Clare Fischer Big Band - 1969 - Thesaurus (2013) FLAC

Clare Fischer Big Band - 1969 - Thesaurus (2013)

Clare Fischer's big-band release was only briefly available as an Atlantic LP but it has finally reappeared in the CD era after a brief appearance under another title on LP some ten years after its first release. Fischer's potent originals and first-rate arrangements bring out the best in his musicians, which include Warne Marsh and Conte Candoli (featured on "Miles Behind"), Bill Perkins on a work trumpeter Stewart Fischer specially composed for the baritone saxophonist ("Calamus"), and alto saxophonist Gary Foster featured with Marsh on Lennie Tristano's "Lennie's Pennies." A well-conceived chart of Billy Strayhorn's "Upper Manhattan Medical Group" swings mightily. The leader even makes a rare appearance on alto sax in the brief "In Memoriam" dedicated to the assassinated Kennedy brothers. (AllMusic)

Track list:
01 - The Duke
02 - Miles Behind
03 - Calamus
04 - Lennie's Pennies
05 - 'Twas Only Yesterday
06 - Bitter Leaf
07 - Upper Manhattan Medical Group
08 - In Memoriam (John F. & Robert F. Kennedy)

Personnel:
Clare Fischer – piano, Fender-Rhodes electronic piano
Gary Foster – lead alto sax
Kim Richmond – alto sax
Louis Ciotti & Warne Marsh – tenor saxes
Bill Perkins – baritone sax
John Lowe – bass sax
Larry McGuire, Buddy Childers, Conte Candoli, Steve Huffsteter & Stewart Fischer – trumpets
Gil Falco, Charley Loper & David Sanchez – trombones
Morris Repass – bass trombone
Chuck Domanico – bass
Larry Bunker – drums
On "Calamus," "Bitter Leaf" & "Upper Manhattan Medical Group," Buddy Childers is replaced by John Audino.

Enjoy and share!