Western Suite

Western Suite
Studio album by Jimmy Giuffre
Released Late June/early July 1960[1]
Recorded December 3, 1958
Atlantic Studios, NYC and Lenox, MA
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic
LP 1330
Producer Nesuhi Ertegun
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
The Four Brothers Sound
(1958)The Four Brothers Sound1958
Western Suite
(1958)
Ad Lib
(1959)Ad Lib1959

Western Suite is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Atlantic label in 1960.[2][3]

Featuring an unusual trio of clarinet, guitar and valve trombone, the first half of Western Suite is devoted to Giuffre's country music/folk-inspired suite, while the second half features a lengthy and abstract version of the big band standard "Topsy" and a Thelonious Monk song.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

Thom Jurek of Allmusic states: "Giuffre, ever the storyteller, advanced the improvisation angle and wrote his score so that each player had to stand on his own as part of the group; there were no comfort zones. Without a rhythm section, notions of interval, extensions, interludes, and so on were out the window. He himself played some of his most retrained yet adventurous solos in the confines of this trio and within the form of this suite. It swung like West Coast jazz, but felt as ambitious as Copland's Billy the Kid".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre except as indicated

  1. "Western Suite"
    1. "First Movement: Pony Express" - 5:56
    2. "Second Movement: Apaches" - 4:18
    3. "Third Movement: Saturday Night Dance" - 2:56
    4. "Fourth Movement: Big Pow Wow" - 4:28
  2. "Topsy" (Edgar Battle, Eddie Durham) - 11:28
  3. "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:16

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard July 11, 1960
  2. Fitzgerald, M., Jimmy Guiffre Leader Entry accessed July 6, 2015
  3. Jimmy Giuffre Catalog accessed July 6, 2015
  4. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Western Suite – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
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