Description
Release Date: 2019
Label: Enlightenment
Born George General Grice Jr. in Florida on November 28, 1925, jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, composer, arranger and educator, Gigi Gryce – the name by which he would be known in jazz circles – was never a top drawer but has remained an inspiration to players and composers from the same genre ever since his heyday. This 4 CD collection features the best albums made by Gryce as leader or co-leader – which includes his entire recorded output with Jazz lab – between 1955 and 1960. Each of these eight records displays amply the great man’s huge musical, arranging and compositional abilities which in most cases leave his contemporaries short, and while Gryce has never been a household name, one listen to the music presented herein will leave most jazz fans wondering why.
Track List
Disc 1
- Speculation
- In A Meditative Mood
- Social Call
- Smoke Signals
- You’ll Always Be The One I Love
- Kerry Dance
- Shuffle Boil
- Brake’s Sake
- Gallop’s Gallop
- Nica’s Tempo
- Speculation
- Over The Rainbow
- Nica’s Tempo
- Blue Concept
- Little Niles
- Sans Souci
- I Remember Clifford
Disc 2
- Love For Sale
- Geraldine
- Minority
- Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
- Straight Ahead
- Wake Up!
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Blues March
- Sea Breeze
- Bangoon
- It Don’t Mean A Thing
- Cold Breeze
- Rich And Creamy
- My Ideal
- Baba’s Blues
- Little Susan
- Lullaby For Milkman
- Somewhere
Disc 3
- Back Breaker
- Leila’s Blues
- Blues In The Jungle
- Down Home
- Let Me Know
- Jones Bones
- Frankie And Johnny
- Lover Man
- Minority
- Summertime
- Nica’s Tempo
- Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me
Disc 4
- The Rat Race Blues
- Strange Feelin’
- Boxer’s Blues
- Blues In Bloom
- Monday Through Sunday
- Blue Lights
- Caravan
- Reminiscing
- Yesterdays
- Gee Blues Gee
- A Night In Tunisia
- Dearly Beloved
- Take The ‘A’ Train
