scheduled for one in the afternoon and I arrived at 3:30, thinking that by then the music would have been rehearsed and the men would be starting to play. What I found was a studio empty of everyone but A&R man Esmond Edwards", the supervisor, "and engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who were packing up to leave and looking very satisfied." Released in 1961 for the Prestige/New Jazz label (as NJ 8255) and remastered in 1989, the album is notable for its long and thoughtful horn duets by Dolphy and Nelson. Don DeMicheal described the album "All in all, a warm, very human record".
| Label: | Original Jazz Classics – OJCCD 099-2 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
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| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Post Bop |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Images | 5:43 | |
| 2 | Six And Four | 7:14 | |
| 3 | Mama Lou | 5:01 | |
| 4 |
Ralph's New Blues |
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9:52 |
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| 5 | Straight Ahead |
5:32 | |
| 6 | 111-44 | 3:26 |
- Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Flute – Eric Dolphy
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Oliver Nelson
- Bass – George Duvivier
- Design, Photography By – Don Schlitten
- Drums – Roy Haynes
- Liner Notes – Joe Goldberg
- Piano – Richard Wyands
- Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
- Remastered By [Digital] – Kirk Felton
- Supervised By – Esmond Edwards
- Written-By – Oliver Nelson (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6)
